10 As well as the Myth of Mental Disorders

Mental disease, disorder and the differences tend to be very misunderstood by the general public. This is a list of mental illnesses and widely believed myths, but not the least of these myths to be very misleading

10. Antisocial Personality Disorder

Myth: A person who avoids social interaction is "antisocial". This is largely a semantic error, and therefore I put it in tenth place.

Many people refer to someone who is reluctant to participate in a social situation as "antisocial". In fact, these people are often implicated as a pro-social, even so extraordinary.

Antisocial Personality Disorder is diagnosed in adults who consistently ignore the rights of others by acting tough, lie, steal, or generally act arbitrarily without considering the safety of themselves or others.


They often are very extroverted and turn the situation with the type of people who are so often called "antisocial", which are usually very concerned about the feelings of others.

Antisocial people usually just shy or has some form of autism, depression, social anxiety disorder, or avoidant personality disorder (AvPD).

AvPD, which is diagnosed in people who avoid social interaction because of the intense fear of rejection, may be part of the reason for this confusion.
Both personality disorders, after all, have a very similar name, but both are very different things.


9. Multiple Personality Disorder


Myth: People with Dissociative Identity Disorde radically alter their behavior and lose their memory of what had just happened when they switch personalities.

Some would say that the DID itself is a myth, therefore, suspect, far more often diagnosed in North America than elsewhere, but let's assume for this day no.

People with DID have two to more than one hundred different personalities alternately take control of their bodies.
This alternative personality ("change") is usually, but not always, formed due to childhood trauma.

Change does not always lead to major changes, visible changes in appearance or behavior, so that observers may not even be aware of their existence. Many people with DID ("multiples") recognize that many changes there and know who these people are, even before therapy, which will not work well if they do not have a turnover of memory.

It is possible that one's personality had no knowledge of what happened while one of the personalities have been responsible, causing a sense of amnesia, but they may be fully aware of what is happening and is not actively involved.

Group changes are usually able to communicate to some degree, and may even work together to hide the fact that they mempunyaibanyak personality changes.

Some people with multiples are choosing not to do therapy to choose one's personality and discontinue transitional personalities, because they feel living in harmony with some kepribaian as a complementary team.


8. Dyslexia

Myth: All people with the disorder dyslexia can not read because they see the letters in the wrong order.


This is actually two myths in one, but still only two of the many myths about dyslexia.

The first is that dyslexia can not read.
Actually, most of them learn to read, but if they do not get the right help, they often learn slowly and remain below their grade level at a speed of comprehension as well.

But even that is not always true: many dyslexic children find ways to mask their reading difficulties through grade three or four or even longer. And if they are taught by someone who understands dyslexia, they can learn to read well.

The other side of this myth is that the problems dyslexics have trouble with reading because they see words backwards or damaged crate. This may seem to occur because, in their confusion as they try to figure out a word, they mix up letters or sounds, and some people left and right confused dyslexic or have a lot of trouble with spelling.

However, this is not the cause of their problems. Dyslexia is much more to be helped to think in a unique way of problems with the processing of visual information.


7. Schizophrenia



Myth: Schizophrenic people hear voices in their heads.

We all knew about schizophrenia, and we all read a joke about "the voices in my head". But, contrary to what many people believe, not all people with schizophrenia hear voices in their heads.

Auditory hallucinations are very common in people with schizophrenia, but they are more likely to hear voices coming from some external objects in their bodies than their minds. Plus, not all people with schizophrenia experience the same symptoms.

They may experience hallucinations (actually see or hear things that are not there), delusions (believing the idea unrealistic), the mind regularly, the lack of affect (no emotion display), or, in catatonic schizophrenia, and even lack of desire to move the same all.

Schizophrenia is a complex disorder with various symptoms that may be. (Note: the alternate personality is not one symptom)


6. Autism Spectrum Disorders


Myth: Autism is a devastating disorder that would stop a person's ability to be able to function in society.
There are many myths and even more potential / debatable myths about autism, but this seems to be one of the most common.

Many people hear "autism" and imagine the kids who are permanently in their own world where they can not talk or interact with other people, who throw tantrums for no apparent reason, and that will never be a part of normal society.

However, so-called autism spectrum disorders for a reason: a child with autism ranges from those who can not communicate in any way with other people, all the way to people who live normal, productive life and just seemed a bit eccentric for us all.

Severe autism is not a lifelong disorder. Even very low autistic disorder can make children very happy life.

There are also stories of low-autistic disorder autistic children improve with therapy and is almost entirely recovered from the problems associated with their autism, and many people and organizations that seek a cure for autism.

Unfortunately, organizations are encouraged to healing is usually based on this myth in particular by focusing on issues related to low-level autism, and almost entirely ignore the existence of high-level autism and autistic people who would never want to be "cured" .


5. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder


Myth: People with ADHD do not notice anything.

ADHD is a disorder that has become quite popular in recent years, so I'm sure you all know what it is. For those of you who are not sure, people with ADHD have difficulty concentrating on tasks and can be hyperactive or impulsive. But that's not true, because it sometimes seems, that people with ADHD can not respond to attention.

Many of them can match the attention to something they think is really interesting, in the same way we all are much more willing to be distracted from the task tedious than fun. And, in fact, some people have trouble focusing because they really respond too much attention.

