Symptoms of Possible Mental
Illness
Symptoms
which are an indication of possible psychiatric disorders, but not often
recognized as such, are listed below.These symptoms especially apply if they
seem to be without cause from a life stress and if they are persistent.
- Recurrent or consistent feelings of sadness
- Feelings of fear or impending doom
- Sudden episodes of being unable to get your breath
and/or chest pain, rapid or irregular heart beats
- Feeling that your familiar surroundings are unreal
- Inability to feel pleasure from usually pleasurable
things
- Feelings of "butterflies" in your stomach.
- Inability to sleep or the need to sleep too much
- Loss of appetite or the need to eat too often
- Recurrent nightmares.
- Too many thoughts going through your mind at once.
- Difficulty organizing your thoughts.
- Consistent feelings of guilt.
- Feeling hopeless and helpless.
- Thoughts that life isn't worth the trouble.
- Rapid mood swings.
- Periods of rapid speech and the need to keep talking
excessively.
- Consistent or recurrent feelings that there is
something seriously medically wrong with you but they just haven't found it
yet.
- Feelings of excessive anger and difficulty keeping
temper under control.
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- Inability to get out of bed on a daily basis.
- Requires assistance performing daily living skills
such as shopping, meal preparation, housework, etc.
- Has difficulty maintaining prescribed program of
medications.
- There Is limited judgement in the handling of money
and personal finances.
- Generally stays socially isolated.
- Social network Is limited to agency workers.
- View of society is one of distrust and isolation.
- Mental orientation is partial or inconsistent.
- Thoughts may produce inappropriate behaviors or
decisions.
- Moods are in poor control, and may drive
inappropriate behaviors or decisions.
- Hallucinations which affect behaviors and may prevent
independent functioning.
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