Mental Disorders

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Term Paper Title	Mental Disorders
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Mental Disorders

     The term mental disorder means psycological and behavioral syndromes that deviate signicantly from those typical of human beings enjoying good mental health.  All that mumbo jumbo means that a person with a mental disorder was a few cards short of a full deck.  This is probably not the persons fault that they are like this they were just born this way.  These people are not all a like.  They are not even in exact classes because all of the classes have not been seperated yet.  In most cases a normal person that has no disorders is afraid of these type of people.  This is because they do not want to turn out the way these people are.  A common example of a mental disorder is down syndrome.  There was a television program in the early 90's that featured a boy that had to live with this terrifying disorder.  This show was very inspirational for all people with disorders.  The boy's name was Corky who fought all aspects of the disorder.  Them being from physical triumphs to just !
everyday kids harrassing him at school.  The show was taken off the air in 1993 because of sponsers.
     Records of types of disorders are unknown along with many of other records of treatments to people inflicted with a disorder.  This is mainly because in the early 1900's people thought that people with disorders were just stupid and they did not investigate further into the matter.  The quanity of people that have a disorder is unknown.  There is an estimated guess that 15% of the U.S. population has some sort of disorder but that is not factual.  This is because the survey people only can estimate from the people who check theirselves into a institution, the ones who do so make up 3% of the 15% estimation.  The U.S.  in 1990 spent an estimated 148 billion on treating mental diorders.

Childhood Disorders

     Several Mental disorders are evident first in infancy, childhood, and adolescence.
     Mental retardation is characterized by the inability to learn normally and to become as an independent and socially responsible as others of the same age in the same culture.  A retarded person go through a lot of emotional problems because of the society making fun of these people.  A retarded person has an IQ of less than 70.
     Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder includes conditions marked by inappropiate lack of attention, by impulsiveness, and by hyperactivity, in which the child has difficulty organizing and completing work, is unable to stick to activities or

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