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IDENTIFYING BEHAVIORALADDICTIONS IN MENTAL
HEALTH PATIENTS
Mood disorders, anxiety disorders,schizophrenia and personality disorders
often overlap with drug or alcoholaddiction. These conditions affect theway you feel, behave, interact with
others and perceive the world.
Anxiety disordersPeople with generalized anxiety disorderdisplay excessive anxiety or worry formonths and face several anxiety-relatedsymptoms.
Obsessive compulsivedisorders
People with OCD may have symptoms ofobsessions, compulsions, or both. Thesesymptoms can interfere with all aspects oflife, such as work, school, and personalrelationships.
Eating disordersWhile many young women and men withthis disorder die from complicationsassociated with starvation, others die ofsuicide. In women, suicide is much morecommon in those with anorexia than withmost other mental disorders.
Schizophrenia
People with schizophrenia may seem likethey have lost touch with reality. Althoughschizophrenia is not as common as othermental disorders, the symptoms can bevery disabling.
Personality disorders
Because some people with severe BPD havebrief psychotic episodes, experts originallythought of this illness as atypical, orborderline, versions of other mentaldisorders. While mental health experts nowgenerally agree that the name "borderlinepersonality disorder" is misleading, a moreaccurate term does not exist yet.
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Houston Concierge MedicineDR. GREGORY BURZYNSKI
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