Menstrual psychosis

Leslie Armendariz Mr. Pedregon English IV 03-20-16 Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a severe brain disorder that can't be cured, but treatment may help as studies have shown that it affects a great percentage of the population in the US. Researchers believe that genetics are most likely to development of the disorder. Although people think that people with schizophrenia can’t live a normal life, there are ways and medication that may help a person with schizophrenia. There are different types…

According to the DSM-5 the definition of positive symptoms of schizophrenia consists of feeling or behavior that are other people do not experience such as hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, and grossly disorganized or abnormal motor behavior, while negative symptoms consist of characteristics that are lacking thus it is made up avolition and diminished emotional expression (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Some examples of a positive symptom of schizophrenia are seeing,…

Epilepsy is a brain disorder that causes seizures. The brain disorder affects your nervous system. People are diagnosed with epilepsy when they have two or more seizures. These are classified into two groups. Type of Seizure What it affects and how. Generalized Seizure Affects both sides of the brain Absent Seizure sometimes called petit mal seizures, can cause rapid blinking or a few seconds of staring into space. Tonic-clonic seizures also called grand mal seizures, can make a person:…

Throughout this psychology course, there were many topics discussed that caught my interest; the main one that stood out was schizophrenia. The article I chose was Inflammation in the Brain is Linked to risk of Schizophrenia, study finds by ScienceDaily; posted on October 16, 2015, and the source is MRC Clinical Sciences Centre/Institute of Clinical Sciences (ICS) Faculty of Medicine, Imperial Coll. “Schizophrenia, like other mental health disorders, is a complex disease that we may know is…

In the article “Temperament and Mood Disorders,” written by Hagop Akiskal, he discusses how classifying mood disorders into different spectrums can result from underlying temperaments. German psychiatrist Dr. Emil Kraepelin notes that there are Different forms of manic-depressive disorders. Dr. Kraepelin notes that many different patients develop mania or hypomania, and in fact might have family members who also experience maniac-depressive disorders. Dr. Kurt Schneider, another German…

Every one out twenty six people have epilepsy and in the United States three million people are diagnosed with this disease (Cure Epilepsy). Epilepsy is a neurological disease that disturbs your nerve activity in your brain which results in seizures. Neurons are something that transmits messages to your brain and then are sent through your synapse which is the space between two neurons. That process is normal for most but people with epilepsy it is not because the nerves no longer will turn off…

The novella Turn of the Screw was written by Henry James and originally published in 1898. The story is a ghost tale, involving a Governess and two children. There is much debate to whether the Governess in this story is sane or insane. According to Oxford Dictionaries, insanity is a “state of mind that prevents normal perception, behavior, and social interaction” (Oxford Dictionaries). The Governess can be considered insane since she has disturbed perceptions, exhibits abnormal behavior, and…

In the film, A Beautiful Mind, John Nash was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a mental disease that affects the mind, it prevents the person from knowing what's real to what is simply a fragment of the person's imagination. For those who suffer from schizophrenia, it's an ongoing battle that has no cure. Not only does it not have a cure , it takes a weigh on the person's life , and also affects those who are around for the journey. When we were first introduced to Nash he was…

Mental Disorder? A mental disorder is a diagnosis by a mental health professional of a person whose behaviours may cause suffering or difficult to function in life. What is Psychosis? A severe mental disorder where thoughts and emotions are so weakened that contact is lost with normal reality. Two most common symptoms of psychosis are Hallucinations that can involve all senses. People can feel, hear, smell and see things that are not there. Most public known hallucination is seeing things. …

Systemic Theories Contrastingly, I remain skeptical of how a therapist can offer couples counseling services without a strong clinical background. Mental health issues, even those that don’t meet the minimum criteria for a diagnosis are understood by most practitioners as ubiquitous in our society. If one or both members of a couple has untreated depression, bipolar, substance use issue, or even a mild manifestation of a personality disorder, it would seem prudent that these issues be…