Emotional Disorder
What Is Emotional Disorder?
Emotional disorders (i.e., depressive and anxiety disorders) are a set of chronic and often recurrent psychiatric disorders that are associated with significant impairment in quality of life, productivity, and interpersonal functioning.
What Are the Symptoms?
- Feeling sad or down
- Confused thinking or reduced ability to concentrate
- Excessive fears or worries, or extreme feelings of guilt
- Extreme mood changes of highs and lows
- Withdrawal from friends and activities
- Significant tiredness, low energy or problems sleeping
- Detachment from reality (delusions), paranoia or hallucinations
- Inability to cope with daily problems or stress
- Trouble understanding and relating to situations and to people
- Problems with alcohol or drug use
- Major changes in eating habits
- Sex drive changes
- Excessive anger, hostility or violence
- Suicidal thinking
What Are the Causes for Emotional Disorder?
The exact cause of eating disorders is unknown. As with other mental illnesses, there may be many causes,
such as:
Heredity
Brain Disorder
Diet
stress
family functioning
What Are the Risk Factors
Risks
Certain factors may increase your risk of developing a mental illness, including:
- A history of mental illness in a blood relative, such as a parent or sibling.
- Stressful life situations, such as financial problems, a loved one’s death or a divorce.
- An ongoing (chronic) medical condition, such as diabetes
- Brain damage as a result of a serious injury (traumatic brain injury), such as a violent blow to the head
- Traumatic experiences, such as military combat or assault
- Use of alcohol or recreational drugs
- A childhood history of abuse or neglect
- Few friends or few healthy relationships
- A previous mental illness
Prevention of Emotional Disorders
Certain factors may increase your risk of developing a mental illness, including:
- Develop a Healthy Relationship.
- Make the Rules Clear.
- Explain the Consequences.
- Provide Structure.
- Praise Good Behavior.
- Work as a Team.
- Talk About Feelings.
- Teach Impulse Control.
Types of Emotional Disorders
Depression
Depression is a feeling of sadness, hopelessness and being helpless. It’s something that you are under the dark shadow. Mostly, depression is treatable because it gives you the feeling of life.
Phobia
Phobia is an irrational fear of any specific thing. For most people, concerns are minor, but when it becomes severe, it gives tremendous anxiety and disturbs normal life. Common phobias are close places, height, snakes, needles, etc. These all are curable to a great extent.
Emotional eating
Diagnosis of emotional eating is quite tricky. Psychologists say emotional eating is caused by stress, and it also affects obesity. Anger, Shame, Guilt, Loneliness, Fear, Boredom these all are the factors due to which a person starts emotional eating which is less in nutrition and harmful to the body.
Stubbornness
Stubbornness is an emotional problem which happens due to fear of losing something, and it will make a person rigid about everything in his life. Counseling is the best way to cure this emotional behavior.
Hyper-sensitivity
Being hypersensitive brings a bunch of trouble to our plate. There is no harm in showing an emotional side. But sometimes, some individuals get highly emotional. There are several perks of being hypersensitive.
Isolation
Some of the reasons for isolation are bullying at school, lack of self-confidence, fear of losing friends, and fear of getting hurt, etc. It is a mental condition in which you almost lose yourself.
Aggression
Aggression is the term that is used for those individuals who are self-destructive or cause pain to others. Aggression has numerous forms. It can be physical, mental, emotional and verbal. Multiple factors contribute to it. Sometimes, the upbringing is the cause of aggression in an individual. When a person feels ignored or when he suffers verbal abuse, he gets aggressive.
Panic Attacks
Being hypersensitive brings a bunch of trouble to our plate. There is no harm in showing an emotional side. But sometimes, some individuals get highly emotional. There are several perks of being hypersensitive.
How Are Emotional or Mood Disorders Diagnosed?
Emotional disorders are diagnosed by mental health professionals, such as psychiatrists, nurse psychotherapists, or psychologists. A general practitioner may also make a diagnosis, although they might refer you to a mental health specialist first.
The clinician might ask about the current symptoms, medical history, and family history. They may use certain questionnaires to assess the mental health.
Treatment for Disorders
How Are Mood Disorders Treated?
Treatment for mood disorders depends on the specific condition and symptoms. Usually, treatment involves a combination of medication and psychotherapy (also called talk therapy).
Medications for mood disorders
- Antidepressants
- Mood stabilizers
- Antipsychotics (neuroleptics)
Medications for mood disorders
- Antidepressants
- Mood stabilizers
- Antipsychotics (neuroleptics)
Psychotherapy for mood disorders
Psychotherapy, also called talk therapy, is a term for a variety of treatment techniques that aim to help a person identify and change unhealthy emotions, thoughts and behaviors.
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT): This is a structured, goal-oriented type of psychotherapy.
- Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT): DBT is a type of talk therapy that’s based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), but it’s specially adapted for people who experience emotions very intensely.
- Psychodynamic therapy: This type of therapy is based on the idea that behavior and mental well-being are influenced by childhood experiences and problematic repetitive thoughts or feelings that are outside of your awareness.
FAQs
1
How do you deal with emotional disorders?
Counseling, support groups, and medicines can help people who have emotional problems or mental illness. If you have an ongoing emotional problem, talk to your doctor. He or she can help you find the right type of treatment.
2
At what age are emotional disorders common?
Roughly half of all lifetime mental disorders in most studies start by the mid‐teens and three‐fourths by the mid‐20s. Later onsets are mostly secondary conditions. Severe disorders are typically preceded by less severe disorders that seldom are brought to clinical attention.
3
Are emotional disorders common?
More than 50% will be diagnosed with a mental illness or disorder at some point in their lifetime.
4
Who treats emotional disorders?
A psychiatrist can: Diagnose and treat mental health disorders. Provide psychological counseling, also called psychotherapy.
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