This is a case study of Sarah‚ a 39 year old female who presented at the emergency department with her husband‚ who is worried about her recent behaviour. She is showing classic signs of Hypomania‚ which is commonly associated with Bipolar Disorder. Hypomania has distinguishing features and can be displayed with high energy levels‚ positive mood‚ irritability‚ inappropriate behaviour‚ heightened creativity and mystical experiences (Athanasos 2009). Bipolar Disorder sufferers not only experience highs
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individuals with eating disorders get help early on during the disorder there is a high success rate of long-term recovery. Sarah is part of one the highest rated risk groups for eating disorders. People between the ages of ten to twenty-five are at the most risk for developing an eating disorder. Sarah is entering her teenage years and is encountering a lot of changes with her boy and her emotions. Eating disorders are also usually referred to as female diseases. Eating disorders are not limited to
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Psychological Disorder: A syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition‚ emotion regulation‚ or behavior. Consider the definition above‚ explain what is meant by clinically significant. Break the definition into smaller parts for your explanation. Disturbance: Disturbed‚ or even dysfunctional behaviors of this disorder is maladaptive; meaning they often interfere with a normal day to day life. This clinical significance of thought and emotion is also used as
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Depressive Disorder Jane a 29 year old lady has reported cases of feeling sad all day‚ accompanied by daily crying spells in her day. She also reported cases of distressed and disturbed sleeping patterns where she would experience insomnia in some days. Her sleeping patterns included cases of difficulty in falling asleep where she would spend several hours trying to fall asleep. Other times Jane could not fall asleep at all‚ and if she did‚ it was only for very few hours. All this time was spent
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anxiety disorder is one of the behavioral health disorders which induce from stress. Anxiety disorder is a severe mental health issue which can lead to other related mental health illnesses‚ such as depression‚ bipolar disorder‚ and substance disorders. This problem is a serious issue that matter to her because she had involved with several national mental health policies and she believes that only increase the accessibility of physical health care can resolve the large amount of anxiety disorder on homeless
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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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In the three scenarios given in the text‚ there are examples of three signs of different blood disorders. Each of these three people shows symptoms of being at risk for a type of blood disorder. The first scenario: Amy‚ a 4-old Caucasian female‚ has been complaining of being tired all the time. She is pale and a picky eater. Her mother is a single mom with a small budget to feed a large family. Amy only eats pasta‚ breads‚ and hot dogs‚ and drinks only artificial fruit punch (Axia College‚ 2011‚
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The hypothesis that social anxiety disorder is associated with heightened self-focused attention has a long lineage and is well supported. Within the Clark and Wells (1995) model‚ self-focused attention increases the individuals awareness of interoceptive information that is likely to be taken as a sign that they are about to fail‚ or have failed‚ to convey an acceptable impression to others. In other words‚ individuals with social anxiety attend to their own internal experience‚ monitoring their
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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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Gastrointestinal Disorder Case Study T.B‚ a 60yo retiree‚ is admitted to your unit from the ED. Upon arrival you note that he is trembling and nearly doubled over with severe abdominal pain. T.B. indicates that he has severe RUQ (right upper quadrant) pain that radiates to his back‚ and he is more comfortable walking bent forward than lying in bed. He admits to having had several similar bouts of abdominal pain in the last month but “none as bad as this.” He feels only slightly nauseated but
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