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SET 3A) Like physical ailments there are various types of mental disorder. The list of these disorders ranges from minor anxiety to sever kinds of disorders such as schizophrenia. Diagnostic and Statistic Manual (DSM) of mental disorders. The Branch of Physiology which deals with these disorders is called abnormal psychology.

1. Disorders of Childhood: DSM-IV-TR deals with various kinds of childhood disorders usually first diagnosed during infancy, childhood, or adolescence. Some of them are attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD)where the child has problems in paying attention or is extremely over active and Autistic disorder are where the child is withdrawn, does not smile and has delayed language development.

2. Anxiety Disorders:If somebody persistently becomes fearful, apprehensive, and anxious without any appropriate reason you may call this person as having anxiety disorders. Different kinds of anxiety disorders i which the feeling of anxiety manifest in different forms. Some of these are phobia or extreme and irrational fear of something and obsessive compulsive disorder where the person has  thoughts or has to do action repeatedly.

3. Mood Disorders: The person who suffers from a mood disorder experiences these emotions for a long period of time in a restricted way, remains fixed at one emotion or fluctuation on the ranges of these emotions. Depending on the behavioral disorders are of two types a)depression and b)bipolar disorder. Depression is a mental state characterized by sadness, loss of interest and pleasure in routine activities,difficult in concentration and negativity thinking about self and others. Bipolar disorder is characterized by alternating phases of depression and excitement or mania.

4. Psychosomatic and Somatoform Disorders:  Psychosomatic disorders are those  psychological problems which have physical symptoms but psychological causes. In terms psychological the meaning of psyche is mind and somatic is body. Contrary to this somatoform disorders are those disorders which are characterized by psychical symptoms that do not have any known, identifiable biological causes.

5. Dissociative Disorder:  One of the categories of dissociative disorder is dissociative amnesia in which the person is unable to recall important personal information usually after some stressful episode. The other category is dissociative fugue in which apart from the memory loss the person also assumes a new identity. Another is depersonalization disorder in which the person suddenly feels changed or different in a strange way.

6. Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorder: There are some individuals on roadside in very dirty clothes, eating the unhygienic food spillover around the garbage. They have very poor orientated about person, place and time. We often call them mad, insane or so on. However, in the language of clinical psychology they are called schizophrenics. Schizophrenia is a psychological disorder characterized by disturbances in thoughts, emotions, and behavior. Hallucination is characterized by false sensory perceptions in the form of seeing something which is physically not there, hearing some voices that are actually not there. Delusions are false beliefs about reality.

7. Personality Disorders: Personality disorders have their roots in early childhood when some children develop inflexible and maladaptive patterns of thinking and behaving.