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WHAT IS MENTAL DISORDER?
Distinguishing "normal" from "abnormal" is no simple task. Three classic symptoms suggest severe mental disorder: hallucinations, delusions, and extreme affective disturbances. Hallucinations are false sensory experiences, such as hearing nonexistent voices. Delusions are extreme disorders of thinking that involve persistent false beliefs. If you think you are the President of the United States (and you are not), you have a symptom of psychopathology. Similarly, those whose affect (emotion) is, for no apparent reason, depressed, anxious, or manic–or those who seems to have no emotional response at all–have yet other signs of mental disorder. Beyond such signs of distress, the experts do not always agree, however. What is abnormal and what is not becomes a judgment call, a judgment made more difficult because no sharp boundary separates normal from abnormal thought and behavior. The medical model takes a "disease" view, while psychology sees mental......

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