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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) deals with an illogical link from the obsession to the compulsion, or ritual. The obsession is the source of the individual’s fears, such as germs or death, and the ritual is the practices one performs, such as washing one’s hands or blinking a certain number of times, as an alleviation of their obsession. The link may or may not make sense to the individual; with the latter case, the ritual is mainly performed just in case something bad was to happen. Those…

Everyone has heard of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD. In fact, many people have the belief that they have obsessive compulsive disorder even when they really do not. They believe this for various reasons, some including wanting everything clean, being a “perfectionist,” etc. Against popular belief, a person is not OCD just because they expect things to be orderly and clean. Within another realm of disorders, rests Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder. Similar, but far from the same.…

HUMAN SERVICES AND POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER IN THE MILITARY I. INTRODUCTION A. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), caused by exposure to a traumatic event, is a mental health condition characterized by recurrent nightmares or flashbacks, avoiding reminders/recounting the event, distorted mental processes or emotional numbing, and a persistently high state of arousal and reactivity (Institute of Medicine , 2014) B. In the military, PTSD is caused by various elements of combat exposure…

Largely today, the treatment of depression in the United States has become synonymous with taking a pill in order to make all of your troubles go away. As such, the prescribing of anti-depressant medications to patients with depression and other psychiatric disorders by doctors has become a priority to the pharmaceutical industry. Treating depression like one would with a headache has become incredibly lucrative to doctors, patients, and pharmaceutical companies. Evident through the robust…

Dr. Christian Book Review for Manufacturing Depression Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease is an journey that seeks to challenge the ideas of what constitutes as depression. As the author, Gary Greenberg, challenges the medical industry, he manages to present a compelling argument. Greenberg is a practicing psychotherapist in Connecticut. Looking at his background, we can say that he has the credentials to be writing on this topic. He actually was diagnosed…

McPherson, F., McGraw, L. (2013). Treating Generalized Anxiety Disorder Using Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Alternative Therapies in Health & Medicine, 19(5), 45-50. Fujo McPherson and Leigh McGraw used a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design study utilizing (CAM) or complementary and alternative medicine to investigate the effectiveness of a pilot program for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) patients after using self-care behavior methods. They particularly related this belief…

For thousands of years, in order to ensure their longevity, mankind has had to find the cures to their diseases and illnesses within the world around them. For most of human existence, we did not have doctors and pharmacies as we know them today. Cures and therapies were made from plants and animals found around people’s native environments. As mankind progressed and industrialized the world, we learned how to control the world around us, how to manipulate it on an atomic and molecular level.…

When I was a little, my mother made sure I was involved in sports. Although I’m a girl, she wanted me to focus only on sports, rather than learn how to walk in heals, which I still struggle with today. Tennis was the first sport I joined at the age of five, but that was not enough. As I began training for tennis tournaments, my coach decided that I need to join track in order to increase my speed on the court. For my mother that was a marvelous idea, but for me it was not as marvelous. The first…

I identify that Eddie has Mild (minor) Depression, The Reason I identify that Eddie has mild depression and not major is that his symptoms have not been ongoing for the last 2 years which would help me identify that it was major depression. Mild depression usually causes symptoms that impact on your daily life, this makes you less interested in things you would once enjoy, and less motivated for everyday life. Mild depression is often undiagnosed because sufferers continue to function with their…

Arthur Dimmesdale has efficiently demonstrated that he suffers from avoidant personality disorder throughout the novel. While Dimmesdale does not show every symptom of the disorder, many of his symptoms are apparent and persistent enough for a diagnosis. Impulsiveness, fear of being rejected or criticized, manipulation, and violation of the emotional rights of others are all key characteristics of Dimmesdale as well as avoidant personality disorder (Burton 2012). Whether or not Dimmesdale was…