10 common mental illnesses in life

Mondo Psychological Updated on 2024-01-31

Psychiatric psychology

Common in life10 types of mental illness, which ones do you know?Let's take a look!

Depression

Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses, with continuous and long-term depressed mood as the main clinical feature, and is the most important type of mental illness in modern people. Clinically, it can be seen that the mood is depressed and the reality is unhappy, the mood is depressed and depressed for a long time, from the beginning of the depression to the final grief, low self-esteem, pain, pessimism, misanthropy, feeling that every day of life is desperately tormenting oneself, negativity, avoidance, and finally even more suicidal tendencies and behaviors. The patient suffers from somatization symptoms. Chest tightness, shortness of breath.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a type of anxiety disorder, which is a group of neuropsychiatric disorders with obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors as the main clinical manifestations, characterized by the coexistence of conscious compulsions and counter-compulsions, and some meaningless thoughts or impulses that even go against one's own will repeatedly invade the patient's daily life. Although the patient experiences that these thoughts or impulses are self-conscious, they try their best to resist, but they are always uncontrollable, and the strong conflict between the two makes them feel great anxiety and pain, affecting their studies, work, interpersonal communication and even daily life.

Phobias

Phobia, formerly known as phobia neurosis, refers to the patient's unusual fear and nervousness about certain situations, objects, or interactions with people in the outside world, which can cause symptoms such as blushing, shortness of breath, sweating, palpitations, changes in blood pressure, nausea, weakness and even fainting, so that avoidance reactions appear. Knowing that this fear response is excessive or unreasonable, but it still recurs and is difficult to control, the patient tries to avoid the objective things or situations that cause the fear, or to tolerate it with fear, thus affecting his or her normal activities.

Anxiety disorders

Anxiety disorder, also known as anxiety neurosis, is one of the most common disorders in this group of neuroses, characterized by the experience of anxious emotions. It can be divided into two forms: chronic anxiety, i.e., generalized anxiety, and acute anxiety, i.e., panic attack. The main manifestations are: nervousness and worry without a clear objective object, restlessness, and symptoms of autonomic nervous system dysfunction, such as palpitations, hand tremors, sweating, frequent urination, etc., and motor restlessness. It is important to distinguish between normal feelings of anxiety, which may be pathological if the severity of anxiety is significantly inconsistent with objective facts or situations, or if it lasts too long.

Insomnia

Insomnia is a condition of dissatisfaction with the quality and quantity of sleep for a long time, which can be difficult to fall asleep, not sleeping deeply, waking up easily, dreaming a lot, waking up early, not falling asleep again after waking up, feeling unwell after waking up, fatigue, or daytime sleepiness. Insomnia can cause anxiety, depression, or fear, and lead to a decrease in the efficiency of mental activity and interfere with social functioning.

Dementia

Dementia reflects the profound impact of the aging process on mental illness in China, and is divided into two types: vascular dementia and senile dementia. The former is the result of long-term cerebrovascular disease, while the latter is divided into Alzheimer's and senile dementia. Their common manifestations are increasingly aggravated and difficult to reverse intellectual and memory loss, and in severe cases, they do not recognize their families and family, so they are often lost, and even unable to take care of themselves, and cannot control their urine and urine.

Psychosis

Psychiatric disease is a group of unspecified chronic diseases, mostly with slow or subacute onset in young adults, and often clinically manifested as a syndrome with different symptoms, involving sensory, thinking, emotional and behavioral disorders and uncoordinated mental activities. Patients are generally conscious and have normal intelligence, but some patients will have cognitive impairment during the course of the disease. The course of the disease is generally prolonged, showing reversal, aggravation or deterioration, and some patients eventually develop decline and mental disability, but some patients can remain cured or basically cured after medication and psychology.

Autism

Autism, also known as autism or autistic disorder, is a representative disease of pervasive developmental disorder (PDD). The DSM-IV-TR classifies PDD into 5 types: autism disorder, RETTS syndrome, childhood disintegrating disorder, Asperger's syndrome, and unspecified PDD. Among them, autism disorder and Asperger's syndrome are more common. The prevalence of autism is reported to be varied, but is generally believed to be about 250,000 children, with a male-to-female ratio of about 3.4:1, with boys and girls 3-4 times higher.

Personality disorders

Personality disorder refers to the obvious deviation of personality characteristics from normal, causing patients to form a consistent abnormal behavior pattern that reflects personal life style and interpersonal relationships. This pattern significantly deviates from a specific cultural background and general way of knowing (especially in dealing with others), significantly affects the social and occupational functioning, and causes maladjustment to the social environment, which makes the patient feel distressed and is often perceived as a "weirdo" by those around him.

Anorexia

1. Anorexia is a kind of abnormal eating behavior that is more common in adolescent women, characterized by deliberately restricting diet, so that the weight is significantly lower than the normal standard, so that excessive exercise, vomiting, catharsis and other methods are adopted to reduce weight.

2. I often worry too much about getting fat, and even if I have lost weight significantly, I still think that I am too fat, even if the doctor explains it, it is ineffective.

3. Some patients can use stomach distension and discomfort and decreased appetite to explain their restricted diet. Malnutrition, metabolic and endocrine disorders are common, amenorrhea may occur in women, sexual dysfunction may occur in men, and prepubertal patients have naïve sexual organs. Some patients may have intermittent episodes of binge eating.

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