From my college years....I took one simple class of psychology (101), with some retired mental health director/professor who'd spent the 1950s/1960s/1970s....running a couple of different clinics in Washington and Oregon.
Most of these evenings....he'd give 20-odd stories of whacked-out people, and I usually left class by 9:30....in some daze...wondering just how many nut-cases really exist in the world. I'd be at midnight....thinking over things. It was the wrong evening class to take.
For the sake of eyeballing mental illnesses are typically categorized based on the DSM-5, which has 20 major categories of 'problems':
Neurodevelopmental Disorders (e.g., autism, ADHD)
Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
Bipolar and Related Disorders
Depressive Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders (e.g., PTSD)
Dissociative Disorders
Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
Feeding and Eating Disorders (e.g., anorexia, bulimia)
Elimination Disorders
Sleep-Wake Disorders
Sexual Dysfunctions
Gender Dysphoria
Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders
Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
Neurocognitive Disorders (e.g., dementia)
Personality Disorders
Paraphilic Disorders
Other Mental Disorders (catch-all for conditions not fitting elsewhere)
Over the past thirty years....I've of the mind that we need to force everyone through some mental-health class by age 15, and double-up by age 18 (in college).
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