50 Signs of Mental Illness: A Guide to Understanding Mental Health is a 2005 book by psychiatrist James Whitney Hicks published by Yale University Press...
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A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, a mental health condition, or a psychiatric disability, is a behavioral or mental pattern that...
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stereotype the mentally ill as being violent, unpredictable, or dangerous, unlike the great majority of those who experience mental illness. As media is...
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defines "mental health". Some early signs related to mental health difficulties are sleep irritation, lack of energy, lack of appetite, thinking of harming...
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Rethink Mental Illness Is a British charity that seeks to improve the lives of severely mentally ill people. The organisation was founded in 1972 by John...
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study in Western societies, homeless people have a higher prevalence of mental illness when compared to the general population. They also are more likely...
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Sylvia Plath effect (category Creativity and mental illness)
Sylvia Plath effect is the phenomenon that poets are more susceptible to mental illness than other creative writers. The term was coined in 2001 by psychologist...
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Hypochondriasis (redirect from Illness anxiety disorder)
and illness anxiety disorder (25%). Hypochondria is often characterized by fears that minor bodily or mental symptoms may indicate a serious illness, constant...
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People with mental illnesses are over-represented in jail and prison populations in the United States relative to the general population. There are three...
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relationship between socioeconomic status and mental health. There are higher rates of mental illness in groups with lower socioeconomic status (SES)...
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Factitious disorder imposed on self (redirect from Fabricated illness)
psychiatrist or psychologist (mental health professionals who are specially trained to diagnose and treat mental illnesses). Psychiatrists and psychologists...
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Alicia Nash (category Mental health activists)
There she met her future husband, John Forbes Nash, Jr. Despite signs of Nash's mental illness which had emerged in the early 1950s, the couple married in...
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Psychiatric hospital (redirect from Mental institution)
safe hands?. Accessed 2 June 2010 Szasz, Thomas (2011). "The myth of mental illness: 50 years later" (PDF). The Psychiatrist. 35 (5): 179–182. doi:10.1192/pb...
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2005 in literature (category Years of the 21st century in literature)
Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building James Whitney Hicks - 50 Signs of Mental Illness: A Guide to Understanding Mental Health Adam Hochschild...
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(mental illness or mental health difficulties) in a domiciliary setting, instead of a psychiatric hospital (asylum). The array of community mental health...
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responsible for contagion. It is the rapid spread of illness signs and symptoms affecting members of a cohesive group, originating from a nervous system...
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priorities of enacting legislation, educating its people on mental illness and mental health resources, and developing a stable and comprehensive system of care...
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names: authors list (link) "California is reinventing how it deals with mental illness. Now the locals have to make it work". Los Angeles Times. 2023-10-12...
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University of Nsukka Teaching Hospital, Enugu One out of four Nigerians, an estimate of about 50 million people are living with some sort of mental illness. According...
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Idiopathic chronic fatigue (section Signs and symptoms)
signs, and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99) Chapter 18 includes symptoms, signs, abnormal results of clinical...
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Psychosomatic medicine (redirect from Psychophysiologic illness)
framework additionally sees mental and emotional states as capable of significantly influencing the course of any physical illness. Psychiatry traditionally...
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This article lists monarchs who were documented to have mental illness. Such allegations are not necessarily conclusive, since the documenters might have...
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Deinstitutionalization in the United States (category History of mental health in the United States)
diagnosed with a mental disorder or developmental disability. The first wave began in the 1950s and targeted people with mental illness. The second wave...
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would be referred to institutions if the mental illness needs specialized care that is beyond the capabilities of the specialist. Some health care systems...
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Bipolar disorder (redirect from Manic–depressive illness)
previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder characterized by periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood that each last...
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validity of many diagnoses; the use of arbitrary dividing lines between mental illness and "normality"; possible cultural bias; and the medicalization of human...
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Factitious disorder imposed on another (redirect from Fabricated or induced illness)
fabricated or induced illness by carers (FII) and first named as Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP) after Munchausen syndrome, is a mental health disorder...
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Girl, Interrupted (film) (category Films about mental disorders)
option of release seems oblique. "Although the construct of the asylum represented an immeasurable tool in the pursuit to expiate mental illness, the respect...
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cause "mental illnesses", caring for patients and alleviating their sufferings, but they also apply to the scope of their civil rights. The passage of the...
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