Classification of mental disorders

People who spend most of their time alone and little time around others are considered antisocial. The term, antisocial shouldn’t take the place of solitude, which appropriately defines loneliness. Choosing to spend time alone doesn’t necessarily make someone unsociable. In fact, there are many reasons why we as individuals would choose to spend time to ourselves. I call it “me” time. Alone time is a normal part of life. I enjoy living life as a loner since it gives me peace, privacy, and most…

Finding Light in Darkness Around the world there are many individuals go through challenging obstacles in life. Some may be little almost to no importance, but others may be very serious and difficult to overcome. An obstacle that many people deal with in life is depression. In many ways, Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” is very similar to depression and people who go through it in how their home is relatively like the cave, the slaves relate to the people suffering from depression, and the light…

Case Study 1: “The Case of the Woman Who Dreams of Stress,” page 162 2. Case Study 2: “The Case of John Buckingham, the New Guy on the Job,” page 530 Hidaya Assaf 22551214 October 18, 2017 Essentials of Psychology SSC130 Assignment 250064 Case Study 1: “The Case of the Woman Who Dreams of Stress,” page 162 1. Arlene is worried that her recent dream experiences indicate that something is wrong with her. If you were Arlene’s friend and wanted to reassure her, how would…

elaborate relationship that exist between violence and personality disorders along with providing a structured systematic method that clinicians can utilize to treat and further investigate the link between the two. The article discusses the history of evidence revolving around individuals with personality disorders (prisoners, psychiatric patients, and etc.) and their relationship with violence, and how those with a personality disorder has been deemed as being at an increased risk of violent…

than twisting off a cap of a prescription bottle and downing a pill or two with a swig of water, a rather unique form of treatment for mental illnesses is the use of emotional support animals (ESA for short). Contrary to service animals, an emotional support animal is not trained for a specific task other than providing comfort to someone suffering from a mental illness. ESAs have no restrictions on the breed or species of animal and can range from dogs to cats and even reptiles. Emotional…

Brad Cohen the co- author of In Front of the Class has shown many difficulties of living with Tourette's Syndrome. For example, the thoughts of how people view Cohen. Others believe that Cohen was weird and different by the way he acted with his barking and woop! noises. Going to certain places made it difficult for Cohen because Cohen's syndrome was always about shouting and high expression of his ticing. Applying for a job with Tourette’s makes it harder and less likely to get the job because…

Every 100 minutes a teen commits suicide, suicide is the the second leading cause of death in teens. Twenty percent of teens have gone through depression by the time they reach adulthood. This depression can be caused by bullying or not having friends. In the book Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character is a girl named Melinda who is going through depression because she called the cops on a party, lost all of her friends and is getting bullied for it. The theme in this book is…

Benchmark - Ethical Dilemmas Sometimes people in this world experience very traumatic experiences that lead them to suffering and pain in the physical world which could result in suffering pain or being paralyzed just in the case of Joni who was so full of life until she fractured her vertebrae in a horrifying accident swimming with friends. This left her being a quadriplegic and she went into depression even thinking about suicide. In this case, we will review the Christian worldview on…

After Bart and Hank were in a severe car accident, they both suffered from different kinds of amnesia. Even though they both now have amnesia, they have different types of amnesia. There are two different types of amnesia that a person can have. These are retrograde amnesia and anterograde amnesia. The difference between the two types of amnesia that Bart and Hank have, is whether or not they have the loss of memory for events before or after the start of their amnesia. Because of Bart’s…

Paola Macias’s He Hit Me But It Felt Like True Love (2017) is an embossing with pigments print which consists of fourteen paper panels and seven questions or statements. Each one of these sentences is placed in a panel therefore, each of the sentences repeat. This works subject is as the title suggests, related to both physical and psychological abuse. Making the mood of the work somewhat somber. But also giving it a lot of relevance in todays society.…