So, to want more and to keep it is fundamentally human-a common, usually normal, and natural behavior. ... "In addition, mental health clinics do not ask questions about clutter and saving possessions as part of their routine diagnostic interviews (Frost 2010). ... This can further cause problems for the hoarder and make it harder to live a "normal" lifestyle. ...
While psychiatry lost homosexuality as a mental illness in the 1980 DSM-III, the APA found other groups it could pathologize, groups that could not mobilize and resist, most notably children, who are now routinely given psychiatric diagnoses for behaviors that many of us view as normal for their ages. They can easily diagnose a child with a disorder, even though the child is displaying normal behaviors for his or her age. ...
When Dr.Wilbur was able to further investigate what trauma had happened, she was able to find out about her many childhood tortures: a daily routine administered by her mother that involved sharp objects and an enema bag. ... "Unlike Multiple Personality Disorder, which is more like a disease, where a person has it or does not have it, most professionals feel that dissociation ranges from a "normal" state, daydreaming, to more pathological forms"[Wal96]. ...
Just like any other physical disease or disorder such as diabetes that is caused by a pancreatic disorder, mental illnesses are medical conditions that cause disturbances to a person's normal activities such as thinking, emotions, mood, ability in relating to others and routine daily chores. ...
The studies led to conclude that AAT reduced anxiety levels on hospitalized patients and routine therapeutic recreation session reduce levels only for people with mood disorders. ... Where pet therapy is just a term used to describe people having a pet to append psychosocial normal beings; companion animals are those that can be therapeutic by improving health and feelings; and animals as helpers are the ones who assist people with disabilities, for example blind people or people on wheel chairs. ...
