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One afternoon in college, I noticed my friend had cut his hair extremely close and there was a small bald spot near his widow’s peak. I asked about the haircut, and he said with no hesitation, “I have trichotillomania.” He said it in such a way that I should have known exactly what he was talking about. “Tricha-what?” I asked. “Trichotillomania. I pull my hair out.” I remember thinking that this was a really odd bad habit. Flash forward eight years and I find myself with an autistic student plagued by trichotillomania in my classroom. For my friend in college, it was just a weird habit that gave him a slight bald patch. For my student and his classmates, it is a noxious classroom disruption.

The individual with trichotillomania will often display an increase in tension or stress, immediately prior to pulling hair. They will also have a display of gratification or pleasure as well as relief during and after pulling out the hair.

Trichotillomania, also known as trichotillosis or hair pulling disorder, is defined as an impulse control disorder characterized by the compulsive urge for people to pull out their own hair (Weiss, 2015). Trichotillomania occurs in two forms, conscious and unconscious hair pulling. According to information gathered from the most recent and accurate study for statistics of Trichotillomania, which was performed by group of TrichStop staff in 2013, two and a half million people who live in the United States of America have been affected by trichotillomania at some point in their life (TrichStop, 2013). The hair pulling disorder has many causes as well as several effects that occur to a person during and after the hair pulling disorder is active.

When society hears the words mental disorder, the first thing that pops into their minds is Schizophrenia and Bipolar. One disorder that you may not have heard about is Trichotillomania. Trichotillomania, defined by Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary is “ A morbid impulse to pull out one’s own hair; trichologia”, (Saunders, W.B, pg 1395). People with this disorder have a tendency to pull out their own hair. It’s a long-term disorder. Young kids can get this disorder, both boys and girls. Adults can also get this disorder at any age, but it is mostly found in women instead of men.

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

Smith should not be diagnosed with anxiety disorders because the obsession he is facing involve actual life concerns and include unusual and unreasonable content while experiencing compulsions that are related to the obsessions. He should not be treated for major depressive disorder because the thoughts are usually mood-congruent and are not necessarily invasive or disturbing or linked to compulsions. In addition, Mr. Smith should not be diagnosed with other obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, such as body dysmorphic or hoarding disorders because his obsessions and compulsions are not restricted to physical appearance and he does not show signs of difficulty leaving or removing possessions. However, these disorders can be diagnosed together. Mr. Smith is not experiencing an eating disorder because he is not concerned about his weight and

This paper will attempt to break down and analyze three people who are said to have had some type of a mental issue. This paper will address the three people independently however every individual will be analyzed by the DSM-5 criteria for which ever disorder the individual is diagnosed to have. This paper will explain why the individual has the disorder and why alternate disorders will also fit the individual. This paper will state some short-term and long-term treatments that could beneficial to the client, based off their personal needs and disorders.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, a common disorder, refers to the excessive, unreasonable, and intrusive obsessions or compulsions, which cause distress to an individual. Obsessions are intrusive thoughts, persistent ideas, and impulses that invade an individual’s consciousness. On the other hand, compulsions are rigid and repetitive, or “rituals” that an individual must perform in order to prevent anxiety. In fact, this disorder is classified as an anxiety disorder because the obsessions cause great anxiety to the individual, while the compulsions are aimed at reducing the anxiety (National Institute of Mental Health). Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder affects about 2.2 million adults in the US, sticking men and women equally, and usually appears in childhood, adolescence, or early adulthood (National Institute of Mental Health). One-third of adults develop symptoms as

The symptoms for most impulse control disorders are when the impulse arisen, internal tension increases, Actions bringing pleasure as well as a sense of relief afterward, and guilt and remorse replacing pleasure and relief (Future of palm beach). Moreover, impulsivity is sometimes known as a sign of addiction, characterized by of loss of control, a negative habit in which an action is repeated in any setting (Future of palm beach). For example, a person who has an impulse control disorder may be addicted to gambling because he or she can’t control his or her impulsivity. Symptoms for certain impulse control disorders are also differed slightly. For example, a person who has kleptomania, would repeat their action with the process of stealing an item from a store despite it not being necessary to them and quietly returning the item back. A person who has pyromania would repeatedly catch something such as a trash can on fire and would run away after someone notice them. People with trichotillomania will often have the urge to pull off their hair. Many of these symptoms could last for either days, months, or even years to the point where impulse control disorder would have completely effected these

Jennifer Raikes, the president of Trichotillomania Learning Center, recalls that, “The rhythm of running my fingers over my eyebrows is soothing. One half of my mind is attuned to the texture of each hair, the tickle against my thumb.” Very soon, she would feel that “... this hair feels out of place; it’s too thick, too coarse. I need to get it out.” This is the urge that has been haunting her since her childhood. As she entered her adulthood, she learned that she is not the only one with trichotillomania, the impulse-control disorder that urges one to pull out his or her hairs. In fact, trichotillomania is plaguing the lives of one in every fifty Americans (Raikes 38). This disorder

Headache = Tumor. Cough = Tuberculosis. Mole = Skin Cancer. Such is the thought process of a hypochodriac. As defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-IV (DSM-IV), hypochondriasis is an unrealistic interpretation of one's bodily sensations as abnormal, leading to the fear and belief that one has a serious disease (1). This preoccupation with having a serious medical condition is one of the somatoform disorders and may be considered more as a symptom than a disease. In fact, hypochondriacal symptoms often appear as a part of other mental disorders, including forms of depression or schizophrenia (2). For this reason, a close investigation of hypochondriacal behavior is necessary to

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Many people in the United States struggle with some form of an anxiety disorder. There are many different kinds of anxiety disorders, although some are more well known than others. One of the lesser known anxiety disorders is named Trichotillomania or “trich” for short. Many people often picture anxiety attacks as somebody crying, panicking, and low on breath, but trich is not like that at all. Trichotillomania is a hair pulling disorder, about 8 million people are known to have trich. But that number is not considering all the unreported cases (Trichotillomania: Background, Pathophysiology, Etiology). People with trich are referred to as trichsters. In comparison to other anxiety disorders not a lot of information is known about trich. Trichotillomania is linked to OCD in many ways, but the cause of trich is still unknown; in The Hair-Pulling Problem, by Fred Penzel, Penzel presents five different theories about the cause of thich.

Agitation is defined as “a feeling of aggravation or restlessness brought on by provocation and a feeling of inner tension” ("Agitation: Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatments"). Transitory agitation is a normal emotion, experienced by individuals at least once in their lives. However, a persistence of these behaviors could indicate a more serious problem. Some of these problems include anxiety disorders, dementia, conditions that cause hormone imbalances, and mental illness such as bipolar and schizophrenia (Livingston, et al., 2014). It is a persistent, distressing and common issue associated with a breakdown in care. Psychotropic medications that are frequently prescribed for this behavior may be ineffective, or even harmful to the patient. The evidence to support non-pharmacologic interventions is ambiguous and overall lacking. For these reasons, researchers have been searching for alternative interventions to reduce the demand for chemical and physical restraints.

Business management is a diverse field with lots of different ways on how to manage either someone or something. A manager would have to control the whole of what a person does or an entire company to make sure that everything is going correctly with no defaults. Being a brand manager includes the knowledge on how to satisfy a vast variety of people for the brand they are representing to actually achieve within it. Data is excruciatingly important to any direction when it comes to the responsibility they hold, a minor mistake can make a huge difference.