Addressing Problems Associated By Joe Steven

Treanor, Michael, et al. "Generalized Anxiety Disorder." The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science, edited by W. Edward Craighead, and Charles B. Nemeroff, Wiley, 4th edition, 2010. Credo Reference,

Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric disorder in the United States. Between 15 - 19% of the population suffers from this disorder, which impairs the quality of life and functioning (Stuart 218). What is anxiety? Abnormal Psychology describes anxiety as “an adaptive emotion that helps us plan and prepare for a possible theat.” The text book further states, “worrying about many different aspects of life becomes chronic, excessive, and unreasonable.” This is also known as generalized anxiety disorder or GAD (Butcher 201). DSM IV-TR specifies that GAD is a worry that occurs more days then not for at least 6 months, and that it must be experienced as difficult to control (Butcher 201). 25% of those that suffer from this

A. Excessive anxiety and worry, occurring more days than not for at least six months.

| A. Excessive anxiety and worry (apprehensive expectation) about two (or more) domains of activities or events (for example, domains like family, health, finances, and school/work difficulties)B. The excessive anxiety and worry occur on more days than not for three months or more (APA, 2000) Examination of Classifications and SymptomsC. The anxiety and worry are associated with one or more of the following symptoms: 1. Restlessness or feeling keyed up or on edge2. Being easily fatigued3. Difficulty concentrating or

Prior to Mr. Smith’s diagnosis, Mrs. Smith worked outside of the home on a part-time basis. Her income was set aside to fund Junior’s college education. Mrs. Smith concentrated on maintaining harmony within the home and was a calm, stable influence in Mr. Smith and Junior’s lives. Since Mr. Smith’s diagnosis, Mrs. Smith has started working full time. The stress created by Mr. Smith’s diagnosis and care needs, concern over Junior’s well-being, full time employment, and financial concerns have caused Mrs. Smith to experience generalized anxiety disorder with panic attack specifier as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM, 2013).

According to DSM-V, “anxiety disorders include disorders that share features of excessive fear and anxiety and related behavioral

1. Client demonstrates excessive and sometimes unrealistic worry that has been occurring more days than not for past seven months. Client has been affected by physical issues due to anxiety; such as, nausea, diarrhea, lack of sleep and trouble falling asleep, excessive crying, discourse at home, and hypervigilance.

One common type of anxiety is Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Generalized Anxiety Disorder causes the victim to experience continuous, excessive, and unrealistic worry and distress about day-to-day tasks.

“Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is characterized by excessive worry about a variety of topics.”(Craighead, 2008) At first I found it hard to believe that Generalized Anxiety Disorder was a real debilitating

Anxiety, also known as generalized anxiety disorder, is categorized by Mayo Clinic as “ongoing anxiety and worry that are difficult to control and interfere with day-to-day activities”(“Generalized”). According to Mayo Clinics article Generalized Anxiety Disorder that not only adults but also children and adolescent who have this disorder that “Your anxiety, worry or physical symptoms cause you significant distress in social, work or other areas of your life.” Everyone experiences anxiety at one point in their life it; however, becomes a disorder once it starts to interfere with the everyday life of that person. The symptoms of anxiety in adults are persistent worrying over normally insignificant details in life, overthinking, having difficulty

His mother, Milly, dies giving birth to him and his father is murdered in cold blood by Doc Hines, his own grandfather, as the couple is caught attempting to run away together, this event is significant because it arguably shapes the rest of Joe's life, this absence of parental guidance and care could easily be a reasonable cause of some of the strange behaviors we observe in joe as an adult. His situation is exacerbated by the continued presence of his grandfather, whom we recognize to be extremely racist and fanatically religious, we observe some of his cruel and thoughtless behavior when he disrupts a church service for the sole purpose of condemn black people, urging "white folks to turn out and kill them all"(153) or, when instead of going out the fetch a doctor for his daughter about to give birth he refuses to budge and instead he simply stands "outside the hall door where he could see Milly until she died. "(153) ultimately kidnapping her newborn child and abandoning it

296.32 (F33.1) Major Depressive Disorder, recurrent episode, moderate severity, with anxious distress. Ms. Client meets eight of the nine diagnostic criteria for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Specifically, during several periods of time she experienced depressed mood, diminished interest in things she enjoyed to do, hypersomnia, psychomotor agitation, fatigue, feelings of worthlessness, decreased concentration, and suicidal thoughts without intent. Additionally, as Ms. Client expressed, these symptoms are source of continuing distress and interfere with her academics and social functioning. Also, her symptoms started four years prior to the psychological assessment and persisted intermittently since then, lasting for several weeks to several months, with the most recent period of extended length (enduring two weeks) approximately one year ago. Since the last episode she has experienced these symptoms for two to three days at a time. Although the last episode that met the criterion of two weeks duration occurred approximately a year ago, the symptoms have not disappeared, but they occur periodically since then and when they do, they cause considerable distress and impairment in functioning. Thus, the disorder cannot be coded as ‘in partial or full remission’. The specifier ‘with anxious distress’ was given, because Ms. Client reports feelings of difficulty in concentration because of worry and restlessness.

Several types of anxiety disorders are discussed in this film. General anxiety disorder is described as a constant feeling of worry and fear for at least six months. A person suffering from general anxiety may experience panic attacks, cold sweats, heavy breathing, and may withdraw from social interactions. It is regularly treated with medications and cognitive behavior therapy, which is a psychotherapy that focuses on helping patients understand the feelings they are experiencing and how those feelings may be contributing to their issue. Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is another anxiety disorder discussed in this film. People develop PTSD after experiencing an emotional shock or major trauma. Someone with PTSD may have issues sleeping and controlling their anger; they may experience feelings of detachment, numbness, and may have flashbacks of the traumatic experience causing their PTSD. Like general anxiety disorder, PTSD patients are often treated with medication and cognitive behavior therapy. Recently a new therapy, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, has been used in PTSD patients. This therapy requires the patient to rapidly move their eyes while recalling the traumatic experience. The third type of anxiety disorder discussed in this film is obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD. OCD is described

All these factors caused a lot of stress for him and contributed to his depression. He began to feel like life was not worth the struggle anymore. He had tried reading all sorts of self-help books to motivate himself and provide relief but none really helped. He began to feel worthless and hopeless for not being able to overcome his panic attack. He realised that his anxiety was baseless but he simply could not control it whenever it

According to Joe he was clearly brought from dysfunctional family and had experienced difficulty in his childhood, which I believe had a big role in shaping his personality. Joe was taken from his biological family in young age, as his mother was a drug addicted. She had Joe when she was 17. And as a child he needs attention and emotional support from his parent but Joe did not receive that which led him to be emotionally harmed. Joe was clearly afraid to get attached again because of the trust issues he has and thinking that his mother will constantly leave him.