Agoraphobia

Malingering is related in some ways to somatoform disorders and factitious disorders. However, there are also distinct differences. A patient with a factitious disorder like Munchausen’s, does not pretend to be sick in order to get drugs, money or disability. They lie, exaggerate and actually make themselves genuinely ill in order to be a patient. According to (Conroy, 2006) a person who is malingering is behaving intentionally, which means it is done with conscious awareness. Therefore,…

seem to be a little jagged and it almost like he is constantly nervous. Conrad is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, since the sailing accident he feels responsible for the death of his brother. I believe Conrad may be experiencing agoraphobia everytime he was in the presence of his peers and others he looked as if he wasn’t their emotionally but was their physically. His behaviors showed that he was to just going through the motions and not really living for himself. As Dr. Berger…

-Born in Amherst, Massachusetts -Poet -Transcendentalist Emily Dickinson was a poet born in 1830 who was considered one of America’s greatest poets and a Transcendentalist because she often discussed the acceptance of death. “Emily Dickinson was a poet who was born in 1830. She wrote about 1800 poems, most of them being published after her death. Her quiet life was infused with a creative energy that produced almost 1800 poems and a profusion of vibrant letters.”(Emily Dickinson museum) “She…

Psychotherapy is a psychological intervention designed to help people struggling with emotional, behavioral, and/or interpersonal problems. There are over 500 brands of psychotherapy available today. The professionals that practice psychotherapy can range from social workers to clinical psychologists, and while many have advanced degrees, there is no evidence to support a difference in success based on level of education. Along with the variety of psychotherapists, the ways to approach…

Real Artists Have Day Jobs (and Other Awesome Things They Don’t Teach You in School) is a collection of 52 luminous essays – in other words, this book contains 52 awesome moments to say, “Wow, this book really gets me.” Sara Benincasa knows a thing or two about uncertainty, anxiety, and all those lovely little nightmares that come with being in your twenties. Even better, this isn’t a ‘self-help’ book so much as a ‘nobody knows what they’re doing and it’s okay’ book. Wisdom comes from…

bully. Through countless sources of research ranging from six-year-olds to well experienced adults, we have evaluated that kids who had been victims to bullies have greater risk for depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, panic disorders and even agoraphobia (the fear of being in crowds, public spaces or open areas) (Walton). In the book Speak, on page 128, Melinda states “I'm the only one sitting alone, under the glowing neon sign which reads, ‘Complete And Total Loser, Not Quite Sane. Stay…

Imagine it is a regular day but all of the sudden there is a tightening, anxious feeling in your chest for a split second. Then multiply that second by minutes and maybe even hours sometimes, and this is what anxiety can feel like for some people. At first there will be many questions racing through your mind. What is this feeling? Why is this happening to me? How do I make it stop? Most of the time this is just the beginning and it can take over thoughts and actions. The mental disorder known…

disorders are the most common psychiatric disorders affecting children and adults today. There are several different anxiety disorders including generalized anxiety disorder, specific phobia, social anxiety disorder, separation anxiety disorder, agoraphobia, panic disorder, and selective mutism. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders- Fifth Edition (DSM-5), there is a close relationship between anxiety disorders and some of the obsessive-compulsive and related…

The OECD, as well as income, claims that environment plays a huge role on a person’s happiness. Most people when you ask them what makes them happy, do not normally say anything about the natural environment they live in. However, it is an important factor in a country’s overall happiness. In Carmel Lobello’s article, “ How Do You Measure a Country’s Happiness?” she states, “‘An unspoiled environment is a source of satisfaction, improves mental well-being, allows people to recover from the…

to adulthood. Urbanicity is a description for some underlying environmental factor or factors in urban areas. “Consistent with an inherited "phobia proneness" but not a "social learning" model of phobias, the familial aggregation of any phobia, agoraphobia,…