DSM-IV TR Diagnostic Criteria for Social Phobia A. Marked and Persistent Fear: Marked or persistent fear of one or more social or performance situations in which the person is exposed to unfamiliar people or to possible scrutiny by others. The individual fears that he or she will act in a way (or show anxiety symptoms) that will be humiliating or embarrassing. B. Anxiety Response : Exposure to the feared social situation almost "invariably provokes anxiety‚ which may take the form of
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reality. Rex has been drinking since he was a teenager. He is a prime example of an everyday drunk who takes any opportunity to get alcohol. I think the reason he became a drunk was because of his mother. She was probably abusing him sexually as a child .He never went to a therapist to talk about the abuse so he doesn’t know how to cope with it. He just turns to alcohol to forget about what he had to deal with at home. Jeanette and her siblings used to look to their father‚ but as they got older they
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Affecting Alcohol Abuse and Addiction among Teens in the US Name University Course Tutor Date Factors Affecting Alcohol abuse and addiction Among Teens in the US Alcohol abuse and addiction has become a very rampant phenomenon among the youths in the US especially in the recent past. Many youthful individuals in the US consume alcohol‚ this being despite the fact that the minimum legal age of drinking age has been set at 21 (Shaffer‚ LaPlante‚ & Nelson‚ 2012). Alcohol abuse may take
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Most of the gadgets that makes our life easier have a computer. Some people says‚ its a great relieve that their work are much easier with the aid of computers. Other people taught that being too dependent to computers has a consequential negative outcome to mankind. In this essay‚ I will discuss the arguments for and against using computers. Firstly‚ computers are widely being used in different work field. Example of it‚ in airline industry‚ one of the most important component is computer
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introduce you to pros and cons of drinking. It will also give you a clear understanding in why you shouldn’t drink alcohol. Alcohol is a depressant; it impairs your ability to drive‚ slows down your reaction time and causes you to make some risky decisions that you wouldn’t normally take. This essay will also help you comprehend how and why things happen‚ because of alcohol. Alcoholism can kill in many different ways‚ and in general‚ people who drink regularly have a higher rate of deaths from injury
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“Alcoholism has emerged in our time as a unique and highly specific illness. Yet it is a problem that dates from the beginnings of civilization‚ a subject that has been discussed and pondered as one of the great issues of human life” (Dorris 1). Alcoholism not only affects the addicted‚ but those around them as well. The alcohol addict can be male or female‚ adult or child‚ and almost no family in the United States today goes completely untouched by its affects. In order to understand the effects
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) Introduction It sounds simple: women who drink excessively while pregnant are at high risk for giving birth to children with birth defects. Therefore‚ to prevent these defects‚ women should stop drinking alcohol during all phases of pregnancy. Alternatively‚ women who drink alcohol should not become pregnant unless and until they can control their drinking. More than 20 years ago‚ when fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) was first described in the published medical literature
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Alcoholism addiction What is alcoholism? Alcoholism is when you abuse alcohol‚ you continue to drink even though you know your drinking is causing problems. If you continue to abuse alcohol‚ it can lead to alcohol dependence. Alcohol dependence is also called alcoholism. You are physically or mentally addicted to alcohol. You have a strong need‚ or craving‚ to drink. You feel like you must drink just to get by. For more than millions of people have been affected by an addict that destroyed their
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era and took bold action during these times that eventually led to the creation of modern American presidency and an American superpower. To continue‚ TR and FDR differed in their approach and intentions toward big-business. While both personally despised big business men‚ each had a different approach for dealing with them. While in office‚ TR became a "trust buster" and broke up approximately 40 monopolies. He wanted to bring down big businesses in order to restore and balance the control of monopolies
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5 percent of global income is made up of 40% of the world’s population.. In the memoir‚ The Glass Castle‚ one of the Walls family main problem is the father of the family. In the book the main character‚ Jeannette Walls always explains her dad’s alcohol problem. It gets so bad that for her birthday gift she asked him to get sober. He also gets very angry‚ violent‚ and isolated. Fiction needs to be included in the curriculum because fiction brings people in a different world‚ a better world‚ and being
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