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What is Separation Anxiety Disorder? Separation anxiety disorder (SAD) is defined as excessive worry and fear about being apart from family members or individuals to whom a child is most attached to. Children with separation anxiety disorder fear being lost from their family or fear that something bad is happening to a family member when they are separated from them. Children eventually grow out of the stage of being anxious when a parent leaves the room, by learning shortly after that the…

After taking a year off of college to travel the world, I returned to the United States excited to see my family and friends that I had missed. I had imagined that I would be happy to be enjoying the convenience of American living again, instead I was unhappy and very anxious living in America. I felt nervous around big crowds if I was alone and only felt comfortable out in public if I was with a close family member. Looking more into anxiety, I found that anxiety disorders are actually very…

Area of Study 3 – Investigating an Issue • How is Huntington’s Disease inherited and what are the consequences and treatments for this genetic disorder? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Huntington’s Disease is a specific neurological condition that affects the brain and nervous system. This specific disease is inherited by an autosomal dominant pattern meaning a single copy of the altered gene in each cell may cause the…

Spinner receives medical treatment to help control the mental health symptoms associated with dissociative disorders. For example, the use of antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications such as fluoxetine, clomipramine and clonazepam. More specifically, a possible technique that could be effective when treating Mrs. Spinner’s symptoms, would be dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). As described by Corey (2009), by incorporating behavioral and cognitive…

progressively advance towards their traumatic memories, feelings, and situations that the soldier had once been avoiding. Aside from therapy, medications are available for PTSD. The most common medications prescribed are Sertraline, Paroxetine, Fluoxetine, and Venlafaxine. These all classify as antidepressants that balance the…

In 1944 a Viennese pediatrician named Hans Asperger conducted a clinical research trial involving 200 children in which four boys manifested traits associated with autism but had normal cognitive functions and language development, yet significantly lacked interpersonal skills. He had classified their behavior as autistic psychopathy and detailed that it was responsible for their idiosyncrasies such as unreciprocated nonverbal communication, self-imposed isolation, and specialized…

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), also known as shell shock or battle fatigue, is a mental health issue that could develop after experiencing a life changing moment in a person’s life. Most researchers theorize that the people who have PTSD have either fought in war, been a victim of rape, or have endured a life changing experience. In the United States, 70 percent of adults, approximately 223.4 million people, have experience at least one traumatic moment in their lives. One…

Depression. It’s an overused term. People toss it around as if it’s a football; yet they don’t know the true meaning of it. So what is depression? First off, depression has got nothing at all to do with life. That may confuse you, but let me explain. On your life journey, there is sadness, there is pain, and there is sorrow. All of these in which their right time and season are normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it’s an empty hole. There’s nothing there. It’s a complete…

In 2013 virginia teens were surveyed: 6,815 were in a physical fight, 6,910 did not go to school because they felt unsafe, 6,874 were bullied at school. That is a lot of teens and of course many precautions are set to protect and help kids in these situations. However what about protecting teens from thoughts and feelings they can not control by themselves? 6,854 felt sad or hopeless, 6,857 made a plan to attempt suicide, 5,900 attempted suicide that resulted in medical care. Many people think…

Prozac Nation The movie Prozac Nation is about Lizzie, a young woman starting college at Harvard on a full Journalism scholarship. The movie, based on the book of the same name, is a true story written by the person who lived it, Elizabeth Wurztel. The setting is the college’s campus and takes place in the mid-1980s. From the beginning of the movie, we learn that she began cutting, a form of self-mutilation, at age 12. Her parents divorced when she was two, her father mostly uninvolved in her…