Disorder

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Disorder may refer to randomness, a lack of intelligible pattern, or:

Healthcare

  • Disorder (medicine), a functional abnormality or disturbance
  • Mental disorder or psychological disorder, a psychological pattern associated with distress or disability that occurs in a person and is not a part of normal development or culture:
  • Anxiety disorder, different forms of abnormal and pathological fear and anxiety
  • Conversion disorder, neurological symptoms such as numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits, where no neurological explanation is possible
  • Obsessive–compulsive disorder, an anxiety disorder characterized by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing anxiety
  • Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder, obsession with perfection, rules, and organization
  • Personality disorder, an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the culture of the person who exhibits it

Law enforcement

  • Civil disorder, one or more forms of disturbance caused by a group of people
  • Lawlessness, a lack of laws or law enforcement

Science

  • Crystallographic disorder, disordered atom locations in crystals
  • Order and disorder

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

  • Disorder (1962 film), a film by Franco Brusati
  • Disorder (2006 film), a psychological thriller by Jack Thomas Smith
  • Disorder (2009 film), a Chinese documentary
  • Disorder (2015 film), a French film

Music

  • "Disorder", a song by Joy Division from the 1979 album Unknown Pleasures
  • Disorder (EP), an EP by Front Line Assembly
  • Disorder, a Bristol-based hardcore punk band
  • Disorder (album), an album by The Gazette

Mail order

  • Dis-order, the mail order service of Displeased Records

See also

  • Chaos
  • Order
Topics referred to by the same term
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