This memoir was written to bring awareness to the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) through one individual’s personal struggle to overcome and recover for the disorder. “Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a condition characterized by difficulties in regulating emotion. This difficulty leads to severe‚ unstable mood swings‚ impulsivity and instability‚ poor self-image and stormy personal relationships” (NAMI…). Along with unstable emotional investigations‚ the memoir addresses
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Daniela Jordan Health 101 Aaron Detty 4/30/16 Depression Research Paper Approximately 6.7 percent of the American adult population suffer from major depression disorder and around 350 million worldwide‚ making it important for us to be informed of the possible dangers‚ symptoms and treatments involved with this mental disorder. There are different factors that may be a trigger for depression some of which include economic issues‚ divorce‚ death of a loved one and illness. Depression is mistakenly
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a diagnosis of major depressive disorder. What constitutes major depressive disorder is that the client must experience five or more symptoms for at least two-weeks. Although the client displays five symptoms listed in the major depressive disorder section‚ the client has been experiencing the symptoms for five-years instead of two-weeks. The client states that she experience mild depression‚ but does not state that she was diagnosed with major depressive disorder. Therefore‚ the client does not
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ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS DSM-IV ADJUSTMENT DISORDERs (SPECIFY if ACUTE/CHRONIC) 309.24 With anxiety 309.0 With depressed mood 309.3 With disturbance of conduct 309.4 With mixed disturbance of emotions and conduct 309.28 With mixed anxiety and depressed mood The essential feature of adjustment disorders is a maladaptive reaction to an identifiable psychosocial stressor that occurs within 3 months of the onset of the stressor. (The reaction to the death of a loved one is not included here‚ as it
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is an Axis I Anxiety Disorder in the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders–Fourth Edition (DSM-IV). The primary diagnostic criteria are the existence of obsessions or compulsions‚ some degree of recognition of the irrationality of the behavior‚ and significant interference with everyday functioning. This article provides an up-to-date summary of the state of knowledge regarding obsessive-compulsive disorder. The content
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personality disorder is the basis of many circumstances of maladaptive behavior including substance abuse‚ self-harm‚ suicide‚ and criminality. My three points for this paper are the three different types of personality disorder‚ what the causes are‚ and how to get help. There are three different clusters of personality disorders. Cluster A is the odd and eccentric cluster. It includes paranoid personality disorder‚ schizoid personality disorder and schizotypal personality disorders. The most common
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What is a Panic Attack Disorder? A panic attack disorder is a disorder that involves sudden surges of fear‚ often overwhelming surges. The difference between a simple attack and a full-on panic attack disorder is the length of time the symptoms persist and the gravity of the symptoms. Essentially‚ a panic attack disorder disrupts your life and causes you to completely revamp the way in which you go about your daily work‚ home life‚ and social life. A panic disorder is a fairly common condition
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normal to feel stressed out once in a while. People with generalized anxiety disorder experience the feeling of stress to the extreme. “Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). GAD is the most commonly diagnosed anxiety disorder and occurs most frequently in young adults” (Gale‚ 2007‚ p.1). Anxiety has a wide variety of symptoms. In the DSM-5 it states restlessness or feeling
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Orgasmic Disorder September 16‚ 2011 PSY/265 Orgasmic Disorder is a disorder that keeps a man or woman to have the ability to reach orgasm during sex with their partner. I most situations when a man/woman masturbates or engages in oral sex can reach orgasm do to the concentration of clitoris/ head of the vagina/ penis. The reason why a women has a hard time reaching orgasm during penile stimulation is that there isn’t enough clitoris interaction at this time. Men’s orgasmic disorders
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Psychiatric Disorders‚ Diseases‚ and Drugs When you think of a psychological disorder are psychological disease people First Bank of schizophrenia‚ depression‚ mania‚ anxiety disorder‚ and Tourette syndrome. In this paper we will touch on what each disorder or disease‚ as well as the medications they used to help with them and their possible side effects. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that makes it sound that you cannot tell the difference between what Israel and what is make-believe. They
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