BIPOLAR DISORDER CASE 10 ANS no 1 Patients with bipolar disorder may be noncompliant with drug therapy for a number of reasons‚ including denial or failure to believe that they have an emotional disorder ‚reluctance to give up the pleasurable experience of mania‚ and drug side effects. Ego plays a large role - there is a tremendous amount of hubris and grandiosity among bipolars in the early phases of recovery - such an ego recoils at the affront of being told
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Medication used to treat psychiatric conditions are abused by those who have been diagnosed with co-occurring disorders Why is this so common? Non-medical prescription use and prescription drug disorders are also associated with increased frequency of substance use‚ mood‚ and anxiety disorder. (Blanco et al.‚ 2013) Several medications are available and effective in treating anxiety disorders. These include benzodiazepines; Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)‚ Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)
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ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS DSM-IV ADJUSTMENT DISORDERs (SPECIFY if ACUTE/CHRONIC) 309.24 With anxiety 309.0 With depressed mood 309.3 With disturbance of conduct 309.4 With mixed disturbance of emotions and conduct 309.28 With mixed anxiety and depressed mood The essential feature of adjustment disorders is a maladaptive reaction to an identifiable psychosocial stressor that occurs within 3 months of the onset of the stressor. (The reaction to the death of a loved one is not included here‚ as it
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Conduct Disorder Johnny‚ age 10‚ is admitted to the psychiatric unit for evaluation. Following is Johnny’s case history. Erin gave birth to Johnny. She is an unmarried 16-year-old girl who chose to keep Johnny with her and tried to raise him herself. In beginning she lived with her parents and continued her high school after Johnny’s birth. She was very irresponsible‚ had no source of income‚ contributed little to her needs‚ and used to smoke marijuana with her friends. Erin’s parents took Johnny’s
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stay long when he or she grew up as an adult. (Schultz‚ 2008‚ p.62) For example‚ chewing‚ smoking‚ nail-biting are the later fixated behaviors that appeared at adulthood. (Zimbardo‚ Johnson‚ McCann‚ 2008‚ p.448) In a certain period of time‚ the baby has to abandon the initial source of satisfaction if he or she started to wean (Honig‚ Fitzgerald‚ Herb‚ 2001‚ p.262). That could cause a profound effect on the child’s personality in the future. Shergill (2010) stated‚ “If you‚ in the first eight months
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insight‚ I feel women must go for more exercise and value nutritious food to balance the deficiencies. In a tropical country‚ iron deficiencies are more common in women. Anemia is indicated with light color lips and whitish tongue. Blood loss is an example of a high iron deficiency in South Asian females. In a paper‚ 18% of Bangladeshi females suffer iron deficiency due to lack of nutrition. Malnutrition is the reason behind the complication. Iron deficiencies are not only caused due to physiological
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Dissociative Identity Disorder? Paula Stewart suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder. This is a disorder in which an individual dissociates from their mind and has two or more different personalities. After being suggested to see a clinical psychologist at the university attends she meets Dr. Harpin. Dr. Harpin is astonished with the disorder due to its rarity and the fact that he’s never treated a patient with this condition let alone believing it existed. DID is a very difficult disorder to treat
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Muscular Disorders Case Report Case: A mother presents with her 13 y/o son with a history of frequent falls‚ difficulty getting up from a lying or sitting position‚ trouble jumping‚ large calf muscles and poor grades in school. Based on the description and symptoms given‚ the likely diagnosis would be Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy‚ or DMD; although DMD and its symptoms tend to show up at an earlier age but not always. This type of muscular dystrophy is the most common and severe form of
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Personality Thoeries and Dr. John Forbes Nash Jr. Generally‚ one is born‚ cared for‚ and admitted into what we see as society. We all from initial parting begin to shape and mold how we are and who we will become. We are cared for‚ commonly undergo schooling‚ grasp morality and are lead from driving forces‚ both biological and environmental while continuously (till death) evolve into our personalities. Personality may simply be defined as characteristics and/or qualities that form an individual’s
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The records have been reviewed. The subject member is an adolescent male born 07/24/2002‚ who has been diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder‚ generalized anxiety‚ panic disorder‚ social phobia‚ social anxiety‚ anorexia‚ self-injurious behavior. His treating provider‚ Ricardo P. Bayola‚ MD recommended that he be placed in continued adolescent inpatient psychiatric care from 02/11/2016 forward. The carrier has denied coverage of continued adolescent inpatient psychiatric care as not medically necessary
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