From 1970 activists protested the classification of homosexuality as a mental illness by the American Psychiatric Association in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and in 1974 it was replaced with a category of " sexual orientation disturbance " then " ego-dystonic homosexuality ", which was also deleted, although " gender identity disorder " remains.

The Michigan Mental Health Code provides that a person " whose judgment is so impaired that he or she is unable to understand his or her need for treatment and whose continued behavior as the result of this mental illness can reasonably be expected, on the basis of competent clinical opinion, to result in significant physical harm to himself or herself or others " may be subjected to involuntary commitment, a provision paralleled in the laws of many other jurisdictions.

In England and Wales the Lunacy Acts 1890-1922 referred to lunatics, but the Mental Treatment Act 1930 changed the legal term to " Person of Unsound Mind ", an expression which was replaced under the Mental Health Act 1959 by mental illness.

* Mental Health Awareness Month – raising awareness about mental illness in the United States.

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* The myth of mental illness: " Mental illness " is an expression, a metaphor that describes an offending, disturbing, shocking, or vexing conduct, action, or pattern of behavior, such as schizophrenia, as an " illness " or " disease ".

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Mental illness used to be very common during the Mao era when prisoners would spend two hours each evening being indoctrinated.

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Bana is also an advocate for the Mental Illness Fellowship, which works to increase the awareness of mental illness in Australia.

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Mental illness ran in his family and it was something he secretly feared.

Mental illness may occur through various variables.

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Mental illness can be of biological ( e. g., anatomical, chemical, or genetic ) or psychological ( e. g., trauma or conflict ) origin.

Mental confusion and decreased alertness may indicate that a chronic illness has gotten worse.

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But the New Age writer Barbara Brennan describes the Mental body as intermediate between the Emotional and the Astral body in terms of the layers in the " Human Energy Field " or Aura.

::* Healing: Healing in all aspects of life: Spiritual, Emotional, Physical, Mental, Financial.

Mental disorders ( also known as psychiatric or psychosocial disability ) and various types of chronic disease may also qualify as disabilities.

Mental retardation is a subtype of intellectual disability, and the term intellectual disability is now preferred by many advocates in most English-speaking countries as a euphemism for mental retardation.

Mental disorders are the leading cause of disability in the US and Canada.

:* Mental disorder, a psychological or behavioral pattern associated with distress or disability that occurs in an individual and is not a part of normal development or culture

dacryphilia – Daddy's girl fetish – daggering – daisy-chaining – Dalkon Shield – dame de voyage – dan daudu – danse du ventre – Darby and Joan – darlexx – dartos – dartos muscle – date rape – date rape drug – dating – dating agency – dating coach – dating service – day belt – de Clérambault's syndrome – death erection – decapacitation – decapacitation factor – dechorionation – decidua – decoy prostitute – decree nisi – deep shaft piercing – deep throat ( sexual act ) – defeminization – defilement – defloration – degree of consanguinity – delayed ejaculation – delayed puberty – deliberate self-harm syndrome – delicatue – delivery health – delusional denial of pregnancy – delusional jealousy – delusional pregnancy – demasculinization – demi-monde – demisexuality – dendrophilia – dental braces fetishism – dental dam – dental fetishism – depersonalization – depilation – depilation fetishism – Depo Provera – Depo-Provera – destination wedding – Deuki – Devadasi – Devaki – deviance – deviant – Deviant Behavior – Deviant Desires – deviation – dhat syndrome – diabetes and sex drive – diagnosis – Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – Milton Diamond – diaper fetishism – diaperism – diaphragm ( contraceptive ) – diethylstilbestrol – diffarreatio – digital rectal examination – dihydrotestosterone – dilatation – dilation and curettage – dildo – dildo harness – dildos and plugs – dippoldism – dirty joke – dirty old man – dirty talk – dirty weekend – disability fetishism – disability pornography – disability, attraction to – discipline – displacement paraphilia – divorce – docking ( sexology ) – docking sleeve ( sex toy ) – dogging – doggy position – doggy style – dolphin piercing – domestic partnership – domestic partnership in California – domestic partnership in the United States – domestic violence – dominance and submission – dominant ( BDSM ) – dominatrix – Don Juan – Don Juan syndrome – Don Juanism – Donovanosis – dopamine – doraphilia – double anal penetration – double bagging – double penetration – double vaginal penetration – double vaginal, double anal – double-ended dildo – douche – dower – down-low – dowry – drag queen – droit du seigneur – drugs and prostitution – drugs and sex – dry enema – dry humping – dry orgasm – dry sex – DSM-IV – Dual Personality – ductus deferens – dungeon ( BDSM )-dunk tank – duration of sexual intercourse – DVDA – dydoe piercing – dysfunctional uterine bleeding – dysgerminoma – dysmenorrhea – dysmorphophilia – dysorgasmia – dyspareunia –

