Evaluation of Mental Health Disorders: Causes, Symptoms, and Impacts

This report provides an overview of three major mental health disorders: anxiety, depression, and eating disorders. It delves into the causes, symptoms, and impacts of each disorder, emphasizing the importance of understanding these conditions to prevent negative consequences. The report discusses various factors contributing to these disorders, including family history, brain structure, medical conditions, and environmental stressors. It highlights the specific symptoms associated with each disorder, such as mood changes, loss of interest, and changes in eating patterns. Furthermore, the report emphasizes the negative impacts of these disorders on individuals, such as impaired daily functioning, relationship difficulties, and increased risk of other health issues. Finally, the report suggests strategies for managing and avoiding these mental health disorders, such as regular exercise, adequate sleep, stress reduction, and developing strong social connections. The report concludes by stressing the importance of seeking professional help for effective treatment and recovery.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
Evaluates the causes of different mental health disorders........................................................................3
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................5
REFRENCES..............................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
Mental disorder is also known as mental illness or psychiatric disorder. It is generally a
behavioral as well as mental patter which causes specific distress or impairment of individual
functioning (Chen and et. al., 2020). There are several mental disorders which have specific
symptoms which impact on the behavior of an individual. These disorders are generally
diagnosed by the mental health professional or expert. There are numbers of mental disorder
which an individual may faced such as anxiety, depression, eating disorders, schizophrenia,
obsessive compulsive disorders and many more. The respective report is based on the main three
mental disorders which a person may face due to specific situation such as anxiety, eating
disorder and depression. Moreover it also includes how it causes as well as how it impact on a
person.
MAIN BODY
Evaluates the causes of different mental health disorders
There are several mental health disorders which a person faced during their lifetime. For
a person it is essential to understand mental health disorder and avoid situation which leads to it
because it negatively on the human which also encourage an individual to take wrong step. The
main three mental health disorders i.e. anxiety, eating disorder and depression are mentioned
below:
Depression is considered as mood disorder. It can be described as a personal feeling of
sadness, anger or loss which impact on their everyday activities. An individual experience
depression in different form such as interfere within daily work, lose of time, less productivity.
In addition to this it will also impact on the relationship as well as some chronic heath situation.
There are several conditions which can get worse due to depression such as asthma, cancer,
obesity, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, diabetes and many more (Dalsgaard and et. al., 2020).
Moreover there are several symptoms of depression such as change in mood like anger,
aggressiveness. Irritability; emotional dis-balance, loss of interest, using drugs, reduce sexual
desire, lack of sexual performance, feeling sad and so on. There are several cause which leads to
depression like family history, early childhood trauma, brain structure, medical condition, use of
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drugs and many others. Furthermore, there are several negative impacts of depression such as
risk of heart attack, feeling of clinginess, preoccupation with death, insomnia, weak immune
system, weight fluctuation, and constricted blood vessels and so on. So in order to avoid situation
of depression a person may adopt different practices such as regular exercise, plenty of sleep,
reduce stress, developing strong relationship with others and many more.
Anxiety is mental disorder characterized through feeling of worry, fear or anxiety which
are strong enough for interfere with daily basis one activity. In addition to this, causes of anxiety
disorder are complicated as many might occur at once, some may lead to other as well as some
might not result to an anxiety disorder unless another present (Yang and et. al., 2020). There are
possible causes of anxiety which are mention below :-
 Withdrawal from an illegal substance whose impacts might be strengthen the effect of
other potential causes.
 Brain science as therapists clarified a few tension issue as misalignments of hormones
just as electrical signals inside mind.
 Medical factors like symptoms of different disease, effects of medication and stress of
intensive prolonged recovery or surgery (Yao, Chen and Xu, 2020).
 Stressors related to environment like relationship issues, family problem and difficulties
at work.
Apart from this, there are several symptoms of anxiety such as uncontrollable feelings of worry,
increased irritability, concentration difficulties, sleep difficulties, increased irritability and many
others. Sometimes these symptoms individual might face in their daily life as well as people with
GAD experience these things at persistent or extreme levels. Moreover, GAD present a vague,
unsetting worry as well as more severe anxiety which result in disturbing daily basis living of
particular person.
Eating disorder is the major issue which every single person have now a days because
daily life of everyone is busy and due to which they are not able to have healthy diet on timely
basis. In spite of the fact that, dietary issue is depicted as disease which portrayed through
sporadic dietary patterns and serious misery just as worry about individual body shape or weight.
In addition to this, eating disturbances include excessive intakes of food which result in
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damaging well-being of individual (Subramaniam and et. al., 2020). Apart from this, there are
several symptoms of eating disorder such as avoiding social function, family, friends and may
become isolated, switching between periods of overeating and fasting, depression or lethargic
stage, constant weight fluctuations, chronic dieting despite being hazardously underweight and
many other. Thus, for individual it is important to eat in order manner as per the requirement of
body because overeating result in several health related issues. As it is essential to treat scattered
eating because of seriousness and complexities of such conditions just as complete and expert
treatment who are had practical experience in dietary problem which is frequently crucial inside
building up mending just as recuperation of patient. Treatment plans are utilized for tending to a
few issues of man or lady might be looking in the reclamation of their wellbeing and prosperity
and are frequently custom-made to meeting prerequisite of specific individual.
CONCLUSION
By analyzing above mentioned points it can be analyzed and summarized that there are
several different types of mental disorder which a person may experienced in their life time such
as anxiety, depression, eating disorders, schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorders and many
other. All mental disorder has specific symptoms which impact human body negative. So it is
essential for every person to understand it as well as they also needs to understand its negative
impact. This is so because that will help them in understanding situation and adopting habit
accordingly for avoiding mental health disorders.
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REFRENCES
Books and Journals
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Dalsgaard, S. and et. al., 2020. Incidence rates and cumulative incidences of the full spectrum of
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Yang, Y. and et. al., 2020. Mental health services for older adults in China during the COVID-19
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