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According to The Nebraska Department of Veteran’s Affair, estimated 7.8 percent of Americans had experienced PTSD, also known Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. PTSD is considered a psychiatric disorder and a mental health issue in the United States. They often develop depression, substance abuse, and anxiety. People that were diagnosed with PTSD had a serious accident, physical or sexual assaulted or a military combat. There three different symptoms, first symptoms is when you’re thinking about…

Depression is a common disorder that many people may face at some point in their life for a variety of reason. It is a complex disease because there is not a set reason as to why it is caused. Some reasons depression might occur is from distressing situations that take place, from a series of life altering trials or sometimes from a serious health condition. Depression symptoms may be kept under control by medication but they will never be completely cured from medicine. However, medications…

Case Study The case study will discuss a 52-year-old male client, Samuel, who is suffering obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) with good or fair insight. In this paper, this author will illustrate this case and discuss Samuel’s symptoms and diagnosis. In addition, this author will demonstrate evidence-based treatments and analyze potential challenges in therapy. Symptoms and Diagnosis This section will show an explanation of Samuel’s problem and his diagnosis. Samuel presented many features…

Verona Hibbert 11.10.2016 Abnormal Psychology Reflection essay An illness is defined by Merriam-Webster dictionary as, “a condition of being unhealthy in your body, mind or a specific condition that prevents your body or mind from working normally: a sickness or disease” (2014). When we look at the way one’s understanding of a disorder, we may find that the dictionary tends to define it as, something that disturbs the normal order of processing in the brain. Once one understand the different…

This is an introduction into use of music therapy used in cognitive and medical rehabilitation. Used very extensively in Europe most notably studied in detail by the university of Oslo in Norway. Looking at the methods of the studies using the scientific method for forming a theory that music has a beneficial effect on rehabilitation and improving cognitive function in children and patients with severe neurological and cognitive disorders. In fact, it is being used as a method of pain management…

Before I start talking about the book I have chosen to read, I would like to describe how I came to my decision upon choosing the book. When I first saw we had to read a memoir I was nervous because I have never read one. So the first thing I decide to do was find what a memoir was. After learning what a memoir was I felt less anxiety because I knew what I would be dealing with. My next step in continuing this project was figuring out which book I had to read. Our professor gave us a list…

The diagnostic criteria for OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) includes recurring and unwanted thoughts & urges which are hard to suppress and may cause discomfort or anxiety; this is known as obsession. Subsequently, there are compulsions, repetitive behaviors and actions performed by a person in a response to an obsession or an unrealistic belief it will prevent a horrific event or sooth anxiety. In order to meet the criteria for OCD these obsessions, compulsions, or a combination of both…

In the beginning was pain. Or perhaps it was end that was suffused with pain, its distinctive indigo tint. Color of old bruises, color of broken pottery, of crumpled maps in evening light. But, no, not like them, ultimately. For although men have tried for thousands of years to find the right simile- and women too- ultimately pain is only like itself. (VD 3) So begins Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel The Vine of Desire. Divakaruni textures the experiences of Calcutta born and raised sisters,…

Junot Diaz’s use of mental health issues a key part of the novel. If mental health is a taboo subject in the United States, it is ten times that in Latin American countries. Starting with Abelard’s wife, Socorro, she deals with severe anxiety. The narrator explains that Soccoro’s father, who would be Oscar’s great-grandfather, witnessed the death of his father at the hands of the state police. This caused him to become an alcoholic and Socorro to be “anxious” and she developed “the habit of…

Sheila’s Life With Body Dysmorphic Disorder In today’s society, it’s commonplace to compare oneself to models that appear in magazines or to look at oneself in the mirror and wish to be prettier or sexier. However, when one takes this comparison to a level where hours are spent comparing oneself to others, to a level where hours are spent staring in the mirror wishing to change oneself - this becomes a level of obsession that is now no longer considered normal. This obsession begins to…