Trichotillomania

There is no easy way for me to start this. Of all the many things that can be said about me as a person, that I have difficulty starting things is one of the most prevalent, especially where an assignment like this is concerned. I am a self-aware person; I haven’t always been. I spend a fair amount of time thinking about myself and my life and why I am the way I am; I don’t spend much time at all divulging my opinions of myself to anyone else. I’m a writer, and it’s not as if I’m not used to…

"Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense, because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us."(Scully). How many others out in the world believe, that animals are elegant creatures? If humans are to believe this, then why do we take them from…

Treatment Treating patients with excoriation starts with a series of evaluations (Arnold et al., 2001). The evaluations are of two types: physical and psychological (Grant et al., 2016). First, the clinician will have the patient evaluated for any underlying skin-related medical problems like lesions, scabies, etc. Then the patient is evaluated and treated for psychological conditions. When knowing about certain comorbid disorders, clinicians can better treat their patients. Some regimens may…

According to the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder foundation,(Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder,2013).“OCD is a medical brain disorder that causes problems in information processing.” They compare OCD to a brain spasm; when your brain freezes on a certain thought and is unable to move forward. The brain is incapable of dealing with any thoughts of worry or doubt. This may cause many side effects that can clearly perceive a person as OCD. Obsessive compulsive disorder is a disease that is well known of,…

anxiety disorder; however, recently in the DSM-V, Obsession Compulsion Disorder and anxiety were removed from the same realm, giving OCD its own section. Added to the DSM-V section of OCD were many sub-groups, such as body dysmorphic disorder, trichotillomania, and excoriation disorder (Stein et al, 2010). In contemporary time, rituals such as hand washing have resulted from obsessions, where they started from a religious view and later turned into a medial view. Towards the early and mid…

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In retrospect, the only way I can really describe summer that year is that I lasted. Certain things kept me going like watching sunsets, babysitting, and phone calls with my friend Tiffany or Ms. Wojcik; two people I can always confide in and that can make me laugh without even trying. In September it was back to the normal school routine. I was actually sort of excited. My headaches were getting better, the weather was still nice, and I could focus for the first time in what felt like forever…