Psychological Disorders

Psychological Disorders

Introduction

The term disorder has different uses. You can refer to a slight impairment of health or a state of mental derangement, for example. Disorder is, moreover, the effect of disrupting action (reverse the order or disrupt regular sense something or someone's behavior). A psychological disorder refers to an imbalance of the mental state of a person. Usually, those who suffer from these disorders go to a specialist (psychologist) for treatment (through psychotherapy and other techniques) (American Psychiatric Association, 2000).

Thesis statement

“The clinical significance of different psychological disorders is manifested in the fact of being the object of continuing study throughout medical history and, at the conceptual level, in considering the pathogenesis psychic.”

Discussion

Mood Disorder

Usually people experience a wide range of moods and emotional expressions. People feel they have some control on your mood. In mood disorders lose this sense of control and experiencing a general malaise (Gabbard, 2005). The essential feature of disorders in this category is that they all reflect an imbalance in the emotional reaction or mood that is not due to any other physical or mental disorder. These are divided into two groups, bipolar disorders and depressive disorders.

There are different kinds of mood disorders:

Depression : mood profoundly sad and some psychomotor symptoms (e.g., decreased, decreased concentration) or autonomic (e.g., loss of appetite or sleep) predominate;

dysthymia: the individual seems to live attenuated depression, that is to say the intensity of sadness and other symptoms is less, but the condition lasts for at least two years without respite;

Bipolar disorder (commonly called manic depression): periods of depression alternate with periods of great excitement, energy, euphoria or irritability called mania. These mood changes are uncontrollable and sometimes frequent;

cyclothymia: the individual seems to live attenuated bipolar disorder, that is to say the intensity of sadness, euphoria and other symptoms is less, but the state has lasted for at least two years respite.

Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric disorders. Some of these conditions are referred to phobia. The common feature of anxiety disorders is that there is fear. People can be so anxious that it disrupts their lives (Hirsch et al. 2007). The people with anxiety disorders report a wide variety of fears that are so overwhelming that they cause a major disruption in their lives. Most anxiety disorders can be defined as the fear of losing control.

Somatoform disorders

It is a group of psychogenic diseases characterized by abnormal physical symptoms resembling physical disease, but it does not show ...