2007-11-28 06:36:47 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
Alot, usually there is one basic one, like depression, bipolar, ocd etc, but then there others besides the first one that are like secondary ones. you can have depression with anxiety, or bipolar disorder with certain other tendenceies. what im trying to say is, you can have many at the same time but alot of them correlate and are related to the others, if you get one under control, the others may subside since they may be tendencies related to the primary one. Hope this helps.
2007-11-28 06:42:09 · answer #1 · answered by Tabby C 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
that depends on how you define mental illness. If you mean according to the DSM and most medical professionals? probably infinite. You have to remember that currently psychiatric illness is defined only by symptoms, nobody knows what or even IF there is an underlying biological cause to alot of these. This approach leaves alot to be desired- here's an example..
If we applied this to a real medical illness, say, the flu
patient A has a fever and aches all over- he has fever and aches disease
patient B has fatigue, sore throat, and a runny nose- he has fatigue throat-nose disease
Patient C has a fever, aches, fatigue, sore throat and a runny nose- Patient C must have both fever and aches disease as well as fatigue throat-nose disease
Do you see what is wrong with the above scenario? All of the patients above have the flu, but exhibit different symptoms. Because this illness is physical we KNOW that they all have the flu and not 2 or 3 seperate diseases. But with mental illness all this is to diagnose on is the symptoms. So while a person's symptoms may fit the criteria for many diagnosis, it is completely probably that the patient only really has one true illness -Neb
2007-11-28 07:06:02 · answer #2 · answered by nebit214 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many people have 3. Some mental illnesses are not compatible with each other, so there is a limit. The most any Yahoo user has reported was 10. I once had 4.
2007-11-28 06:46:41 · answer #3 · answered by Susas 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mental illnesses are all in your mind......lol. Seriously, many of the mental illnesses diagnosed today are based on facts that you might give to a doctor, a psychologist, or phychiatrist that they feel obligated to diagnose (their job, so to speak) but too often mental illnesses have same symptoms with variables and so the diagnoses can get out of hand and cause way too much medicating. If a doctor prescribes a medication to you or someone you know and a month later you have other symptoms make sure that it is not just symptoms caused by the medication before letting them label you with something else and adding another medication. Often the very medications that they prescribe can cause a whole host of other psychiatric symptoms.
2007-11-28 07:01:23 · answer #4 · answered by Twilight 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The possibilities are endless! It's very common for people to have a variety of comorbid mental disorders. In fact, I have depression, anxiety, and ADHD, plus my mother suspects that I have OCD. How about that?!
2007-11-28 06:55:32 · answer #5 · answered by tangerine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
infinate amount many mental health probs can lead on to others for example someone suffering from ocd can become depressed due to thier ocd
2007-11-30 09:54:35 · answer #6 · answered by arl b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lots
2007-11-28 06:41:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I agree with Tabby. With personality disorders especially, they all seem to roll into each other.
2007-11-28 06:44:27 · answer #8 · answered by Yahoo 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Looking at my husbands sister-many.
2007-11-28 06:53:06 · answer #9 · answered by Jesse Rocks 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
loads x loads.just to be paraniod,runs into many illnesses..mary.c.
2007-11-28 07:05:06 · answer #10 · answered by MARY C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