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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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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Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder‚ also known as manic–depressive disorder‚ is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated energy levels‚ cognition‚ and mood. These moods are clinically referred to as mania or‚ if milder‚ hypomania. Individuals who experience manic episodes also commonly experience depressive episodes or symptoms‚ or mixed episodes in which features of both mania and depression are present
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Delusional disorders account for one of the most common types of psychological disorders that exist in the world today. Studies suggest that this disorder accounts for 1% to 2% of admissions to inpatient mental health facilities in the world. Delusional disorders can be defined as the‚ “the presence of one or more non-bizarre delusions that persist for at least 1 month”. The non-bizarre delusions are considered to be plausible which means that the person’s theory could actually occur a small proportion
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Psychological Disorder Paper Psy/450 University of Phoenix Amanda Kettinger 3 July 2010 Psychological Disorder Many mental disorders vary from person to person and in its on severity. All disorders have both a physical and psychological components. Abnormal behavior is difficult to define. Behavior may also be evaluated by whether it conforms to social rules and cultural norms‚ an approach that avoids reproachful nonconformists as irregular for behavior that‚ although strange‚ may
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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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WHAT IS MENTAL DISORDER? Distinguishing "normal" from "abnormal" is no simple task. Three classic symptoms suggest severe mental disorder: hallucinations‚ delusions‚ and extreme affective disturbances. Hallucinations are false sensory experiences‚ such as hearing nonexistent voices. Delusions are extreme disorders of thinking that involve persistent false beliefs. If you think you are the President of the United States (and you are not)‚ you have a symptom of psychopathology. Similarly‚ those whose
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Introduction Exhibitionistic Disorder is a person who exposes his or her genitals during inappropriate situations and derives sexual pleasure from it. This disorder has been characterized as a Paraphilic Disorder: a disorder that involves abnormal‚ extreme‚ or dangerous sexual desires or activities. Society often rejects exhibitionists; employment becomes difficult‚ labels and terms are put on people who suffer from this such as “flashers” or “perverts”‚ and it can become a challenge for exhibitionists
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