Hyperaffective disorder

This is based on the novel, Everyone I Know is Mentally Ill, written by Davidoko99.
Not to be confused with emotiopathy
Hyperaffective disorder (HAD), also called hyperemotionality or informally, the moody ills or hysteria, is an emotional disorder and, in severe cases, a personality disorder, characterized by abnormal or age-inappropriate display of emotion (affect). Such affect must be exaggerated in relation to an emotion-provoking experience. It is listed in the Azhri Registry of Mental and Psychical Abnormalities as an affective disorder, an emotional abnormality, and an abnormality of behavior, causing distress and grave dishonour to society.
==History of the diagnosis of HAD==
The Azhreii people believe that there is a normal and honourable manner of behavior, and all other manners are abnormal and suggestive of mental illness. According to the Azhreii, expressing intense emotions such as wrath, depression, joy, anxiety, exhilaration, or love in public is mentally abnormal. In fact, Uie, a prestigious psychiatrist in Azhr wrote that "the people of our nation realize that showing everyone their deepest feelings and exhibiting for them the movements of their soul is dishonourable and only hysterics and maniacs in such way bring shame to themselves." Thus, he established the diagnosis of hyperaffective disorder for "those persons who are just, by their nature, incapable of controlling their displays of emotions and by that do create psychological melodrama."
==Diagnosing HAD==
Because hyperaffective disorder is considered an emotional disorder, psychiatrists examine the patient for any of these "abnormal" behaviors:
*laughing very loudly or obnoxiously for more than a minute
*crying in public, excluding bereaved melancholia
*excessively throwing temper tantrums
*shouting for joy over trivial accomplishments
*crying after failure
*attacking people in anger, especially parents beating their children --- News: Disciplining your children is now a sign that you are mentally ill (according to the Supreme Council on Family Psychology).
*screaming, yelling, or shouting in rage
*destroying or tampering with property, if done during an emotional outburst
*expressing emotion in any other way determined by psychiatrists to bring shame and dishonour to the patient or a relative of the patient or general society
==Treatment==
Treatments for HAD typically involve talk therapy where a psychiatrist will discuss a patient's exaggerated emotional affects with him or her and inform him or her that such affects are abnormal and unnecessary. Emotioactive medicines may also be administered to patients deemed to have severe HAD.
==Mental illness controversy==
There is an intense controversy throughout the book, Everyone I Know is Mentally Ill, about whether hyperaffective disorder is really a mental disorder or simply a name for scorned personality traits and emotions. The Uieseii who agree with Uie believe that HAD is in fact an extremely severe psychiatric disorder that must be treated before it spreads throughout the human race and weakens the minds of earthly inhabitants. Others believe that no emotion or expression thereof is really normal, but instead that all emotions are unique and personal subjective experiences.
Category:Terran psychiatry
Category:Psychiatric disorders in Terra