Mental Disorders

There are around 150 forms of mental illness. You probably know someone with at least one of these disorders. Stress is a major factor in facilitating these disorders.

Bipolar disorder is when one half of your brain is not in synch with the other. Two very common disorder in young women are anorexia and bulimia. They see themselves as overweight when they are not. They will eat but they purge themselves. They become so undernourished that their organs shut down and they will die if not given the proper medical health.

There is depression when life's burdens get to the point where they are winning and the person is losing mentally. A manic depressive is a person who is very happy one minute and terribly depressed a few minutes later. It is similar to schizophrenia. With schizophrenia, they have a split “personality. “ One personality will appear one time and another personality will appear the next time.

Separation anxiety occurs when everyone is gone and the person with the mental illness is left at home alone. This occurs quite often in dogs and cats. When some dogs are left at home alone, they will chew up the furniture or the carpet or any other thing.

Self inflicted injury occurs when someone is overwhelmed by their problems. They will take a knife or a razor and cut themselves on the arms or legs. If this is not caught and she continues to cut herself, then it can become very rough and lead to suicide.