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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder People With Ocd
990 wordsOBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER Everybody in the world suffers from some sort of mental or physical problem. In some cases it is more obvious than others. For example, if you discover a lump on your body you may think its cancerous. That person may or may not be able to treat that illness depending on what stage he / she caught it in. For mental disorders this is not the case. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is not even close to as deadly as cancer, but it can ruin your life just the same. Obsessive...
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Anorexia Nervosa Eating Disorder
1,189 wordsBizarre, devastating, and baffling are three words that describe the anorexia nervosa disease. By definition, anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder in which a normal-weight person diets and becomes significantly underweight, yet, still feeling fat, continue to starve themselves. The term "anorexia nervosa" literally means nervous lose of appetite. People with the disorder are suppressing a strong desire to eat, because they are afraid of becoming fat. Anorexia is characterized by extreme starva...
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Anorexia Nervosa Cardiac Arrest
1,295 wordsKaren Anne Carpenter was a famous singer / drummer. She is part of a brother / sister duo. Karen was unhappy with her appearance. She started eating less and exercising more. She used laxatives and over the counter drug to vomit. Around 1975, her anorexia became severe. She was constantly under the public eye. In 1983, she died from Cardiac Arrest due to anorexia. She died in her parent house in Downey, CA. There is no single cause for eating disorders. It may have occurred because of Social pre...
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Lucid Dreaming Rem Sleep
795 wordsThe research of consciousness, or states of awareness, has provided numerous interesting and influential studies. Sleep, dreams, and hypnosis are states of awareness that have intrigued psychologists because they relate to the quality of psychological interaction with the environment. States of awareness change constantly, which produces changes in behavior. Studies in this area have made great contributions to the understanding of psychology. Researchers pursuing answers about states of awarene...
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Periods Of Time Dance Clubs
1,109 wordsIt is estimated that 94. 1 million Americans of the age 12 or older has used an illicit drug at least once in their lifetimes, one of those drugs being Ecstasy. Ecstasy (a. k. a. Es, New Yorkers, White Doves, Disco Burgers, Love Doves and Dennis the Menace) was invented in 1914 as a prescription drug, used to reduce appetite and introduced in 1981 to teens in America, who started using it as a recreational drug. It is estimated that one and a half million Es are taken every weekend (mostly in te...
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Model Of The World Sensory Input Dreams
1,428 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Are dreams a source of reliable divination? Generations upon generations seem to have thought so. They incubated dreams by travelling afar, by fasting and by engaging in all other manners of self deprivation or intoxication. With the exception of this highly dubious role, dreams do seem to have three important functions: a. To process repressed emotions (wishes, in Freud's speech) and ...
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Patients Who Received Tagged As Having Involved Hypnosis
1,320 wordsBased on studies using the Stanford scales, researchers with very different theoretical perspectives now agree on several fundamental principles of hypnosis. The first is that a person's ability to respond to hypnosis is remarkably stable during adulthood. In perhaps the most compelling illustration of this tenet, a study showed that when retested, Hilgard's original subjects had roughly the same scores on the Stanford scales as they did 10, 15 or 25 years earlier. Studies have shown that an ind...
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Behavioral Observations Of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
1,151 words... g something horrible such as harming, offending, or embarrassing you or someone else (Summers, 1999). Of course, there are many more obsessions, and some are less common than others. Other obsessions are religious, sexual, or somatic obsessions, and others involve a need for order and symmetry (Summers, 1999). The important thing to remember is that although "As Good As It Gets" is a comedy, there is not a one funny thing about obsessions. To someone who has OCD, obsessions are intrusions in...
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Borderline Personality Disorder Mental Health Services
1,609 wordsBorderline personality disorder "is defined in the DSM IV, a manual used by psychiatrists to diagnose all mental disorders, as an AXIS II disorder which has symptoms of impulsively and emotional dys regulation" (Livesley 146). A person with BPD have feelings of abandonment and emptiness, and have "frantic efforts to avoid abandonment, going to extremes to keep someone from leaving" (Burger 300). He or she is emotionally unstable and forms intense but unstable interpersonal relationships. They sh...
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Drugs And Alcohol Adolescent Depression
1,111 wordsOnly in the past two decades has depression in adolescents been taken seriously. Depression is an illness that involves the body, mood and thoughts. It affects the way a person eats and sleeps, the way one feels about oneself, and the way one thinks about things. Therefore it comes to no surprise to discover that adolescent depression is strongly linked to teen suicide. Adolescent suicide is now responsible for more deaths in youths aged 15 to 19 than cardiovascular disease or cancer (Blackman, ...
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Worth A Thousand Thousand Words
945 wordsA picture is worth a thousand words. You " ve heard it so many times that it sounds trite. But a picture really IS worth a thousand words. And if a dream is a very special kind of picture, how much is IT worth? Maybe more? What about very simple pictures and very simple dreams? No doubt they " re worth a little bit less than complex, elaborate ones. Or are they? In my psychotherapy course one day, I presented my undergraduate students with these questions. "Here's a very simple dream from a psyc...
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D A R E Crack Cocaine
1,759 wordsCeleste Porter Hlth 1050 Research Paper Crack-Cocaine Addiction at It's Best In quite a few lower-class communities, phrases like "your mom is a crack head, " or "shut up crack baby" are said jokingly to make fun of someone during what we call a "rip session. " Although said as a joke, some are very offended by the comments. Why? because for some, crack addiction hits too close to home for comfort. Seeing how easy it is obtained in lower class and poverty stricken neighborhoods, many find themse...
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Children And Adolescents Child And Adolescent Psychiatry
1,460 words... if you do decide to treat the child with antidepressants, which is by far the easiest mode of treatment, the child could still be at risk for self-harm due to the risk associated with antidepressant drugs and children. As a parent, this scenario is like tossing a one-sided coin, in that with or without treatment your child may be at risk of suicidal tendencies. Another concern is the dosage of antidepressants being given to children and adolescents. Currently, the lowest dosage for an antide...
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Original Work Published Good And Evil
1,761 words... claims. Constructivist theory would equate religion and relativism, construing religion as personal beliefs found by an individual to agree with his or her own needs and interests. The psychology of religion would then be the major focus of inquiry, an exercise in teasing out what caused religious belief or what its purpose was for individuals and groups. That religious belief and practice as a human phenomenon is a proper subject of inquiry using personal construct theory as a methodology i...
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Socio Cultural Management Plan
1,263 wordsDepression Introduction This assignment will look at a case study of a adult female who presents herself with a three month of hospitalization. The patient is getting divorce after 22 years. She sees suicide as an ideal but has no plan of action. She also suffers from abnormal sleeping patterns, waking at night and lacks concentration on her work. In the context of the above scenario we will look at diagnostic possibilities, possible causes for the depression, impact on her life, relevant safety...
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Sigmund Freud Collective Unconscious
1,104 wordsCarl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of the school of analytical psychology. He proposed and developed the concepts of the extroverted and introverted personality, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. The issues that he dealt with arose from his personal experiences. For many years Jung felt as if he had two separate personalities. One introverted while the other was extroverted. This interplay results in his study of integration and wholeness. His work has been influenti...
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Depression In Teenagers Depressed Teenagers Suicide
793 wordsThere are many misconceptions about depression. Pathological depression is not the dispirited or down mood, which we all experience from time to time, and which causes us to say, Im depressed, but it is a debilitating illness that affects one in five people of all ages from children to adults. It is not just a passing mood swing. Depression can affect not only a persons mood but also his or her ability to function normally. Treatment is available yet quite a number do not seek it. Depression is ...
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Child Is Born Substance Abuse
1,064 wordsChild maltreatment is defined as intentional harm to or avoidable endangerment of, anyone less than 18 years of age. Thus, child maltreatment includes both abuse-deliberate action that is harmful to a child s well being-and neglect-failure to appropriately meet a child s basic needs. An 18 -year-old mother that is using drugs during pregnancy is guilty of child abuse and neglect. A baby does not have the option of saying Mommy I don t feel like getting high today. It is a mother s responsibility...
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Bipolar Disorder Manic Depression
1,041 wordsBIPOLAR DISORDERBipolar Disorder, often called Manic Depression, is a medical condition that involves severe mood swings in an individual. It is a lifetime condition that needs to be treated to keep it in remission (APA). It is not just a mental illness, but a medical disease involving the brain The disease progresses as the years pass and the frequency of mood changing episodes becomes more frequent (MHN). Bipolar Disorder involves depressive and manic phases. With the symptoms presented, clini...
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State Of Mind Albert Einstein
1,407 wordsINTRODUCTION: Albert Einstein Hypnosis HYPNOSIS INTRODUCTION: Albert Einstein reckoned that humans use only about 10 % of their brains. According to some reports, while hypnotized, we could gain access to the other 90 %. Every human being who is mentally sound can be hypnotized to some degree. You can use hypnosis for a lot of things, for instance to control weight, pain, sleep, and to raise confidence. You can also use it to quit smoking, develop concentration and memory. In fact, you can use i...
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