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  2. World problems
  3. Emotional disorders

Emotional disorders

  • Affective disorders
  • Emotional instability
  • Emotional disturbance
  • Emotional tensions
  • Impairments of emotion
  • Persistent mood disorders
  • Emotional imbalance
  • Emotional disconnectedness
  • Emotional turbulence

Claim

Mood exists to regulate investment strategies, so that we spend more time on things that work, and less time on things that do not.

Science needs a better understanding of how mood can affect physical health, but it appears to be linked to a loss of interest.

Broader

Psychological conflict
Presentable
Instability
Unpresentable

Narrower

Mental depression
Excellent
Numbness towards others
Presentable
Neurological rage
Presentable
Misophonia
Presentable
Dysthymia
Presentable
Anaclitic depression
Presentable
Unwanted crying
Unpresentable
Increasing social comparison
Unpresentable
Emotional instability due to torture
Unpresentable
Lack of intimate relationships
Yet to rate
Cyclothymia
Yet to rate
Anhedonia
Yet to rate
Alexithymia
Yet to rate

Aggravates

Loneliness
Excellent
Asthma
Excellent
Tachycardia
Presentable
Speech disorders
Presentable
Reading disabilities
Presentable
Multiple sclerosis
Presentable
Fear of intimacy
Presentable
Emotionalism
Presentable
Sleep terror disorder
Yet to rate
Poltergeists
Yet to rate

Aggravated by

Long-term unemployment
Excellent
Vulnerability of children during armed conflict
Presentable
State custody of deprived children
Presentable
Seasonal affective disorder
Presentable
Rheumatic fever
Presentable
Personal physical disfigurement
Presentable
Natural human abortion
Presentable
Maternal deprivation
Presentable
Huntington's disease
Presentable
Health hazards of oral contraceptives
Presentable
Health hazards of artificial birth control
Presentable
Diseases and injuries of the brain
Presentable
Cushing's syndrome
Presentable
Cerebral paralysis
Presentable
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
Presentable
Damaged intestinal microbiome
Presentable
Emotional strain
Unpresentable
Emotional abuse of children
Unpresentable
Dependency of children
Unpresentable
Traumatic brain injury
Yet to rate
Congenital anomalies of genital organs
Yet to rate

Related

Spiritual and emotional hindrance
Excellent
Irrational rejection of nuclear power
Presentable
Disharmony of emotions in the body
Presentable
Conduct disorder
Presentable
Mood disorders
Unpresentable
Emotional manipulation
Unpresentable
Emotional dependency in marriage
Unpresentable
Transient situational disturbances
Yet to rate
Glorified emotionality
Yet to rate
Emotional immaturity
Yet to rate
Belief in emotional instability of women
Yet to rate

Strategy

Communicating emotion
Yet to rate

Value

Tension
Yet to rate
Stability
Yet to rate
Instability
Yet to rate
Emotion
Yet to rate
Disturbance
Yet to rate
Disorder
Yet to rate

Reference

Knight, Edwin W: Emotional Illness
Cantwell, D and Carlson, G: Affective Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence: an update
Davis, John M and Maas, James W: The Affective Disorders
McRoy, Ruth G, et al: Emotional Disturbance in Adopted Adolescents: origins and development
Whybrow, Peter C, et al: Mood Disorders: toward a new psychobiology
Carone, Pasquale, et al: The Emotionally Troubled Employee: a challenge to industry
Gardos, George and Casey, Daniel E: Tardive Dyskinesia and Affective Disorders
Buckholdt, David R and Gubrium, Jaber F: Caretakers: treating emotionally disturbed children
Epanchin, Betty C and Paul, James L: Emotional Problems of Childhood and Adolescence: a multi-disciplinary approach
Whitlock, F A: Symptomatic Affective Disorders

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Well-being

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(D) Detailed problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Health care » Handicapped
  • Medicine » Pathology
  • Meteorology » Meteorology
  • Psychology » Stress
  • Societal problems » Imbalances
  • Societal problems » Instability
    • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    D9159
    DOCID
    11491590
    D7NID
    135511
    Last update
    May 19, 2022