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Persons in Mental Recovery
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 ...
What are the common types of mental illness?
Common types of mental illnesses include: dementia, disorder due to psychoactive drug use (e.g. alcohol, opiate, stimulant etc), psychotic disorder, mood disorder (including depressive disorder, bipolar affective disorder), neurotic disorder (including anxiety disorder, phobic disorder, obsessive co ...
How common is mental illness?
Mental illness is more common than most people expect. Everyone can suffer from mental illness at any time point of his life. A large survey in the UK found 1 in 6 people of working age suffer from a mental illness; mental illness is as common as asthma. Among those above 65 years old, one out of tw ...
What is a mental illness?
When the heart is the organ involved in a heart disease, brain is the organ involved in a mental illness. In the mental illness, certain parts of brain are damaged, resulting in symptoms involving cognitive function, content of thought, perception, emotion, behaviour and biological function (e.g. sl ...
