Alex Barbour Mary Crocker Cook Abnormal Psychology The effects of substance abuse on Dissociative Identity Disorder “For a variety of reasons there has been little dialogue among the disciplines that study patients with trauma and those that study and treat substance abuse. Little systematic investigation exists on the treatment of DID in general‚ and substance abuse in DID in particular” (1). Dissociative Identity Disorder is defined in Essentials of Abnormal Psychology as “a disorder
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Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder (Manic Depression/ Bipolar Affective Disorder) is a mental health problem in which the human mind goes back and forth between periods of good and bad moods or depression. The causes of the illness is yet unknown‚ but occurs usually between the ages of 15-25 and more often in family members. According to the A.D.A.M Medical Encyclopedia there are several types of bipolar disorder.People with bipolar disorder type I have had at least one manic episode and periods
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been drug-free for 2 years prior to the study. They also had no history of any other drug abuse. 6. What was the control group? Healthy controls‚ subjects with a marijuana use disorder‚ participants with schizophrenia with no history of substance use disorders‚ and schizophrenia subjects with a marijuana use disorder. 7. What did the researcher measure? The researchers measured the link between brain functions and marijuana usage. They also measure the long term affects marijuana
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the bad points only‚ abnormal behaviour isn’t always undesirable e.g. being better at sports‚ genius’s. Using statistical infrequency means we are unable to distinguish the good and bad abnormalities. 2) The diagnostic term for the patient is schizophrenia the doctor will evaluate the patient and ask about symptoms‚ medical history‚ and see if theres anything physically wrong with the patient. There are no tests to identify mental illnesses‚ the doctor would send the patient for tests to rule out
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Exploring Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a serious brain disorder. It is a disease that makes it difficult for a person to tell the difference between real and unreal experience‚ to think logically‚ to have normal emotional responses to others‚ and to behave normally in social situations. (Landau‚ 2004) Approximately one percent of the population develops schizophrenia during their lifetime‚ and more than two million Americans suffer from the illness in a given year. (Lundy‚ 1990). Schizophrenia
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“Why Mental Illness Should Be Better Taught In Schools” How well is mental illness taught in school? Not well enough considering how many teens suffer from mental illness. According to a teen mental health website‚ ¨The statistics are staggering‚ 1 in 5 young people suffer from a mental illness‚ that’s 20 percent of our population but yet only about 4 percent of the total health care budget is spent on our mental health” (TeenMentalHealth.org). No money or time is being spent on the importance of
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relationship between mental illness and violence is something of a fascination. The fascination grows even stronger when an individual committing violent behavior also has a diagnosis of Schizophrenia. If the violent behavior is criminal—well‚ the public will happily lap up stories of individuals with Schizophrenia assaulting ordinary people or resisting arrest. In the Harvard Mental Health Letter (2011)‚ the public perception of mental illness and violence is clearly illustrated: Public
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treatment and care this inmate was still considered a danger to himself and others. He got a lethal injection ending his life (McLellan‚ 2004). If this man would have been the proper care by the jail they would have been able to keep his paranoid schizophrenia in check. It was not right to end this man’s life because he committed a crime because of his mental illness‚ and then not give him a proper treatment to control his illness. Treatment in Prison In prison‚ it is common to find an inmate
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for in the hospital. AMHP’s are mental health professionals who have specialist training in mental health assessment and legislation (Barcham‚ C (2008) The first patient to be reviewed was Sarah‚ a thirty two year old female who suffered from schizophrenia. Sarah was an informal patient who had agreed to be admitted into hospital to be treated. As an informal patient Sarah has the same rights as a person being treated with a physical illness (NHS‚ (2010) meaning Sarah had the freedom of choice to
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Macbeth’s tragic downfall into insanity could be modernly diagnosed as the mental disorder schizophrenia. Many of the actions carried out by Macbeth during the play lead the reader to believe that Macbeth is crazy. However‚ by today’s medical standards‚ Macbeth falls into several of the categories under the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is defined as‚ "a psychotic disorder characterized by loss of contact with the environment‚ by noticeable deterioration in the level of functioning in
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