Organic Disorder
Is caused by a physical trauma or damage to the brain-can be caused by growth, a tumor, an injury or an infection that would destroy brain cells.
Functional Disorder
Does not have a physical cause, can be inherited or be a result from early experiences or trauma or a current experience.
What are the triggers for a mental illness?
Personal experiences, stress, hormonal changes, medical conditions, biology, earlier traumatic experiences.
Anxiety Disorder
Fear that does not have a identifiable source or caused by a danger that does not exist.
Phobic disorder
Anxiety and fear related to a specific situation or object.
General Anxiety Disorder
A person who persistently feels anxious but cannot specify a cause.
Obsessive compulsive disorder
An idea or thought that takes over the mind and cannot be forgotten is an obsession.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
A person who survives a life threatening event may develop PTSD.
Hypochondriac
Characterized by extreme fears related to physical illness.
Mood Disorders
Moods or emotions become extreme and interfere with the ability to engage in daily life.
Clinical Depression
A person maybe be overwhelmed by feelings of sadness and hopelessness.
Bipolar Disorder
Shift from on emotional extreme to another for no apparent reason, usually extreme excitement to periods of deep depression.
Personality Disorder
Characterized by rigid and inflexible patterns of behavior that makes it difficult to get along with others.
Passive Aggressive Disorder
People depend on others to direct them but they resent being told what to do.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Perform cruel & violent acts without feeling any sense of guilt.
Eating Disorders
Emotional problems reveal themselves through abnormal eating behaviors.
Anorexia Nervosa
A person refuses to eat enough food to maintain a minimum normal body weight.
Bulimia
Binge eating accompanied by a loss of control followed by self-induced vomiting, laxatives, fasting, or excessive exercise.
Binge Eating Disorder
Characterized by a regular uncontrollable urge to eat large amounts of food without purging after the binge.
Dissociative Disorder
A person becomes disconnected from reality or his or her former identity.
Dissociative Amnesia
Sudden loss of memory (may be brought on by trauma)
Schizophrenia
(Split mind) a thought disorder characterized by unpredictable disturbances in thinking, mood, awareness and behavior.
Identity Disorder
Two or more distinct personalities take control of a persons behavior.
Suicide
the intentional taking of one's life.