Bird flight

Client Description The client is a 14 year old female who is half Irish, half Japanese. She is presenting with social anxiety and low self-esteem. The client is currently in 8th grade and is on a cheerleading squad. The clients parents are divorced and she currently lives with her mother. She reports that she has a great relationship with both of her parents and they are both supportive. The client states that she has friends at school, but her and her best friend are no longer speaking. She…

“It's dark out, and you're home alone. The house is quiet other than the sound of the show you're watching on TV. You see it and hear it at the same time: The front door is suddenly thrown against the door frame.’ ‘Your breathing speeds up. Your heart races. Your muscles tighten.”- (Layton) Fear is a chemical reaction that tells our brain and bodies that something is wrong. It is a survival instinct that that keeps us safe and out of danger. But what chemical reactions happen when you are afraid…

Lecture 6 Fight or flight Explain it with examples and make class interactive We humans don’t come with an instruction manual. If we did, I suspect we’d do a better job of getting through life with less pain and more joy. Human behavior has evolved over time. What worked for us humans a few thousand years ago may not be as helpful today? So while our behavior adapts to the changing times and environment, it is thought that it never completely forgets its evolutionary roots. One of the driving…

Since the beginning of time, people have always been afraid of something, whether it be predators or pestilence. Fear has always been a normal reaction to something dangerous, causing the individual to go into the fight or flight reaction. Phobias are like a fear but are so intense to the point where it interferes with their ability to function and their quality of life. Phobias are described as an abnormal, intense, and irrational fear. The fear can be of a given situation, organism, or…

The book The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls has left a great impact on me because I feel a few of Jeanette 's many problems she went through during her younger life is somewhat similar to what I have gone through. Not many people know about my life at home but this quote from the The Glass Castle I think accurately states the kind of life I am living and how Jeanette’s life is similar to mine,“I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have…

The length of time that people know someone tends to be a justified reason that they can trust that person. This scenario tends to occur in close or life-lasting relationships. These particular companions recognize their friend for who they are, as well as the friend that they once were (Pearson). Dr. Irene Levine, suggests that having a mutual history together enables them to express themselves more comfortably to one another. They may have also taken part of other meaningful experiences in…

For example, people with ophidiophobia, the fear of snakes, will get the fight-or-flight feeling when looking at a photograph of a snake. There is no way that the snake in the photo could hurt them, but they are still afraid, making it a phobia. Phobias are sometimes caused by traumatic events causes in childhood. There are three main…

nervous system to organs to make a particular reaction, for instance the production of sweat and saliva, pupil dilation and heart rate. It is responsible for the human fight or flight response. Circumstances that lead to the production and release of adrenaline Adrenaline is responsible for the body's fight or-flight reaction. This response makes air ways to dilate to give the muscles the oxygen they require to either battle risk or escape. Adrenaline additionally triggers the blood…

1. What is your reaction to Ansary's famous post 9-11 email? Use quotations from the email to explain. After the attack on the World Trade Center Tamim Ansary sent out an email. Which quickly spread like wildfire. Fueled by emotions he sent out an email discussing that his home Afghanistan was not part of the attack. Within three days of this email Tamim was receiving calls from news networks, because of it. When hearing of Tamim’s experiences as he witnessed and heard people saying that all…

an incomprehensible fear of it, leading to a difficult life in which they can’t live freely. PTSD, a steadily rising mental illness caused by a severe traumatic event, treated merely by anti-depressant drugs and verbal therapy, causes the fight or flight instinct to malfunction and cause hormonal imbalances, resulting in periods of violence…