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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

  • Inability to study, carelessness, forgetfulness, inability to organize time,
  • nervousness, restlessness,
  • Dangerous activities (Sexual risky behaviors, participating in fights, alcohol-substance abuse)
  • Poor social relationships
  • low self-perception, depressive complaints,
  • Antisocial and aggressive behavior

Conduct Disorder

  • It is seen at a rate of 6-10% in boys and 2-9% in girls. Its frequency increases towards puberty.
  • Aggression to humans/animals
  • Bullying, intimidation
  • start a fight
  • Physical injury, physical cruelty to humans and animals
  • Don’t play in front of someone else
  • Coercion to engage in sexual activity
  • Do not damage things
  • Intentionally setting a fire with intent to cause serious damage
  • Willfully damaging someone else’s property
  • Fraud or theft
  • Breaking into someone else’s house or car
  • Lying mostly for gain and avoiding obligations
  • Don’t steal valuable things without anyone seeing
  • Seriously breaking the rules
  • Do not spend most of the night out despite family prohibitions.
  • Running away from home for at least two nights (once if not returned for a long time) while living in the parents’ home.
  • Don’t miss school most of the time.

oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)

  • Frequent irritability
  • Do not get into arguments often with adults,
  • Going against the wishes and rules of the elders,
  • Do not intentionally do things that upset someone else,
  • Don’t blame others for your own mischief
  • irritability, easily angered,
  • Resentment is a psychopathology that has the characteristics of wanting to take revenge.

Anxiety Disorder

  • The response that occurs after the factors that create compulsion in the person is called “anxiety”. Although it is a temporary feeling for adaptation to some situations, it appears as the main finding in some diseases.
  • Anxiety has biological and psychological causes. In challenging situations, there are changes in some substances secreted from the brain and in the receptors in the regions where these substances secrete. Hormones also have an effect on anxiety.

Depression During Adolescence

  • Depression and adolescence crises are confused with each other during adolescence.
  • Symptoms of Depression
  • It lasts for two weeks, it should not be due to another disease.
  • Feeling sad, empty, decreased interest in daily activities, lack of pleasure, anger
  • Extreme weight loss (more than 5% of body weight) or weight gain
  • Inability to sleep or oversleeping
  • Persistent restlessness of unknown cause,
  • Sometimes don’t care about anything
  • Fatigue, exhaustion, inability to concentrate on work.
  • Broken friendships
  • There may be suicidal thoughts, if there is a suicide attempt, the risk increases a lot, family history is important.

Panic Disorder

  • It is defined as multiple panic attacks in an unexpected situation and when the person is not the center of attention of others.
  • During an attack, shortness of breath or choking sensation, palpitations, tremors, shaking, sweating, shortness of breath, nausea, abdominal pain, numbness, tingling, redness or chills, heart tightness, chest pain may occur.

Obsessive compulsive disorder

  • Obsessions are the persistent intrusion of unwanted thoughts, images/impulses that cause anxiety.
  • Compulsions are repetitive behaviors and mental actions performed to reduce/eliminate intense distress and discomfort caused by obsessions.
  • Obsessive thoughts are often linked to compulsive action.
  • Although it starts at an earlier age in men, it is more common in women.
  • Compulsions are varied, the most common being washing and checking.

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