Consider how writers of the period explore ideas of dual or multiple personality. As far back as the 1800s‚ multiple personality disorder has been discussed in many writings of this period. Multiple personality disorder has become known as a severe mental disorder. It has been defined in the Ghana medical journal (2004) as‚ ‘a condition in which the patient shows multiple identities as if he possesses two or more selves at different times in the same body.’ The distinct identities have its own
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Major Depressive Disorder What is major depressive disorder? According to the DSM library‚ the symptoms of major depressive disorder can include: a depressed mood more often than not (this mood can include hopelessness‚ emptiness‚ etc.)‚ diminishes pleasure or interest in daily activity‚ unintended weight loss or weight gain‚ fatigue‚ insomnia or hypersomnia‚ and thoughts of death. Risk factors for major depressive disorder can include: a neurotic attitude‚ difficult childhood experiences‚ genetic
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SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a mood disorder where people have normal mental health throughout most of the year‚ but experience depressive symptoms in the winter or summer. Seasonal Affective Disorder is often diagnosed inaccurately in doctor’s offices. But‚ thorough personalized details of the symptoms can help a patient be diagnosed properly. There have been new studies that link SAD to other conditions such as alcoholism or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
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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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My idea for feature story 3 is to discuss seasonal affective disorder and how this affects the holiday season. Seasonal affective disorder‚ or SAD‚ is a type of depression that’s related to changes in seasons. Furthermore‚ I want to mention the possible stressors that can trigger these people to become sad or uninterested in the holiday season. Most people with SAD have symptoms beginning in the fall and continue into the winter months‚ sapping their energy and making them feel moody.‚ but does
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Mental disorders are often negatively portrayed in the media. Syndromes are misrepresented or represented in a harmful‚ stereotypical fashion which gives an unfavorable and inaccurate understanding of the disorder to the general public. Misunderstanding is perpetuated by stigma regarding mental health issues. Stigma in the media cause individuals with mental disorders‚ such as depression‚ to feel a sense of shame in regards to their mental state of health. This shame prevents these individuals from
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Ngoc (Lily) Le Abnormal Psychology Case Study #3 – Mood Disorders 29 May 2014 1. The different mood disorders that we explored together as a class are as following: depressive disorders and bipolar disorders. (I didn’t factor suicide into this.) Going into further detail‚ depressive disorders are the clarified grouping of individuals who have been identified to have unipolar depression. Having unipolar depression is when that same individual is in a mental state of depression without having shown
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anxiety disorder (GAD). Those were the psychotherapy and medication. In psychotherapy‚ there are several methods of treating the patience with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Among those methods are: Psychological counseling : • For the counseling session‚ the counselors will advise the patient to learn from the basic method of treating generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) which is learning how to keep calm quickly. This is because most of the people with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) does
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a condition that becomes apparent in some children in the preschool and early school years. It is hard for these children to control their behavior and/or pay attention. The principal characteristics of ADHD are inattention‚ hyperactivity‚ and impulsivity. These symptoms appear early in a child’s life. Because many normal children may have these symptoms‚ but at a low level‚ or the symptoms may be caused by another disorder‚ it is important that the child
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Thomas Hotte Ms. Boyd Personality profile Period 3 The article on Cancer fits me for the most part. It says my positive traits are “loyal‚ dependable‚ caring‚ adaptable‚ and responsive.” A cancer is a very complex person when it comes to independence. They’re very contradicting and they’re independence has to
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