Friday, February 6, 2009

Isn't This Weird? I Was Working on My "C" for my book A Bestiary, A Hospital....

and look at what happens when you go searching for a "C" disorder...How could mental illness have skipped "C" so completely. It defies probability and logic. Because "C" is a very common frequency letter. I'll probably think of one, but I didn't want to have to think. For E, I love "erotomania." I read a great book on that once.

A

Acute stress disorder
Addiction
Adjustment disorder
Agoraphobia
Alcoholism and substance abuse
Amnesia
Anxiety disorder
Anorexia nervosa
Antisocial personality disorder
Asperger's syndrome
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Autism
Autophagia
Avoidant personality disorder

B

Bereavement
Bestiality
Bibliomania
Binge eating disorder (proposed)
Bipolar disorder
Boanthropy
Body dysmorphic disorder
Borderline Asperger Syndrome
Borderline nonverbal learning disorder
Borderline personality disorder
Brief psychotic disorder
Bulimia nervosa

D

Delirium
Delusional disorder
Dementia
Dependent personality disorder
Depersonalization disorder
Depression
Derealization
Disorder of written expression
Disruptive behavior disorder
Dissocial personality disorder
Dissociative amnesia
Dissociative disorder
Dissociative fugue
Dissociative identity disorder
Down Syndrome
Dyscalculia
Dyscholalia
Dysgraphia
Dyslexia
Dyspareunia
Dyspraxia
Dysthymic disorder

E

Emotional disorder
Encopresis
Enuresis (bedwetting)
Erotomania
Exhibitionism
Expressive language disorder
Echolalia
Echopraxia
postmortal selfcentering
Dada

F

Factitious disorder
Female and male orgasmic disorders
Female sexual arousal disorder
Fetishism
Folie à deux
Frotteurism

G

Ganser syndrome
Gender identity disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder
General adaptation syndrome

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