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- 51: Tourett’s Syndrome
- ... and Echopraxia is the urge to mimic other’s actions. Also, Palilalia is the urge to repeat your own words or thoughts (Faqs about TS 4). Until the 1970s, Tourette Syndrome was frequently misdiagnosed as schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, epilepsy, or nervous habits (“Encyclopedia” 376). In fact, attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is one of the most common companions of Tourette Syndrome . As many as 50% Touretters have some form of it ...
- 52: Cigarettes
- ... time, users experience the drug's long-term effects. Restlessness, extreme excitability, insomnia, and paranoia - and eventually hallucinations and delusions gradually displace euphoria. These conditions, clinically identical to amphetamine psychosis and very similar to paranoid schizophrenia, disappear rapidly in most cases after cocaine use is ended. While many of the physical effects of heavy continuous use are essentially the same as those of short-term use, the heavy user may also ...
- 53: Teen Suicide
- ... to the limit! But among the obvious reasons we have the mentally unstable mind, drug abuse, and the involvement of any abusive relationship. Today more and more teenagers are diagnosed with mental disorders such as schizophrenia, MPD (multiple personality disorder), or severe depression. Depression has become very common in these young adults’ lives and many are losing the strength to cope. Often, parents try to aid the situation by putting their ...
- 54: Bipolar Disorder
- ... millions of dollars in cost to society. Many times bipolar patients report that the depressions are longer and increase in frequency as the individual ages. Many times bipolar states and psychotic states are misdiagnosed as schizophrenia. Speech patterns help distinguish between the two disorders (Lish, 1994). The onset of Bipolar disorder usually occurs between the ages of 20 and 30 years of age, with a second peak in the mid-forties ...
- 55: Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- ... driven by a motor". Some other things a person must have in order to have ADHD is to have these symptoms for at least six months and that this can not be a cause of Schizophrenia, Affective Disorder or Mental Retardation (Reisman, 1986, p.155). Signs of the disorder may be minimal or absent when the person is under very strict control, is in a novel setting, is engaged in especially ...
- 56: Depression and Its Effects
- ... this increased suicide rate, depression in this age group is greatly under-diagnosed and leads to serious difficulties in school, work and personal adjustment which may often continue into adulthood. Matsumoto (1995) highlights that " like schizophrenia, depression is one of the most common psychological disorders in the United States". In a large-scale study, Myers et al. (1994) found that 3% and 7% of the adult male and female population, respectively ...
- 57: Bipolar Affective Disorder
- ... millions of dollars in cost to society. Many times bipolar patients report that the depressions are longer and increase in frequency as the individual ages. Many times bipolar states and psychotic states are misdiagnosed as schizophrenia. Speech patterns help distinguish between the two disorders (Lish, 1994). Technically, there are two types of bipolar disorders. The first type is called Bipolar I and the second type is Bipolar II. Bipolar I is ...
- 58: Autism
- ... not cause it; it is something that a person is born with. In 1911 a psychiatrist named Eugene Bleuer, was the first to discover autism, but he referred to it as a basic disturbance in schizophrenia. In the early 1940's two pioneers named Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger published accounts of this disorder. They contained detailed descriptions, and offered the very first attempt to explain autism. Eighty percent of autistic ...
- 59: Anti-Social Personality Disorder
- ... stolen from others · must be older than 18 to be diagnosed with it · must be evidence of a conduct disorder before the age of 15 · antisocial behavior doesn't occur only during the course of schizophrenia or manic episodes of bipolar illness Anti-Social Personality Disorder is found in as much as 75% of the prison population. Alcohol is a contributing cause or consequence of being antisocial. People that are both ...
- 60: Teenage Suicide
- ... American Psychiatric Association, 4). If a person has four or more of the symptoms lasting for more than two weeks, that person could have a type of depression. Those people with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and clinical depression have much higher suicide rates than average(Tom Arsenault, 2). Teenagers display warning signs of suicide. The indications come in two ways. First exhibited are the early warning signs. These signs include ...
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