Catatonia

It is a normal day at the psych ward for Dr. Zoe Goldman when a young african american girl is brought in by the police. She doesn’t know her name or where she is coming from creating a troublesome case for Dr. Goldman. Since the young african american girl can not cite her name she is referred to in the system as Jane Doe. She has no idea who she is or how she even got into the ward. This creates the case of a lifetime for Dr. Goldman in the book The Girl Without A Name by Sandra Block. This…

ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY CIA I CASE STUDY: THE GENAIN QUADRUPLETS Sneha Ganguly- 1313249 Keerthana Ullas- 1313231 Hitha Maureen- 1313228 Sneha Elizabeth- 1313249 THE CASE STUDY The Genain quadruplets (born in 1930) are a set of identical quadruplet sisters. All four of them developed schizophrenia, suggesting a major genetic factor to the cause of the disease. The pseudonym Genain, used to protect the identity of the family, comes from the Greek, meaning dire birth. The sisters were given the…

must have a mental condition called Schizophrenia. In this essay, I will explain why I agree with them. Schizophrenia is a wide-ranging (and often misdiagnosed) mental illness. Symptoms include: hallucination, delusions, emotional flatness, and catatonia. It is one of the most common mental disorders diagnosed among criminals, especially serial killers. Studies of people with schizophrenia have shown there are small differences in the way…

partner is cheating on them. Schizophrenics also have movement and thought disorders. Movement disorders are when the patient exhibits certain movement patterns such as repeating the same movements over and over or they are in a catatonic state but catatonia is rarely seen today. Thought disorder is when the person has a disorganized way of thinking he or she may be talking and all of the sudden stop abruptly stop without any explanation. Negative symptoms are a withdrawal of behavior. These…

Electroconvulsive Therapy Using Among Depressive Patient: Argumentative Essay Introduction Mental health problems are international challenges that had significant contribution in illness burden overall the entire world (Blake, 2012). Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) was one of common health problems and it was estimated to affect 121 million adults worldwide (World Health Organization, 2012). Electroconvulsive Therapy(ECT) is one of the most common methods for treating major depression,…

Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a well-known emotional and mental disorder that causes hallucinations, paranoid and delusional behaviour (Hoffer 2004). In contrary to many other diseases, schizophrenia is mostly affected and caused by external environment. People that are suffering from this disorder usually cannot differentiate from the imaginative world from the real one. Schizophrenia is very often a result of stress and develops gradually (DeLisi 2011). It is therefore, very important to…

Furthermore, the three witches play upon Macbeth’s ambitions and he acts upon their prophecies. Macbeth gets told he "shalt be King hereafter" which leads him to follow a path of evil acts and to eliminate anyone who stands in his way of achieving that title. The witches’ words have the power to alter Macbeth’s kindhearted mannerism and send him on a barbaric chase to attain more and more authority. Having said that, how Macbeth perceives the witches’ words themselves, contributes to their power…

Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men, based on a book by P.D. James, is one of the greatest movies made during the 2000s, implicitly or explicitly referencing and discussing urgent world issues in a near-future, science fiction environment, when these issues have all snowballed into a drawn-out apocalypse. The background is as follows: all women have mysteriously become infertile by the late 2000s, and the world began to disintegrate immediately after that as everyone lost hope. By 2027, the…

Chyree Heirs-Alexandre Professor Zupan March 12, 2016 Course-Mental Health 107 Research Paper- Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, debilitating mental illness that can go unnoticed in various lifecycles. According to medical statistics, i t affects about 1% of the population, corresponding to more than 2 million people in the United States alone. Men are more often affected than women. “Schizophrenia is a psychotic mental disorder and is characterized by symptoms…

I have concluded Simon is suffering from F20.9, Schizophrenia, without catatonia, and multiple episodes in full remission. The DSM discusses six sections of criteria starting with two or more of the following present during a one month period of delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic…