Mental illnesses, disorders and differences tend to be greatly misunderstood by the general public. This is a list of mental illnesses and the myth widely believed, but not the least of these myths get very misguided
1. Personal Distractions That Antisocial (Antisocial Personality Disorder)
Myth: Someone who avoids social interaction is "antisocial". It is largely semantic errors, and is hence I put this in the tenth place.
Many people call a person who is reluctant to participate in social situations as "antisocial". In fact, these people are often involved as pro-social, even so remarkable.
Antisocial
Personality Disorder is diagnosed in adults who consistently ignore the
rights of others to behave violently, lie, steal, or generally act
carelessly without taking into account the safety of yourself or others.
They
often are very extroverted and turn around the State with the kind of
person who so often referred to as "antisocial", which usually are very
concerned about the feelings of others.
People
usually just shy or Antisocial has some form of autism, depression,
social anxiety disorder, or avoidant personality disorder (AvPD).
AvPD,
who was diagnosed in people who avoid social interaction for fear that
intense to rejected, perhaps part of the reason for this confusion.
The two personality disorder, after all, have a very similar name, but both are very different things.
2. Multiple Personality Disorder (multiple personalities)
Myth:
People with Dissociative Identity Disorde radically change their
behavior and lose their memory of what had just happened when they
switch personalities.
Some would say that it DID
itself is a myth, therefore, suspect, much more often diagnosed in
North America than elsewhere, but let's assume for this day does not
exist.
People with DID have two to over a hundred different personalities who in turn took over their bodies.
This alternate personalities ("change") is usually, but not always, formed due to a childhood trauma.
The
change does not always lead to major changes, the changes seen in the
appearance or behavior, so that observers may not even be aware of their
existence. Many people with DID ("multiples")
recognize that the various changes it there and know who are those
people who, even before the therapy, which will not work properly if
they do not have the turn of the memory.
It
is possible that one of the personalities have no knowledge of what
happened while one personality has been in charge, led to a sense of
amnesia, but they may be fully aware of what was happening and was not
actively involved.
Group changes are usually
able to communicate to some degree, and perhaps even work together to
hide the fact that they have much personality.
Some
sufferers from this choose not to do therapy to choose one's
personality and stop the transition of personality, because they feel
life in tune with multiple personalities as a complementary team
3. Dyslexia
Myth: All people with the disorder dyslexia can't read because they see the letters in the wrong order.
This is actually two myths in one, but still only two of the many myths about dyslexia.
The first is that the dyslexia is not able to read.
In
fact, most of them learn to read, but if they don't get the right help,
they often learned slowly and remain below the level of their class in
speed also understanding.
But even that's
not necessarily true: a lot of dyslexic children are looking at ways to
cover trouble reading them to three or four or even longer. And if they are taught by someone who understand dyslexia, they can learn to read well.
The
other side of this myth is that problems dyslexics have problems with
reading because they see the words including the backwards or broken. This
may seem to be happening because, in the confusion they while they try
to figure out a Word, they mix up letters or sounds, and some people
confuse left and right of dyslexia or have a lot of trouble with
spelling.
However, this is not the cause of their problems. Dyslexia is a lot more has to be helped by the unique way of thinking of the problems with processing visual information.
4. Schizophrenia
Myth: people heard the sound of Schizophrenic in their heads.
We all know about schizophrenia, and we all read the jokes about "voices in my head". But, contrary to what many people believe, not all people with schizophrenia to hear voices in their heads.
auditory
hallucinations are quite common in schizophrenia, but they are more
likely to hear voices that come from some object outside of their bodies
than in their minds. Plus, not all people with schizophrenia experience similar symptoms.
They
may experience hallucinations (actually see or hear things that aren't
there), delusions (believing the idea realistic), thoughts on a regular
basis, the lack of influence (there is no display of emotion), or, in
schizophrenia was Catatonic, even lack of desire to move at all.
Schizophrenia is a complex disorder with a wide range of symptoms that may be. (Note: that alternate personality is not a symptom)
5. Autism Spectrum Disorder (Autism Spectrum Disorders)
Myth: Autism is devastating disorders that would stop a person's ability so that able to function in society.
There are many myths and even more potential/myths debated about autism, but this seems to be one of the most common.
Many
people hear "Autism" and imagine children permanently in their own
world where they can't speak or interact with other people, which makes
the behavior for no apparent reason, and that will never be a part of
normal society.
However, autism spectrum
disorder called for a reason: the autistic child range from people who
can't communicate in any way with others, all the way to living a
productive life, and just looks a bit eccentric for us all.
severe autism is not a lifelong disorder,. Even the autistic disorders can be very low renders child living a very happy.
There
are also stories of autistic disorder low raise autistic children with
therapy and almost completely recovered from autism issues related to
them, and many people and organizations who are looking for a cure for
autism.
Unfortunately, the organizations pushing
for healing is usually based on this myth by just focusing on
particular issues related to low levels of autism, and almost entirely
ignored the existence of a high degree of autism and autistic people who
would never want to be "cured".
6. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Myth: People with ADHD do not pay attention to anything.
ADHD is a disorder that has become quite popular in recent years, so I'm sure you all know what it is. For those of you who aren't sure, people with ADHD have trouble concentrating on the task and can be hyperactive or impulsive. But that's not true, because sometimes it seems, that people with ADHD are not able to respond to the concern.
Many
of them could offset the attention to something they think is really
interesting, in the same way we all are much more willing to become
distracted from the task boring than fun. And, in fact, some people have trouble focusing because they really respond too much attention.
They think on all sides, sounds, and smells around them, and not just what is in their hands.
They must learn to deal with all other stimuli that attract and retain most of their attention on what's important.
7. nature of Silent Selective (Selective Mutism)
Myth: Someone with selective mute nature is that refuses to talk, or have been disrupted because of the trauma in the past.
This
is just a nuisance on the list that you probably have never heard this
term before, though I'll bet You've heard about it and its myths.
I
don't know other people with disorders more commonly believed myths,
not only by society as a whole but is actually by professionals.
Selective Mutism (formerly formerly called Elective Mutism) is a disorder almost always first appears in early childhood. A
person with a selective mute nature can be, and often, speak well, but
did not speak, and sometimes not even communicate in other ways, in
certain situations.
A large number
of parents, teachers and psychologists who work with The Selective
Nature of the silent sufferer believe that these people prefer not to
talk, perhaps in an attempt to control the others. However,
it turns out that most of the sufferers of The Selective Nature of the
silent era wants to talk, but not because they are really afraid.
The majority of sufferers also suffer from social anxiety disorder, and silence seems to be one of the ways they
