psychological disorders anxiety neurosis
In these notes I want to talk about psychological disorders (anxiety neurosis) But , first we have to know what is disorder. ... And it is a clinically significant behavioral or psychological pattern that is associated with 1) present distress 2) disability or impairment in one or more important areas of functioning 3) significantly increased risk of suffering disability, pain, or death 4) an important loss of freedom or personal control Classification of the Psychological Disorders In medicine, classification of the various medical disorders typically is based on the particular combinations of symptoms that patients present to the physician; the physician then renders a diagnosis based on those symptoms. ... Furthermore, nonspecialists soon learned that to be labeled a schizophrenic, manic-depressive, or psychpathic personality was not exactly an honor, and as the general public became more familiar with the typical symptoms of the various disorders, they tended to use them as stereotypes, as if everyone with the label "schizophrenic" exhibited the entire set of symptoms in their most extreme forms. Developing category labels for these disorders may have been necessary, but it did not always have positive consequences for those who were being pinned with the label.