Mood Disorders Mood disorders are a disturbance in the emotional state‚ which affects thinking‚ physical symptoms‚ social relationships and behavior. If you have a mood disorder‚ you might feel very happy or very sad for long periods of time for no apparent reason. There are different types of mood disorders including: mania‚ depression‚ bipolar‚ drug induced mood disorders‚ and medically induced mood disorders. When a mood factor pushes a person to one extreme or the other that mood disorders can
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Megan Orcholski November 15‚ 2012 Eating disorders “Approximately 7-10 million women across the country suffer from eating disorders. Most research into these serious disorders has been conducted on females. However‚ as many as a million men may also struggle with the diseases” stated EDAP in 2012. Eating disorders are very serious conditions that cause people distress by obsessing over not gaining weight and intense anxiety about food. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental
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the biological‚ psychodynamic‚ cognitive‚ and behavioral components of anxiety‚ mood/affective‚ and somatoform disorders. Anxiety‚ mood/affective‚ and somatoform disorders have many different components. These disorders while all detracting from normal social interactions and the day to day living of individuals who suffer from them have definitive signs and symptoms. Some of the disorders share similar signs and or symptoms and have varying biological‚ emotional‚ behavioral and cognitive parts. The
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Nicolas‚ Vida Marie C. February 24‚ 2014 IA12116 Prof. Brenda Lansang GENETIC DISORDERS 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome is a disorder caused by the deletion of a small piece of chromosome 22. The deletion occurs near the middle of the chromosome at a location designated q11.2. 22q11.2 deletion syndrome has many possible signs and symptoms that can affect almost any part of the body. The features of this syndrome vary widely‚ even among affected members
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Amnestic Disorder Riddhi Bulsara September 1st 2011 Clinical Asepsis My paper is going to be about Amnestic Disorder. “Amenstic disorder is a group of diorders that involve loss of memories. Previouly established‚ loss of ability to creat new memories‚ or loss of the ability to learn new information”. As defined by the mental health professional ’s handbook‚ the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ‚ fourth edition‚ text revision (2000)‚ also known as DSM-IV-TR. Amnestic Disorder
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ANXIETY * General term for several disorders that cause nervousness‚ fear‚ apprehension‚ and worrying. * Considered to be a normal reaction to a stressor. ANXIETY DISORDER * a blanket term covering several different forms of a type of common psychiatric disorder characterized by excessive rumination‚ worrying‚ uneasiness‚ apprehension and fear about future uncertainties either based on real or imagined events‚ which may affect both physical and psychological health The Common Anxiety
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------------------------------------------------- As many as 19 million Americans million are affected by mood disorders ( The two main types of mood disorders are bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder which are described as disturbances in mood‚ behavior and emotion.“ Bipolar disorder is a complex disorder in which the core feature is pathological disturbance in mood ranging from extreme elation‚ or mania‚ to severe depression usually accompanied by disturbances in thinking and behavior
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Psychological Disorder 1 Psychological Disorder Paper Sonya Surber Nichols PSY450: Diversity and Cultural Factors in Psychology Rockel Etienne September 24‚ 2012 Psychological Disorder 2 In medicine‚ an individual’s physical health is typically classified
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speech assignment #1 Purpose: To inform my fellow classmates about the seriousness of an eating disorder. Thesis: To better inform the class about the seriousness of an eating disorder. Ill be discussing what and eating disorder is‚ why do people develop an eating disorder‚ and how can an eating disorder be treated. Intro: Attention Getter: There are 8 million Americans with an eating disorder; 7 million of them being woman while 1 million of them are. If you are to look at me now you probably
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An eating disorder is a psychological disorder characterized by abnormal or disturbed eating habits. There are different kinds of eating disorders‚ such as anorexia nervosa‚ bulimia nervosa‚ and binge-eating disorder. Anybody can have an eating disorder‚ and there are many factors and causes to having one. Eating disorders are important concerns to society‚ but there can be many solutions to them. There are an increasing number of people with an eating disorder‚ and those who have one have to go
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