Mental wellbeing ought to be recognized as part of our experiences and as another person’s situation and not an aspect that canceled out any those skills.

Mental disorder is an emotional, cognitive, and/or behavioral alteration in which basic psychological processes such as emotion, motivation, cognition, consciousness, behavior, perception, learning, and language are affected, which makes it difficult for the person to adapt to the cultural and social environment in which they live and creates some form of subjective discomfort.

It is important to know that mental illness can be treated to achieve recovery or allow the person suffering from it to have a better quality of life.

Types of Mental Illness

Schizophrenia

It is a serious disease affecting 20 million people worldwide. In practice, it involves a varied set of emotional and personal problems, and its manifestation is different in each person. The main characteristic is that the person who has schizophrenia experiences a serious distortion between their thoughts and emotions. It is common for the person to hear or see things that do not exist, isolate themselves from their environment, neglect their appearance, chores, or believe things that are not true. Types of schizophrenia:

Paranoid: Symptoms are hallucinations and delusions

Disorganized: mood disturbances predominate

Catatonic: Motor disorders predominate

Undifferentiated: There are symptoms of various types, although none is predominant

Residual: Attenuated symptoms, when the disease is chronic

Mood disorders

Mood disorders have mood alteration as their main characteristic. The most important are two:

Depressive disorders: They are a group of mental disorders characterized by presenting a set of symptoms among which sadness, hopelessness, inhibition, and hypoactivity stand out. The syndrome varies greatly from one person to another, depending on its causes, evolution, and intensity.

Bipolar disorder: It is characterized by combining periods of great excitement (manic) with others of total dejection (depressive). The duration of each phase varies in each person, and the person with bipolar disorder does not spend their entire life from one period to another, but there are phases in which the mood is normalized, and the symptoms of the disease disappear practically full.

Personality disorders

These disorders are characterized by the fact that the person presents a way of feeling and behaving far removed from what is socially acceptable; it may show instability or great difficulties relating. There are many types, among which are:

Paranoid: The person has mistrust and suspicions and thinks that the people around him do things with evil.

Schizoid: The person shows indifference to social relationships and low expression of emotions. She always chooses solitary activities, she likes nothing, and she doesn’t care about criticism and flattery.

Schizotypal: Bad intimate interpersonal relationships appear, he believes that everything is related to his person and magical thinking.

Limit: The person presents instability in relationships with others, in self-image, and impulse control. Shows inappropriate and intense anger at minor events.

Anxiety disorders

They are disorders in which fear and insecurity predominate chronically. They can be of two types:

Phobic: The person experiences an irrational and disproportionate fear of objects or situations that should not normally produce this sensation.

Obsessive-compulsive: The person has very persistent thoughts, of which he is aware and recognizes as absurd, but that he cannot avoid.

Other mental illnesses are sleep disorders, sexual disorders, eating disorders, cognitive disorders, etc.

If you face any issue regarding any of the above mental disorder, you should look for medication assisted treatment at any mental health care facility.