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Disorder may refer to
randomness In common usage, randomness is the apparent or actual lack of pattern or predictability in events. A random sequence of events, symbols or steps often has no order and does not follow an intelligible pattern or combination. Individual rand ...
, non-order, or no intelligible pattern. Disorder may also refer to:


Healthcare

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Disorder (medicine) A disease is a particular abnormal condition that negatively affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism, and that is not immediately due to any external injury. Diseases are often known to be medical conditions that a ...
, a functional abnormality or disturbance *
Mental disorder A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. Such features may be persistent, relapsing and remitti ...
or psychological disorder, a psychological pattern associated with distress or disability that occurs in an individual and is not a part of normal development or culture: :*
Anxiety disorder Anxiety disorders are a cluster of mental disorders characterized by significant and uncontrollable feelings of anxiety and fear such that a person's social, occupational, and personal function are significantly impaired. Anxiety may cause phy ...
, different forms of abnormal and pathological fear and anxiety :*
Conversion disorder Conversion disorder (CD), or functional neurologic symptom disorder, is a diagnostic category used in some psychiatric classification systems. It is sometimes applied to patients who present with neurological symptoms, such as numbness, blindnes ...
, neurological symptoms such as numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits, where no neurological explanation is possible :*
Obsessive–compulsive disorder Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental and behavioral disorder in which an individual has intrusive thoughts and/or feels the need to perform certain routines repeatedly to the extent where it induces distress or impairs general ...
, an anxiety disorder characterized by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing anxiety :*
Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) is a cluster C personality disorder marked by an excessive need for orderliness and neatness. Symptoms are usually present by the time a person reaches adulthood, and are visible in a variety ...
, obsession with perfection, rules, and organization :*
Personality disorder Personality disorders (PD) are a class of mental disorders characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience, exhibited across many contexts and deviating from those accepted by the individual's cultu ...
, an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the culture of the individual who exhibits it


Law enforcement

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Civil disorder Civil disorder, also known as civil disturbance, civil unrest, or social unrest is a situation arising from a mass act of civil disobedience (such as a demonstration, riot, strike, or unlawful assembly) in which law enforcement has difficult ...
, 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'' (2009 film), a Chinese documentary * ''Disorder'' (2015 film), a French film


Music

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


Other uses

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


See also

* Chaos *
Order Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood * Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of ...
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