Mental Disorders

[OKAY LISTEN UP. This is NOT a thread for you to post what kind of disorder you THINK you have or have been diagnosed with. This is just you discussing disorders. if no one listens, I'll ship it to Yara to be locked.]


What's your thoughts on mental disorders? What's the worst one in your opinion? Do you think we can ever cure some?

Hmm. Interesting subject.

They fascinate me, MD's in general are highly interesting subjects you can read about for hours on end. One of the things I detest the most about this world is the treatment of people with MD's. You often hear of people being labled 'not of sound mind', yet who are we to decide what goes on inside a person's mind and whether it is right?.

And onto curing them. I don't believe they should or will ever be cured. You'll often find many sufferers of diseases are geniuses, artistically talented beyond belief or in other ways entirely. Some MD's can almost make a person, can almost be beautiful even though they are a curse.

I think all mental disorders are cureable. It's just in the persons head. If you can get inside their head, if you could know exactly what they were thinking, you'd be able to stop them from thinking it.
I think the key to helping cure mental disorders is education. If you could educate people on how mental disorders can occur and what kinds of thoughts can lead to mental disorders, then I think the whole world would deffinately benifit from it.

I think they can be cured. It helps a great deal if the person is dianosed right.

Mental disorders...Hmm...Wasnt/isnt Gerard depressed?Hes the best artist Ive ever seen.Depression is a mental disorder or so Ive heard.Dont diss mental disorders til you have one,because they might make your life better acctually.I dont know if they should be cured.Sometimes they should sometimes they shouldnt.Hmm...I just used more thought in THAT little paragraph I used more sanity and brain-ness than I thought I had.Ever.

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I think all mental disorders are cureable. It's just in the persons head. If you can get inside their head, if you could know exactly what they were thinking, you'd be able to stop them from thinking it.
I think the key to helping cure mental disorders is education. If you could educate people on how mental disorders can occur and what kinds of thoughts can lead to mental disorders, then I think the whole world would deffinately benifit from it.

I'm a psychology major, and can tell you every single cause for every single thing I do or have done. Yet that doesn't stop me from thinking. If you could cure a mental disorder, don't you think that people affected would have opted to be cured? By saying it's all in someone's head is extremely ignorant.

I'm offended, and now pissed off. I don't want to say anything more, because it will come out offensive, and I don't want to offend at the moment.

I actually did a report about Bipolar Disorder. And my brother has autism. Albert Einstein had (or atleast I think) he had Ausbergers (or how you spell it). That is what my cousin has. My aunt has Schizophrenia. I have learned that sometimes they should be cured. But others either have no cure or they shouldn't, like in Einsteins case. He was a genius.

Poopsie:

I actually did a report about Bipolar Disorder. And my brother has autism. Albert Einstein had (or atleast I think) he had Ausbergers (or how you spell it). That is what my cousin has. My aunt has Schizophrenia. I have learned that sometimes they should be cured. But others either have no cure or they shouldn't, like in Einsteins case. He was a genius.

Asperger's syndrome (AS for short)
I don't think it was ever certain Einstein suffered from Autism, but experts believe he did.

You're right. He was a genius. That isn't strictly Einstein, either, a lot of people say Jane Austen and Isaac Newton had AS. Many people with AS sometimes lack social skills, are obsessed with complex topics and can have problems communicating. I read a book once based an autism, fictional, by Celia Rees, it was called Truth or Dare. It highlited that although Aspergers is a disorder, people with AS can be brilliant. Some can work out insanely complex sums without calculators, some can predict what day a date will fall on way into the next millenia, some can draw really accurate pictures based on only one look at something, the list goes on.

Mental Dissorders are the biggest thing stopping people from achieving their dreams. I think the worst are OCD and Bi Polar Disorder. I know first hand that you can't get things done the way you want when you have OCD. You have to shut the door 47 times before you leave the house and turn the key in the egnition 16 times before you can leave so you're late for work. You have to move the paper in the copying machine 23 times to make sure it's in right. I also know first hand that Bi-Polar Dissorder can ruin relationships. I have gotten people mad at me for going off on a rampage on them and they don't forgive me. They could if they wanted to, but they don't because they don't want to have to deal with my crazy moods. Mental Dissorders can horribly change a persons life for the worst.

Albert Einstein had Dyslexia, they are sure of that.
Leonardo Da Vinci supposaldy had ADD.

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Albert Einstein had Dyslexia, they are sure of that.

Actually...
http://www.audiblox2000.com/dyslexia_dyslexic/dyslexia005.htm

People seem determined to think Einstein had every disorder under the sun.

^Ha, wow, thanks! I didn't know that.

Mental disorders can hold you back, but to say that it's the only thing that will is a cop-out. I have the worst type of bipolar disorder. I'm extremely manic, and yeah, it holds you back from relationships because it's hard to deal with, but I'm one of the most motivated people you'll ever meet. I don't allow it to interfere with my dreams.

