The prevalent upward trend pertained to the incidence of
neurotic disorders diagnosed due to ICD-10 as a spectrum of neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders (including anxiety disorders, mixed anxiety and depressive disorders), as well as personality disorders.
Among the subjects with the selected mental disorders, the majority of them were diagnosed with
neurotic disorders (91.71%), followed by affective psychoses (17.48%), adjustment reaction (4.93%), schizophrenia (2.65%), and personality disorders (1.37%) in descending order (Table 1), suggesting that
neurotic disorders were the most prevalent comorbid diseases, followed by comorbid affective psychoses.
Groups of MBD require special attention: CID-F30-39 (disorders of mood [affective]) and F40-48 (
neurotic disorders, stress-related disorders and somatoform disorders), higher among women and F10-19 (MBD due to psychoactive substance use), higher in men.
This approach is useful in determining the extent to which the oppressed and abandoned girl-child in patriarchal African societies is susceptible to
neurotic disorders. For instance, a combination of psychoanalytic approach and radical feminist theory for the analysis of the novels presented in this paper enables us to go beyond the usual claims that children suffering from abandonment and patriarchal oppression have psychological problems.
Available evidence supports the first possibility of the under-reporting by Indian epidemiological studies because of poor sensitivity of the screening instrument, high-risk populations (children and adolescents, elderly) were not assessed,
neurotic disorders and substance use disorders were not assessed adequately, stigma and single informant method would have lead to under-reporting.
It is believed to be the cause of various kinds of cancer,
neurotic disorders and birth deformities.
of Population Prevalence Cases in Area per 1.000 White 596 57.930 10.30 Asian 163 12.050 13.50 Black 144 5.738 25.10 Table 3 Diagnosis of Asian, White, and Black groups Diagnoses Asian White Black n=163 n=596 n=144 Schizophrenic/Delusional disorders 56(34) 166(28) 88(61) Bipolar disorder 23(14) 57(10) 35(25) Depression 40(25) 192(32) 2(1)
Neurotic disorders 5(3) 17(3) 1(0.7) Personality disorders 12(7) 51(8) 1(0.7) Substance abuse 20(13) 72(12) 5(4) Others 7(4) 41(7) 12(8) Diagnoses Total [chi square] n=903 Schizophrenic/Delusional disorders 310(34) Bipolar disorder 115(13) Depression 234(26)
Neurotic disorders 23(2) 123.05 * Personality disorders 64(7) Substance abuse 97(11) Others 60(7) * p < .001.
In the treatment of
neurotic disorders, ECT was viewed by some psychiatrists as of decisive benefit; it often marked a turning point from therapeutic failure to perceived therapeutic success.
Professor Hubert Lacey, professor of psychiatry at St Georges Hospital in Tooting, South London, said: "There is no higher rate of sexual abuse as a child in bulimia nervosa patients than in other
neurotic disorders."
According to latest statistics reported by Pakistan Psychological Association, there is an epidemic of mental illness as 40 per cent of the population suffers from mild to moderate level of
neurotic disorders, specially generalized anxiety disorder.
Schneider's symptoms have been identified in patients with
neurotic disorders (7), manic-depressive disorders (8), and mood disorders.
Neurotic disorders (ND) were studied according to special methodic recommendation developed in Scientific-Research Institute of General and Forensic Psychiatry named after Serbski (1988, 1991) (Alexandrovski, 1993).