The hypothesis that social anxiety disorder is associated with heightened self-focused attention has a long lineage and is well supported. Within the Clark and Wells (1995) model‚ self-focused attention increases the individuals awareness of interoceptive information that is likely to be taken as a sign that they are about to fail‚ or have failed‚ to convey an acceptable impression to others. In other words‚ individuals with social anxiety attend to their own internal experience‚ monitoring their
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Bipolar Disorder By Elliott Subervi Bipolar Disorder “Bipolar disorder is a condition in which people experience abnormally elevated (manic or hypomanic) and abnormally depressed states for short‚ or significant periods of time; in a way that interferes with functioning .(web‚Md) Bipolar disorder has been estimated to affect more than 5 million Americans—about 3 out of every 100 adults. [2] It affects people without regard to age‚ race‚ ethnicity‚ gender‚ education or occupation. Not everyone
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Mariah Allen University Success Due Date: 9-30-12 Courtney McGinnis Teen Eating Disorders The teenage community today is based on the views and opinions of society. Though this may seem harmless on the outside‚ these opinions have become the poison apple of today’s culture‚ tearing teenagers lives apart. Specifically‚ teenagers are falling to eating disorders due to the pictures and habits in the everyday community. Large billboards of flawless models‚ magazines with dieting tips and get-skinny
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of Bipolar Disorder The concept of a drastic shift in mood being classified as an illness was first described by the French psychiatrist Jean-Pierre Farlet in 1851 (Marmol‚ 2008). Farlet coined the term “Folie Circulaire” to label a disorder characterized by manic and sad episodes separated by symptom-free intervals (Marmol‚ 2008). As time passed‚ the description along with the classification changed‚ altering from an entity on its own to a unified disorder with other mood disorders (Marmol‚ 2008)
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The transition from life at home to college life comes with an immense emotional stress that increases college students’ risk of psychological disorders (Sanker & Cable‚ 2010). Recently‚ mental disorders have seen an increase in the college population (Eisenberg 2016). The cause of these increased incidences have been linked to academic overload‚ overwhelming pressure to succeed‚ financial stresses‚ pressures of future endeavors‚ and academic and social competition among peers (Tosevski‚ Milovancevic
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Zellweger Spectrum Disorder is a group of overlapping symptoms and signs that affect many parts of the body. This group of disorders includes Zellweger syndrome (most severe)‚ neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy (intermediate)‚ and infantile Refsum disease (least severe) because these different groups are so similar doctors prefer to just refer to these disorders as severe‚ intermediate‚ and mild. Symptoms that present themselves throughout the levels of severity include weak muscle tone‚ feeding problems
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An anxiety disorder is a condition that causes an individual to feel frightened‚ distressed and experience negative affect for no valid or apparent reason. Anxiety disorders cause significant discomfort and interfere with normal functioning that can cause long-term impairment in both children and adults. The disorder emerges relatively early and the median age for onset of anxiety is as early as 11 years of age (Kessler et. al‚ 2005). Childhood anxiety disorders are highly heritable and childhood
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Jordan Patane Per. 2 Feb 4th Antisocial Personality Disorder The novel “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote‚ is a nonfiction piece that pursues the Clutter family homicide in Holcomb Kansas‚ while examining and expressing the thoughts of the two murderers. One of the killers Perry Smith is described to have Antisocial Personality Disorder. Capote clearly expresses Perry’s (APD) symptoms‚ such as self appraisal‚ as well as lack of coping mechanisms‚ and impulsivity‚ characterized by his distraught childhood
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describe his mood as depressed‚ but he does not actually have Clinical Depression. Clinical Depression‚ also called Major Depressive Disorder‚ is a serious‚ severe psychological disorder that affects the everyday lives of many individuals. It is actually quite common as “at least 10% of people in the U.S. will experience Major Depressive Disorder at some point in their lives. Two times as many women as men experience Major Depression.” (Levinson & Nichols‚ 2013) Major Depressive Disorder has many
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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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