Bernal Ben Bates Speech 101 November 6‚ 2012 Eating Disorders General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform the audience of the types of eating disorders‚ what their symptoms are and how they affect our life and health. Central Idea: Eating disorders have gradually risen over the last few years and have taken powerful control of our society. According to NEDA‚ “Today the National Eating Disorders Association [NEDA] released findings from a recently completed survey. The national survey shows
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Cause and Effect – Eating Disorders Eating disorders are becoming an increasingly common issue in North American society. There are three general types of eating disorders anorexia nervosa‚ bulimia‚ and binge eating. It is a shocking fact that girls at the young age of 13 are attempting to lose weight. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. In anorexia alone 20 percent of people will prematurely die from problems related to their disorder‚ for example‚ heart disease
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This type of feeling becomes dangerous when you start to notice changes in a person’s behavior that can harmfully affect them. Building up stress from all these disappointments can lead to mental illnesses such as mood disorders. When changes in mood and behavior affect a person so greatly‚ they can have a mood disorder. Common types of mental illnesses include major depression and bi-polar disorder. Mood disorders‚ also known as affective disorders‚ can be defined as a disturbance of mood that
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"You Are What You Eat" There are many reasons I believe that you are what you eat. When assessing an obese individual you would now that they have a nutritional problem. Likewise when you look at a frail underweight individual they may have a nutritional problem as well. Your health depends on what you eat. Weather an individual is obese‚ underweight‚ recovering from surgery or has a debilitating disease a balanced diet has a significant role in good health. A well balanced diet according to Lutz
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Sohaib Tahir (15-10118) Psychology Presentation Dissociative Amnesia and Fugue‚ Identity disorder Dissociative Amnesia: Dissociative amnesia‚ formerly called psychogenic amnesia‚ is one of a group of conditions called dissociative disorders. Dissociative disorders are mental illnesses that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory‚ mental functions that normally operate smoothly. When one or more of these functions is disrupted‚ symptoms
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Psychological Disorder Analysis October 30‚ 2011 PSY/270 Marla is a 42-year-old Hispanic female who comes to the mental health clinic complaining of having trouble sleeping‚ feeling “jumpy all of the time‚” and experiencing an inability to concentrate. These symptoms cause problems for her at work‚ where she is an accountant. As a psychiatrist I would need to diagnose Marla with the proper disorder‚ explain information about the diagnosis‚ and discuss possible treatments with her. It would be near
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Bipolar Disorder Abstract When many hear the words Bipolar disorder‚ they immediately think someone is borderline psycho. Known originally as manic depression‚ Bipolar Disorder is a mental illness that creates mood swings that affect an individual’s behavior and emotions‚ which can result in a lot of pain. This disorder has two types: Type I and Type II with both having manic and depressive phases in each. These phases are episodes that have symptoms from one extreme
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Running head: POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Natalie Maxwell‚ Robert Sharp‚ Samarra Spears Dr. Neil Stafford PSYC 540: Research Methodology December 12‚ 2010 Outline: Natalie- Post-traumatic stress disorders following disasters: a systematic review Natalie-The epidemiology of post-traumatic stress disorders after disasters Samarra- Samarra- Robert- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Post-traumatic stress disorders following disasters: a systematic review
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Childhood Disorders Autism and Children Abnormal Psychology Professor Bruce Cameron July 22‚ 2007 Abstract: Autism is a brain development disorder that is found in children usually before the age of three. Autism affects children and their “social interactions‚ impaired communication‚ and restricted and repetitive behavior.” (www.wikipedia.org) The number of children that have been diagnosed with autism is dramatically increasing. Boys are four times more likely than girls to be
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emotions such as falling in love‚ grief‚ excitement‚ nervousness‚ and so on. But‚ the main character with the mood/anxiety disorder would be his good friend Jenny. Jenny had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) which is a life threatening‚ debilitating disorder that can break down a sufferer’s body through anxiety and stress. Further it poses a significant suicide risk resulting from the brains neurological imbalance and chemical depression. Sufferers often live in denial‚ thus this community is aimed
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