Paranoid personality disorder

attachment in childhood. To meet the requirements of this paper, I will focus on her addiction and her depression using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is an evidenced based practice in treating substance use disorders and depression by encompassing: motivational interventions, contingency management, relapse prevention in individual, couples, and family settings (McHugh, Hearon, & Otto, 2010). My goal in using CBT with Sarah will be to assist her in…

a mental hospital. Set in the 1960’s, many of the methods used by the hospital were backwards and outdated, even for the sixties. While many of the characters have interesting illnesses, Susanna’s borderline personality disorder is particularly interesting. Borderline personality disorder, or BPD for short, is often diagnosed when a patient shows a pattern of erratic relationships, self harm, unstable emotions, feelings of emptiness, and even a slight fear of abandonment. Susanna displayed…

As an eight year old he was seen by several psychiatrists for being antisocial but was never formally diagnosed with a mental illness. He was given antipsychotic medication that was normally used to treat people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but refused to take it. There are theories that Rodger possibly had aspergers, or sociopathy which are common in serial killers today. In his autobiographical manifesto, My Twisted World: The Story of Elliot Rodger, that he wrote before his death…

characteristics.(Supposedly they believe that have been caused by their parent (McGaha 1)). Some children who are unattached are more open to suffer from a form of psychological damage diagnosed later in life and also found with Antisocial Personality Disorder or APD (Martin 1). Even delinquency and crime has followed after these stages of emotions under the roof of a broken family. Along with non-coping relationships between father and son, a mental sickness or addiction could also be the…

with others, and the subject could possibly be put away for the abuse unlike the parent that the child watched abuse them are others. Research shows that 81% of people gave histories of trauma which can cause B.P.A (Borderline Personality Disorder.) Personality Disorders can cause people to feel suicidal because they forget that they are human beings and that they do have a place in society that they aren’t…

The Psychopath Next Door When picturing a psychopath, we often think of a crazy deranged person holding a chainsaw and massacres an entire town. The reality of the truth is a lot more terrifying than the image that Hollywood fills our conscious up with. The truth about psychopath’s are that they look just like everyone else, therefore could be anyone. There are a lot of characteristics in a psychopath. Dr. Robert Hare created a checklist to determine certain traits in a psychopath. One…

matched it with the samples in the book, individuals are able to roughly interperate and analyze test takers’ personalities. I found it very interesting, and therefore, I developed an informal and nonacademic study to examine the validity of this test by asking my high school classmates to fill out a survey. It contains two parts, including the house/tree/person test, and the MBTI personality inventory. All these questionnaires were collected and analyzed manually. Since…

social stigma attached to mental illness, one that contributes to high suicide rates and refusal to seek treatment. The treatments are sometimes inconsistent, especially when dealing with complex issues such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and borderline personality…

Kristianna Mason Borderline Personality Disorder Greenville Technical College Mental illnesses are commonly referred to a wide range of mental health conditions. These are disorders that affect many things in a person’s life which includes their mood, behavior and cognition. From time to time, there are many people that develop these mental health illnesses and they become concerning when there are symptoms and ongoing signs that cause recurring stresses and the inability to function…

Breaking Night” is urban slang, specifically in the Bronx, for staying up through the night, until the sun rises (Murray 1). Liz Murray was born into the aftermath of her parents partying, hard drug using lifestyle in Bronx, New York. From a very young age, she had to learn to survive and adapt while addiction and mental illness destroyed her family. In her memoir Breaking Night, Liz takes her readers through her difficult, yet inspiring journey from being a homeless teenager to a student at…