Criteria Conversion disorder is classified as a conversion disorder or a dissociative disorder depending on the diagnostic criteria used. The DSM-5 classifies conversion disorder as a somatoform disorder‚ whereas the 10th edition of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) classifies conversion disorder as a dissociative disorder. With the publication of the DSM-5 in 2013‚ the association between somatoform and dissociative disorders was acknowledged
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Paula Bernal Ben Bates Speech 101 November 6‚ 2012 Eating Disorders General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform the audience of the types of eating disorders‚ what their symptoms are and how they affect our life and health. Central Idea: Eating disorders have gradually risen over the last few years and have taken powerful control of our society. According to NEDA‚ “Today the National Eating Disorders Association [NEDA] released findings from a recently completed survey. The national
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Second Draft ENG101 Human Interest Essay 11.04.2013 Eating Disorders It seems like every little girl dreams of becoming a model. They want to be thin and pretty like the models they see on television and in magazines. Often the desire becomes an obsession and young girls see "thinness" as being a needed characteristic. For many girls‚ the teenage years are spent trying to acquire this look. Females are trying diets and are exercising like it is a competition to see who can lose the
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Anxiety Disorder Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress and can actually be beneficial in some situations. Anxiety is also a normal human emotion that everyone experiences at times. Many people feel anxious‚ or nervous‚ when faced with a problem at work‚ before taking a test‚ or making an important decision. For some people‚ however‚ anxiety can become excessive. While the person suffering may realize their anxiety is too much‚ they may also have difficulty controlling it and it may negatively
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1. Introduction to Anxiety Disorders Anxiety is a common and essential process of daily life. It is highly important‚ evolutionary speaking‚ as people typically experience anxiety when faced with environmental threats such as encountering a lion (not so common a concern in modern society for most people)‚ scarcity of food or other resources‚ or acceptance among one’s peers and society at large. This anxiety orients the individual toward anticipating dangers‚ motivates the person to act in order
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Effects of Eating Disorders Angela Thibodeau Life Span Development for the Health Professions February 05‚ 2015 Professor Rebecca Ramirez Abstract Society is sending a message to young women and men that in order to be beautiful and succesful then you have to be skinny. This notion of losing weight at all costs is causing eating disorders. The effects of eating unhealthy can be deadly. This paper explores the unhealthy effects of eating disorders. The Unhealthy Effects of Eating Disorders Have you ever
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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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PSYA4 : Schizophrenia :Outline and Evaluation points for use with each section 1. Clinical characteristics- this part only requires you to know symptoms(so no evaluation) You need to know: Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterised by a split between thinking and emotion. How long symptoms need to last for someone to be diagnosed(the DSM and ICD have different times) How many positive and negative symptoms someone needs to be diagnosed and a few examples of each Two sub-types of Schizophrenia
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There are many types of eating disorders. We are most familiar with the three major disorders Anorexia Nervosa‚ Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder. However‚ there are many minor disorders effecting millions of people like Prader–Willi Syndrome and Night Eating Syndrome. Anorexia Nervosa: A potentially dangerous and life threatening disease characterized by a person’s fear of gaining weight therefore resorting to self–starvation and excessive weight loss. Anorexia typical appears in girls
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Eating Disorders Eating disorders are sweeping this country and are rampant on junior high‚ high school‚ and college campuses. These disorders are often referred to as the Deadly Diet‚ but are often known by their more popular names: anorexia or bulimia. They affect more than 20% of females between the age of thirteen and forty. It is very rare for a young female not to know of someone with an eating disorder. Statistics show that at least one in five young women have a serious problem with
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