Schitzophrenia And Other Mental Disorders

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people inflicted with a disorder. This is mainly
because in the early 1900's people thought that people with disorders were just
stupid and they did not investigate further into the matter. The quanity of
people that have a disorder is unknown. There is an estimated guess that 15% of
the U.S. population has some sort of disorder but that is not factual. This is
because the survey people only can estimate from the people who check
theirselves into a institution, the ones who do so make up 3% of the 15%
estimation. The U.S. in 1990 spent an estimated 148 billion on treating mental
diorders.

Childhood Disorders

Several Mental disorders are evident first in infancy, childhood, and
adolescence.
Mental retardation is characterized by the inability to learn normally
and to become as an independent and socially responsible as others of the same
age in the same culture. A retarded person go through a lot of emotional
problems because of the society making fun of these people. A ...

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Disorders

Anxiety is the predominant symptom in two conditions: panic disorder and
generalized anxiety disorder.
In phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorders, also considered anxiety
disorders, fear is experienced when an individual tries to master other symptoms.
A phobia is an irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation
that is so intense that it interferes with everday life. Obsessions are
repetitive thoughts, images, ideas, or impulses that make no sense to the person.
He or she can fear being unable to avoid committing a violent act, for example,
or worry over whether some small duty has been performed. Compulsions are
repetitive behaviors ...

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