Borderline intellectual functioning

behaviors most notable in the workplace along with the approach that supervisors or coworkers can utilize as well as interventions that can help an employee with the following: insomnia, borderline personality disorder, and antisocial personality disorder. Sleep is an essential aspect of a person’s well-being and functioning the lack of sleep can alter a person’s performance at work. One of the best-known disorders for the lack of sleep, according to Thomas & Hersen (2002) is Insomnia, which is…

borderline personality disorder (BPD) Common characteristics (if 5 or more apply you may have bpd) strong efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment intense and unstable interpersonal relationships distorted and unstable sense of self impulsiveness commonly associated with sex, drug abuse, and risk taking recurrent suicidal thoughts, gestures, and behaviors emotional instability, periods of depression, irritability, and anxiety Feelings of emptiness inappropriate intense anger or lack of…

From the day we are born, humans travel on an ongoing journey devoted to personal health development. For example, man emphasizes his physical health and well-being across the span of his lifetime. As a child, his mother provides him with vitamins and nutrients to sustain proper growth. In school, he is given physical and dietary lessons that teach him to maintain and value his "temple;" he also learns the physiology taking place behind his growth. He later develops a habit of working out in the…

Pretty Little Liars: A’s Final Revelation Pretty Little Liars has been all the rave for females since 2010, people have eagerly waited for Tuesday’s at 8 o’clock just to see who in the world the mysterious “A” was that is haunting Aria, Hannah, Spencer, and Emily. The first revealed “A” was a mysterious leading character Mona Vanderwaal who suffered from personality disorders, or at least says the psychologist that Mona is seeing throughout the show; however I believe she could also suffer from…

Throughout the movie I only focus on three personality disorders. Which were obsessive compulsive disorder, borderline, and narcissism. OCD which is short for obsessive compulsive disorder is where you need orderliness, cleanliness, and organization. Boardline is instability of mood. Narcissism is the need of excessive admiration. Boardline is similar to bipolar. Bipolar is rapid mood changes, but borderline is more just being crazy and doing things out of the ordinary. The movie, “Mommy…

Lenawee Community Mental Health Authority, or LCMHA, is an agency that was designed as a place for anyone with a mental diagnosis to go to. In 1970, Lenawee County appointed its first mental health board to explore the cost and the need for a mental health program. The agency was first located in a vacated dentist office that was above a grocery store to be able to start the program right away. Shortly after in 1974, the agency relocated to the Riverside Professional Building. The directors and…

What can be seen as the plot in some famous Hollywood movies serves at the root of some of therapy’s most unique interventions. Borderline Personality Disorder (BSP) is a mood disorder characterized by deficiencies in personality functioning. The DM – 5 requires specific criteria to be met in order for a diagnosis for Borderline Personality Disorder. Among symptoms in the DSM – 5, five criteria must be met including symptoms such as an effort to avoid abandonment, extreme mood fluctuations in…

There were many things in the client sessions that elicited visceral reactions from members of our group. George, the first client who suffered from Antisocial Personality Disorder, seemed to be almost bragging about his exploits. We would like to think that as counselors we would comport ourselves as professionally as the psychologist conducting the interview. We recognize that we have an ethical obligation to do so. However, as spectators watching George, there was a degree of shock at hearing…

According to former chief of the FBI 's Elite Serial Crime Unit, John Douglas, at any given moment in the United States, there is an estimated 25-50 active serial killers. A question that I’ve wondered in the past is whether mental illness plays a significant role in the minds of serial killers. I’ve always had a curiosity for serial killers, and have always wondered about their thinking patterns. What I do know is that is that most serial killers have no remorse for their victims or their…

Borderline Personality Disorder in the Media Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is portrayed throughout the media with the stigma that all people that possess this disease are suffering as an impulsive monster. The media often attacks the idea of any mental illnesses and portrays it to their viewers/readers as the affected person being “psycho” or “crazy”. However, contrary to common thought, the representation of this illness throughout the media is incorrect (Hollywood). The fact that 14…