Disorders Essays and Term Papers
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Mischief, Mayhem, in Tyler We Trust: A Textual Analysis of Personality Disorders as Depicted in the Film Fight Club
Psychological disorders are widely represented in films, as well as in other media texts such as novels, television shows, etc. One film that portrays more than one example of a psychological disorder is Fight Club, a Twentieth Century Fox movie released with an R rating in 1999. Directed by David Fincher; and produced by Art Linson, Cean Chaffin, and Ross Grayson Bell, the movie mainly introduces Dissociative Identity Disorders (also known as Multiple Personality Disorders),
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Understanding Attention Deficit Disorder and Learning How to Help
Understanding Attention Deficit Disorder and Learning How to Help Attention Deficit Disorder, or ADD, is a neurobiological disorder affecting many people around the world. It is characterized by easy distractibility and a difficulty in staying focused on a task or activity for any period of time. Hyperactivity may or may not be present in persons with ADD, if so this is referred to as ADHD. ADD affects everyone differently. Researchers believe chemicals in the brain
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Attention Deficit Disorder in Alolescents
Page 1 Attention Deficit Disorder in Adolescents Imagine being easily sidetracked and losing your train of thought in mid-conversation. Imagine being unable to focus and having inconsistent school work and career performance. Imagine losing your keys or forgetting what you were going to do next on a daily basis. Today, more so than ever before, there are children, adolescents, and adults who are being diagnosed with either ADD or ADHD. “Estimates on how many
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Abnormal Psychology: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder Mental illness has plagued human kind for as long as we have been on this earth. The science of psychology has made great strides in past century. The stigma of being mentally ill has begun to fall away and people are finally starting to get the help that they need to recover. Bipolar disorder is one illness that we have come to more fully understand. Through assistance from a psychiatrist, family and
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Bipolar Disorder: Finding the Light in the Dark
Bipolar Disorder: Finding the Light in the Dark Affecting nearly one percent of the population of the United States, bipolar disorder has quickly become one of the leading forms of mental illness (Spearing). While advancements in medical science and technology have allowed researchers and physicians to understand its elements more clearly, the effects of bipolar disorder are tragic and often deadly. Often the negative results occur due to a lack of proper diagnosis: some seventy-five
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER Antisocial personality disorder is a disorder with a misleading name. Its name may lead one to believe that people with the disorder stay away from social interaction. That is anything but true. People with this disorder are very sociable. The thing that makes them antisocial is they way they do not adapt to normal social standards or behavior. People with antisocial personality disorder may come across as very friendly people, the
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Eating Disorders
Abstract This paper explains how eating disorders are also mental disorders manifested as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating, and Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, or EDNOS. The need for action is called upon and statistically proven. This paper argues that communication, therapy, feeding intervention, and support groups are needed to fight this phenomenon. It explains that, in all cultures and races, intervention is the key to improvement and prevention and therefore, includes the family,
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Generalized Anxiety Disorder Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is a chronic and often disabling condition that is associated with uncontrollable worry and tension. The vicious cycle of anxiety and worry interferes with relationships, careers, and education, and often leads to depression. This disorder is much more than the normal anxiety that everyone experiences from time to time, and can be crippling in its severity. GAD is unlikely to disappear without proper treatment, and often worsens over
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
"Compulsive" and "obsessive" have become everyday words. "I'm compulsive" is how some people describe their need for neatness, punctuality, and shoes lined up in the closets. "He's so compulsive is shorthand for calling someone uptight, controlling, and not much fun. "She's obsessed with him" is a way of saying your friend is hopelessly lovesick. That is not how these words are used to describe Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder or OCD, a strange and fascinating sickness of ritual
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Its Effect on Life
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder And Its Effect On Life Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, involves anxious thoughts or rituals one feels and can't control. . For many years, OCD was thought to be rare. The actual number of people with OCD was hidden, because people would hide their problem to avoid embarrassment. Some recent studies show that as many as 3 million Americans ages 18 to 54 may have OCD at any one time. This is about
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Borderline Personality Disorder
Why Are Women Diagnosed With Borderline Personality Disorder More Than Men? Borderline Personality Disorder is diagnosed predominantly in females. There is approximately a 3:1 female to male gender ratio for this disorder. Theories of why Borderline Personality Disorder occurs more often in women - Sexual abuse, which is common in childhood histories of borderline patients, happens more often to women than men. - Women experience more inconsistent and invalidating messages in this society. - Women
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Dissociative Identity Disorder
In Multiple Personalities Disorder, recently named Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), up to 13 personalities alternate in a person. The person with DID may feel the presence of other identities talking or living inside their head. Each personality is unique and has its own name, personal history, and sets of memories, ideas, thoughts, ways of thinking and purposes. One identity may be the protector while another can be a child. This mental disorder appears to be
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Somatoform Disorder
