Mental Illness

A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. Such features may be persistent, relapsing and remitting, or occur as a single episode. Many disorders have been described, with signs and symptoms that vary widely between specific disorders. Such disorders may be diagnosed by a mental health professional. The causes of mental disorders are often unclear. Theories may incorporate findings from a range of fields. Mental disorders are usually defined by a combination of how a person behaves, feels, perceives, or thinks. This …

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WHO: World Health Organization · 21 November 2024 English

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disability 6. Health services for persons with mental illness, chronic diseases and inherited disorders


WHO: World Health Organization · 21 November 2024 English

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determinants of mental health, the economic burden of mental illness and case management services for patients patients with alcohol use disorders and serious mental illness. His current research interests focus on mental


Policy Press · 14 November 2024 English

Lindy A. Orthia and Tara Roberson, authors of 'Queering Science Communication', argue that at a time in history when trans and non-binary people are experiencing an avalanche of hate and …


World Bank Group · 10 November 2024 English

Bangladesh is warming at an alarming rate, the maximum temperature increased by 1.1°C between 1980 and 2023. At the same time, the heat index, or feels like temperature (which combines …

influence of culture on the lived experience of mental illness; and development, cultural adaptation, and of community-based interventions targeting mental illness and reducing mental health stigma and discrimination factors, and present a more nuanced picture of mental illness manifestation. In this study, emotional regulation


World Bank Group · 7 November 2024 English

A manifestation of climate change, temperature increases in Bangladesh are increasing at an alarming rate, with frequent bouts of extreme heat events. In 43 years, between 1980 and 2023, maximum …

influence of culture on the lived experience of mental illness; and development, cultural adaptation, and of community-based interventions targeting mental illness and reducing mental health stigma and discrimination factors, and present a more nuanced picture of mental illness manifestation. In this study, emotional regulation


GAIA: Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives · 5 November 2024 English

Gita Pertiwi and Carefood take on the role of facilitator, rather than a food bank, for both One key success element to the food sharing model donors and beneficiaries in …

Laras Utami, a nursing home for people with mental illness 2. The Direct Food Sharing (Berbagi Langsung) com/carefoodsolo/ Direct food sharing for people with mental illness at Griya PMI Peduli safe house Individual donors people, shelters for the elderly and those with mental illness, and the poor. Every month, collaborative food


UN-Habitat: UN Human Settlements Programme · 4 November 2024 English

In the Caribbean, where the bulk of housing, industry and urban infrastructure are concentrated 4.2 Existing Patterns of Urbanization and in Low Elevation Coastal Zones (LECZs), it is projected that …

residents, the homeless and people with severe mental illness.36 These disparities in heat exposure pose


MHI: Mariwala Health Initiative · 4 November 2024 English

Her PhD thesis was methods to sustain their use of power, some the reframing of trauma and trauma theory on the organisational politics of the of which correspond to the …

where biomedical Black youth and adults with mental illness in Project 39A NLU, Delhi. Through intervention health, and the role of empathy in both 16 mental illness and therapeutic alliance. 82 ENGAGE | ADVOCACY from family members but higher prevalence of mental illness among 80% of unnatural death also the significance understanding of the rights of persons with mental illness and to improve interactions with residents and substance use. They care for persons with mental illness Singhbhum district that will address are MHI’s


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 1 November 2024 English

We examine the mental wellbeing of the young in 18 Latin American countries using data from five cross-country comparative studies plus cross-sectional and quarterly time series data for a single …

Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, Penguin, Random House. Haidt J (2024b) really is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness: two major problems with a review in Nature’ media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?’, Nature, 29 March. OECD (2021), How’s


GAIA: Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives · 31 October 2024 English

Gita Pertiwi and Carefood take on the role of facilitator, rather than a food bank, for both One key success element to the food sharing model donors and beneficiaries in …

Laras Utami, a nursing home for people with mental illness 2. The Direct Food Sharing (Berbagi Langsung) com/carefoodsolo/ Direct food sharing for people with mental illness at Griya PMI Peduli safe house Individual donors people, shelters for the elderly and those with mental illness, and the poor. Every month, collaborative food


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