The following is a list of mental disorders we need to recognize:

Acute stress disorder
Adjustment disorders
Agoraphobia
Alcohol and substance abuse
Alcohol and substance dependence
Amnesia
Anxiety disorders
Anorexia nervosa
Antisocial personality disorder, also known as sociopathy
Asperger's syndrome, also known as Asperger's disorder
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Akiltism
Autism
Avoidant personality disorder
Bibliomania
Binge eating disorder (proposed)
Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression Bipolar I disorder
Bipolar II disorder

Body dysmorphic disorder
Borderline personality disorder
Brief psychotic disorder
Bruxism
Bulimia nervosa
Conduct disorder
Conversion disorder
Cyclothymia (or cyclothymic disorder)
Delusional disorder
Dependent personality disorder, also known as asthenic personality disorder
Depersonalization disorder
Depressive personality disorder
Dermotillomania
Disorder of written expression
Dissocial personality disorder
Dissociative fugue
Dissociative identity disorder, also known as multiple personality disorder
Down syndrome
Dyslexia
Dyspareunia
Dysthymia
Emotionally unstable personality disorder
Encopresis
Enuresis (bedwetting)
Erotomania
Exhibitionism
Expressive language disorder
Female and male orgasmic disorders
Female sexual arousal disorder
Folie à deux
Frotteurism
Gambling addiction
G****r identity disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder
General adaptation syndrome
Haltlose personality disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Primary hypersomnia
Hypoactive sexual desire disorder
Hypochondriasis
Hypomania
Hyperkinetic syndrome
Hypersexuality
Hysteria
Intermittent explosive disorder
Joubert syndrome
Kleptomania
Major depressive disorder, also known as clinical depression
Male erectile disorder
Mania
Munchausen syndrome
Mathematics disorder
Minor depressive disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder
Narcolepsy
Nightmare disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, also known as anankastic personality disorder
Onychophagia
Oppositional defiant disorder
Pain disorder
Panic attacks
Panic disorder
Paranoid personality disorder
Passive-aggressive personality disorder
Pathological gambling
Pervasive developmental disorder
Pica
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Premature ejaculation
Primary insomnia
Psychoneurotic personality disorder
Psychotic disorder, not otherwise specified
Reading disorder
Retts disorder
Rumination syndrome
Sadistic personality disorder
Schizoaffective disorder
Schizoid personality disorder
Schizophrenia
Schizophreniform disorder
Schizotypal personality disorder
Seasonal affective disorder
Self-defeating personality disorder
Separation anxiety disorder
Shared psychotic disorder
Sleep disorder
Sleep terror disorder
Sleepwalking disorder
Social phobia
Somatization disorder
Specific phobias
Stereotypic movement disorder
Stuttering
Tourette syndrome
T***sient tic disorder
Trichotillomania

After I read the definitions of these disorders I do believe I have or have had quite a number of them! But not stuttering or Tourette syndrome. Just as when I read the John' Hopkins Medical book, I identify with most of what I read! The moral seems to be: Don't read about illnesses!!!!

Many of these disorders I am familiar with. I worked with seriously disturbed high school kids. I would say depression and bipolar disorder were the most common. Personality disorders were also very common. I would say the two most common were borderline personality disorder and sociopathic disorder, although this personality disorder is not recognized among the therapy community. Its political, not therapeutic. Therapists don't want to give up on these kids, but there are plenty of sociopathic teens, trust me.`We saw some Tourettes, schizophrenia, lots of Aspergers, and others. Personality disorders were the most difficult since there were no therapy or medications that helped. Eighty percent of our kids went on to live a functional existence, meaning a job and a family. A few went on to college, some became highly successful soldiers. With all the services we had for kids, it cost eighty thousand dollars to send a kid through a year of school. Every kid had therapy, movement therapy, music therapy, art therapy, a psychologist, and a psychiatrist, cottage counselors for resident kids, and a team leader. In spite of all these services, I had seven students that I know of that went on to commit murder. As a rule, we only took kids that could benefit from verbal therapy. We didn't deal with psychotic kids off medication, autism, etc.

Many of these disorders I am familiar with. I worked with seriously disturbed high school kids. I would say depression and bipolar disorder were the most common. Personality disorders were also very common. I would say the two most common were borderline personality disorder and sociopathic disorder, although this personality disorder is not recognized among the therapy community. Its political, not therapeutic. Therapists don't want to give up on these kids, but there are plenty of sociopathic teens, trust me.`We saw some Tourettes, schizophrenia, lots of Aspergers, and others. Personality disorders were the most difficult since there were no therapy or medications that helped. Eighty percent of our kids went on to live a functional existence, meaning a job and a family. A few went on to college, some became highly successful soldiers. With all the services we had for kids, it cost eighty thousand dollars to send a kid through a year of school. Every kid had therapy, movement therapy, music therapy, art therapy, a psychologist, and a psychiatrist, cottage counselors for resident kids, and a team leader. In spite of all these services, I had seven students that I know of that went on to commit murder. As a rule, we only took kids that could benefit from verbal therapy. We didn't deal with psychotic kids off medication, autism, etc.

A lot of the behaviors that make up the disorders are normal behavior in the commensurate circumstances. It's only a problem in extreme cases or in inappropriate circumstances. For example, separation anxiety is normal for children to experience when they lose sight of a parent or a parent dies. It only becomes a problem when an individual, supposedly independent, finds the feelings interfering with the normal execution of daily life and activities.

The symptoms may seem familiar because we have all experienced many of them in the course of our lives. They just never became problems for us.