Sentences with phrase «as a mental disorder»

Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to various types of cancer and obesity, as well as mental disorders and other health problems.

Therefore, religious belief should be treated as a mental disorder!

When is the first world going to come to its senses and classify faith as a mental disorder?

The only reason it is not widely accepted as a mental disorder is because so many people suffer from it.

Because I don't think of clients as mental disorder diagnoses, I have chosen not to be part of any insurance panel.

First of all, I don't see people as mental disorders.

On the basis of that study and others demonstrating that the original classification reflected social stigma rather than science, the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1973.

The brief says: «Although homosexuality was classified as a mental disorder when the American Psychiatric Association published the first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1952, only five years later a study sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health found no evidence to support the classification.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder is defined by Mayo Clinic as a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration, and a lack of empathy for others.

While avoiding obvious legal landmines, the associations have been moving since the 1970s toward legitimating homosexuality, along with pedophilia and other «paraphiliac» behavior (e.g., sadomasochism), in that they are no longer listed as mental disorders unless they cause distress or impair the social functioning of those who indulge in such behavior.

The debate over sex addiction has taken a new twist, as guidelines are being drawn up that may recognise sexual compulsivity as a mental disorder.

It is important to note that Malicious Mother or Malicious Parent Syndrome is not currently recognized as a mental disorder by the medical profession.

It's being called a move to put pressure on the World Health Organization, which still perplexingly classifies transsexualism as a mental disorder.

Though not formally defined as a mental disorder, workaholism is distinct from mere devotion to career or work.

The DSM - 5 now also lists Caffeine Withdrawal as a mental disorder.

It is not illegal to be gay in China, although the country regarded homosexuality as a mental disorder until 2001.

Bad news for self - identified sex addicts / Terry Crews: according the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), defining sex addiction as a mental disorder is just plain wrong.

Prominent is the DSM psychiatric model that classifies behavior patterns as mental disorders such as anxiety disorder or conduct disorder.

Some studies reported an increased risk of damage to their behavioural, social, emotional and cognitive development, as well as mental disorders or physical problems such as low birthweight and premature delivery.

Therefore, these mainstream organizations long ago abandoned classifications of homosexuality as a mental disorder.

The official battle over this issue began around 1970 when the American Psychiatric As sociation first began to consider whether ho mos3xuality should be listed as a mental disorder.

Guidelines from the World Health Organization are being drawn up that may recognise sexual compulsivity as a mental disorder

Hoarding is classified as a mental disorder, she said, and people who compulsively collect animals often have financial and medical issues of their own.

There are the blatant examples, such as drapetomania, a «mental disorder» said to affect black slaves who wanted freedom, the classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder and the use of psychiatry to detain and treat political dissidents in the former USSR.

To treat it as a mental disorder so soon is contrary to the concept of evidence - based medicine.»

Gluten in particular can also cause non-inflammatory damage to the intestines, as well as mental disorders.

Animal hoarding is classified as a mental disorder, rather than deliberate animal cruelty.

However, being classified as a mental disorder is not the only door into the DSM.

The American Psychiatric Association recently classified «hoarding» as a mental disorder, and it's estimated that 2 percent to 5 percent of the population has the disorder.