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PDDs and Anxiety Disorders
In society, there are billions of people within the population; however, out of a handful, there are individuals who differ in developmental circumstances. Anxiety and pervasive developmental disorders are such mental illnesses which greatly decrease the ability to talk with others and match society's standards. While pervasive developmental disorders are lifelong diseases, Anxiety Disorders are fully curable. Nevertheless, both categories of illnesses are severely detrimental and can affect anybody regardless of ethnicity or social status. The government should invest more for the mentally disabled as psychological disorders destroy the lives of its sufferers; therefore, mental disabilities should not be treated as second to physical ailments.
Commonly abbreviated as PDDs, pervasive developmental disorders is a category of mental illnesses represented by impaired ability in social interaction. This includes problems in understanding language and difficulty in empathizing with others. In addition, PDDs not only affect social skills; but contribute to abnormal behavior such as repetitive body movement, and hand flapping. Autism and Rett Syndrome are some of which encompass the classification. Despite mediation and therapy available for alleviation, there is no known cure for PDDs. PDDs stems from childhood, and are lifelong mental illnesses.
The best known of the classification of Pervasive Developmental Disorders is Autism. It is a mental illness which affects ten percent of the world's population. Primarily characterized by lack of social and communicative skills, the symptoms gradually show during early childhood and have a male predominance. It is a severe developmental disability with crucial impact on the normal development of the mind, for it affects parts of the brain that are important for communication. This is demonstrated by Autistic people being unresponsive in social situations which include the lack of body movements...