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Psychiatric Disorders, Diseases, and Drugs

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Psychiatric Disorders, Diseases, and Drugs

There are many different types of psychological disorders, many of them have treatments or can be lessened with medications. Psychological disorders are also commonly called mental disorders, this is when an individual's behavior can impact their life and can cause distress for the individual that is experiencing problems.

Schizophrenia is when an individual would most likely experience what is called insanity. Schizophrenia can impair an individual's thoughts, speech, emotional, perception, and motor activities, and can often times lead an individual to not know what is reality and non-reality.

Dopamine is the theory with schizophrenia, "schizophrenia is caused by too much dopamine and,...