| Are there any mental and/or health disorders that cause teens/adults to remain child-like in their thinking? Thanks for help. :) I don't mean child like as in stupid or immature brat (sorry for lack of better works). I just mean it as innocent, naive, trusting, etc. Mental Health - 6 Answers Random Answers, Critics, Comments, Opinions : 1 : yes actually there is.i dont know the name of it but my sisters bf has something that causes his mind to act about 17 and he will never mentally mature past that point.he is 28 now and is way behind mentally 2 : to remain very naive and child like you would have to have a very very sheltered over protected life... bit like the Amish 3 : Autism is a developmental disorder that may cause a person to exhibit some of those behaviors (innocent, naive, etc). 4 : Peter pan sydrome. 5 : Yes, there are about 100 different scenarios that are part of social phobias, agoraphobia might be the result of one's inability to socialize on an average level as the general populous, another is a person's conditioning by a parent that this person is just not good enough to be seen in public or that they aren't good enough to be in public,.....there's about a million reasons for a person to remain childlike....when a child is brought up feeling inadequate for many reasons, they can become unable to justify being adequate and therefore act accordingly........sometimes a type of mental retardation can cause this or create this,.....scizophrenia is one such type of illness that could be responsible, deafness could also do it,....dumbness could do it, blindness,....deformaty,..certain types of learning disabilities in speach like.....stuttering, a bad lisp.....a parent being too over-protective......lots of things................ Sometimes a child who is forighn to this country may seem retarded because of an impoverished upbringing may not be able to communicate in english and is therefore limited in thier ability to act as if they have an "on par" communications level.....I copuld go on for ten or more pages but the direct and quick answer is yes. 6 : Dissociative identity disorder does but then we change states as well but I find that having been abused ad dissociated as a child that I was never accepted by schoolmates and never learned how to cope with people so it kept me naiive - further dissociation just keeps this going so I'm 62 (going on 12) Read more discussions :
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Are there any mental and/or health disorders that cause teens/adults to remain child-like in their thinking
