Psychosocial disabilities have a wide range of conditions that affect mental health, daily activities and social function. The severity, impact range or level of disability are the criteria on which the psychosocial recovery funding depends.
Some of The Common Types of Psychological Disabilities
Anxiety Disorders
There are two common types of anxiety disorders – generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) and panic disorder. GAD symptoms come with excessive stress, worry or anxiety in the regular and general issues of life. Some common ongoing symptoms are restlessness, fatigue, less concentration or focus on a subject.
Depressive Conditions
There can be a time of clinical depression (major depressive disorder) or Dysthymia (persistent depressive disorder), which is a persistent loss of interest in activity, sadness in daily life and a chronic form of depression lasting for a long time and affecting functional capacity, respectively.
Bipolar and Related Issues
There can be times of episodes of mania or hypomania, i.e. elevated mood, less elevated mood, and the depressive situation is a common mental health issue.
Obsessive Compulsive Dispore (OCD)
Unwanted thoughts, recurrent and compulsion to do repetitive tasks that the person feels driven to do are other typical psychosocial mental cases.
Post-Traumatic Stress Distress (PTSD)
After experiencing a traumatic event or witnessing something shocking, getting trauma from that incident brings various symptoms like back flashes, nightmares, uncontrollable thoughts, unpleasant mental conditions and severe anxiety.
Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Neurodevelopmental behaviours are cognitive and behavioural disorders that involve considerable complications in developing and performing specific intellectual, motor, language, or social procedures.
This disorder includes intellectual development and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), among other problems. A recent increase in neurodevelopmental disorders like ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) interferes with adults as well as children in a massive way. The persistent pattern of inattention, difficulty in social communication or social interaction, and inflexible patterns of behaviour or activities are other symptoms of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autism is a sign of deficits in social interaction and communication in multiple areas of life. It also shows repetitive and repetitive behavioural patterns.
It constitutes diverse critical conditions with some degree of difficulties and social interactions, restricted inflexible, repetitive patterns of interest, activities and behaviour. During the early developmental period, the symptoms of autism can be realised and should be taken care of. It might cause significant impairment in everyday life and occupational and social dysfunction
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD) is a mental illness that is complex and a serious personality disorder. It is a long pattern of psychological distress and suspicion without adequate reason. Patients believe that others are trying to demean, threaten or harm them. They also don’t think that their way of thinking is problematic. They have some unusual thinking and behaviour and fall in the Cluster A group of personality disorder.
Somatic Symptom Disorders
Somatic Symptom Disorder was formerly known as Somatoform Disorder, where there might be physical symbols, but that may not have a diagnosable physical cause. The current diagnosis is based on symptoms like unusual feelings, thoughts, and behaviour based on the pre-occupational symptoms of difficulty in coping and functioning and emotional distress in daily life.
Impulse Control Disorder
Impulse control disorder can be overlooked or misunderstood easily. It is necessary to understand that impulse control disorder generally begins in childhood or adolescence. Some of the most common Impulse Control Disorder are:
- Psychotic Disorder
- Mood Disorder
- Eating Disorder
- Addiction Disordered
- Post Traumatic Disorder (PTSD)
- Obsessive-compulsive Disorder
Schizophrenia
More than 24 million people in the world are affected by schizophrenia. Significant impairments in perception characterise schizophrenia. Some of the common symptoms of schizophrenia may include disorganised thinking, extreme agitation, hallucinations, persistent delusions, and continued difficulties with cognitive functioning.
Eating Disorder
More than 14 million people in the world experience eating disorders, including children and adolescents. Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa are types of eating disorders that involve abnormal eating and obsession with food. It comes with prominent body weight and shape problems. This disorder can lead to significant distress, like preoccupation with food and abnormal eating, which can lead to severe risk of health damage, considerable distress or impairment of functioning.
Disruptive behaviour and dissocial disorders
The category consists of disruptive behaviour, dissocial disorders and oppositional defiant disorder. This is also known as a conductive disorder. Persistent manners characterise these two behaviours as rebellious or violating the everyday lifestyle. Social skill training and cognitive problem-solving are a few of the most effective psychological treatments for these disorders.
Conclusion
The individual may face these psychosocial disabilities singly, in combination, or even any other than these few disorders. These can impact their daily activities, social interaction, or community activities. NDIS provides funding for all eligible psychosocial disorders to fulfil the participant’s life.