Challenges in Identifying Mental Disorders

                        Challenges in Identifying Mental Disorders

                                       Argosy University                

                                        Tracy McAdams        

                                        March 2017

This is my point of view, in today’s society there is positively no such thing as a

normal when it comes to being a human being. An individual can have normal

actions and live a certain type of normal but there could be that one

person who can be completely different than the way someone else on the other

side of the world is living. Everyone has their own sense of normal, however in

each individuals sense of normal there is a version where one or several other

people may have different views, there are some that are considered to be

average, there are those who are considered above average, and those who are

considered somewhat below average. Therefore, it would be naturally hard

to conclude whether there is abnormal behavior or even a mental disorder.

Everyone is different and although a great portion of the world differ on what

Each society considered their version of normal to be.

The mentally ill are a part of this large amount of people. Mental illness is

mainly defined as a disease of the mind and also the psychological state of

someone who has emotional or behavioral problems that are problematic

enough where they will require psychiatric intervention. People suffer with

different mental disorders which requires to be treated with different kinds of

medical care, given different treatment by “normal” people, and some are even

put into hospitals which can be like a nightmare to most.

In the medical fields today, people with different types of mental disorders are

given various kinds of medical care. It requires continuous treatment and

constant updates on conditions. Most of the progress was created in the past

two decades. Many conditions can be treated with various types of treatments.

One type of treatment is medication and can be treated by pills taken on a

daily basis to help control certain conditions. Another treatment is counseling,

which is also known as psychotherapy, this is when there is work done with

another person that focuses mainly on the mind. Group Therapy is also

another treatment which is almost the same as Psychotherapy but is more of a

focus group of other mentally ill and allows the individuals to share what they

feel and/or to learn about how other people feel and deal with similar things.

There are specific therapies that deal with how to control and modify behavior

patterns. If the problem is diagnosed early and treated properly, the person can