Types of mental disorders

According to WHO data, on average every fourth or fifth person in the world has any mental or behavioral disorders. Not in all cases can you find out the causes of mental deviation.

What is a mental disorder?

Under the words "mental disorder" it is customary to understand a mental state different from normal and healthy (in broad sense). A person who is able to adapt to living conditions and resolving emerging life problems in one way or another, which is understandable for the socium way, is considered healthy. In cases where a person does not cope with everyday life tasks and is not able to achieve the set goals , we can talk about a mental disorder of varying degrees. We should not, however, identify mental and behavioral disorders with mental illnesses (although in many cases they can be simultaneous and interdependent).

To some extent, the personality of any normal person is accentuated in a certain way (that is, one can single out the dominant features). At times when these signs begin to dominate too much, you can talk about borderline mental states, and in some cases - about disorders.

How to identify mental disorders?

Mental disorders of the person's personality are accompanied by various changes and disturbances in behavior and thinking, in the sphere of feelings. As a result of such changes, changes in the realization of somatic functions of the organism almost always occur. Different schools of psychology and psychiatry offer different classification systems for mental disorders. The concepts of different directions and psychology reflect the initial system of views of representatives of these areas. Accordingly, the methods of diagnosis and the proposed methods of psychological correction are also different. It should be noted that many of the proposed methods are quite effective in different cases (a thought expressed by CG Jung).

About classification

In the most general form, the classification of mental disorders can look like this:

  1. violation of the sense of continuity, constancy and self-identity (both physical and mental);
  2. lack of criticality to one's own personality , mental activity and its results;
  3. inadequacy of mental reactions to environmental influences, situations and social circumstances;
  4. inability to manage their own behavior in accordance with accepted social norms, rules, laws;
  5. inability to compile and implement life plans;
  6. the inability to change the modes of behavior depending on changes in situations and circumstances.