They think on all sides, sounds, and smells around them, and not just what's in their hands.
They must learn to deal with all the other stimuli that attract and keep most of their attention on what is important.


6. Selective Mutism


Myth: A person with selective mutism is refusing to talk, or have been disrupted due to trauma in the past.

This is the only disturbance on the list that you may have never heard this term before, although I'll bet you've heard about it and its myths.

I do not know other people with the disorder more commonly believed myth, not only by society as a whole but actually by professionals.

Selective Mutism (formerly Elective Mutism formerly called) is a disorder that almost always first appear in early childhood. Someone with selective mutism can, and often, speak well, but did not speak, and sometimes not even communicate in other ways, in certain situations.

A large number of parents, teachers and psychologists who work with people with the Selective Mute nature to believe that these people chose not to speak, perhaps in an attempt to control others. However, it turns out that most people with the Selective Mute Nature wants to talk, but not because they are really scared.

The majority of these patients also suffer from social anxiety disorder, and the silence seems to be one way for them to cope with stressful situations.
Punishing a child for refusing to talk, because many people do believe in this myth, paradox makes the child even more anxious and could even make a child - a child with this disorder was not going to want to talk.

But if you do not know someone with selective mutism, chances are you still believe the myth that is very common in the media: some children and teenagers to stop talking entirely, or to everyone, but one or two people, because they are traumatized or repeatedly abused.

While some people become mute after trauma, it usually takes a couple of weeks, not months or years. Most people do not develop selective mutism in childhood because of trauma or abuse.


3. Self-Harm/Self-Injury


Myth: People who deliberately cut, burn, or hurt themselves either tried to commit suicide is to seek attention.

Many people, especially teenagers, who suffer from various mental disorders overcome their inner pain with physical damage to himself, most often by cutting.

Self-injury seems to be more common and popular these days, but the myths about people with the intention of this disorder has not gone away. No matter what, self-injury is not a failed suicide attempt.

Some people self-harm injury themselves over and over for years without having a permanent disability which would threaten their lives, which would be remarkable record of failure if they are really trying to die.

Many people who hurt themselves actually tried to commit suicide to avoid letting their feelings in a way that (somewhat) more secure.

Many people also believe that self-injury are just looking for attention.
This is true for some people, mainly because of self-injury become more famous and most popular, but most people are actively trying to hide their wounds by wearing long sleeves or pants, or by cutting in a place that is usually covered by clothing, such as their thighs or abdomen.

Some self-injury patients are eager for someone to find out about their behavior so they can get the help they need, but even many of those who are too afraid of other people's reactions, and ashamed of themselves, to really show the wounds them.

Moreover, even if someone decides to hurt themselves to get attention, not you should be very concerned about what could be causing the problem they need so much attention that they get hurt themselves to get it?


2. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder


Myth: People with OCD are always obsessed with the danger of germs, and are usually very concerned about neatness.

I can not count how many times I've heard people say that people with OCD because they are very neat or careful about hygiene.

Most people seem to think that people with OCD only the odd neat and / or germophobes, but it is much more complicated than just the nature of it.

OCD is an anxiety disorder with two characteristics.

First, people with OCD have repeated unwanted thoughts (obsessions), usually they find something that is annoying or not at all in their character.

It's common to have an obsession about germs or contamination, or concerns to lock the door properly, so a thief can get in, but also common to have thoughts about something bad happening to their families, about things - things that hurt or even kill someone, do something which is forbidden in their religion strongly believes, or ideas that are not desired.

Second, people think that doing some ritual / specific activity will get rid of bahaya.Dengan so they could bypass the problem, keep their homes properly, check that the doors locked, think of certain words, to avoid odd numbers, or anything else imaginable . This coercion do not make the mind quiet for a long time, so the ritual was repeated again and again.

Not all people who have OCD are concerned about germs, or is the ritual that we usually hear. Not everyone even has the urge observers will actually see, because many of them are mental disorders.

Or the neatness and perfection?
While some people with OCD perfectionist, this is more related to other disorders.
If you liked the first entry, you will love this: This disorder called Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder, and it's actually different things.

One major difference is that people with OCPD consider their habits to become a part of themselves and want, while people with OCD are often severely impaired by their disorder.


1. All Mental Disorders


Myth: Mental disorders and any abnormalities in your head, and you'll really get it if you really want.

It acquired the number one spot, not only because it's common, but because it's probably the most destructive myths in this list, because it can stop people getting the support they need.

Some people still believe that mental illness is all imagined by patients, or that people who suffer from mental illness can not really be having that many problems and / or just do not care enough about getting more out of it.

People are very likely to be ignored if the disease is not known, and many of them, even common, no.

The fact that similar symptoms have been experienced by so many different people who have to prove that it is real - they can not all be independently discovered the same phenomenon.

Any mental disorder, by definition, seriously affecting the lives of those who suffer from it, usually get worse, or will not be considered interference.

And they certainly are not easy to forget.
Most mental disorders are caused at least in part by differences in the brain or chemical imbalance. Even when it comes to non-physical reasons, it is very hard to not learn the mindset or habit - the habit of just pick anything and give it a try.

Plus, the disorder itself can stop someone from trying to get help: people with depression might think a therapist will not be able to help them, and too tired to try to find one,

By the way If we can overcome mental illness simply by the desire, the world will be full of people much more productive and happier than it is today.



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