What are the top 5 mental disorders?

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What are the top 5 mental disorders?

Major Depression: Pervasive and persistent low mood.

  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Excessive,uncontrollable and often irrational worry.
  • Obsessive-compulsive Disorder: Feels the need to check things repeatedly or performs certain routines repeatedly,e.g.
  • Bipolar Disorder: Periods of elevated mood and periods of depression.

    • What are the most dangerous mental disorders?

    Antisocial Personality Disorder. We keep this mental disorder in the top place of our top 10 most common mental disorders.

  • Anorexia Nervosa. We keep Anorexia Nervosa as the 2nd place in our top 10 most common mental disorders list.
  • Bulimia Nervosa.
  • Exhibitionism.
  • Fregoli Delusion.
  • Ganser Syndrome.
  • Gender Identity Disorder.
  • Hypomania.

    • What are the 5 signs of mental illness?

    Long-lasting sadness or irritability

  • Extremely high and low moods
  • Excessive fear,worry,or anxiety
  • Social withdrawal
  • Dramatic changes in eating or sleeping habits

    • What are the following factors that cause mental disorder?

    Genetics. Mental illness often runs in the family.

  • Environment.
  • Childhood trauma.
  • Stressful events: like losing a loved one,or being in a car accident.
  • Negative thoughts.
  • Unhealthy habits: like not getting enough sleep,or not eating.
  • Drugs and alcohol: Abusing drugs and alcohol can trigger a mental illness.
  • Brain chemistry.
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    What are the different types of psychological disorders?

    – major depressive disorder – anxiety disorders – somatic symptoms of various disorders; also called psychosomatic, these relate to bodily/ physical symptoms of a mental illness

    What are the most common psychological disorders?

    Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) GAD affects 6.8 million adults,or 3.1\% of the U.S. population,yet only 43.2\% are receiving treatment.

  • Bi-Polar Disorder (BPD) It may affect as many as 60 million people worldwide.
  • Eating Disorders 13 percent of women over the age of 50 have symptoms of an eating disorder.

    • How many people suffer from psychological disorders?

    Mental Disorders Adults with any type of mental illness in the past year: 45.1 million. Adults with serious mental illness: 11 million. Published studies report that about 25 percent of all U.S. adults have a mental illness and that nearly 50 percent of U.S. adults will develop at least one mental illness during their lifetime.

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