MENTAL DISORDER

A mental disorder also called a mental illness or psychiatry disorder is a behavioural or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. Such features may be persistent relapsing and remitting or occur as a single episode. 

Many disorders have been described with signs and symptoms that vary widely between specific disorders common mental disorders include depression which affects about 300 million bipolar disorder which affects about 60 million, dementia which affects about 23million people globally. 

In 2013 the American psychiatric association redefined mental disorder in the DMS-5 is a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individuals cognition emotion regulation or behaviour that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological or developmental process underlying, mental functioning the onset of psychiatric disorders usually occurs from childhood. Some other anxiety disorders, substance disorders and mood disorders emerge later in the mid-teens. 

Symptoms of schizophrenia typically manifest from late adolescence to early twenties. The recognition and understanding of mental health conditions have changed over time and across cultures and there are still variations in definition mental disorders are conditions that affect your thinking-feeling mood and behaviour they may be occasionally or long-lasting. 

They can affect your ability to relate to others and function each day. There is no single cause for, mental illness such as your genes and family history 

. Your life experiencing such as stress or a history of abuse especially if they happen I am childhood 

. Biological factors such as chemical imbalance in the brain 

. A traumatic brain injury 

. Use of alcohol or fractional drugs

Mental disorders are not caused by character flaws. They have nothing to do with being lazy or week.