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2. Social anxiety disorder - Wikipedia

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   Social anxiety disorder ( SAD ), also known as social phobia, is an anxiety disorder characterized by sentiments of fear and anxiety in social situations, causing considerable distress and impairing ability to function in at least some aspects of daily life. [4] : 15 These fears can be triggered by perceived or actual scrutiny from others.

3. Mental disorders and LGBT - Wikipedia

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   The minority stress model takes into account significant stressors that distinctly affect the mental health of those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or another non-conforming gender identity. [1] Some risk factors that contribute to declining mental health are heteronormativity, discrimination, harassment, rejection (e.g ...

4. List of people with bipolar disorder - Wikipedia

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   Numerous notable people have had some form of mood disorder. This is a list of people accompanied by verifiable sources associating them with some form of bipolar disorder (formerly known as "manic depression"), including cyclothymia, based on their own public statements; this discussion is sometimes tied to the larger topic of creativity and mental illness. In the case of dead people only ...

5. Drapetomania - Wikipedia

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   Drapetomania. Samuel A. Cartwright (1793–1863) Drapetomania was a supposed mental illness that, in 1851, American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Africans fleeing captivity. [1] : 41 [2] This hypothesis was based on the belief that slavery was such an improvement upon the lives of slaves that only those ...

6. Internet addiction disorder - Wikipedia

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   Psychology. Internet addiction disorder ( IAD) ( problematic internet use or pathological internet use) is problematic, compulsive use of the internet, particularly social media, that impairs individual function over a prolonged period of time. Young people are at particular risk of developing internet addiction disorder, [1] with case studies ...

7. The Myth of Mental Illness - Wikipedia

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   OCLC. 747804544. The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct is a 1961 book by the psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, in which the author criticizes psychiatry and argues against the concept of mental illness. It received much publicity, and has become a classic, well known as an argument that "mentally ill" is a label which ...