Monday 20 December 2010

Wednesday 8 December 2010

Mental Illness

Types of Mental Illness (taken from http://www.webmd.com)


There are many different conditions that are recognized as mental illnesses. The more common types include:
  • Anxiety disorders: People with anxiety disorders respond to certain objects or situations with fear and dread, as well as with physical signs of anxiety or nervousness, such as a rapid heartbeat and sweating. An anxiety disorder is diagnosed if the person's response is not appropriate for the situation, if the person cannot control the response, or if the anxiety interferes with normal functioning. Anxiety disorders include generalized anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, and specific phobias.
  • Mood disorders: These disorders, also called affective disorders, involve persistent feelings of sadness or periods of feeling overly happy, or fluctuations from extreme happiness to extreme sadness. The most common mood disorders are depression, mania, and bipolar disorder.
  • Psychotic disorders: Psychotic disorders involve distorted awareness and thinking. Two of the most common symptoms of psychotic disorders are hallucinations -- the experience of images or sounds that are not real, such as hearing voices -- and delusions -- false beliefs that the ill person accepts as true, despite evidence to the contrary. Schizophrenia is an example of a psychotic disorder.
  • Eating disorders: Eating disorders involve extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors involving weight and food. Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder are the most common eating disorders.
  • Impulse control and addiction disorders: People with impulse control disorders are unable to resist urges, or impulses, to perform acts that could be harmful to themselves or others. Pyromania (starting fires), kleptomania (stealing), and compulsive gambling are examples of impulse control disorders. Alcohol and drugs are common objects of addictions. Often, people with these disorders become so involved with the objects of their addiction that they begin to ignore responsibilities and relationships.
  • Personality disorders: People with personality disorders have extreme and inflexible personality traits that are distressing to the person and/or cause problems in work, school, or social relationships. In addition, the person's patterns of thinking and behavior significantly differ from the expectations of society and are so rigid that they interfere with the person's normal functioning. Examples include antisocial personality disorder, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, and paranoid personality disorder.

    Other, less common types of mental illnesses include:

    • Adjustment disorder: Adjustment disorder occurs when a person develops emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to a stressful event or situation. The stressors may include natural disasters, such as an earthquake or tornado; events or crises, such as a car accident or the diagnosis of a major illness; or interpersonal problems, such as a divorce, death of a loved one, loss of a job, or a problem with substance abuse. Adjustment disorder usually begins within three months of the event or situation and ends within six months after the stressor stops or is eliminated.
    • Dissociative disorders: People with these disorders suffer severe disturbances or changes in memory, consciousness, identity, and general awareness of themselves and their surroundings. These disorders usually are associated with overwhelming stress, which may be the result of traumatic events, accidents, or disasters that may be experienced or witnessed by the individual. Dissociative identity disorder, formerly called multiple personality disorder, or "split personality", and depersonalization disorder are examples of dissociative disorders.
    • Factitious disorders: Factitious disorders are conditions in which physical and/or emotional symptoms are created in order to place the individual in the role of a patient or a person in need of help.
    • Sexual and gender disorders: These include disorders that affect sexual desire, performance, and behavior. Sexual dysfunction, gender identity disorder, and the paraphilias are examples of sexual and gender disorders.
    • Somatoform disorders: A person with a somatoform disorder, formerly known as psychosomatic disorder, experiences physical symptoms of an illness even though a doctor can find no medical cause for the symptoms.
    • Tic disorders: People with tic disorders make sounds or display body movements that are repeated, quick, sudden, and/or uncontrollable. (Sounds that are made involuntarily are called vocal tics.) Tourette's syndrome is an example of a tic disorder.
    • Other diseases or conditions, including various sleep-related problems and many forms of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, are sometimes classified as mental illnesses because they involve the brain.

      WILL I EVER GET OVER YOU???

      YOU TELL ME YOU CARE ABOUT ME
      YOU TELL ME YOU DON'T WANT TO HURT ME
      BUT YOU TURN AROUND AND DO IT ANYWAY

      NOW I AM CRYING MY HEART OUT
      HOPING YOU WOULD HEAR ME
      BUT YOU JUST IGNORE MY PAINFUL CRY

      EACH AND EVERYDAY PASSED BY
      I FAKE A SMILE TO THE WORLD
      BUT UNDERNEATH MY SMILE
      IS MY BROKEN HEART


      ALL THE GOOD MEMORIES YOU GAVE ME
      IS ALL I HAVE LEFT OF YOU
      BUT IT SLOWLY FAKING AWAY
      AS TIMES GOES BY EVERYDAY
      BUT WILL I GET OVER YOU

      Thursday 18 November 2010

      Miss you....Hate you.....Do I have the choices??

      If I can turn the times back, I would still do the same things. Isn't that I don't know it would be the consequence for my wilful act, but it is somethings I must try because I just love you too much....I told my Lord, let me bear the consequence, no matter what it is.

      Yes, I am bearing the consequence right now.



























      Tuesday 2 November 2010

      Happy B'day, Baby J

      Happy B'day, baby

      Passed 2 days are my favorable moment with you. Although you told me you don't care whether anyone celebrate the birthday with you or not, but did u realize at the past 3 years, we have celebrated your birthday every year except last year. You seem to enjoy it very much?? or you just put on a happy face to please me...

      But this year is definitely different. We have our first candle lit dinner together, we have our first stay overnight together, I can wish you Happy Birthday and sang birthday song to u right after 12, I was happy, with all the burden and worries in my heart, I still felt so happy.

      Again, no pix of us...I secretly snap some pictures in our room to remind me the sweet memories that we have together. Luv u...babe..

      Sunday 17 October 2010

      M1212

      I requested you to bring me to see sunset, I really mean I WANT TO SEE SUNSET...I arranged out meeting at M1212 again. I just hope you don't get the wrong idea about I like to go there that much. As long as I am with you, I am happy no matter where we are.

      But thanks baby J, I have a great afternoon, Despite the hot weather, everything is beautiful. Again, We are not allowed to snap any picture together, thus I can only show the sunset pix that u took here.

      Wednesday 13 October 2010

      Let the cat out of the bag



      Jolis is the name I named after me and my man. Here is where I wanna tell the world what I know and like to do, i.e. doing stupid useless things.....please continue to read through to dig out more about me....

      Today is the day for me to remember forever, not because it is particularly beautiful nor is it particularly sad, today is just particularly special because of you.....my baby J.

      This month is particularly special month also because is your birthday month. Let us make it the most memorable month for us, can....???? Luv u....