It will also include an evaluation of their explanation of the theories for the causes of depression and schizophrenia. Depression is a complex mood disorder which is sufficient enough to interfere with normal functioning. Schizophrenia is a chronic (long lasting) brain disorder which affects Intellectual functioning. Depression is closely linked to schizophrenia as the sufferer recognises what is meant by having the illness. This essay will examine the causes of depression and schizophrenia and analyse its findings.
* Personality disorders: defined by experiences and behaviours that can differ from the social norm. Individuals diagnosed with a personality disorder may experience difficulties in cognition, emotiveness, interpersonal functioning or control of impulses * Anxiety disorder: excessive feelings of anxiety and fear, where anxiety is worry about future events and fear is a reaction to current events. * Psychotic disorders: refers to an abnormal condition of the mind, and is the term for a mental state often described as involving a "loss of contact with reality". People suffering from psychosis are described as psychotic. * Substance-related disorders: when an individual consumes a substance (drugs, alcohol) in amounts which are harmful to themselves or others.
Additionally, the existence of a disorder called Schizotypal personality disorder means that it is sometimes difficult to decide if a person has schizophrenia or schizotypal personality disorder further reducing the reliability with which schizophrenia is diagnosed. Furthermore, issues of reliability are further caused by using the DSM – IV’s five main types of schizophrenia; Disorganised schizophrenia, Catatonic Schizophrenia, Paranoid Schizophrenia, Undifferentiated schizophrenia and Residual Schizophrenia. Patients with catatonic schizophrenia and paranoid schizophrenia often have symptoms in common, therefore it can be seen as the same disorder and it is harder to distinguish between the two. Also, if a diagnosis is reliable, then why is there a category identified as ‘undifferentiated’ which makes it seem to be a ‘not sure category’. Moreover, why is a person diagnosed as having
CT261 Understanding Mental Health Problems 1.1 Describe the main types of mental ill health according to the psychiatric (DSM/ICD) classification system;- Mood disorders – affects the individual's moods and are more intense and difficult to manage than normal feelings of sadness or mood swings. They include all types of depression and bipolar disorder. Mood disorders are sometimes referred to as affective disorders. Examples include post natal depression which some women experience after giving birth and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) experienced by some people in autumn and winter when the days are shorter and there is less sunlight. Mood disorders are thought to be caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.
Mood disorders: These disorders, also called affective disorders, involve persistent feelings of sadness or periods of feeling overly happy, or fluctuations from extreme happiness to extreme sadness. The most common mood disorders are depression, mania, and bipolar disorder. Psychotic disorders: Psychotic disorders involve distorted awareness and thinking. Two of the most common symptoms of psychotic disorders are hallucinations -- the experience of images or sounds that are not real, such as hearing voices -- and delusions, which are false beliefs that the ill person accepts as true, despite evidence to the contrary. Schizophrenia is an example of a psychotic disorder.
Psychiatric Disorders, Disease, and Drugs Psychiatric Disorders, Disease, and Drugs Psychiatric or psychological disorders are disorders of sufficiently severe psychological function as to require treatment by a psychologist or psychiatrist (Pinel, 2009). Examples of psychiatric disorders include schizophrenia, emotional disorders such as depression or mania, anxiety disorders, and Tourette syndrome. Each of these disorders has developmental theories and drug treatments. Schizophrenia is a complex disorder defined as the splitting of psychic functions or the breakdown of integration between emotion, thought, and action. The complexity of schizophrenia symptoms often overlap with other disorders and often change during disorder advancement.
1.1. Describe the main types of mental ill health according to the psychiatric (DSM/ICD) classification system: mood disorders, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, substance related disorders, eating disorders, cognitive disorders. Mood disorders: Is the term designating a group of diagnoses in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV TR) classification system where a disturbance in person's mood is hypothesised to be main underlying feature. Personality mood: are conditions in which an individual differs significantly from an average person in terms of how they think, perceive, feel or relate to others. Anxiety disorders: Is a feeling of unease, such a worry or fear, that can be mild or severe.
PATHOPHYSIOLOGY Disease: Schizoaffective Disorder Definition: Schizoaffective disorder is a serious mental illness that has features of two different conditions, schizophrenia and an affective (mood) disorder, either major depression or bipolar disorder. It is a condition in which a person experiences a combination of schizophrenia symptoms, such as hallucinations or delusions as well as mood disorder symptoms, such as mania or depression. Schizoaffective disorder is a mix of multiple mental health conditions that may run a unique course in each affected person. Schizoaffective disorder usually begins in the late teen years or early adulthood, often between the ages of 16 and 30. It seems to occur slightly more often in women than in
Unfortunately, “schizophrenia is an umbrella term for a number of psychotic disorders that involve disturbances in nearly every dimension of human psychology, including thought, perception, behavior, language, communication, and emotion” ” (R. Kolwalski, D. Westen, 2011). Schizophrenia is a mental illness that can be controlled with medication but its effects can be devastating if not treated
Unit 12 Understand Mental Health Problems 1. Know the main forms of Mental Health. 1.1 Describe the main types of mental ill health according to the psychiatric (DSM/ICD) classification system: mood disorders, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, substance-related disorders, eating disorders, cognitive disorders | There are many different conditions/symptoms that are recognised by the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM) or the international classification of disease (ICD) as mental ill health. MOOD DISORDERS:-the most common mood disorders according to the DSM are depression and bipolar disorder. These types of mental ill health are known as Affective disorders, they involve periods of time where the individual experiences feelings of extreme sadness or extreme happiness, the individual may also experience a fluctuation between the two emotions over this period of time.