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So what are some Mental Health Disorders Symptoms
Are you aware that mental health disorders are a common condition that affects many people across the globe? In fact, it accounts for up to 11% of the diseases in the world and is even recognized to be a severely disabling disorder. What are mental health disorders or mental illnesses? Mental health disorders are psychological patterns that affect persons and are linked to distress. The disorder can be just a mild mood disorder or it can be a severe manic-depressive condition. Even though health care professionals around the world consider mental health disorders as a group of disorders that cause instabilities in thinking, feeling, acting and relating, the exact definition of the said condition is still diverse.
Mental Health Disorders Symptoms
In order for us to get to know and understand the many mental health disorders symptoms, we should first realize that there are various types of mental health disorders and each has their signature signs and symptoms as well. Here are the different types of mental health disorders: mood disorders, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, and eating disorders.
Anxiety Disorders
What are anxiety disorders? Anxiety disorders are chronic and debilitating. It can affect anybody and are triggered by certain events. A person with anxiety disorder will suffer from occasional episodes of anxiety which can be very intense and traumatic to the point that the sufferer may become immobilized during an episode. There are several anxiety disorders: generalized anxiety disorders, panic disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and phobias. Here the mental health disorders symptoms for anxiety disorder:
- Severe headaches
- Feeling nauseous
- Difficulty falling and staying asleep
- Having an intense fear of losing control
- Muscle tension
- Tingling in the hands
- Inability to relax or be at ease
- Profuse sweating or having hot flashes
- Easily irritated
- Trembling
- Sense of unreality
- Fatigue
- Lightheadedness
- Unexplained fear of death
- Pounding of the heart
- Chest discomfort / pain
Psychotic Disorders
Those individuals who are suffering from psychotic disorders (also known as psychosis) are said to have lost contact with the real world / reality. What psychotic people experience are hallucination and delusional spells. Most often than not, these people have a disorganized thinking and they also have personality shifts. They exhibit bizarre behavior and have difficulty relating / interacting with other people. People suffering from psychotic disorders have a great difficulty if not inability to carry out day-to-day activities. Here are the symptoms that are usually associated with psychotic disorders:
- Having delusions or false beliefs
- Having hallucinations
- Thought disorders
- Weakened emotions
Disorder in Eating
The disorders in eating cause an individual to intentionally avoid eating at all costs. This then affects not just the physical health of an individual, but the mental health is severely affected as well. Here are the commonly linked symptoms:
- Irrational fear of becoming fat
- Having a very low weight
- Self-recrimination
- Purging
- Crash dieting
- Binge eating
- Preoccupation with weight and body shape
- Over exercising
- For females: amenorrhea
Mood Disorders
The following are the mood disorders symptoms:
- Denial
- Restlessness
- Extreme irritability
- Lack of sleep (insomnia)
- Lack of interest
- Hopelessness / helplessness / pessimism
- Persistent sadness
- Unrealistic beliefs in abilities
- Changes in appetite resulting in weight changes
- Suicidal thoughts
- Lack of concentration
- Persistent unexplained illnesses that are not resolved by medications (chronic pain)
