Anxiety disorder

hold. Per police, the patient is under civil commitment and listed as a missing person in Washington County. (HCMC note review, September 2015). The patient’s medical diagnoses are: bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, and chronic airway obstruction. Besides his medical diagnosis, he had acute anxiety, high nicotine consumption, and had sustained blisters on his left arm and feet for walking excessively. Significant factors influencing this patient’s health situation are:…

perspectives that affect Jakes anxiety are behavioral, humanistic, and cognitive. The behavioral perspective is the influence the environment has that affects the way an individual acts. Humanistic psychology is the individuals free will and to reach full potential. Cognitive perspective is the mental process such as thoughts, learning, and memory. An individuals thoughts and actions often come from experiences they have throughout their life. First lets view Jakes anxiety through the first…

mood, for example, driving late at night, running nude into the forest, feeling of “high” and “great romance”. Also, she is hearing voices. 2. What do you think is going on? I believe from her behavior could be signs of Schizophrenia or Bi-polar disorder. Or she may be experiencing normal sense of “high” from other influences, like her vacation. Or she could be under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Or she maybe off of medication when she was experiencing these events. 3. What other…

The article “Social Anxiety is Highly Heritable but Is Affected by the Environment” posted by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health discusses the recently concluded study of “approximately 3000 Norwegian twins to find out more about how mental disorders develop over time” (2016). After studying the siblings for over ten years, the results have recently been released. It was found that while environment does contribute to temporary social anxiety, genetics are linked to the long term effects.…

mental disorders and debilitating behavioral patterns fascinating. From depression to anxiety, many people tell their story of how these disorders handicapped them and how they altered their lives to fight these invisible forces holding them back. Typically, these stories demonstrate the way extreme anxiety has kept people from living normal lives. They don’t address the subject of trivial anxiety; James Collier’s piece offers this interesting perspective. Collier argues that trivial anxiety…

This case study is about a man who goes by the name of Captain Hook and he is dealing with the loss of his hand in a sword incident, and having to accept that there was no chance of it being reattached because it had been fed to an animal. This man has a long ongoing feud with a young man by the name of Peter Pan that lives in the same area, a place called “Neverland”. These two men have had constant altercations ongoing for many many years, dating back a long time. This young man ultimately…

Stressors in adult life, both short- and long-term, can adversely affect mood and behavior, as well as physiological functioning. Because stress, anxiety, and depression have physiological effects it is important to understand how maternal stress responses impact fetal development. Fetal development concerning organizational influences of the nervous system is termed “programming” (Davis et al., 2007). The timing of fetal development in relation to maternal physiological responses influences…

When compared to other therapeutic approaches, gestalt therapy is a lot less structured and much more philosophical. Perls (1969) has been quoted saying ‘One of the objections I have against anyone calling himself a gestalt therapist is that he uses a technique, a technique is a gimmick’ This being said gestalt therapists are encouraged to create their own means of assisting the client towards experiencing awareness and meaningful contact with the self and others. One of the exercises that may…

anxious I can get. Just how real it’s gotten. I can easily hide it, so no one knows. But that's also a problem. If I were to tell one of my friends that I have anxiety, they probably wouldn't believe me. They would probably just say “everyone has some anxiety.” I have generalized anxiety disorder. People with generalized anxiety disorder are extremely worried about everyday tasks,…

symptoms like dizziness, blurred sight, and nausea that could fit in to somatization disorder. Bob shows signs of pathophobia when he says in the interview, “I worry about diseases.” Another DSM-V phobia that Bob could fit would be agoraphobia. Throughout the beginning of the movie, Bob shows signs of anxiety and the accompanying of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. According the DSM-V, there has to be the signs of anxiety in two out of five situations and Bob displays that both in the crowded…