Somatoform Disorder Somatoform disorders deal with people who show symptoms of a somatic or bodily disorder, even though there is no physical cause for it. This psychological disorder takes a somatic/bodily form, thus it is called a somatoform disorder. There are mainly five types of this disorder: Undifferentiated Somatoform Disorder, Conversion Disorder, Pain Disorder, Hypochondriasis, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and Somatoform Disorder not Otherwise Specified (NOS). One example of this disorder is conversion disorder. This disorder
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A Psychological Aspect of Susan Smith: Dependent Personality Disorder
A Psychological Aspect of Susan Smith: Dependent Personality Disorder On October 25, 1994, Susan Smith drowned her two sons, Michael and Alex, in the John D. Long Lake in Union County, South Carolina. For nine days she lied about knowing where the boys were. On November 3, she confessed to the killings and would soon go to trial. Susan’s defense team hired a psychiatrist to conduct a psychiatric evaluation of her. She was diagnosed as
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Borderline Personality Disorder
There are many online sources for BPD. For many of the chat rooms you have to be accepted into the group. I have narrowed it down to a web site that offers live chat, message boards, general information on the disorder, and much more. The name of the support group is: BPD Sanctuary The website for resourceful information regarding this disorder is: http://www.mhsanctuary.com/borderline/board.htm The website I went to for a support group is: http://pub23.ezboard.com/bbpdsanctuary
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Post-Tramautic Stress Disorder in Veterens
As long as there have been soldiers, they have always carried with them haunting memories that plague them for their entire life. Many soldiers will never adapt to civilian life simply because they cannot become accustomed to it after experiencing something as shocking and traumatic as warfare. It is not uncommon to see war veterans never adapt to civilian life and even kill themselves, as Norman Bowker did in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried.
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Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety Disorders Anxiety is a normal reaction to a threatening situation and results from an increase in the amount of adrenaline from the sympathetic nervous system. This increased adrenaline speeds the heart and respiration rate, raises blood pressure, and diverts blood flow to the muscles. These physical reactions are appropriate for escaping from danger but when they cause anxiety in many situations throughout the day, they may be detrimental to a normal lifestyle. An anxiety
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Eating Disorders
G Eating disorders are sweeping this country and are rampant on junior high, high school, and college campuses. These disorders are often referred to as the Deadly Diet, but are often known by their more popular names: anorexia or bulimia. They affect more than 20% of females between the age of thirteen and forty. It is very rare for a young female not to know of someone with an eating disorder. Statistics show that at
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a potentially disabling sickness that may persist throughout a person’s life, and gone untreated may possibly worsen. OCD is a psychological disorder that one out of fifty adults currently suffer from, and at least twice that many have experienced at some point in their lives. When worries, doubts, or superstitious beliefs become excessive, then a diagnosis of OCD may be made. It is believed that the brain can become stuck on
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Eating Disorders
Eating Disorders Researchers study eating disorders to try to understand the disorders and their many complexities. “Eating disorders are complicated psychiatric illnesses in which food is used to deal with unsettling emotions and difficult life issues” (Michel & Willard, 2003, p. 2). To help those with eating disorders, one must understand the causes, effects and treatments associated with the disorders. Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Compulsive Overeating are three common eating disorders found in society
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Eating Disorders
People involved in pop-culture, carry on the ideal of thinness through judgments, conversations, and teasing. There is an association of humiliation with weight, as women often refuse to disclose what their weight is, and moreover, do not want to be seen in certain types of clothes, such as bikinis and short shorts. This ideal image of thinness contributes to the sense that they should be ashamed of their body size. The chronic passive obsession about
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Eating Disorders
Eating Disorders One of the most prevalent disorders amongst the youth of this era is eating disorders. While some overlook it and don’t think it is a problem eating disorders should be given serious consideration. This is because the psychological ramification of eating disorders tends to have lasting effects over the course of the adolescents’ life. An eating disorder is any of various psychological disorders, such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, which involves insufficient or
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Eating Disorders
An eating disorder is an illness that consumes all aspects of a person’s life. It is caused by a number of factors and influences and has a profound effect on the people suffering and their loved ones. There is a big difference between dieting and eating disorders. Dieting is losing a small amount of weight through exercise or a change of diet, but it is done healthily. Eating disorders are about seeking approval through others.
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Phobic Disorders
Phobic Disorders Phobic disorders are classified as one of the most common of all anxiety disorders; they are a persistent and unreasonable fear of a particular object, activity, or situation. Many people who suffer from this disorder know that the fears they have, are excessive and unreasonable and, the feared object can usually determine how much it affects a persons functioning. Although, anyone can develop a phobic disorder, it is found more commonly in women
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder “Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric disorder, more specifically, an anxiety disorder. OCD comes in a variety of forms but is most commonly characterized by a subject's obsessive (repetitive, distressing, intrusive) thoughts and related compulsions (tasks or rituals) which attempt to neutralize the obsessions.” It’s important to distinguish OCD from other type’s anxiety, like routine tension and normal stress that appear throughout life. “Obsessions are thoughts and ideas that the sufferer
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