How many mental illnesses are there? August 6, 2009
The DSM-IV, the U.S. standard reference for psychiatry, includes over 300 different manifestations of mental illness. Psychiatrists themselves are in dispute over how common some of these conditions are, or whether they should be listed as ‘mental illnesses’, and each version of the DSM is slightly different to the previous ones. The DSM-IV is currently being revised and updated, and the next version will include new-and-improved manifestations of illness. This is a portion of the currently recognised list of mental illnesses.
See Mental illness for more general information.
— Acute stress disorder
— Adjustment disorders
— Agoraphobia
— Alcohol and substance abuse
— Alcohol and substance dependence
— Amnesia
— Anxiety disorders
— Anorexia nervosa
— Antisocial personality disorder
— Asperger’s disorder, also known as asperger’s syndrome
— Attention deficit disorder
— Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
— Autism
— Avoidant personality disorder
— Bereavement
— Bibliomania
— Binge eating disorder (proposed)
— Bipolar disorder
— Body dysmorphic disorder
— Borderline personality disorder
— Brief psychotic disorder
— Bulimia nervosa
— Cannabis addiction
— Circadian rhythm sleep disorder
— Conduct disorder
— Conversion disorder
— Cyclothymia (or Cyclothymic disorder)
— Delusional disorder
— Dependent personality disorder
— Depersonalization disorder
— Depression
— Disorder of written expression
— Dissociative fugue
— Dissociative identity disorder
— Dyspareunia
— Dysthymic disorder
— Encopresis
— Enuresis (bedwetting)
— Exhibitionism
— Expressive language disorder
— Female and male orgasmic disorders
— Female sexual arousal disorder
— Fetishism
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