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    Mental health and mental disorders are related in that which they both deal with the mind, they either have productive or detrimental effects on the individual. Mental health is basically when an individual is performing and being productive with in society. The individual has the ability to cope with specific issues and address those issues without cause. Mental disorders are any condition that is diagnosable through the DSM-5, and causes mood and behavioral changes. Mental disorders can have

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    Mental illness; the term has increasingly become mainstream, as seen on the television, newspapers, and twitter. Shortly after the fatal shooting of a new screw in Virginia the word got around that the gunman had shown symptoms of a mental condition. A mental disorder is prolonged dysfunction in thoughts behavior and/or emotions that significantly deviates from common human behavior. During his life This individual was never diagnosed of this condition however after analysis of the terrible shooting

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    understanding mental disorders, but even in today’s society they are still not treated the same way as physical disorders. It is true we are no longer killing people for having a mental disorder because of the belief it is a demon possessing them, but we still have a long way to go in correcting how we still treat those with these disorders. The two have their differences, but mental and physical disorders are equal in how they are both illnesses deserving the same respect and treatment. Mental disorders

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    Mental disorders are just as bad as any illness. Mental illness doesn’t go disappear altogether, instead you can get better with help of medicine and support of other people. According to the textbook Social Problems, a mental disorder is a condition involving thinking, mood, or behavior that causes distress and reduces a person’s ability to function in everyday life (251). There are many types of mental illnesses that one can have, but all should be treated equally and taken serious. People can

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    A psychological disorder, also known as a mental disorder, is a pattern of behavioral or psychological symptoms that impact multiple life areas and create distress for the person experiencing these symptoms. These symptoms are characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual 's cognitive, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental process underlying mental functioning. Mental disorders are usually associated with

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    We have all suffer from mental illness in one way or another in our lives. Either if it’s from a tragic accident that we have been in, a tragic accident that we have seen or even from a relationship break up. Mental illness is something that triggers in our brain from those tragic happenings; from depression, anxiety, bulimia or anorexic to name a few. Gabourey Sidibe is a 34 year old young actress who has been battling with bulimia and suicidal thoughts along with depression and panic attacks. Gabourey

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    People overlook and ignore mental disorders due to the skepticism of the severity of the disorders. Some people do not believe that disorders exist. An example, people who want out of certain situations or an excuse to not do something will use the word, anxiety, as an excuse. Parents who have kids that lack the knowledge of how to stay still and how to focus will use the term, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder as an excuse, while the parents simply need to teach their kids in a harsher way

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    The prevalence of mental disorder has increased over recent decades and gained greater public concerns (Polanczyk, Salum, Sugaya, Caye& Rohde, 2015). Due to no biological marker available to indicate the presence of mental disorder, words such as disease mongering, over diagnosis, over treatment are associated with the current epidemic of mental disorders (Cosgrove& Wheeler, 2013). Some people doubted the current diagnosis of mental disorder and pointed out the existence of over diagnosis (James

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    The DSM-5 defines a mental disorder to be “a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance” in an individual’s cognition, behavior, and emotionality (American Psychiatric Association, 20). This form of diagnosis, as stated by Cuthbert and Insel, makes the clear statement that clinical diagnostics rely upon presenting symptoms and do not acknowledge fully the roles of biological and behavioral systems in mental disorders. This diagnostic dependency on presenting symptoms leads definitions

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    The best way to understand abnormal behavior is through disorders because of the diagnostic criteria, vast range of possible disorders, and treatment methods available. When is comes to disorders these is a vast amount of knowledge in classification and diagnosis so, if someone has one it can be pinpointed using psychological information that is readily available. It can be argues that the best way to think about behavior abnormalities as illnesses but upon further inspection it is obvious that there

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