Don't say that mental disorders get in the way of dreams. If you want something bad enough, you'll work for it. It's attitudes like that that piss me off to no end because people don't have a clue.

i have a question. is Down Syndrom considered a MD?

If I can recall correctly, it isn't recognized in the DSM-IV.

I'm in the same boat as Poopsie...

Both my half brother and sister have autism and it has got to be the most annoying MD ever... they have the IQ of someone one third of their age but like all Autistic kids they have one skill that they kick ass at.

My bro for example can learn and beat ANY computer game you give to him and he beats it good and quick too, my sister can draw and make up stories like theres no tommorow.

Then theres the downsides, if you change the routine that you've laid down for them for years... BANG they go crazy for a few weeks and you cant shut them up for nothing.

Anyway... most MD's can ruin lives of everyone around the affected person. I myself am lucky and love my brother and sister but i have heard of many cases were it hasnt turned out so nice.

I'm really lucky in that respect, I only have a cousin with mild Asperger's. There was a movie based on that amazing mathematician who was schizophrenic, wasn't there? A MD is a huge disadvantage to a person but it shouldn't stop them doing what they love or want to do.
What's the most common kind of disorder?

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I'm really lucky in that respect, I only have a cousin with mild Asperger's. There was a movie based on that amazing mathematician who was schizophrenic, wasn't there? A MD is a huge disadvantage to a person but it shouldn't stop them doing what they love or want to do.
What's the most common kind of disorder?

That movie was 'A Beautiful Mind', with Russell Crowe.

I would say one of the most common mental disorders would be diagnosed depression - that which is properly diagnosed by a professional doctor. I could be completely wrong though.

My cousin is Autistic. Although he is quite a handful, he is a beautiful little boy.
He can recall to you ANY floods, tidal waves; anything to do with disaster on the water.
As well as that, a family friend was diagnosed with Bipolar Depression.
It's sad to see him like that, but I know he is on his way to recovery.

Also, my grandfather has Dementia (sp?) which is absolutely awful and heart-wrenching to see.
It can take effect so quickly, or on a longer basis.
The worst thing is that he still alive and well in person, but slowly his mind is failing him.
He's beginning to forget us; his family, and is easily lost in a house that he has lived in for nearly forty years.
Absolutely saddening to see.

Mental disorders are common in the United States and internationally. An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about one in four adults — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.1 When applied to the 2004 U.S. Census residential population estimate for ages 18 and older, this figure translates to 57.7 million people.2Even though mental disorders are widespread in the population, the main burden of illness is concentrated in a much smaller proportion — about 6 percent, or 1 in 17 — who suffer from a serious mental illness. In addition, mental disorders are the leading cause of disability in the U.S. and Canada for ages 15-44.3 Many people suffer from more than one mental disorder at a given time. Nearly half (45 percent) of those with any mental disorder meet criteria for 2 or more disorders, with severity strongly related to comorbidity

# Approximately 20.9 million American adults, or about 9.5 percent of the U.S. population age 18 and older in a given year, have a mood disorder.1
# The median age of onset for mood disorders is 30 years.5
# Depressive disorders often co-occur with anxiety disorders and substance abuse
# Major Depressive Disorder is the leading cause of disability in the U.S. for ages 15-44.3
# Major depressive disorder affects approximately 14.8 million American adults, or about 6.7 percent of the U.S. population age 18 and older in a given year

# In 2002, 31,655 (approximately 11 per 100,000) people died by suicide in the U.S.7,8
# More than 90 percent of people who kill themselves have a diagnosable mental disorder, most commonly a depressive disorder or a substance abuse disorder.9
# The highest suicide rates in the U.S. are found in white men over age 85.(<--- shocked me)

Approximately 2.4 million American adults, or about 1.1 percent of the population age 18 and older in a given year,11 have schizophrenia.

# Approximately 40 million American adults ages 18 and older, or about 18.1 percent of people in this age group in a given year, have an anxiety disorder.1
# Anxiety disorders frequently co-occur with depressive disorders or substance abuse.1
# Most people with one anxiety disorder also have another anxiety disorder. Nearly three-quarters of those with an anxiety disorder will have their first episode by age 21.5
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/numbers.cfm#Intro

I know my main disorder effects 2% of the US population. And that 20% of long term care patients in hospitals have my main disorder as well. Scary thoughts.

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I think all mental disorders are cureable. It's just in the persons head. If you can get inside their head, if you could know exactly what they were thinking, you'd be able to stop them from thinking it.
I think the key to helping cure mental disorders is education. If you could educate people on how mental disorders can occur and what kinds of thoughts can lead to mental disorders, then I think the whole world would deffinately benifit from it.

How can you say that?

How can you say that people should go in your head?

Most people think that our minds are the only thing that won't betray us, and now you want to take that away as well?