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What is cliché?

What makes your brain tick?
According to researchers, the parts of your body, if you don't use it you lose it, particularly your brain. The more you use it, the more logic & brainier you are, could that be true?


Are We Mad?

According to DSM-4 (Diagnostic & Statistical Manual-4 of Mental Disorders 1994), you will be labeled mad if you admitted to any of below up to a point - that's America.

It makes you wonder if honesty is always the best policy.
A group of disorders in which either fear or anxiety is a major symptom. Such as panic disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder. You will be labeled:
Anxiety Disorders
Disorders characterized by depression and/or mania. Such as major depression, bipolar disorder (formerly called manic-depression), dysthymia, and cyclothymia. You will be labeled:
Mood Disorders
Disorders caused by drugs, including alcohol, cocaine, amphetamines, or opiates. Such as amphetamine withdrawal, alcohol dependence. You will be labeled:
Substance-Related Disorders
Disorders characterized by a loss of contact with reality, either through hallucinations, delusions, and/or inappropriate emotions. Such as schizophrenia, delusional disorder. You will be labeled:
Psychotic Disorders
Sexual disorders are disorders of sexual functioning. Such as fetishism, exhibitionism, psychosexual dysfunction, gender identity disorders involve a persistent desire to be, or appear to be, a member of the opposite sex. You will be labeled:
Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders
Disorders marked by excessive concern about weight gain accompanied by extreme under-eating, overeating, or purging. Such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa. You will be labeled:
Eating Disorders
Disorders involving disrupted sleep, sleepwalking, fear of nightmares, or fear of sleep. Such as insomnia, sleep-wake disorder. You will be labeled:
Sleep Disorders
Disorders in which impulsive behaviors harm the self or others. Such as intermittent explosive disorder, kleptomania, or pathological gambling. You will be labeled:
Impulse Control Disorders
A wide range of disorders that appear before adulthood. Such as mental retardation, learning disorders, and language development disorders. You will be labeled:
Disorders Usually First Diagnosed In Infancy, Childhood, or Adolescence
An extreme emotional reaction to a stressor that occurred within the previous month (much greater than most people would experienced). You will be labeled:
Adjustment Disorders
Long-term disorders characterized by rigid, maladaptive personality traits. Such as antisocial personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder. You will be labeled:
Personality Disorders
A diverse group of disorders of memory and cognition that is caused by identifiable brain damage. Such as Alzheimer's disease, intellectual impairment due to stroke or head injury, and delirium (change in consciousness) as a result of a drug overdose. You will be labeled:
Delirium, Dementia, Amnesic and Other Cognitive Disorders
A group of mental disorders that can be directly traced to a medical cause. Such as personality changes due to frontal lobe injury, psychotic disorder due to epilepsy, and depression secondary to diabetes. You will be labeled:
Mental Disorders Due to A General Medical Condition
Physical or psychological symptoms that are faked in order to assume the 'sick' role. Such as making up physical complaints, exaggerating genuine medical symptoms, or self-inflicting wounds and then seeking medical treatment. You will be labeled:
Factitious Disorders
Disorders in which physical symptoms arise from psychological problems. Such as somatization disorder, conversion disorder. You will be labeled:
Somatoform Disorders
Disorders in which a part of one's experience is separated off from one's conscious memory or identity. Such as dissociative identity disorder, psychogenic amnesia. You will be labeled:
Dissociative Disorders

Source: Hazards of Mental Labels


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