Severe mood disorder

Introduction Severe emotional disorder refers to a significant abnormality in long-term emotional or behavioral responses, which seriously affects the person who is living with; the obstacle is not directly caused by factors such as intelligence, senses or health. Symptoms of mood disorders include mental disorders, affective disorders, anxiety disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or other persistent emotional or behavioral problems.

Cause

Causes of severe emotional disorders

It is a group of diseases that occur in children and adolescents with anxiety, horror and depression as the main clinical manifestations. In the past, it became a child with neurosis or childhood neurosis. Due to the age characteristics of children's physiology and mental development, their clinical manifestations are significantly different from those of adult neurosis. Currently, the term "emotion disorder" is used.

Symptoms of mood disorders include mental disorders, affective disorders, anxiety disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or other persistent emotional or behavioral problems.

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(1) If the behavior or emotion is significantly different from the normal age or social culture, it must be determined by reference to the diagnosis of the psychiatrist.

(2) In addition to the school, at least in another situation, the person with difficulty in adapting appears.

(3) There are significant difficulties in adapting to school, society, interpersonal, and life, and after assessment, it is determined that the counseling provided by general education has no significant effect.

Based on the above definitions, it can be found that severe emotional disorders mainly include the following six important characteristics:

1. The main problem is a significant abnormality in behavior or emotional response;

2. The severity of the problem needs to be long-term and obvious, and the general counseling through general education has no significant effect;

3. The identification of the abnormality of the problem is based on the development of age and the normal state of culture;

4. The outcome of the problem needs to result in a hindrance to learning, or a negative impact on the effectiveness of school education, and will occur outside the school;

5. The need for the cause of the problem excludes those who are directly affected by factors such as non-intellectual, sensory or health;

6. Types of problems include the scope of the five major disorders of psychiatric diagnosis.

Differential diagnosis

Severe emotional disorder, confusion

Mental disorder

Psychiatric disorders mainly include schizophrenia. The main symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, thinking about abnormal intelligence and linguistic deficits, and emotional abnormalities. The number of children with schizophrenia in childhood is very small, only about 0.01% - 0.04% of children, and only about 20% of people with schizophrenia will appear before the age of ten, but by adolescence, due to Adolescent schizophrenia leads to an increase in the number of people with schizophrenia. Overall, schizophrenic patients account for about 1% of the total (Wicks-Nelson & Israel, 1997).

2. Emotional disorders

Emotional disorders mainly refer to depression and bipolar bipolar disorder. Depression is common in school age, and the main symptoms of depression include depression, loss of interest in everyday things, interruption of interaction with people, loss of appetite, sleep. Abnormal, energy decline, decreased vitality, and distracted attention (Shi Xianxuan, Min 87). About 2%-5% of the children will have depression, and will increase a lot during adolescence. It is estimated that about 20%-30% of the population from adolescence to adulthood suffer from depression (Wicks-Nelson & Israel) , 1997).

3. Fear of illness

The so-called fear (phobia) refers to the fear of a specific type, usually refers to the extent to which the reaction of fear is beyond reality, and its feeling is incomprehensible, and even continues to show an evasive behavioral response. Fear of illness includes fear of specific subjects, fear of long-term irrationality in a certain thing, fear of objects including animals, environment, blood, situation and other five categories. Common fears are examples of fear of specific subjects. It also includes panic disorder, social phobia, and panic disorder without specific subjects. Although fear of fear is common in young children, most people will decrease with age, but some childrens fear response will not improve with age, and the current rate of fear of school-age is still not Clear (Wicks-Nelson & Israel, 1997).

4. Anxiety disorders

Anxiety is a common phenomenon in most people, so anxiety disorders are not easy to distinguish. Anxiety is usually related to stress. However, the response to anxiety often depends on the combination of stressors and personal stress adjustment. Therefore, high stress does not necessarily lead to anxiety disorders. However, many school-age children are not well-adjusted and long-term. Continued stress can easily lead to anxiety disorders. Anxiety disorders include dissociative anxiety, general anxiety, compulsiveness, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In general, the incidence of anxiety disorders is about 4-14%, with more girls, while boys are ten. The proportion of widespread anxiety in the adolescent stage after age is gradually increasing (Wicks-Nelson & Israel, 1997).

5. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is classified into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM), which is commonly used in psychiatry, and with abnormal conduct and opposite resistance. It belongs to the category of attention deficit and disturbance behavior disorder. The main symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder include distraction, impulsivity, hyperactivity, difficulty in learning routine behavior and unstable performance. This disorder is divided into attention deficit type, hyperactive impulse type, comprehensive type, attention deficit The symptoms of hyperactivity should occur before entering primary school, but most of them will be discovered and diagnosed after entering primary school. It is estimated that about 3-5% of children have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

The criteria for the identification of severe mood disorders are as follows:

(1) If the behavior or emotion is significantly different from the normal age or social culture, it must be determined by reference to the diagnosis of the psychiatrist.

(2) In addition to the school, at least in another situation, the person with difficulty in adapting appears.

(3) There are significant difficulties in adapting to school, society, interpersonal, and life, and after assessment, it is determined that the counseling provided by general education has no significant effect.

Based on the above definitions, it can be found that severe emotional disorders mainly include the following six important characteristics:

1. The main problem is a significant abnormality in behavior or emotional response;

2. The severity of the problem needs to be long-term and obvious, and the general counseling through general education has no significant effect;

3. The identification of the abnormality of the problem is based on the development of age and the normal state of culture;

4. The outcome of the problem needs to result in a hindrance to learning, or a negative impact on the effectiveness of school education, and will occur outside the school;

5. The need for the cause of the problem excludes those who are directly affected by factors such as non-intellectual, sensory or health;

6. Types of problems include the scope of the five major disorders of psychiatric diagnosis.

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