Emotional dysregulation

eating disorders, eating disorders and cutting. Attitudes towards your body have been overlooked for so long. This can lead to self harm. According to Cornell University Research, “ One potential explanation for the observed link between emotion dysregulation and self-injury may be the way an adolescent experiences the body. Body image is defined as a multidimensional set of thoughts and feelings related to the physical experience, appraisal of, and satisfaction with one’s body .” Negative…

Introduction: Why and When Qualitative Studies are Used Accurate, reliable research is often considered the gold standard of academia. Quantitative research, which uses statistics to answer its questions, is often thought of as being a far superior form of research when compared to its qualitative counterpart. Difficulty with evaluating the validity of qualitative research makes persons question its integrity. However, it would be absurd to overlook the value of this research. Qualitative…

Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD), a fairly new diagnosis added to The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM–5; American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013), is characterized by severe, chronic irritability and intolerance of frustration found in children and adolescents. Frequent temper outbursts are a result of this irritability, and can be verbal or behavioral, in which the outbursts take the form of aggression on property, self, or others (APA,…

eating disorders experience physiological differences in parts of the brain like the Hypothalamus. The hypothalamus plays an important role in emotional regulation, appetite, and communication between brain cells. Communication between brain cells or neurons occurs through neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters like Serotonin and dopamine can experience dysregulation in eating disorders. Interestingly enough , these chemicals also play a significant role in the cause of other mental illnesses…

Poverty in the African American community has always been a problematic. Most African American woman that live in poverty are single mothers. The family resources correlates to the child cognitive and behavioral development in early school years. For instance the mother’s employment, education attainment, depression symptoms and the environment the family lives in. The children that are being raised in poverty are at a disadvantage because they don’t have the proper support from their family.…

Beauty pageants have become a staple in American culture. Winners of pageants such as Miss America are icons, representations of the ideal woman, and positive role models for young girls. So society says. More recently, however, a new type of pageant has increased in popularity to the point of being considered a national phenomenon. These pageants are just as glitzy, and the competition is just as fierce; the only difference is that these contestants are the miniature model. They are child…

Pageants are a place where it is socially acceptable for society to judge women and girl’s of all ages on their external beauty. On the other hand today’s society tells young girl’s that they should not care what’s on the outside but what’s on the inside. How can people expect this to be true when society contradicts this by telling young girls they exact opposite by allowing young beauty pageants. Youth beauty pageants had first debuted in 1961 and since then it has become increasing popular,…

Abstract: “Imagery is an essential aspect of holistic nursing practice because it brings the nature power of the mind into the process of health and healing”. (Dossey & Keegan, p. 364). Imagery can act as a technique to interact with the image making function in the brain which in turn acts on the entire physiology of the body, promoting wellbeing. Guide imagery becomes a common practice in holistic nursing along with western practice to improve care, health of individuals. A vast range of study…

messengers in the basolateral amygdala, the noradrenergic/norepinephrine (NE) system is a largely implicated in memory consolidation during stress. 103 Epinephrine and norepinephrine are influential in the consolidation and retention of memories during emotional events.59 Noradrenergic signaling is also critical for the later reconsolidation of fear learning.104 Abnormal noradrenergic function in PTSD has been found in both general and veteran patients.5 As mentioned earlier, veteran and general…

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, was developed in 1993 by Marsha M. Linehan as a treatment for clients meeting the criteria for borderline personality disorder who are chronically suicidal (Linehan and Chen, 2004). Linehan developed this therapy out of the sentiment that there was an influx in borderline personality disorder diagnoses, and no successful treatment options specific to this diagnosis (Linehan, 1993). Linehan was influenced by behavior therapy and by Eastern mindfulness. The…