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Mental and Emotional Disorders by categories and definition |
What is normal? What is abnormal? Conventional wisdom asks us to begin with what is average, typical, and/or expected behavior for various situations. After that we must address behavior which is self destructive, socially unacceptable, and/or basically hurtful |
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A. Anxiety Reaction |
One experiences overwhelming nervousness and tension. They don't feel themselves, can't relax, and they know they are not "right". Can happen with growing up or set off by traumatic events in life (temporary) (The more developed states of anxiety reaction need counseling) Ex: panick attacks, phobias classically conditioned, obsessive compulsive (ocd), eating disorders, social anxiety disorders, ptsd, post partum depression. |
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B. Somatoform |
Psychological stress is 'converted' into physical ailment or illness. 1. Hypochondialisis: one who exaggerates normal aches and pains. 2. Conversion reaction: one whose stress is expressed with paralysis of arm, leg, or speech. 3. Manchausen syndrome: mothers injuring their babies for medical treatment. 4. Normal physical excusing: I'm sick, I don't feel well. (Habitual health excuses) |
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C. Mood Swings |
When a person has no control over their mood changes. The emphasis is NO CONTROL. 1. Chronic depression: inherited from birth, incurable, must have helpful counseling. 2. Dysthymia: a persistent but milder form of not feeling ones 100% 3. Manic depression: the bipolar syndrome. Overly diagnosed. One must experience phases of being down and either up or OK in order to be diagnosed bipolar. 4. Transitional states: grief or feeling great loss losing a loved object or person. 5. Seasonal affect depression (sad): feeling depressed during the holidays season. |
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D. Schizophrenia |
Ones inability to distinguish what is 'real' from what is 'imaginary'. Their contact with reality is severely impared. Inherited from birth, the higher brain did not develop. Seems to show itself on the onset if adolescence. They have great difficulty: 1. Establishing and keeping long term relationships 2. Keeping employed long term unless supervised 3. Establishing and keeping long term life goals. 1. Autism: (is a form of schizophrenia) mind blindness is similar but the behavior is greatly impared. If diagnosed at birth patient can be helped with an enormous amount of help. |
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E. Dissociative Reaction |
When ones mental process divides into separate realities called 'split' personality. 70% of these victims have been severely abused as children; is it theorized that children when faced with such trauma develop trance like states in order to cope and thus develop separate realities. 1. Amnesia: sometimes caused by emotional anxiety. 2. Fugue state: when one forgets who they are and where they live. |
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F. Personality Disorder |
A "learned" impairment to one's expressive behavior which is extremely annoying to others. The persons generally don't feel they have a "problem" that needs counseling; and they don't feel it is counter productive to their well being. 1. Anti social (sociopath): when one shows no regard for moral or ethical acknowledging the rights of others. They show no 'developed' consciencel (no concious) 2. Narcissistic: one who exaggerates their senses of self presence or importance. They show a great deal of self absorption. They typically have no ability to show genuine empathy for the feelings of others. |
