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  2. Stress-related disorders - Wikipedia

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    Stress is a conscious or unconscious psychological feeling or physical condition resulting from physical or mental 'positive or negative pressure' that overwhelms adaptive capacities. It is a psychological process initiated by events that threaten, harm or challenge an organism or that exceed available coping resources and it is characterized ...

  3. List of mental disorders - Wikipedia

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    Mood disorders. Trauma and stressor related disorders. Neuro-developmental disorders. Sleep-wake disorders. Neuro-cognitive disorders. Substance-related and addictive disorders. Paraphilias. Somatic symptom related disorders. Sexual dysfunctions.

  4. Psychological stress - Wikipedia

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    Psychological stress. In psychology, stress is a feeling of emotional strain and pressure. [1] Stress is a type of psychological pain. Small amounts of stress may be beneficial, as it can improve athletic performance, motivation and reaction to the environment. Excessive amounts of stress, however, can increase the risk of strokes, heart ...

  5. Chronic stress - Wikipedia

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    Chronic stress is the physiological or psychological response induced by a long-term internal or external stressor. [1] The stressor, either physically present or recollected, will produce the same effect and trigger a chronic stress response. [1] There is a wide range of chronic stressors, but most entail relatively prolonged problems ...

  6. Mental distress - Wikipedia

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    Mental distress. Mental distress or psychological distress encompasses the symptoms and experiences of a person's internal life that are commonly held to be troubling, confusing or out of the ordinary. Mental distress can potentially lead to a change of behavior, affect a person's emotions in a negative way, and affect their relationships with ...

  7. Mental disorder - Wikipedia

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    A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, [6] a mental health condition, [7] or a psychiatric disability, [2] is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. [8] A mental disorder is also characterized by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition ...

  8. Causes of mental disorders - Wikipedia

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    Many professionals believe that the cause of mental disorders is the biology of the brain and the nervous system. Mind mentions genetic factors, long-term physical health conditions, and head injuries or epilepsy (affecting behavior and mood) as factors that may trigger an episode of mental illness.

  9. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder - Wikipedia

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    Hyperarousal, emotional over-stress, intrusive thoughts, emotional dysregulations, hypervigilance, negative self-beliefs, interpersonal difficulties, and also often attention difficulties, anxiety, depression, somatisation, dissociation. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder ( CPTSD, sometimes hyphenated C-PTSD) is a stress-related mental ...