PSY 215 Lecture Notes - Mood Disorder, Mental Disorder, Atypical Depression
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A concurrent disorder is someone who has a mental health and substance abuse disorder and is also known as co-occurring disorder, dual and comorbid disorder. They found that by looking at single diagnoses, 15% of population qualified for personality disorder, 11% met criteria for anxiety disorder, 9% mood disorder and 4% alcohol dependence. They wanted to see how many people had a mix of substance abuse and personality disorder; they found higher rates for people who had both than just in individual studies. It is a high likelihood that someone who has a mental disorder will also have a substance disorder and is hard to qualify for treatment and not a lot of people who meet these criteria actually seek treatment. Those with mental illness seem to have higher use of drugs and alcohol use while the rates are lower with people who did not have mental illness next study results.