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What Is Mental Disease

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Diagnosis

It is very difficult to diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome. Even experts do not have a clear definition of what chronic fatigue actually is or what mechanisms in the brain or nervous system are responsible for it. The best diagnostic approach is to determine if the patient matches the criteria for CFS and to rule out other possible causes of symptoms.

Personal and Medical History

A doctor should first take a careful personal and family medical history, which may include a psychological pro...

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Expert & Community Posts

Thoughts on Mental Illness Awareness Week

By Christina Bruni , Health Expert

Mental Illness Awareness Week, from October 7th to 13th, is in full-swing. As an advocacy... Read more »

Understanding Depression - Color me sad.

By Teri Robert , Health Expert

...6 percent, or 1 in 17 - who suffer from a serious mental illness. In addition, mental disorders... Read more »

Have Mental Illness? Don't Expect to be Welcome at the Olympics.

By Eileen Bailey , Health Expert

...year, one in four people suffer from a diagnosable mental illness in the United States. In... Read more »

Improving Women's Mental Health

By Teri Robert , Health Expert

...gender plays in diagnosing, treating, and coping with mental illness. It also points to... Read more »

Mental Illness Awareness Week: October 4 - 10

By Teri Robert , Health Expert

Next week, October 4 - 10, is Mental Illness Awareness Week. In 1990, the United States Congress... Read more »

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Health Guide

The Americans with Disability Act and Your Anxiety

...for the accommodation. Physical disabilities can be easier to determine than disabilities caused by mental illness. Limitations caused by diabetes, heart disease or a specific physical need such... Read more »

Bipolar Disorder Prognosis

...to themselves.Family members may also feel socially alienated by the fact of having a relative with mental illness, and feel forced to conceal this information from acquaintances.Economic... Read more »

Alcoholism: Treatment for Alcoholism

...patients who were treated only for their medical conditions.Treating People Who Have Both Alcoholism and Mental IllnessTreatment for patients with both alcoholism and mental illness is... Read more »

Schizophrenia: Complications

...significant hope for improving quality of life.Medical IllnessesStudies have reported that people with severe mental illnesses suffer more from serious health problems than those without mental... Read more »

Alzheimer's- Diagram of the Brain

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a degenerative disease of the brain from which there is no recovery. The disease slowly attacks nerve cells in all parts of the cortex of... Read more »

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