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Psychological Dysfunction

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There is an incredibly large amounts of disorders, so defining "disorder" is very difficult. People haven't really come up with an all-encompassing set definition for disorders because of the obscenely large amount of disorders (4). Although there isn't one single definition for "disorder", one broad definition would be: "a psychological dysfunction in an individual that is associated with distress or impairment", psychological dysfunction refers to the end of purposeful thinking, emotion, and/or behavior (5). Mental illnesses also cause ample amounts of distress for the afflicted person (4). When people have some sort of disorder, they usually don't seek the help they require, either because they aren't aware that they are afflicted, or because

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