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1) Mood Disorders a) Anxiety i) Generalized Anxiety Disorder (1) DSM-V Diagnostic Criteria (a) Excessive anxiety/worry occurring more days than not for ≥ 6 months, about a number of events or activities (b) Difficult to control the worry (c) Anxiety & worry are associated with ≥ 3 during the past 6 months (i) Restlessness (ii) Easily fatigued (iii) Difficulty concentrating (iv) Irritability (v) Muscle tension (vi) Sleep disturbance (d) Sx cause clinically significant distress or impairment…

pains. The symptoms may differ depending on the the stage of the illness. Medication can be taken for depression. SSRIs (Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) are standard drugs for depression, they include sertraline, fluoxetine, citalopram, escitalopram, paroxetine, fluvoxamine, and trazodone. They also cause fewer side effects. Those side effects are nausea, trouble sleeping, nervousness, tremors, and sexual…

Borderline personality disorder is characterized by stereotypical repetitive and maladaptive interpersonal interactions. Considerable controversy exists regarding preferred treatment and prognosis (Gregory, 2004). The moods of borderline patients are erratic, their personal relationships are turbulent, and their self-image is unstable. When serotonin is decreased, certain areas of the brain involved in emotion regulation, impulsivity and aggression causes the brain not to function properly.…

There are habits and there are compulsions. There are thoughts and there are obsessions. The only difference between each two are the uncontrollable and volatile nature that is intrinsic to compulsions and obsessions. Together, they become the genetic condition of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD. Imagine repeatedly checking if a door is locked nine times every night before bed. Imagine obsessing over a conversation that occurred many years ago that nobody remembers. Imagine never being…

Assessment of the Disorder According to the Diagnostic Statistical Manual -V (APA, 2013, p.163), the most unique feature of Major Depressive Disorder is when a person experiences a diminished enthusiasm in a majority of activities they previously enjoyed or a depressed mood for a least two weeks. Individuals with Major Depressive Disorder tend to experience a combination of symptoms that leads to a substantial impairment in one or more areas of life which includes work and or school. The major…

doctor may first recommend to go there therapy first before going on medication. For some people just having moral support can help them a lot. For others there is some antidepressant that can help. The most common antidepressants are, Citalopram, Escitalopram, Fluoxetine, Fluvoxamine, Paroxetine, and Sertraline.(MacGill)These medicine typically take four to six week before you well notice a change. Since everybody is different a medicine that worked on your friend may not work on you.…

Hot flashes, or vasomotor symptoms (VMS), are the most common symptom of perimenopause.1 During the menopausal transition, women experience fluctuations in sex hormones produced by the ovaries including estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone. While the exact pathophysiology of hot flashes is still unclear, the proposed mechanism is decreased levels of neurotransmitters in the thermoregulatory center of the hypothalamus. Estrogen withdrawal induces production of hypothalamic norepinephrine and…

In case 5.1 we are presented with Maggie Weinzapfel, a 26-year-old Caucasian female. Approximately six weeks ago, she called off her engagement with her fiancé whom she had been dating for the past four years. Recently, she contacted the Family Guidance Center and stated that she desperately needed to talk with someone. According to the intake workers notes, Maggie “sounded panicky” when she called to schedule an appointment to see a counselor (Pomeroy, 2015). Based on the information that was…

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder has been in society for a long time. It has outdated the DSM and at times, the behaviors exhibited by those with OCD were not categorized or accurately diagnosed. In the seventeenth century, obsessions and compulsions were often described as symptoms of religious melancholy. Modern concepts of OCD began to evolve in the nineteenth century, when Faculty Psychology, Phrenology and Mesmerism were popular theories and when neurosis implied a neuropathological condition.…

Huntington disease What is Huntington disease? Huntington disease is an inherited neurologic disorder characterized by progressive neurodegeneration resulting in abnormal movements (chorea), sustained postures (dystonia), psychiatric symptoms, and dementia. The condition most frequently affects individuals during mid-life, but patients range from childhood to age 80. Symptoms are typically insidious – they come about slowly and progressively. Chorea is described as a dance-like, rapid,…