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    the person can suffer from not only health risks, but social and financial risks. If someone is constantly wanting to go home and play games, they will have no social skills. This can cause them to be antisocial, and eventually get antisocial personality disorder. Without the ability to survive in a sociable environment, it can affect their relationships and even their chances of getting a job. It is typically really easy for someone to notice if another person has a sociable problem due to…

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    attachment in childhood. To meet the requirements of this paper, I will focus on her addiction and her depression using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is an evidenced based practice in treating substance use disorders and depression by encompassing: motivational interventions, contingency management, relapse prevention in individual, couples, and family settings (McHugh, Hearon, & Otto, 2010). My goal in using CBT with Sarah will be to assist her in…

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    Borderline Personality Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is characterized by pervasive instability in moods, interpersonal relationships, and self-image and is described as one of the most complicated and serious problems that tends to confront. It is noted that Adolph Stern first proposed the term “Borderline Personality” to the United States in 1938. He best described a group of patients who did not fit into the psychotic or into a psychoneurotic group by introducing the term…

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    Narcissist Personality

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    If a man with the narcissist personality was to go to a bar and see a beautiful woman, he would most likely do the following. Use his charm and show her why she needs and want him, not the other way around. He would use his charm and cockiness to show off his assents. To the woman he seems to have everything and more that she wants in a man and he is the perfect package. After she falls into his trap she will soon see that the brilliant man that she was so into is not so charming after all. The…

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    Manny’s highest scores on the Clinical scales are 6 and 8, excluding scales 5 and 0. His elevated scores indicated that a defined two-point code type of 6/8 exists. A 68/86 Code type suggested that the client profiles reflects symptoms of paranoia with delusions and in some cases a schizophrenic thought disturbance. Additionally, Manny reported harbor feelings of inferiority and insecurity, he is likely to be guarded and reports of having symptoms related to anxiety. At time, Manny may isolate…

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    Mrs. Havisham

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    Great Expectations Miss. Havisham has borderline personality disorder. Mrs. Havisham shows signs of being extremely harmful, not only to herself but too her daughter. How she is harmful to her daughter is she has destroyed her daughter's perception on men. She persuaded Estella to pursue Pip, to break his heart. Mrs havisham whispered “Break their hearts!” into Estella's ear. Another reason is she is very anti-social, this is a sign of this disorder. She has no friends, no life, she stays…

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    The Comedian

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    The Comedian is the rival of this novel, He is in all likelihood a sufferer of Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD). ASPD is portrayed by "a pervasive example of negligence for, and infringement of, the privileges of others that starts in youth or early youthfulness and proceeds into adulthood." While APSD sufferers are regularly called "sociopaths" this is in the well known, not the clinical meaning of the term. Mental cases only need compassion – psychopathy without anyone else 's input can…

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    social personality disorder in everyday lives Picture waking up every morning starting your day like everyone else's. But that's all they have in common just simply the way they start. A person with anti social personality disorder doesn't have the privilege of feeling real empathy or forming emotional attachments. In fact they also tend to mimic emotions contrary to the fact the they can't actually feel them. To an un suspecting individual a person with anti social personality disorder will…

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    Social Anxiety Disorder

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    someone is to give them hope. Unsurprisingly, it is very common for victims to develop psychological disorders as a result of their experiences. Fortunately, the majority of these disorders are very treatable through therapy and medication. S Seedat, an author and member of the psychiatry department at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, states that “The main goals of treatment in Social Anxiety Disorder are to treat core symptoms and comorbidities, reduce functional impairment and…

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    Bpd Child Abuse

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    to specifically look at the consequences of emotional abuse and to determine if emotional regulation difficulties were specifically associated with abuse. The participants were given questionnaires that have been used to identify Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). The results of the questionnaires showed that those who indicated that they had experienced emotional abuse also relate to symptoms of BPD. They both showed detachment of relationships, apathy and difficulty relating to others.…

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