Moral panic

Website #1: Mayo Clinic Brief Review of Contents/Summary Mayo Clinic’s website provides a user-friendly and accessible interface for those seeking answers concerning their mental health (Mayo). In addition to holding a large array of information, information is presented in a variety of modes (Mayo). For instance, the dashboard on the main page houses several dropdown menus directing one to a surplus of links such as, “Patient Care” and “Health Info,” ‘Education, “and “Departments and…

I am working with a mental illness known as panic disorder agoraphobia, and the name of the client that I am interviewing is Annie. Background Information Annie is a twenty-four-year-old female. She is Caucasian. As of right now, she is currently unemployed and relying on the government for assistance. She has been able to hold jobs in the past, but she becomes very anxious in public locations. Also, she describes that growing up she was raised in a normal, yet, sometimes-abusive environment.…

Medical and Psychiatric History Jason fell off his house roof in 2010 resulting in loss of consciousness and short-term hospitalization. It has been suggested that this could be a factor in the decline of cognitive abilities along with excessive alcohol consumptions since his early 20s. Jason first encountered mental health services at age 45 after being imprisoned due to breaching a protection order. Initially he was diagnosed with a major depressive episode and alcohol dependence, which…

between 3 and 6 million Americans suffer from panic disorder”(Bayer 22-23). Also, the DSM-iv states, “as many as 65 percent of people with panic disorders also experience serious depression; in one-third of those causes, the onset of depression occurs first” (23). Although anxiety can show up anytime in one’s life, it is more likely to show up in children and adolescents rather than in adults. It is more common in females rather than males. (Anxiety & Panic Disorders Health Center). If a…

stage of sleep, I begin to feel as if I am dying and I have a panic attack. This has been a result of my fear of death, especially with many people I know dying from accidents, disease, or age in the past few years. This sort of situation would be described as a form of Panic Disorder, since I have the common characteristics of feeling ill, beginning to get shaky, fast paced breathing, and overall uneasiness accompanied by fear. Panic disorder is when a person experiences sudden feelings of…

could happen at any moment (Gliatto, p.1). As for genetics, studies found that GAD, along with panic disorder, was very likely to be transferred between family members (Woodman,…

Growing up, I always considered myself and everyone around me invincible, like nothing bad ever happened to anyone, I was wrong. You see, when something bad happens your mind races with a variety of different emotions. You feel disbelief, panicked, and then you have to wait, which makes you overwhelmingly anxious. The first time I felt these emotions, was when I was sixteen, it was also the first time I realized that everyone around me that I loved wasn’t invincible. At first it didn’t seem…

the semester, there is one that really stands out. The topic about anxiety disorders felt like one that most people can relate to, and therefore on that affects the vast majority. Anxiety disorders can include panic disorders, phobias, PTSD and OCD. I have a personal interest in panic attacks because there is a lot of confusion out there on what it really means and how…

Have you ever been faced with a danger so fierce that your mind became clouded with fear? What are some thoughts you may have if you were in a situation like this? Imagine being trapped in a place with no visible way out, succumbed to intimidating surroundings. In Bram Stoker’s, Dracula, the central idea is fear. Bram Stoker demonstrates this idea by using the literary devices of conflict and point of view. Conflict is when drama is added into the story. Point of view is the perspective that the…

CBT is a psychotherapy treatment that is hands on, short term, and goal oriented. According to Stewart and Chambless, this technique works well with individuals suffering from anxiety, depression, PTSD, OCD, and panic disorders (2009). Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the aspect of how the emotions one may have negative emotions about certain topics, events, or even cognitions will cause an occurrence of anxiety or any other related disorder. The goal of…