6 Most Misunderstood Mental Disorders You Should Know About
Mental disorders are classified as medical conditions that affect your moods, thoughts, and behaviors. Mental disorders vary from person to person and can last either short or long term. You’ve likely heard of conditions like Schizophrenia or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder before – you know someone diagnosed with one of these mental disorders. However, while the names of these disorders are common, there are many misconceptions about them that are harmful to the people dealing with them. To better understand what these disorders are, in this article, we’ll be looking at six of the most misunderstood disorders.
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As someone with High-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD and depression, thank you so, so much for this… I’m so damn tired of people telling me to just ‘cheer up’ or ‘just give it time’ when it’s not something I can turn on and off, it’s not a fucking light switch and it’s not like I chose to be depressed or weird I’m just like this
Can schizophrenia really be caused by drug abuse or is the person born with it and abusing/using illicit drugs bring it out? Ps this lady has a nice voice.
A recent diagnosis I have had is Pyscho NonEpileptic Seizures (PNES). I am rare that I live with both PNES and Epilepsy. This could be a good video to do.
Thank you Psych2Go for this great video! The disorders mentioned in this video are sadly very romanticized and fetishized in the media and portrayed wrong. As someone who has Cyclothymia, OCD, and GAD among other things (I have issues ik im working on it🤣) I am very thankful that people are de-stigmatizing these disorders! The thing about cyclothymia is that it’s a strange form of bipolar because the manic episodes are very short lived. For me specifically, I live in a constant state of persistent depression, but sometimes I have hypomanic episodes that may last anywhere from a few hours to two days, but never longer than that. Because of this I was incorrectly diagnosed with PDD for a while but now I have the correct diagnosis and can properly get help. To be honest, although cyclothymia is classified as a “rare” disorder I truly believe it is much much more common than people think.
I didn’t know there was a anxiety disorder. I thought everybody just had anxiety. Sometimes I get overwhelmed randomly by the dumbest things, and I didn’t realize it was a disorder. until sixth grade, I started having anxiety attacks when I was three and overtime. They got worse from hyper ventilating and not being able to breathe.
I was somewhat recently diagnosed with Tourette's and I feel like everyone only views this as cussing, known as coprolalia, when only 10% of the Tourettes community has that. Its not just swearing! Mine is also somewhat severe (if that makes sense). Plus, I don't think I've ever seen a vid abt this disorder from u, and I'd love it if u did🙂
Talk about having problems my father was a bipolar narcissist . he was one of the cruelest men I've ever known in my entire life. he caused my poor mother to be so traumatized that she got schizophrenia paranoia thank God I don't have either one I don't know how I escaped by the grace of God
ADHD and NVLD and written expression disorder and dyslexia and dyscalculic and traumatic brain 🧠 injuries are not psych conditions. It's all disabled people who are neurology conditions causes this neurology conditions are not mental health cases. ADHD is not psych conditions.
I don't have GAD due to symptoms of it. I have PTSD from being raped in the past years ago. But some African American people thinking 🤔💬🤨💭🧐 it's your a hooker whore and prostitute based on the past rapes years ago. I been in therapy for it and I am healing from it also. I don't let it interfere with my life 💕🧬🙏🧬🙏💀😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫.. so telling the truth about it because of what I went through. I shared my past rapes to my ex boyfriend brother Darren Jackson who was in prison for sex crimes against two people one who called me a hooker whore due to the first rape, and I said you taught her a major lesson to not blaming a victim of a rape in October 19,1991. Ames lake Green apts prison apts buildings complex. Mary he raped was a coworker of his employment that she cheated on her husband who changed the locks after I was raped across the hallway. My late husband who was a sheriff deputys did change my locks and put traps in the window sill. Gave me the 🗝️🔐 to open the door 🚪 of my apt. My newspaper 📰🗞️ guy always shove my newspaper under my door 🚪 and Sundays rings my door bell so I can get my newspaper 📰🗞️ guy always gets me my papers.
Finally someone who recognizes ocd man it’s really hard for me to live with it and people never really care about it 😢
Is impostor syndrome a mental disorder ?
i am not the self diagnosis guy but i had got chest pain during my exams can't really say it was pain it more of a feeling in my chest
As a person who suffers from OCD and anxiety at 11 years old, I found this video good for people to understand the things others are going through. And to help them understand that its not just a problem you can simply make go away.
My freind used to fake did for attention and would use it as a excuse to hurt people meantly and physically luckly they have moved on from this and moved on and grown as a person but it broke apart a friend group for weeks
As someone who has OCD, I appreciate your efforts to explain the reality of it.
My deep heartfelt thanks to the team ❤️
I've had MDD and GAD and recovered from them. It is very hard to live with mental illness. When I had depression I wanted to kill myself and sit around all day. When I had anxiety I would always feel sick, have panic attacks, hurt myself, and I always wanted to stay home.
I will say, recovery is possible without medication! I started exercising, eating healthy, meditating, journaling, and spending less time on my phone to enjoy the real world. All of those things combined help me to recover and live a normal life again.
(For me depression and anxiety resulted from hormonal imbalances in my body that eventually regulated themselves, which also helped in the recovery process.)
I live in a constant state of psychosis. Peoole assume I am psychopathic because of it. It's really annoying.
Today I found out that I have dissociative personality disorder.
