Personality Disorders Paper
PSY 410
October 13, 2011
Brigitte Crowell
Eating, Substance Abuse, Sex/Gender/Sexual, and Personality Disorder paper
The combination of eating, substance abuse, sex/gender/sexual and personality disorders have much in common, the understanding of how genetics, biological, emotional, behavioral, environmental and social learning impact the disorders. Americans suffering from multiple disorders are women and men, with their lives spiraling out of control needing interventions to help the individuals in need. The formula is not simple, but the results can be devastating if the control or coping skills are not put in place to help the individual adapt in society. The earlier the prevention is put in place the individual at risk especially a child can be alleviated by adapting structure positive solutions.
Eating Disorders
Four percent of women in American suffer from eating disorders called anorexia and bulimia the two main components in eating disorders (Hansell & Damour, 2008). The focuses on the disorders are genetic components that involve emotional disorders that equate from depression and obsessive-compulsive anxiety disorders. The thoughts of an individual will adapt is having the control of dieting, purging, exercising and thinking they are overweight or not skinny enough. The self-image is due to society telling individuals to look like models, actors or actress, who tend to make them binge eat and extreme dieting. The actions impact the psychological aspect with anxiety by trying to be perfect. Treatment can be effective when trying psychotherapy, behavioral treatment, and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants. Having the combination of all three interventions can stabilize an individual from relapsing from weight recovery (Hansell & Damour, 2008).
Substance Abuse
Drug abuse is common in America with substance misuse with mental disorders
References: Damour, L., & Hansell, J. (2008). Abnormal psychology (2nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.