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Persons in Mental Recovery
What is Schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness. It is caused by the disturbances of concentration of brain neurotransmitters, changes of receptors of the brain cells and structural brain abnormalities rather than pure psychological reasons. Patient will have abnormal thinking, feeling, emotio ...
What is bipolar affective disorder?
From its name, it may be difficult to understand what bipolar disorder is. Another name of this disorder-manic depression may give a clue. As this name suggests, there will be manic and depressive symptoms in someone with manic depression. Depression may be more familiar to most of us. What is mania ...
What is depression?
Depression was formerly considered as one kind of neurasthenia under the category of mild mental disorder. People with depression have prolonged low mood, a loss of interest in everything and a lack of energy. Their feelings are so bad that they interfere with everyday life.You can refer to the foll ...
How does a psychiatrist diagnose mental illness?
Generally speaking, a mental illness has two parts – 1. a collection of symptoms and signs, 2. disturbance of functioning and suffering to the person. For each symptom, a psychiatrist see how persistent and prominent it is and how it is accompanied by other symptoms. For example, in a depressi ...
What are causes of mental illness?
The “stress-vulnerability” model best articulates the causes of mental illness. (In fact, this model also well applies to most illnesses involving all other organs.). Both “external stressor” and “internal tendency towards the illness” contribute to the onset of m ...
