Mental Disorders

Branden Marshall, the talented Miami wide receiver, was recently diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. How will this affect his play?

How diagnostic labeling is important and necessary, but how it can also hinder the expectations and performance of others.

Defining mental illness. Is medication always necessary?

Issue: Is the evidence sufficient to conclude that there is a casual relationship between cigarette smoking and the onset of mental illness symptoms?

This is a short article about how to simply cure yourself of mental disorders by focusing on the quiet mind.

Culture plays a role in mental life. Our thoughts and perceptions are shaped by the books we read, by the movies we see, by the language we speak. Perhaps less obviously, culture plays a role in mental disorder as well.

this document will explain the definition of Substance-Induced Disorder, its cause, along with any symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.

Mental disorders are a horrified medical condition that can turn you under downright strange, bizarre and weird. The progress of these mental illnesses could later mess up your life or drive you crazy.

Everyone lies at some time in there life but pathological lying is a completely different story. This type of lying means something is mentally wrong.

Many people often wonder how a doctor or a psychiatrist, and psychologist decide who has what mental illness and why. It is very tricky because many mental illnesses resemble each other.

Genetic precursors to diseases and mental disorders might very well be written in the lines and line breaks of the palm as it formed in the womb.

Software should be created so as to induce sleep in the patients of insomnia and happiness in the life of depressed patients.

A mental disorder or a mental illness is a psychological or behavioral pattern by any person which is considered abnormal. This article will give you the types of mental disorder.

The insomnia and mental disorder in children and adolescents is the result of lack of sleep due to spending too many hours in front of computer screens.

A quick overview of the role of mental illness in America and potential treatment methods involving counseling and pharmaceuticals.

The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that as many as "one in four adults" in the U.S. or about "26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older" have some sort of mental disorder each year (2007, Mental Disorders in America, para. 1).

Many schools receive additional funding from the government for every special-needs child they teach. So what can you do if a school tries to diagnose your child with a mental disorder?

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is in the process of undergoing revision. How much influence will Big Pharma have over it?

Being shy is something that can only be understood by other shy people. It is this lack of ability to understand that has turned shyness from a simple normal human characteristic to a serious mental disorder requiring medication.

These days, there's a name for everything, and there are psychological enablers for every type of behavior.

Deconstructs the rise of mental illness in America, and examines causes other than a general decline in American mental Health. Provides interesting facts and statistics about mental illness at home and abroad, and offers opinions from several experts.

An introduction to depersonalization disorder. This article tries to describe the depersonalization experience with DSM descriptions and actual experience reports from real sufferers.

A recount of a man whose life went up in flames.

Have police found Lula Hood after she has been missing for 41 years and believed to have been buried once? The police believe that they have indeed found the woman alive after she has been missing for 41 years.

Learning the causes and treatment for depersonalization disorder.