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Welcome to our Mental Disorders topic area. In this family of topic centers you will find information concerning various mental disorders including depression, generalized anxiety, panic, bipolar disorder, attention deficit and schizophrenia, to name but a few. Disorders of Childhood are grouped under the Disorders of Childhood topic category

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Mental vs. Medical Classifications:

There is always a question of whether a given disorder or issue would be better classified as a "mental" or a "medical-biological" disorder. To some degree or another, there is no really firm distinction between mental and medical disorders. Many so called 'mental' disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are now known to be primarily biologically based, while other 'medical' disorders have been shown to have a large 'psychological...

 

 
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Personality Disorders Often Come With Other Difficulties
Diagnoses, Some Thoughts to Consider
What's In A Name?
Tourettes Disorder
On Alcohol and Alcoholics Anonymous: A Sober Conversation
A Tragic Story of Paranoid Schizophrenia: Lowboy, by John Wray
What Is Normal and What Is Not? The New Diagnostic and Statistical Manual V
Service Dogs and the Confusing Issue of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Denial and Drug Addiction, A Serious Problem
Long Term and Other Types of Psychotherapy
Regulating Brain Chemicals and Mental Illnesses with WINCS and DBS
Mood Changes Linked To Seasonal Fluctuations in Serotonin
Free Public Forums on Mental Illness Occurring Across the Country
Dr. Bruce E. Nivins, the Anthrax Case and the Stigma of Mental Illness
Alcoholism, Drug Addiction and Mental Illness
Criminalizing Distrubed Young Offenders
The Question of Diagnosis
School Shootings: So Now it's Cleveland, 10/10/07
Free National Mental Health Screening Day
Psychotherapy, Equally Available?
Psychiatric Emergency
On Hearing Voices
What to Do In a Mental Health Emergency
Let's Not Blame the Mentally Ill: The Tragedy at Virginia Tech
Marijuana, Just Harmless Fun?
Email: 'Christmas Carols' for the Psychologically Challenged
Coping With Holiday Cheer or How To Reduce the Risk of Depression
The Why of Psychological Testing
It's Enough to Make You Pull Your Hair Out
Mental Health Hotlines/Locating Assistance
Young People and Self Abuse
The Persistent Stigma of Mental Illness
Meditation: A Treatment for Depression?
Addiction: Is Moderate Alcohol and Drug Use Possible?
Bipolar Disorder and the Need for Psychoeducation
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Genetics and Stress
Temperament 101
Foreclosed Identities
Diagnosis and Dual Diagnosis
The Medicalization Of Mental Illness
Scapegoating And Mental Illness Stigma
Wonderland's Distorted Vision
 
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Anxiety Disorders
Bipolar Disorder
Depression: Major Depression & Unipolar Varieties
Schizophrenia
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