Learning disabled offenders who are a continuing risk to others may be detained in learning disability hospitals ( or specialised community-based units with a similar regime, as the hospitals have mostly been closed ) as suffering from " Mental Impairment " in England and Wales, and without use of that term in Scotland.

Mental illness, disability, and suicide are ultimately the result of a combination of biology, environment, and access to and utilization of mental health treatment.

In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM-IV ), dysgraphia is characterized as a learning disability in the category of written expression when one ’ s writing skills are below those expected given a person ’ s age measured through intelligence and age appropriate education.

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** Mental disorder – or mental illness is a psychological pattern, potentially reflected in behavior, that is generally associated with distress or disability, and which is not considered part of normal development of a person's culture.

Mental Pictures and Cognitive Science.

Philip Johnson-Laird published Mental Models: Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference and Consciousness in 1983.

* Mental Models ( Cognitive Science ( Lawrence Erlbaum Associates ).

He established the Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Research Unit, which is now based at both the Mental Health Research Institute and Sunshine Hospital.

This opinion is supported by one of the nation's leading psychiatrists, Dr. Maurice E. Linden, director of the Mental Health Division of the Philadelphia Department of Public Health.

To be diagnosed with mania according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ), a person must experience this state of elevated or irritable mood, as well as other symptoms, for at least one week, less if hospitalization is required.

In the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association ( DSM-IV-TR ) it is not recognized as a separate disorder, but is associated with psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia ( catatonic type ), bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and other mental disorders, as well as drug abuse or overdose ( or both ).

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These individuals are usually considered to be mentally ill, although the compulsion to eat human flesh is not formally listed as a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ).

In 1917, a Committee on Statistics from what is now known as the American Psychiatric Association ( APA ), together with the National Commission on Mental Hygiene, developed a new guide for mental hospitals called the " Statistical Manual for the Use of Institutions for the Insane ", which included 22 diagnoses.

A consumer is a person who accesses psychiatric services and may have been given a diagnosis from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, while a survivor self-identifies as having survived psychiatric intervention and the mental health system ( which may have involved involuntary commitment and involuntary treatment ).

The next ( fifth ) edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ), DSM-5, is currently in consultation, planning and preparation.

* Epilepsy Female with / without Mental Retardation, is characterized by seizure onset in infancy or early childhood ( 6 – 36 months ) and cognitive impairment in some cases.

United Nations General Assembly ( resolution 46 / 119 of 1991 ), " Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care " is a non-binding resolution advocating certain broadly-drawn procedures for the carrying out of involuntary commitment.

Mental health law is constitutionally under the state powers.

In the United Kingdom, the process known in the United States as involuntary commitment is informally known as " detaining " or " sectioning ," using various sections of the Mental Health Act 1983 ( covering England and Wales ), the Mental Health ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1986 and the Mental Health ( Care and Treatment ) ( Scotland ) Act 2003 that provide its legal basis.

Under the Mental Health Act, detention is determined by utility and purpose.

Central to the game is the aspect of Mental Balance, which is a sanity-gauge of sorts.

" Jamison is the recipient of the National Mental Health Association's William Styron Award ( 1995 ), the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Research Award ( 1996 ), the Community Mental Health Leadership Award ( 1999 ), and was a 2001 MacArthur Fellowship recipient.

Mental disorders can arise from multiple sources, and in many cases there is no single accepted or consistent cause currently established.

There is also a World Mental Health Day, which in the US and Canada falls within a Mental Illness Awareness Week.