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| Adjustment Disorder Basics |  Main Types of Adjustment Disorders
• Adjustment disorder with depressed mood;
• Adjustment disorder with anxiety;
• Adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood;
• Adjustment disorder with disturbance of conduct;
• Adjustment disorder with mixed disturbance of emotions and conduct;
• Adjustment disorder unspecified.
Characteristics of a Person with Adjustment Disorder
A person with adjustment disorder frequently experiences feelings of depression or nervousness or combined depression and anxiety. Consequently, that person may do something out behaviorally in opposition to the "rules and regulations" of family, work, and society. An adjustment disorder may manifest itself in such behaviors as skipping school, unexpected fighting, wildness, or legal problems in some people. On the other hand there are people that may tend to withdraw socially and isolate themselves during their adjustment problems instead of acting out. Still others may not suspect behavioral disturbances, but will start suffering from physical illness. If a person is already suffering from a medical illness, his or her state may get worse during the time of the adjustment disorder. People in the middle of adjustment disorders frequently do inadequately in school or at work. Frequently they begin to have more difficulty in their close, personal relationships.
Adjustment Disorder Signs
1. An individual with an adjustment disorder with depressed mood may have characteristically a depressed mood, bad feelings, and crying spells.
2. A person with an adjustment disorder with anxiety may feel anxious, nervous, and worried.
3. Somebody with an adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood would, clearly, have both anxious and depressed feelings.
4. An individual with an adjustment disorder with disturbance of conduct may behave unsuitably and act out against society.
5. A person with an adjustment disorder with mixed disturbance of emotions and conduct would have a mixture of emotional and conduct problems.
Usually people are interested if adjustment disorders mostly affect males or females. In reality there is no definite answer as the same number of males and females experience the different adjustment disorders. No matter it is a child, teen or an adult, adjustment disorders can happen at any age. But people are predominantly vulnerable during normal transitional periods such as adolescence, mid-life, and late life.
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