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Item: Diseases of the human body -> Category: Health -> Author: PF -> Revision: 13/05/2008
Glossary of mental illness

Acrofobia: phobia of heights. The individual experiences feelings of vertigo when in high places. Feel fear, discomfort and distress.

 

Acute Stress Disorder: occurs in the weeks after suffering a traumatic experience such as a death or an accidentThe person suffers from the memories of it and the unpleasant feelings that accompanied him. It usually display other symptoms such as anxiety or insomnia.

 

Agoraphobia: mental disorder that occurs in the individual fear and panic attacks. The situations are often triggers found in open spaces or where you feel vulnerable as being alone in public places.

 

Amnesia disociativa: the person fails to recall some fact that it is his past injuries. All other things are recalled normally.

 

Anorexia: eating disorder that cosiste in inadequate intake of food. It can be caused by organic causes. In the case of anorexia nervosa is due to the intention of losing weight.

 

Anxiety: anticipatory disproportionate response to an event. The person who suffers presents a state of stress, nervousness and anxiety is not justified by events.

 

Aracnofobia: phobia spiders. The person experiencing feelings of fear and anxiety in the presence of these animals.

 

Asperger syndrome: brain disorder in which a child has no physical or intellectual disabilities, only socially. They have a lot of strange behavior and difficulty interacting with others.

 

Autism: disorder characterized by difficulty in communicating and interacting with others. These patients often do not communicate verbally with others, or do so with difficulty. Neither show emotions or feelings towards what surrounds them. Appears already in childhood.

 

Bipolar Disorder: combine stages that can last months of depression with other stages of vitality and unbridled euphoria.

 

Bulimia: eating disorder that manifests itself in the intake of large quantities of food. After meals tends to be a feeling of repentance that leads to induce vomiting and maintain periods of fasting.

 

Claustrofobia: the person is afraid to places closed or limited space. It produces anguish the idea of staying locked. In these places experiencing anxiety and feeling of suffocation.

 

Crisis anguish: they are short periods of time where it is experiencing negative and unpleasant feelings such as fear, discomfort, shortness of breath, nausea, sweats, chills, feeling die. After that time the person recovers. They usually occur as a result of other disorders such as anxiety. It is also known under the name of panic attack.

 

Delirium: is the name of the disruption of normal perceptions of things We lose capabilities such as memory, the vision of reality or care. It can be caused by the consumption of certain substances such as drugs.

 

Dementia: disorder, which has resulted in the partial or total loss of memory, language, the ability of guidance and other cognitive functions of the system.

 

Depression: emotional disorder characterized by a sad mood and apathetic. In some cases they require drug treatment.

 

Disocial Disorder: talking about this disorder in children for a long time show violent behavior with their environment. Generally shown aggressive, destructive and do not obey the rules.

 

Distimia: chronic depressive disorder. The person claims for a time exceeding two years sadness, pessimism, low self-esteem and other negative feelings.

 

Dyslexia: disorder that hinders learning of reading and writing.

 

Fobia social disorder: by which social situations such as rallies or the presence of unknown instil fear, nervousness and rejection is not justified. The person clearly avoids social situations and is always in fear of being ridiculous or evidence.

 

Fobia: intense fear of a particular object or fact. Fear and anxiety are not justified by the actual threat or danger. In order to be considered a disorder requiring medical care should condition the daily life of the individual.

 

Fotofobia: displeasure or excessive sensitivity to the presence of light. It can be due to eye injury to make the eye more sensitive to this encouragement.

Hipocondría: disorder in which a person experiences on a daily fear and concern to suffer various diseases.

 

Hyperactivity: they are children with difficulties concentrating, keep the focus and perform the tasks they are ordered. They forget things, for them to remain silent, etc.. This disorder causes them problems in their school life.

 

Hypersomnia: excessive sleep at night and day during a prolonged phase and without cause. Reach hinder work and family life.

 

Insomnia: difficulty falling asleep despite the weariness with the individual. It causes mental and physical discomfort due to lack of rest.

 

Ludopatía: gambling. You can reach conditional life and cause major disruptions in behavior.

 

Mental retardation: is the name of the disorder by which the person presents an IQ below 70. It is classified into mild, moderate, severe and profound as the result of the test of intelligence is less than 20.

 

Narcolepsy: the individual yourself suddenly falling asleep during the day regardless of what you are doing. It is accompanied by a disruption of the normal sleep and cataplexia, which is momentary loss of muscle stiffness.

 

Neurastenia: mental disorder characterized by weakness and fatigue intellectual, in addition to the gloom and sadness. Physical symptoms may also occur as muscle tension or insomnia.

 

Nightmares: it is taken dreams while sleeping in those experiencing feelings of fear or discomfort. It is considered a disorder when they reach adversely affect the daily life of a person.

 

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: the individual suffers from obsessions and compulsions. The initial thoughts are that it took all day, though, and try to avoid them without cause.. The compulsions are behaviors or movements that the person conducts a result of the obsession with the aim of alleviating it.

 

Panic Attack: they are short periods of time where it is experiencing negative and unpleasant feelings such as fear, discomfort, shortness of breath, nausea, sweats, chills, feeling die. After that time the person recovers. They usually occur as a result of other disorders such as anxiety. It is also known under the name of crisis panic.

 

Panic Disorder: one assumes that when a person has suffered several panic attacks or anxiety crisis in a given period of time.

 

Pathological Gambling: disorder that suffers when a person is addicted to gambling. You can not stop playing even if they try. This activity affects their lives and can lead to lie or steal.

 

Pica: disorder that is the custom of eating inedible substances. It is not uncommon in children. We talk about this disorder when the habit is very common and is no longer justified by age.

 

Piromanía: those suffering from this disorder causing fires intentionally. The incident did not make them feel bad but experiencing satisfaction.

 

Psicastenia: mental disorder that produces continuous feelings of fear, panic and disruption arising from this state of acute tension.

 

Rett disorder: disorder that manifests itself after a normal fetal development and a normal birth. From the five months starting to lose skills of movement, language and social issuesIn addition, the growth of the skull is so abnormal.

 

Rumiación: childhood disorder that is that the child becomes ingested food in their mouths to return to chewing.. It is not due to any physical problem.

 

Schizophrenia: mental illness that produces personality disorders, delusions and hallucinations.

 

Senile Dementia: dementia in old age produced as a result of the aging of the body itself.

 

Separation Anxiety: child anxiety disorder that is characterized by excessive discomfort and nervousness which leads to a situation of separation from their parents or other loved ones. It is in normal situations in which you should have no fear.

 

Somatización: is manifested in the presence of various physical pain. There are different types of somatization disorders. In addition to all the pains, intestinal diseases are detected any problems of a sexual nature and usually neurological also as a lack or loss of mobility. None of these symptoms is cause physical justified.

 

Sonambulismo: the person gets up and walks at night without being aware of it. It perceives the presence of other people and when not remember what happened awake.

 

Tartamudeo: difficulty to express themselves orally fluently. It is characterized by the repetition of syllables or sounds as well as by the presence of breaks within a word.




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