According to Susan Baur, hypochondria is an obsession with one’s health or constant feeling as if one is always sick, either physically or mentally. The intensity of these concerns disrupts normal living habits and is disproportionate to any medical problems that might actually exist. She hypothesizes that hypochondria is “the perfect solution to this common predicament, for being ill- either as a child, wife, husband, employee, or in law- the vulnerable person simultaneously obtains the protection and attention he craves, excuses his excessive dependence, binds his protector to him” (Baur 5).…
The patient seems to be of a kind and considerate nature, which only makes her fears and paranoia worse. She appears to be making her paranoia worse by concerning over fictitious threats to another's…
While there are differences between trichotillomania and OCD, the DSM-5 moves the disorder to the same classification family of Obsessive-Compulsive…
For example, someone is driving down an icy highway and suddenly they see an 18-wheeler coming straight to their side while the car is sliding on the road and the person is panicking and freaking out, that can be considered a panic disorder because they are panicking and having sudden thoughts of fear. Phobic disorders are sudden thoughts of fear of certain things that people normally try to avoid. For example, a lady has phobic disorder of getting kidnapped while running so she usually tries to avoid going running by herself. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is an anxiety disorder where people have repeated thoughts, feelings, and ideas about certain things known as obsessions or behaviors that make them feel like they have to keep doing them known as compulsions that usually end up interfering with their daily life. An example of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is someone keeps thinking a certain dishware is dirty after washing it so they continue to wash the dishware fifteen times before they are finally convinced that it clean.…
Stigma, coming from the Latin stem stigmat- means to mark or brand, especially a slave (Definition of STIGMA, 2016). Although stigma in modern society may not be as clear as a physical marker, it is still as prevalent and degrading. Even in progressive modern society, stigma persists surrounding mental illness, especially Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, more commonly known as OCD. The question, then, becomes why does this stigma persist? The answer however is neither simple nor succinct as the stigma has taken multiple complex facets as it has become ingrained in modern culture.…
The symptoms of a panic attack range from dyspnea, vertigo, diaphoresis, to angina pectoris, paresthesia and syncope. Often times, anxiety disorders can lead to the manifestation of phobias, such as the fear of leaving the house or being in crowded places. Others may be there for treatment of anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa, which are severe eating disorders. Some other disorders that can sometimes be debilitating, requiring inpatient treatment are; obsessive-compulsive disorder, pica (a condition that causes a person to eat things that are not meant for consumption) and somatoform disorders (patients have physical symptoms, but no physical cause can be found).…
In the late 1880s, Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot, chief physician of Salpetriere Hospital, discovered Hystero-Epilepsy after the documented symptoms the first patient had at the time and the information on mental health they had in that era. Few believed Dr. Charcot, particularly Joseph Babinsky, one of his old students, and even more thought he created the disease when he presented the idea. It was even assumed the symptoms had been the cause of a supernatural etiology such as reincarnation and spirit possession. Now, with raising technology and the advancement of modern medicine Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) has been added to the dissociative disorder category, where parts of someone’s memory become detached from one another and this disorder being its most extreme form. DID, previously called Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), is a reaction to trauma that causes someone to have two or more personality identities or ‘alters’ (alternative personality).…
Based on current psychiatry (2011), There are 0.08% elderly people who suffer from Obsessive-compulsive disorder, which is more kwon as OCD, but for some of those who categorize in this section they mostly like to be in control of certain things such as touching, checking their belongings in a particular order. Panic disorder is one the popular anxiety disorder, which will cause a sudden rise in heartbeat, sweatiness that follows up with dizziness and faint, attack of terror, and nausea in severe cases. Panic attack can occur at any time, even during sleep. Social phobia, which is most known for social anxiety disorder, is when the patient feels overwhelmingly self-conscious in everyday social…
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & Patients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is one of the most popular types of therapy when treating disorders such as anxiety, panic disorders, and most commonly, obsessive compulsive disorder. Cognitive behavioral therapy is defined as changing the disturbing thoughts of a person by identifying their feelings, beliefs, and behaviors in order to eventually change the behavior of the person (Courtois, 2009). Cognitive therapy treats many disorders. However, the most common disorder is obsessive compulsive disorder. Obsessive compulsive disorder is defined as having intrusive thoughts or obsessions which increases anxiety.…
Hypochondriasis, also known as Illness Anxiety Disorder, is a disorder in which an individual is obsessed with the idea that they have a serious, life threatening illness, even though they have only mild symptoms. Individuals with this disorder’s fear of having an illness is very real to them even with an absence of legitimate symptoms. In many cases, hypochondriac individuals still have persistent fear even after a doctor assures them that they have nothing to be worried about. Often times, this obsession with contracting an illness is related to one system of the body in particular.…
Hypochondriasis is when you truly believe that you have symptoms of a disease but no matter what doctors tell you the patient is reluctant to hear it. The Body dysmorphic disorder obsesses over their physical flaws and make flaws up that do not exist. A Hypochondriac believes that because they have one symptom of a disease that they truly have it. This can also be a Conversion disorder…
1. Definition – This disorder makes people worry more and think about their physical symptoms all the time. They are not making the symptoms that they have up but the problem comes in because they worry so much about what is happening to their body. This can cause problems for them in all areas of their life.…
Death has always been one of my greatest fears. I tend to dread all possible chances of illness as well as any unexpected fatal tragedies. As a child, I would get nervous every time I had to see a doctor for my annual checkups or when I had a cold and sometimes, I would scare myself more than necessary by misinterpreting a cold for something much more serious. However, this fear developed into a mental illness known as Hypochondria or “Health Anxiety” where I have never been so petrified or miserable in my life.…
There was a stage in my life, maybe between grades 11 and 12, where I drank Med-lemon every single morning for a good year. Not because I was sick or feeling a sickness coming on, but because I did not want to get sick. My mentality was that prevention is better than cure; and my parents who love me so much and just want me to be happy would go out of their way after work and buy me a box of Med-Lemon from Clicks which would cost roughly around R70. I didn’t really even begin to consider the side effects of drinking Med-lemon, or how the ginger spice added in it would later give me a long lasting ulcer in the future. I just had this immense fear of getting sick; which turned into hypochondriasis which, thanks to the fact that my other major is psychology, is under the group of psychological disorders in which the patient experiences physical symptoms that cannot be explained by a general audiovisual condition (Hypochondriasis.…
HBO’s television series Game of Thrones has characters with a lot of psychological disorders, in this paper I will discuss the issues or disorders these characters face starting with Tyrion Lannister who suffers from alcoholism which is a disorder that involves long-term, repeated, uncontrolled, compulsive, and excessive use of alcoholic beverages and that impairs the drinker’s health and social relationships. After throwing up from drinking too much he will still continue to pour another glass of wine. I think Tyrion is coping, due to the fact that his father Tywin Lannister hates. This can be seen in the show through his father’s demeanor, he even states that he hates his son because his wife died giving birth to him, and it doesn’t help…