Hoarding is
classified as a mental disorder, she said, and people who compulsively collect animals often have financial and medical issues of their own.
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.
Not exact matches
What motivates such people is a need which can become addictive, so much so that there are those who suggest that adrenaline / epinephrine addiction should be considered in the DSM (the manual
classifying mental disorders)
as an addiction, alongside addiction to illegal drugs.
Clark and her co-authors identified four challenges to understanding and
classifying mental disorders: what varied combinations of factors cause them, how to diagnose them given that they are not actually distinct categories, thresholds for diagnosis and other purposes such
as treatment, and co-morbidity — the fact that most people with
mental illness meet the diagnosis for multiple
mental disorders.
Bipolar
disorder is a
mental illness that affects about 2.6 percent of the U.S. adult population — some 5.7 million Americans — with a sizable majority of these cases
classified as severe.
To better understand that argument, consider this: Many children who are
classified as autistic today would have been diagnosed with speech
disorders or
mental retardation 30 years ago.
Despite anxiety being
classified as a
mental health
disorder, there are many physiological associations — dizziness, difficulty breathing, chest pain, numbing in the arms and / or fingers and tachycardia to name a few.
Binge eating
disorder, which is associated with food addiction, is currently
classified as an eating
disorder in the DSM - V, the official manual that
mental health professionals use to define
mental disorders.
Although depression is
classified as an adult
mental health
disorder, middle to late adolescence is the age when symptoms most commonly surface.
Gambling
Disorder: A mental health diagnosis in the DSM - 5 classified as a non-substance-related addictive d
Disorder: A
mental health diagnosis in the DSM - 5
classified as a non-substance-related addictive
disorderdisorder.
Prominent is the DSM psychiatric model that
classifies behavior patterns
as mental disorders such
as anxiety
disorder or conduct
disorder.
The scale does not have thresholds defining whether a score suggests the presence of a psychiatric
disorder, so we have followed the approach taken in a previous GUS report (Marryat and Martin, 2010) and defined a relative threshold below which we
classify mothers
as having «poor»
mental health (16 % of mothers were in this category in 2009/10),
as opposed to «average or good»
mental health.