Mood stabilizer

borderline personality disorder are also usually very impulsive, often times demonstrating self-injurious behaviors like burning, cutting, attempting suicide, or engaging in risky sexual behaviors. Research shows that patients with DID and BPD often have a mood disorder such as depression or bipolar disorder. Client A.S experiences multiple alters and time of depression. She also has hallucinations, both visual and tactile. She listed herself as having many alters including “animal, thief,…

There are many models of abnormalities in psychology, including psychodynamic, behavioral, biological, humanistic-existentialism, and cognitive. Some of these approaches to abnormality seem to almost work off of each other’s beliefs. While each of these models of abnormality are unique in their diagnosis, treatment, and general approach to abnormality, the biological and cognitive approaches stand out to me the most and least fitting explanation to what causes abnormalities and how you should go…

increase the risk for fractures with falls. Bipolar disorder medications such as lithium have many side effects that include fall risk factor increasing blurred vision, fatigue, tremor, and vertigo. Another common medications used are mood stabilizers that can cause ataxia which in turn can make one out of balance. Anxiolytics increase confusion in patients, especially the old ones. Slower thought process and reaction time have been reported as well as delirium and such side…

Children are receiving a high dosage of psychotropic medication. Psychotropic medications are drugs that have toxic chemicals acts on the brain to impact mood and behavior. There are many kinds of psychotropic drugs prescribe to foster kids. Foster care kids are prescribes these medications because of the drug company tactic that target doctors in the Medicaid program. The article “Addressing The Mental…

aggressive behaviors, he is not getting outside therapy at this time as it is not needed. David and Thomas are both on medication, mostly for hyperactivity to keep them focused during the school day. David is taking a mood stabilizer since he tends to have extremes with his mood. Sometimes Carrie says that the medication helps and sometimes it doesn’t help and they have to change the medication. Unless it is really bad, the medication can go without being changed for six…

Lizzie’s symptoms are depressed mood; markedly diminished interest or pleasure in activities (her writing); insomnia, fatigue and loss of energy; diminished ability to think, concentrate, or make decisions; recurrent thoughts of death, suicide ideation, and suicide attempts (American…

Kaartinen, M., Puura, K., Helminen, M., Salmelin, R., Pelkonen, E., & Juujärvi, P. (2014). Reactive aggression among children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Journal Of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 44(10), 2383-2391 9p. doi:10.1007/s10803-012-1743-1 This author created a research study on twenty-seven boys and eight girls with autism and developmental disorders, she used thirty-five controls and were matched according to gender, age and total score intelligence and were…

Violent Video Games are not Dangerous Do violent video games have the potential to ruin the great minds of the next generation? Lately, violent video games have been wrongly accused of having dangerous, brain altering powers against the young adult minds. However, the video games that sell out after just days on store shelves have not been proven to hurt the child’s mind in the long run, they have even been found to benefit the brain. Violent video games should not be a concern to parents…

The Walking Dead Syndrome Imagine living in a distorted reality; where you aren’t actually aware of being a fully functioning human individual who is alive and breathing. This is what Cotard’s Delusion does to those affected with it. Being an exceptionally rare syndrome, there is not much known about it besides the few individual studies recorded over the years. Cotard’s Delusion is a mental illness where the person who has contracted this syndrome delusionally believes that they’re either…

to see this in children, it is on the brink of become over diagnosed because of the repeated misdiagnosis. Many children who are diagnosed with ODD also have other treatable mental health conditions. Some conditions that coexist with ODD are ADHD or mood disorders such as Depression and Bipolar disorder. Some of the things that can contribute to ODD are a dysfunctional family life, a family history of mental illnesses and/or substance abuse, and inconsistent discipline by…