What are the most common symptoms of mental disorders?

What are the most common symptoms of mental disorders?

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There are quite a few symptoms of mental disorders, and they can be grouped into broad categories. For example, we have the mood symptoms – and this would be symptoms of depression you see in people that suffer from major depression and have euphoria in the case of manic disorder. When you have depression, you also have a whole host of other kinds of changes in your body – you can have changes in appetite, your sleep pattern, your sexual interest, your ability to enjoy things, and a number of other ones. Another group of symptoms would be the anxiety symptoms – besides having excessive worry, you can also experience physical symptoms that are associated with an overactive part of the brain that releases norepinephrine – this causes palpitations, it can cause shortness of breath, can cause sweaty palms, knots in your stomach, and a whole variety of other complaints like that. When we talk about the more serious mental disorders, like schizophrenia, most people have often heard of symptoms that we group as thought disorder symptoms – and this would include hallucinations, delusions, paranoid thought, and a general disorganization of the thinking process.