Borderline personality disorder is a condition in which people have long-term pattern of emotional instability; it includes feelings about themselves and others. This disorder is considered a reflection of a crucial aspect of a person’s character that influences his or her way of seeing and also of how they are being seen in the world. People who have been diagnosed with personality disorders are continuously struggling to cope with the world‚ their social and personal relationships‚ and their ability
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Abstract This paper explores four published sources that report on the ways in which society has resorted to misdiagnosing today’s male youth with Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as a way to stop undesirable childhood behavior that is otherwise normal. The article takes into consideration possible factors that may contribute to the increasing amount of misdiagnoses among children today. With studies conducted in the articles by Ilina Singh (2005) and Lydia Furman (2005)‚ the authors
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What is communication? Interactive nature: it is a give and take process‚ conveying and receiving thoughts and ideas (exchange of verbal and nonverbal between speaker and listener) Sociolinguistics: cultural identity‚ setting‚ participants‚ context‚ social‚ and environmental factors (study of social language) Language: “A socially shared code or conventional system for representing concepts through the use of arbitrary symbols and a rule governed combination of those symbols” ----Language (ability
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#include<stdio.h> #include<conio.h> #include<process.h> #include<string.h> #include<ctype.h> #define max 30 struct stack { char opstack[max]; int tos; }; void push(struct stack *‚char); char pop(struct stack *); int prece(char ); void main() { int i‚j=0‚k‚l; char ch‚infix[max]‚ postfix[max]; stack pq; pq.tos=-1; A: clrscr(); printf("\nEnter the infix string:\t"); gets(infix); for(i=0;infix[i]!=’\0’;i++) { if (infix[i]==’(’) push(&pq
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of self hatred develop from the depressive’s thoughts about unresolved conflicts which have often been repressed to the unconscious. Psychoanalytic explanations find it especially difficult to explain the cyclical nature of bipolar disorder‚ and mood disorders such as SAD and post natal depression; they only seem to have an explanation for depression. Melanie Klein‚ a post Freudian‚ claims that whether an individual loses his or her self esteem depends on the quality of the individual’s relationship
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Design of a Polystyrene Plant for Differing Single-Pass Conversions November 25‚ 2013 Introduction Polystyrene is one of the most widely used plastics‚ with applications ranging from food packaging to appliances to manufacturing (Maier). On an industrial scale‚ polystyrene is derived from its monomer‚ styrene. This is achieved by free-radical polymerization of a solution of monomer‚ polymer‚ and initiator. This reaction is a multistep radical reaction that
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Introduction Bipolar disorder is a disorder associated with episodes of mood swings going from depressive lows to manic highs. There is a controversy with bipolar disorder in youth causing difficulty in diagnosing. However‚ bipolar disorder is considered to be a repetitive familial disorder that occurs in 1-3% of youth‚ but mainly in adolescents prevalence “ The prevalence of the Bp spectrum disorders in youth is on average 1.8% and for Bp-1 1.2% with rates of BP-1 being consistent amoung most
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According to the American Psychiatric Association DSM-5 (2013)‚ Andrea fits the criteria for a diagnosis of binge-eating disorder (BED). She eats larger amounts of food than most people would eat within a time period and feels lack of control about her eating. She eats until she is uncomfortable‚ sometimes to the point where she is in pain. Andrea also reports eating she is not hungry‚ eating alone because of shame and feeling guilt or disgust with herself over the eating binges. There is distress
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Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)‚ or otherwise known as Major Depression‚ is a serious mood/mental disorder that drastically affects one’s life resulting in loss of interest‚ changes in diet‚ increase in irritability‚ and drop in mood. Major Depressive Disorder affects about 6.7% of the population of the United States over the age of 18. Although‚ MDD is common mostly in adults‚ it also affects teens and children. The main symptom of depression is a described as a sad or gloomy mood that doesn’t seem
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INTRODUCTION: Dissociative identity disorder (DID)‚ also known as multiple personality disorder (MPD)‚ is a disorder that is part of a group of conditions known as dissociative disorders. According to WebMD‚ dissociative disorders "are mental illnesses that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory‚ awareness‚ identity and/or perception." Individuals who suffer from DID possess two or more personalities‚ and they may be unaware that they have multiple personalities. This particular mental
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