Mental Disorder

Think for a while about the term “Mental Disorder”. What comes in your mind? Some questions may arise? And some thoughts like unclear or complex behaviors, attitudes, and functions your mind may relate to the concept of mental disorder or mental illness. According to some psychological researcher in the USA, it is proved that mental disorder is also a type of psychological Syndrome that is characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s behavior, cognition, emotions, and attitudes that reflects in any unusual and unhealthy symptoms such as anxiety, aggression, and depression, etc. Here I will describe some major psychological disorders and their possible solutions. Adjustment Disorder When an individual is unhappy or unsatisfied with his/her present environment or circumstances it is simply called adjustment disorder. It is the most common psychological disorder in people of every age and gender and present in almost everywhere in the world. Causes may be different but symptoms are often the same such as sadness, feelings of unluckiness, lack of self -esteem, rudeness, lack of interest, lack of motivation, sense of insecurity and hopelessness, aggression and depression, etc.

Treatment: When the problem is about adjustment then the solution is according to the reasons for example if the reason is unemployment then the solution is economical security like a job, successful business, etc. And if the problem is due to any person, weather, sound, illness or disability, etc. Then the solution is to fix the specific thing. The other simple solution is to ignore temporarily, and hope for best in the future try to adjust and always think in a positive way. Anxiety Anxiety is a kind of complex psychological disorder that often belongs to fears, worries, and threats in the near or far future. It is also known as “Panic Attack”. Mostly in cases of anxiety or panic attacks, these feelings may also cause some physical symptoms such as fatigue, headache, abdominal pain, shortness of breath or smothering, shakiness and fast rate of heartbeat/palpitation. It is more common in females than in males. Generally, it may last from early teenage to fifties. Almost in whole youth, an individual may suffer from any kind of anxiety. Treatment: Change in lifestyle and attitudes, some psychotherapies and medication according to one’s specific requirements and circumstances may improve the symptoms. Phobias Phobias are the advance stages of anxiety. Sometimes they are extreme reactions to any actual bad experience and observations. But often they are irrational or self-made fears and threats expected in one’s future. The most common examples of phobias are such as fear of strangers, crowds, dark, closed places, animals, insects, loneliness and loss of someone. “School phobia” is most common among children all over the world. Treatment: Psychotherapies, especially exposure therapy and behavioral therapy. Possible change in lifestyle and atmosphere. Psychiatrists prescribe different types of therapies for different types and stages of phobias.    Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a complicated psychological disorder but if we want to describe it in simple words then we can say that it is a stage of cognition when an individual can’t understand the difference between reality and imagination in a certain situation or incident. Some most common symptoms of schizophrenia are hallucinations (hearing, watching, feeling and smelling of absent things or persons) Delusions (belief in something false and impossible) Onset (social isolation, addiction, self-medication, oversleeping, overeating, irrational statements, and fantasy, etc.). Treatment: psychiatrists experience in treating schizophrenia that it requires lifelong treatment. The treatment team may also include not only psychiatrists but specialists belonging to different fields of life. Alzheimer's Alzheimer’s illness is caused by the death of brain cells. It is also known as forgetfulness and memory loss. It is the most common disorder in over age people. General symptoms of this psychological disorder are such as forgetting past incidents and happenings, inability to use simple tools, poor decision making, spelling errors, difficulty to recognize objects, sounds, and even faces, the inability of managing finance, lack of judgment and cognitive decline, etc. Cases of Alzheimer's are experienced almost all over the world. Treatment: The truth is that the death of brain cells can’t be reversed that’s why there is no successful treatment of Alzheimer is experienced. Although some practices, therapies, and medicines may reduce the symptoms. Thanks.