What words describe mental health?

What words describe mental health?

craziness

• brainsickness.
• derangement.
• insaneness.
• lunacy.
• madness.
• mental disorder.
• mental illness.
• psychopathy.

Where can I write about mental health?

Want to write about mental health? Pitch to these publications.

• Elemental by Medium. I’m not sure about you, but lots of people I know still think that Medium is “just” an online blogging and publishing platform.
• Vice.
• Vox (first person)
• Glamour.
• Reader’s Digest.

How do you write a mental disorder?

To avoid stereotyping and caricature—and to keep your story believable—try these five strategies and tips:

1. Make the character relatable.
2. Keep the narrative front and center.
3. Balance internal and overt symptoms and behavior.
4. Specify the disorder, at least in your head.
5. Get the details right.

What’s the difference between mental health and mental illness?

It’s easier to understand the difference when you treat them as separate entities. Mental health is about mental wellness – we all have mental health. Mental illness is when someone is diagnosed with a mental disorder.

What is psychotic thinking?

Psychosis is characterized as disruptions to a person’s thoughts and perceptions that make it difficult for them to recognize what is real and what isn’t. These disruptions are often experienced as seeing, hearing and believing things that aren’t real or having strange, persistent thoughts, behaviors and emotions.

Is being psychotic a mental illness?

Psychosis is a symptom, not an illness. A mental or physical illness, substance abuse, or extreme stress or trauma can cause it. Psychotic disorders, like schizophrenia, involve psychosis that usually affects you for the first time in the late teen years or early adulthood.

What part of the brain does psychosis affect?

It is suggested that psychosis is due to an affection of the supplementary motor area (SMA), located at the centre of the Medial Frontal Lobe network.