THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS

NAME: JULIANNA VILLAR

TEACHER: SANDRA TORO
 INDEX

What’s a psychological disorder?

Types of psychological disorders
Causes
 WHAT’S A PSICHOLOGICAL DISORDER?

• We could define a psychological disorder, also known as mental disorder, as a pattern of psychological
or behavioral symptoms that affect several areas of life and / or create some kind of emotional distress
in the person who suffers
 PICA SYNDROME

• pica is a eating disorder characterized by the ingestion of nonfood substances without nutritional value
in a persistent and compulsive way
 CAUSES

• The causes associated with pica can be divided into five groups

• inherent toxicity
• obstruction
• excessive calorie intake
• nutritional deprivation
• others (parasites and kidney damage)
 SYNDROME OF TOC

• Obsessive-compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder, characterized by persistent intrusive thoughts,

which produce restlessness, fear or worry and repetitive behaviors called compulsions, aimed at
reducing the associated anxiety.
 CAUSES

• Fear of contamination or dirt

• Need things to be arranged symmetrically
• Aggressive or horrendous thoughts about hurting yourself or others
• Unwanted thoughts, for example, aggressive, or religious or sexual subjects
 AMOK SYNDROME
• it is a very unusual disorder whose main characteristic is the appearance of an outbreak of wild fury
that induces the subject to a murderous behavior, causing the murder or serious injuries with the
intention of killing all the people with whom the subject is
 CAUSES

• The causes of the Amok syndrome are not known because it is a very rare disease and to which, in most
cases, those affected end up dying, either by suicide or by being killed to end their performance.
 COTARD SYNDROME
•
it’s defined as a mental disorder, in which the person thinks that she is dead without being. That is to
say, it ensures it’s nonexistence. It’s mainly a type of delirium, which is also known as nitric delirium or
denial. It’s rare, but there have been cases in recent years
 CAUSES
•
Belief that your body does not exist and that you are living something unreal that only exists in your
imagination.
• Belief that he is running out of blood.
• Belief of being dead Belief that the organs are rotting.
• Belief of having worms under the skin due to the putrefaction of their body.
• Belief of not having organs or being decomposed. Belief that they do not need to feed themselves since
they are dead.
• Belief of being immortal.
• Belief that they do not have internal organs.
 HYPOCHONDRIA
• It’s the attitude that a person adopts before the disease. In these cases, the individual believes
unfounded that he suffers from some type of serious illness, and develops his life according to this
belief, so that this concern can lead in most cases to suffer an authentic death in life, preventing
develop your day to day normally.
 CAUSES

• The causes of hypochondria are many, so it is difficult to refer to a single factor.

Among the most common causes are:
• incorrect interpretation of symptoms
• traumatic experiences on diseases or deaths
• fear and excessive protection
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• It’s important to take care of our physical and psychological health, since we do not know that disease
or disorder that we can suffer