What are mental illnesses? Various types of mental illness

Due to the great pressure of survival in modern times, the incidence of mental illness is increasing. Common symptoms include anxiety, irritability, depression, loss of confidence in life, and frequent worries. Obsessive-compulsive disorder is also a very obvious one. Understanding the knowledge and types of mental illness will help us to relieve our mental stress.

Don’t think that mental illness is far away from us. In fact, each of us has some symptoms of mental illness to a greater or lesser extent. For example, some people are prone to worry and often worry about unnecessary things. This is a typical anxiety disorder; some people must check whether the gas is turned off before going out, and must do something before they can rest after returning home. This is an obvious manifestation of obsessive-compulsive disorder. So, what are the common mental illnesses? This issue of mental illness Q&A will immediately provide you with popular knowledge about mental illnesses.

What are the common mental illnesses?

There are many common mental illnesses, which are generally divided into mild mental illness and severe mental illness in clinical practice.

Minor mental illnesses include:

1. Neurosis, such as anxiety disorder, phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, somatoform disorder, neurasthenia, and depression.

2. Hysteria, such as: people have a vague feeling of not recognizing the food in reality after waking up from sleep.

3. Personality disorders, such as paranoid, affective, schizoid, impulsive, obsessive-compulsive, histrionic, antisocial, dependent, borderline, and other types.

4. Habit and impulse control disorders (common ones include pathological theft, pathological arson, pathological Internet addiction, etc.).

5. Sexual psychological disorders, such as fetishism, transvestism, exhibitionism, voyeurism, transsexualism, etc.

Serious mental illnesses include:

1. Functional mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, mood disorders, schizoaffective psychosis, stress disorders, paranoid disorders

2. Organic mental disorders, such as: consciousness disorder syndrome, dementia syndrome, amnesia syndrome, etc.