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| Mental and Addictive Disorders |
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| Except human beings, no other animal can have mental disorders and addiction problems. They are specific to human beings only. |
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| Mental disorders |
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| Mental health is to be defined as well being of human mind resulting in socially acceptable behavioural patterns. The mental health is characterised by |
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 Harmonious living with others |
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 Self control of physical activities |
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 Ability of decision making |
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 Self control of emotions like fear, anger, love, hatred |
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 moral and spiritual values |
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 Free from perversions and misconceptions about important values of life |
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 Realistic judgement of own abilities and others potentialities. |
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| Any of the above characteristic is subject to impairment leading to one or other mental disorder. The term 'mental disorder' refers to any deviation from mental health even in its mildest form. But, usually 'mental illness' means the disorders of greater proportions - leading to predominant and socially unacceptable / uncontrolled behavioural patterns. Thus, many people in a given population may have mental disorders of negligible and unnoticed behavioural deviations. They are never classified as mentally ill. They are neither identified nor treated. |
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| The disorders designated as illness or disease are such disorders where - |
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 a person may have prominently unacceptable / uncontrolled behaviour. |
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 a person may be violent to cause physical damages to his surroundings. |
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 a person lives in imaginary surroundings with imaginary persons / objects. |
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 a person has a great inconsistency in his actions, talks - often withdraws from daily activities, surrounding persons and passes his time in deep loneliness and tensions. |
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