Friday, December 16, 2016

What are the symptoms of mental illness ?

The symptoms of mental illnesses can vary depending on the disorder, circumstances and factors that affect a person's life.

In a mental illness symptoms can appear as :
 -Physical Symptoms.
- Psychological Symptoms.

PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS.

Those physical problem are indirectly caused by the disease, but they can be consider symptoms too, because they allow us to see that something with our body is not going on well.

For example, in diseases, such as depression, we can observe some physical changes like weight loss, fatigue, etc. However one of the mental illnesses that can be discovered in someone because of the physical problems that they involve are eating disorders. The physical problems in this disease are more significant because it is directly related with eating habits and behaviors, those symptoms are weight loss, hair loss, malnutrition, electrolyte imbalance...

PSYCHOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS.

The psychological symptoms can be recognized as mood, personality, habits and social withdraw changes. Those, can be both sudden or gradual changes.

Although, as stated before, the symptoms vary from one disease to another, the most common ones are :

-Sadness
-Confused thinking
-Excessive fears
-eEtreme mood changes
-Delusions
-Suicidal thinking






As there are a big diversity of symptoms related to mental illness, it can be really difficult to diagnose.

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