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What are the top 3 mental disorders?


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Mental disorder:

  1. The formation of impairment or distress in personal functioning with mental or behavioural patterns is known as mental disorder.
  2. It can also be termed a psychiatric or psychological disorder.
  3. Mental disorders are a combination of abnormal thoughts, perceptions, emotions, behavior and relationships with others.

Top mental disorders:

Depression:

  1. Depression is related to person's mood everyday and can last for a longer time.
  2. Depression is more common in women than men.
  3. Depression affects how a person thinks, feels, behaves and it can lead to emotional and physical problems.

Bipolar disorder:

  1. Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder having two extreme conditions depressed and manic.
  2. It causes extreme mood swings including emotional highs and lows.
  3. A person suffering with bipolar disorder behaves impulsively or takes unusual risks.

Schizophrenia:

  1. A serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally is known as schizophrenia.
  2. It results in combination of hallucinations and delusions which can impair daily functioning.
  3. Patients having schizophrenia need life long treatment.

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