I have ADHD(Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and AD(Alzheimer's Disease) and I find it very frustrating when people say "I can't focus and I'm hyper so I have ADHD" or when people say "I forgot 5 things in my life that happened a while ago so I have Alzheimer's Disease." They think it's good and cool to have disorders. They think it makes you a cool person to have disorders. But truly, it's not simple as that, and as someone diagnosed with these, I can tell, they definitely don't have those disorders.
I think Addiction is the most demonised and critically misunderstood mental illness out there.
What about
-hemomania
-Rhotacism
-Alexithymia
All of those are my disorders i dont know much about it
whoah i have half of these, bipolar schizophrenia and sometimes ocd, i'm being misunderstood all the time like "just be positive! you can choose to be happy" when i'm in a depressive episode, or "you don't put an effort to sleep, if you tried you would sleep eventually" when i'm in a manic episode, some people even blocked me when i went off medicine and was having schizophrenic episode and rambling some gibberish in their chat, i still feel anxious to go outside alone cuz there's gotta be people who know that "i'm crazy" especially in small cities where everyone knows everyone, when ocd tics people say "just don't do that again" when i flip the light switch a lot or wash my hands alot, they don't realize i can't help it it's too much stressful to stop
I was diagnosed with severe ocd the age of onset was seven years old. OCD is so misunderstood it hurts.
I have some mental disorders, like Autism, ADHD, Depression, Insomnia(?), and Gender Dysphoria (which I kinda self diagnosed myself with, I genuinely hate my body the way it is as of right now).
It’s depressing to know that stigma exists. People who never experienced having said mental disorders should keep their mouth shut.
Haha, I have a diagnosis as “simple” as GAD and my colleagues still make my life a living hell… these people gotta know that it’s not strictly a mindset thing, mental disorders often have imbalances down to a substance level which really makes it hard for the afflicted
Could you maybe do a video on Misophonia? It doesn’t get much awareness. People never know what it is, and when I tell people- they think it’s only the sounds of people eating. I think it would be nice if you made a video talking about Misophonia and the effects it has on your mental health.
Why is not BPD on here??
I've had depression for such a long time and it always upsets me that no one cares and says "It's in the past", "Cheer up", "Why are you always like this?", etc. I just wish more people wouldn't just assume what mental conditions are because I also have other disorders that make my daily life harder.
I have ADHD, OCD, GAD, PTSD, and autism. I’ve also suffered from clinical depression in my life. I just wish more people understood.
With Bipolar 1, mania does not necessarily mean you need to be hospitalized or will go into psychosis. The DSM5 shows that once bipolar 2 hypomania surpasses a week, it is considered Bipolar 1 mania. Severity levels during mania also varies greatly from person to person.
I was initially diagnosed with Bipolar 2, but I went into what I thought was a hypomanic state that lasted over a month. My therapist and psychologist changed my diagnosis once they found out how long I had been experiencing said mania. Thankfully, I did not have to be hospitalized and just had symptoms similar to hypomania.
A lot of it has to do with specific timing.
What about ODD?
2:05 – "Paranoid – Black Sabbath" is themed around that.
I have the terrible feeling of having BPD but will have the appointment with the psychastist in October. Till then, I just have to wait and see. :'c
Schizoid Personality Disorder.
I think what people don't get about GAD is how hard it is to get out of the thought loop once you enter it. This is why anxiety attacks (don't mistake them with panic attacks!) are so hard to control. Once you enter the anxiety attack, every bit of rationality leaves your body and you can't focus on anything but that one thought that makes you anxious. Fortunately, therapy and medications can help a lot with reducing amount and severity of anxiety attacks. I am on meds for 1.5 year and I went from not controlling myself at all to being able to think fairly clearly during anxiety attacks. Never underestimate professional help, it can do miracles!
The feeling when tou don't even know what are you dealing with but you are dealing with something and cannot open to anyone
My dad has bipolar. I’m so glad you could actually shed your light on that one. People always act like they are moody people, and don’t recognize that bipolar disorder is an actual type of depression.
Not sure why ADHD isn't in here but meh, I deal with that myself, Vyvanse is a heck of a drug.
HYPOCONDRIA, my sister has it. shes aware of her issue. but its still uncontrollable. i have BPD and possibly a tic disorder. ive had so many people ask me whats going on w my face. my favorite is, "are uhh… are you gonna pass out? do you need some water, a chair? ur eyes are like… bulging." bruh.
I would put ARFID up on that list tbh. The amount of times ive been told im too picky or being dramatic is a number that has almost lead to my death a few times. It also isnt one that is highly researched or talked about.
I just realized I have 5 conditions
I remember have depression since I was 8 yrs old (I'm 43 now) and I'm family on both sides would say "depression is not real and in my head". Because of this I didn't start getting help until I was in my 30s when I finally realized I don't need there approval.
Every time i go inside my house i have to check over and over to make sure i didn't crush my outdoor cat closing the screen door, OCD sucks.
Manipulation isnt a bipolar trait whatsoever. This is a narcissistic disorder which many Narcissists with their known symptoms are very likely to manipulate people into believing they have a different disorder as they are the master manipulaters who want you too believe they are victims as they can manipulate others while others are trying to aid them. Many Narcissists are in leadership positions as they will stop at nothing in order to gain whatever their motivation.
Autism is a misunderstood one too
I think I’m bipolar…
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