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unusual facts about mental disorders



Special needs plan

Beneficiaries with chronic conditions, defined as individuals who have acquired one or more disabling chronic conditions, including, but not limited to: cardiovascular disease, diabetes, congestive heart failure, osteoarthritis, mental disorders, ESRD, and HIV/AIDS.


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Avoidance

Avoidant personality disorder, a personality disorder recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

C. R. Cooke-Taylor

Having obtained a Diploma in Psychological Medicine, he worked at the Ex-Servicemen's Welfare Hospital in Beckenham, The British Hospital for Mental Disorders and Brain Diseases in Camden Town, and the Maudsley Hospital.

Caroline Wuiet

Wuiet returned to France and continued writing and composing, but suffered from mental disorders and died homeless after living in the park at St. Cloud, France.

Ecopsychology

Richard Louv's Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder discusses in detail how the exposure of children to nature can assist in treating mental disorders, including attention deficit disorder.

History of psychosurgery

Trepanning, the practice of drilling holes in the skull, dates back to prehistoric times and is thought to have been used in the treatment of mental disorders.

Macon, Missouri

In that year, Charles E. Still and Harry M. Still, sons of A. T. Still, the founder of the profession of osteopathic medicine, along with Dr. Arthur G. Hildreth, established the Still-Hildreth Sanatorium, which was devoted to the treatment and care of all types of nervous and mental disorders.

Metapsychology

The modern metapsychology movement was founded by psychiatrist Frank A. Gerbode, and stresses therapy as a way of developing the spirit for personal growth, rather than as an answer to mental disorders.

Neurotic

Neurosis, a class of functional mental disorders involving distress but neither delusions nor hallucinations

Terrie Moffitt

Terrie Edith Moffitt (born March 9, 1955, Nuremberg, Germany) is an American clinical psychologist who is best known for her pioneering research on the development of antisocial behavior and for her collaboration with colleague and partner Avshalom Caspi in research on gene-environment interactions in mental disorders.

Vitamin P

Fluoxetine (Prozac), euphemistically referred to as Vitamin P, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) used for depression and various mental disorders