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Getting More Specific About Your Interests A list of types of symptoms
follows. Click on the number preceding the symptoms that would
interest you most and you will go to a page with a list of several
diagnoses that might be made for a person with those symptoms. 1. Disorders that occur in infants, children, or adolescents, like low intelligence, bad conduct, not paying attention, bedwetting, and so on. 2. Disorders that are caused by medical problems that make the person anxious, delirious, or psychologically disabled in any other way. 3. Physical problems like pain, paralysis, digestive problems, imaginary defects in appearance, or any other physical symptoms, real or imagined, that have a psychological basis. 4. Delirious behaviors or ideas, or serious loss of memory, with confusion and loss of orientation that don't seem to involve drugs. 5. Disorders related to the abuse of drugs like alcohol, amphetamine, cocaine, heroin, phencyclidine, etc. 6. People who hear voices, or see things that aren't there, or whose thoughts and speech are very disconnected, or have completely crazy ideas, or who just seem to be completely "out of it." 7. People who are always miserable, or so excited they're "off the wall," or who alternate between the two. 8. People who are extremely worried and anxious without sufficient reason, or who have panic attacks, or who are afraid of something like animals or airplanes, or elevators or heights or being outside. 9. People who pretend to have, or really think they have, serious physical or psychological problems that have no medical basis. 10. People who can't remember part or all of their past lives, or behave as though they have more than one personality, or feel that they are not really part of the world. 11. Men who want to be women, or women who want to be men (this applies to children as well). 12. People who have serious problems with controlling their eating, which may endanger their psychological or physical well-being. 13. People who have problems connected with sleeping. 14. People who can't control their impulses, for example, who can't stop gambling, have to steal, or can't control their anger. 15. People who have been so upset by a stressful event that they can't handle problems with their families or jobs or finances, etc. 16. People who have a chronic problem with their personalities; for example, they may hurt themselves or others, disregard other people's rights without feeling guilty, have to be the center of attention, or be forever obsessing about being perfect. 17. People who have serious difficulty with some aspect of their sex lives, for example with becoming aroused or achieving orgasm. 18. People whose sexual behaviors are not socially acceptable; for example, they might be pedophiles, masochists, sadists, or fetishists. 19. A buffet of rare, vague, not-quite-mental disorders that don't fit into any of the above categories. Last updated 12/19/03 |
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