Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is the most common eating disorder in the worldwide. The disorder impacts people of all ages including children and adolescents‚ races‚ and levels of education and income. People don’t even do moderate level of exercise‚ do not avoid eating food‚ and keep piling fats in their body thus number of unhealthy people are rising every day. As these people tend to be disgusted by their bodies and distraught about their overeating. People with binge eating disorder are frequently
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Is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy effective in the treatment Eating Disorder? Introduction Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is the recommended choice of treatment for people suffering eating disorders (NICE 2004). However‚ there is growing and mountain concerns that there is lack of clinical trail to prove the efficacy of CBT in treating eating disorders. Therefore‚ what this review aims to achieve is to examine and explore what studies and literature has been made available in this field and to
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IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS Many of the self-control disorders involve disturbances in the ability to regulate an impulse - an urge to act. People with impulse control disorders act on certain impulses involving some potentially harmful behavior that they cannot resist. Impulsive behavior in and of itself is not necessarily harmful; in fact‚ we all act impulsively upon occasion. Usually our impulsive acts have no ill effects‚ but in some instances they may involve risk. Consider the following
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OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DI SORDER Oppositional Defiant Disorder - a psychiatric disorder characterized by aggressiveness and a tendency to purposefully annoy others. ODD and other conduct disorders are listed
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Major Depressive Disorder or MDD is a very common clinical condition that affects millions of people every year. According to the Agency for Health Care Policy & Research‚ " depression is under diagnosed & untreated by most medical doctors‚ despite the fact that it can almost always be treated successfully. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders‚ Fourth Edition (DSM-IV); A person who suffers from this disorder must have a depressed mood‚ or have lost interest in
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ever imagined of that feeling and being able to feel it all day every day? That’s what happens when you have Paranoid Personality Disorder. It’s not that they feel like a monster might get them‚ its ordinary people like you and me. What exactly is Paranoid Personality Disorder‚ you ask? Paranoid Personality Disorder‚ or PPD for short‚ is a type of an anxiety disorder. PPD makes a person believe that everyone they know and don’t know is out to get them just like that monster in the horror movie
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Gina Gerdik 12/16/06 Psychology Paper Period 9 Dissociative Identity Disorder Dissociative Identity Disorder is a severe psychological disorder characterized by at least two or more distinct personalities or different identities. The different personality states are said to occur spontaneously and involuntarily and function more or less independently of each other. The person suffering from the disorder also experiences memory loss that is too extensive
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Recently (2011) a paper was published by Christopher J. Johnson et al who discovered species of lichen that effectively degrade PrPC and PrPSC in vitro. By mixing infected and control brain homogenates with lichen extracts‚ they showed significantly reduced immunoreactivity
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This research paper consists of a mood disorder named Seasonal Affective Disorder associated with depression. Dr. Norman E. Rosenthal and his associates at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) discovered Seasonal Affective Disorder in the 1980’s. Recently‚ according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV and DSM-5 states that its status was changed. It’s no longer classified as a unique mood disorder but now its more specific such as seasonal patterns for recurrent
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personality disorder is a disorder characterized by mistrust and suspicion. It is a very unusual disorder that has barely been researched; thus‚ it is not understood very well. However‚ it can sometimes be treated with psychotherapy. Paranoid personality disorder has been characterized by “Mr. Queeg”‚ who has had several complications regarding his disorder. People like Queeg are often regarded as “crazy” and “unacceptable” to people who don ’t understand. I think that this is an eye-opening disorder which
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