Mental Illusions
Mental health has many illusions that it is why it is often
difficult to sort through the rumble. In mental health, we have
to deal with bipolar on many levels, panic disorders,
depression, trauma, and other more difficult diagnosis and
symptoms. It is often difficult since when we look at the
various mental illnesses we also have to look closer at the
underlying elements of the diagnosis.
Underlying elements such as childhood trauma plays a large role
in many diagnoses today. We also have to consider the many
elements that are linked to mental health, including influences
of the past and influences in the current times, including
history, law, religion, and so on. All diagnoses regardless of
the similarities are treated differently, since we are all
different. Delusional disorders for example, require careful
attention since the symptoms include separate elements and since
it has a couple of different levels of complexity.
For example the 'persecutory types' endure suspicious behaviors,
which include believing that someone is out to get them, feeling
of cheated in life, feel they are mistreated and will often
include the law and justice system in their delusional
behaviors. Delusional disorders are difficult simply because the
patient is often schizophrenic acting yet distinct of the
characteristics and symptoms that schizophrenias illustrate.
Some patients with delusional disorders have a grandiose
personality, believing they are better than anyone else is in
the world.
The patient may attempt to convince another individual that he
or she was cheated, mistreated, robbed, and may believe he or
she has power that no one else has. Since minimal research
results have been provided on this diagnose it is even more
difficult to understand. Most delusional disorders are
categorized by schizophrenia; however, it is rarely diagnosed as
schizophrenia.
We could also conduct an overview of cognitive disorders and see
that although they appear simple in form, they are complicated.
Delirium for example has symptoms including, lack of awareness,
short tension spans, wandering communication, rambled speech,
and so forth. The patient often skips in and out of reality. To
determine if the diagnose is delirium a counselor must rule out
other possibilities including, psychotic, dementia,
schizophrenia, and other related diagnoses. Other diagnoses such
as histrionic personality disorders are even more difficult to
deal with.
Although the person rarely suffers hallucination, they are
often illusion in their way of thinking. The person often
believes illustrates superficial characteristics in emotions,
and will become aggressive even violent if they are not the
center of focus. In other words if you are not paying thorough
attention to a histrionic you had better watch your back. Often
histrionic types play a role acting out a personality that does
not exist, and will shift moods often.
If you see a person laughing and carrying on one minute, and
then turns violent, you might be dealing with a histrionic
personality type. Histrionic types are never the culprit they
are often the victim according to their state of mind. As you
can see you are dealing with a very twisted mind here, and to
take the person lightly is asking for nothing but trouble.
Histrionic personality types play many games, but when you are
the game player, there are potential dangers involved.
Histrionic types will go at great lengths to prove everyone
wrong. Often these types of individuals lack the ability to show
emotions at a normal state. We can also peek at the narcissistic
personality disorders. These people are similar in contrast to
the histrionic in the sense they too are grandiose. They
illustrate behaviors that include self-promoting, and often lack
the ability to regard others. Often this type is demanding, and
often has difficulty in relationships, since every one is the
bad guy.
Looking at both histrionic and narcissistic personalities, we
can see the similarities, which make it difficult for anyone
that is evaluating the patient. The professional evaluating the
patient must also rule out other diagnoses including, Borderline
Personality Disorder (BPD), Histrionic Personality Disorder, as
well as other underlying disorders. The many mental illnesses
that we face every day are often difficult and when new studies
find more information on the illnesses it becomes even more
difficult to understand.