Popular disorders
Disorder characterized by frequent mood swings and change in a person's actions and feelings.
Bipolar Disorder
Disorder Characterized by the presence of sudden outbursts of sound or action
Tourette syndrome
Psychopaths don't care and have homicidal thoughts
TRUE OR FALSE
False, Sociopaths and Psychopaths are often confused and lumped into the same category
People with mental illness are unable to work
TRUE OR FALSE
False, tons of people you walk by on a daily basis have a mental illness of some kind
Cotard's syndrome
Someone with cotards believes that they are dead. Also known as corpse walking syndrome.
Disorder in which you perceive things differently from those around you, sometimes causing hallucinations and delusions.
Psychosis
A crippling condition that makes it almost impossible for them to make a simple choice.
Aboulomania
People with depression are always sad and are rarely happy
TRUE OR FALSE
True, people with genuine depression are stuck in a continuous state of sadness and disconnect
Mental illness is uncommon
TRUE OR FALSE
False, 1 in every 5 people, or almost half of all people in the U.S suffer from documented mental illness. That means about 50 students and 10 adults in our school are suffering from DOCUMENTED mental illness of some kind.
Lima Syndrome
The reverse of Stockholm Syndrome, where a kidnapper falls in love with a victim.
Disorder characterized by the total disregard for your own and other's rights
Anti social personality disorder, these people are called psychopaths'
Characterized by panic fear of social interactions when a sufferer is excessively worried that a social occasion might somehow go wrong.
Taijin Kyofusho syndrome
Having psychosis makes you a psychopath
TRUE OR FALSE
False, Anti social personality disorder and psychosis are two completely different conditions
All people with mental illness are violent and should be avoided
TRUE OR FALSE
False, even people suffering from schizophrenia, Anti social personality disorder, Sociopaths, and people with psychosis are most likely non violent
Factitious Disorder
Most people are in denial of being mentally ill, but those with this disorder obsess over it.
Disorder caused by behavioral disturbances that inflict fear
Anxiety
Disorder characterized by one's absence of ability to be able to grasp space, time, or interaction with the world around them, they may feel like their body parts are bigger f smaller than they are.
Alice in Wonderland syndrome
People with autism almost always have atypical responses to social situations
TRUE OR FALSE
True, most people with autism have trouble grasping social situations
Most people with mental illness are ages 8-40
TRUE OR FALSE
True, most people suffering from mental illness are teenagers and young adults who's actions are often mistaken for normal teen and young adult behavior.
Autophagia
Autophagia is a condition where you literally eat yourself or parts of yourself as a result of impulsive biting and chewing.
Disorder characterized by the inattention or hyperactivity that affects everyday life.
ADHD and ADD
Mental illness in which one believes they are an animal
Clinical Lycanthropy
D.I.D automatically means that you have psychotic tendencies and are murderous
TRUE OR FALSE
False, about 1% of all D.I.D cases actually have an "Alter" that has psychotic tendencies.
You can't recover from mental illness
TRUE OR FALSE
False, very false, most people actually do recover from mental illness with the use of therapy and medication
Erotomania
Erotomania is diagnosed when someone is convinced that another person is in love with them.