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A new study has linked perfectionism to burnout in three dimensions of life, namely work, school, and in sports. Though perfectionism can increase motivation and drive, it can also cause concern by creating potential health problems due to stress. Perfectionism and Burnout: How to ruin your success at work, school, and on the field Researchers at York St. John University in England have published an online study in the Personality and Social Psychology Review that used meta-analysis to compare…

The DSM-5 defines obsessive-compulsive disorder as experiencing recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are intrusive and inappropriate, and that cause marked anxiety and distress. A person with OCD develops ritual-like behavior (compulsion) that reduces their anxiety around a repetitive thought (obsession). If people with OCD are prevented from engaging in this behavior, anxiety and panic rapidly build. While obsessions can drive people to repeat positive behaviors, like a…

The main character, Melvin, in the movie “As good as it gets” suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder. Melvin’s obsessive-compulsive behaviors consist of avoiding cracks on the sidewalk or on the floors, locking his door a specific amount of times, washing his hands with a brand new bar of soap every time with steaming hot water, worry of germs, and eating at the same restaurant with the same waitress at the same table. The DSM-5 (2013) states “the obsessions or compulsions are…

unhealthy, and both the therapist and patient working to actively change the negative patterns into more constructive behaviors. Trichotillomania is also treated via drug therapy. Patients are often prescribed SSRIs, or Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, such as Fluoxetine (Prozac©), Sertraline (Zoloft©), and and Citalopram (Celexa©). Furthermore, N-Acetylcystine (NAC), a “cysetine derived food additive”, has been tested and available for prescription. It has been proven to prevent…

The crippling effects of depression lead many people to take drastic measures in order to find some type of relief. The most common way for people who suffer from depression is to seek out and find doctors who readily prescribe antidepressants. However, studies suggest that antidepressants are only moderately effective, especially during the first six to eight weeks of use. Some in the psychiatric field believe that antidepressants only have a moderate to low ability to fight off depression.…

Repetitive thoughts, desires, or impulses that are unwelcomed and provide anxiety or distress are consider an obsession. While repetitive unwanted behaviors are a compulsion. Together these two words are contributing factors that make up Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. In action the thought is “my mother might die, if I do not flip the light switch ten times” whereas the behavior is the actually flipping of the light switch up and down ten times to push the bad thought away. These habits come…

Blessing, Esther M. et al. “Cannabidiol as a Potential Treatment for Anxiety Disorders.” Neurotherapeutics 12.4 (2015): 825–836. PMC. Web. 29 Apr. 2018 In this article Ester M. Blessing describes the therapeutic properties cannabidiol has. She reports how cannabidiol works with the receptors in the body in order to provide the therapeutic effects. This article is a reliable source because the author, Ester is a postdoctoral researcher, and has expertise in Neuropsychopharmacology. This article…

Obsessive compulsion disorder, also known as O.C.D, is a mental disorder where a person feels the need to repeat things over and over again until he or she feels satisfied. Psychologist call the need to repeat things over and over again a ritual. While only 2.3% of the U.S population has O.C.D (mHMR), not all O.C.D is the same. One person may feel the need to always wash their hands, while another may feel the need to turn a doorknob a certain amount of times. Doctors do not know what cause…

Much is still unknown about the actual cause of specific phobias. However, the development and course of specific phobias can be traced to or determined by several different factors. Behavioral, cognitive, and social theories of learning and conditioning, psychodynamic models such as the psychoanalytic theory of Freud, physiological studies of the brain, family background and genetic predisposition, variations in sociocultural themes, and theories on trauma are some of the factors that can help…

Epilepsy is one of the most prevalent neurological disorder around the world1. It has been estimated that 5.8 per 1,000 population in developed countries and about 12.8 per 1000 in lower income countries suffer from this disorder2. Pharmacotherapy is the primary method for controlling epileptic seizure. However, about 30% of patients suffer from refractory epilepsy or are unable to tolerate adverse effects of antiepileptic drugs 3, 4. Thus, it is of great importance to find new drugs with…