Chilhood Disorders
1. Mood Disorders - Major depression, manic depressive disorder (called bipolar disorder) and mania are disorders which cause change in child's mood. Depression is caused by a number of factors from chemical imbalances to environmental influences to genetics. It is often mistaken for the blues and goes untreated. Major depression causes people to feel hopeless, exhausted and useless. It can cause problems with sleep, appetite, self-esteem, daily activities and physical health.2. Anxiety Disorders - Fears that don't go away with time. Comes in many forms and may be experienced differently in each person. The person usually feels constant terror, dread or worry beyond one's normal reactions to danger. Anxiety occurs when a child is overly anxious, experiences separation anxiety, or avoids certain situations, peoples or places. 3. Attention-Deficit Disorder - (ADD) affects a child's ability to concentrate, learn and maintain a normal level of activity. Excessive activity impatience, constant distraction, shifting form one activity to another and restless sleeping are common to (ADD) 4. Autism - This is the most disabling of pervasive development disorders, a series of disorders that affect
3. Polio - A disease of the lymphatic and nervous system. Symptoms are: fever, sore throat, nausea, headaches, stomach aches, and stiffness in the neck, back and legs.
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