The person may suffer with responses that are un appropriate in certain situations as well as the usual signs (rapid heartbeat, sweating and nervousness. Anxiety disorders include post-traumatic stress, obsessive compulsive disorder and phobias. Psychotic disorders - involve distorted awareness and thinking. People experience images and sounds that are not real. The ill people believe they are true despite being shown evidence.
People with this illness might develop delusions or experience hallucinations. Examples of this type of illness include schizophrenia and some types of depression. Non-psychotic illnesses are group of mental illnesses where people’s feelings can become so disturbing and overwhelming that they have difficulty coping with day-to-day activities. This type of mental illness is a common experience for many people. Examples include: phobias, anxiety, some forms of depression, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and etc.
Like any other emotions, anxiety can be experienced in different degrees of intensity. At a lower intensity, anxiety is normal and manageable, however, at the higher end, it can lead to a pathological disorder called anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorder is a condition of mental disorders characterized by excessive periods of anxiety or when the intensity and frequency begin to interfere with a human’s well-being, social and occupational functioning. There are several types of anxiety disorders: General anxiety disorder (GAD), panic disorder, phobias, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Each of these anxiety disorders are characterized by their symptoms and treatments.
Jordaan (2013) explains that psychosis refers to a cluster of symptoms, among these disruptions in moods, thoughts, perception, language and behaviour. Jordaan goes on to say that Schizophrenia is the most common psychotic disorder with psychosis being the primary and central set of symptoms, although not all symptoms present in all people. These symptoms can be categorised as positive (active symptoms) and negative symptoms (absence or decline of normal functions) (Jordaan,
Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that involves both manic and depressive episodes. While mania and depression are two extremely different mood episodes, bipolar disorder unifies both. For an individual diagnosed with bipolar, these moods can occur either at the same time or within a few days or weeks of each other. Although bipolar disorder is typically thought of synonymously with the mood disturbance of an individual, in fact, cognition, motivation, and physical functions are majorly affected as well. For example, during a depressive episode, mental processes are slowed down, and are also constituted by feelings of self-worthlessness and anhedonia, loss of pleasure.
Physical symptoms of GAD include a fast or pounding heart, headaches and inability to relax. Pyschological symptoms include excessive worry, feeling on edge, difficulty concentrating and sleep disturbances. After GAD has been present for a while a person may have inability making decisions that would normally be easy and may continually seek reassurance about everyday matters. * Panic Disorder A panic attack is where a person
Social anxiety increases a person’s chances of developing high blood pressure. An example of a bad habit that someone suffering from social anxiety can form is drug abuse. Major depression is often associated with social anxiety which can contribute to the abuse of drugs. People with social anxiety are more likely to abuse substances due to shyness and nervousness. A person suffering from this may become afraid to live in their world of fear.
An anxiety dream is an unpleasant dream that is less disturbing than a nightmare. Anxiety dreams are characterized by the feelings of unease, distress, or apprehension in the dreamer upon waking. Anxiety dreams occur in “rapid eye movement sleep”, and common dreams involve incomplete tasks, embarrassment, falling, or pursuit. Anxiety dreams may be caused by childhood trauma, an adult dealing with conflict, or an overload of stress. Though they create anxiety in the dreamer, anxiety dreams also serve as a way for a person's ego to re-set.
This medication is known to cause an increased risk to death in patients, memory loss, confusion, loss of reality, increased risk in suicidal thoughts, new or worse depression, new or worse anxiety, agitation or restlessness, panic attacks, increased aggressiveness, angry or violent behavior, an extreme increase in activity and talking, cause the patient to experience strokes that can lead to death, lower white blood cell count, difficulty swallowing, and lastly this medication can cause a serious effect called neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS): this is a rare condition that can happen in patients who take antipsychotic medications especially LATUDA, this medication can and will cause death when these symptoms are experienced high fever, excessive sweating, rigid muscles, confusions, and changes in heartbeat and blood
This can make life appear meaningless and lead to depression. Stress can also affect relationships greatly. If one partner is over stressed, they can react unreasonably to the other person and be quite difficult to deal with. This can act like a chain reaction whereby the stress the person is under causes them to behave badly with their partner which can lead to more rows and arguments. These in turn can lead to more stress within the relationship for both parties.