Mental Disorders Paper

Readings: • The Autistic Spectrum • Chapter 4 • “First Causes” pg. 115125/Summary pg. 140-141 • Chapter 13  This week’s agenda: Unit 2!

An out-of-body experience is explained by few as a sense of being detached from one’s body, and if associated with other factors like a sense that the world is not real, far away, or even foggy. This with the combination of failure to recall significant personal information, or the content of a meaningful conversation forgotten from one second to the next are signs of a psychological disorder known as Dissociative Disorder. Considered as a rare and mysterious psychiatric curiosity, Dissociative Disorders will be the psychological disorder that will be discussed in this paper.

Interacting with people with disabilities, should be judged based on the person in front of us instead of based on stereotypes created through arts. Creigh, a college student who grew up with an Autistic younger sister, Caley in her article “I CANNOT CALL MY SISTER CUTE: AUTISM AND INFANTILIZATION” explains, “Caley’s got a sticker stuck to the door of her bedroom which reads, ‘When you see, meet, or think about a person with a disability, PRESUME COMPETENCE” (Creigh, 1). Competence the ability to do something successfully or efficiently. Throughout the arts people who have autism are being portrayed as cute, and due to this have to deal with the ways “normal people” see, meet or think about them. People within the autistic spectrum are inaccurately portrayed as “cute” in the arts.

emotionally capable of making an informed decision regarding participation in this study. Of the participants, 250 were male and 300 were female. Participants were selected from general

This article is from the perspective of a daughter with a mother who had an uncontrolled, unspecified, mental disorder throughout the daughter’s childhood. She recounts how her mother would treat her and her siblings when she was in a manic phase and when she was in the depressed phase. She also allows the reader to see how she was mistreated and constantly told that she was not good enough. Her mother told her she was not good enough until she began hearing it in her mind. She started to believe that she was not good enough and was just squeaking by in college and ended up quitting college. Her marriage was failing and she was consulting a therapist. It did not occur to her that she might need additional help until she seriously contemplated

31 y/o AA male patient seen today for psychiatric-mental health assessment. He is awake, alert and oriented x4. He is calm, cooperative and follows commands during assessment. The patient reports he is depressed, difficulty sleeping and nightmares at night. The patient explained his depression is as a result of deep thinking from a news he received two days ago from his elder brother that his mother is ill. Stressors identified by the patient include losing his job a week ago before the news about his mother; his wife is 6-months pregnant with their first child, who currently works part-time at her present job; patient relates difficulty paying monthly bills and inability to provide adequately for his family as a man. The patient denies mood swings, suicidal/homicidal thoughts and ideation. Patient reports his spouse is at work at the moment and he does not want to put stress on his wife due to her current condition. Patient denies been hospitalized for depression or psychiatric illness; and denies family history of mental illness. Patient reports he is seeking help because he does not like feeling this way using terms of “helpless and loss of worth from his spouse”. Patient reports he needs help with his depression and nightmares before his current condition get out of hands and ruined his marriage.

Jeffrey was arrested in the same year, 1988, for sexually fondling and drugging a young teenage boy (age thirteen); for this, he was put on probation for five years and for one year he was assigned to a work release camp where he was registered as a sex offender from the incident with the thirteen year old boy. Due to good behavior and a built up trust with the authorities, Dahmer was paroled from his work release camp two months early.

social norms were important to follow if one wanted to lead a happy and successful life. To be

Andy Warhol never was fully diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome but the symptoms are apparent. For example, “He clearly had a very narrow obsessive interest in art. He was a workaholic. He was an obsessive collector and a great deal of what he bought he never took out of the wrapping paper. He was a singular person. He had an autistic mechanical mind” (Fitzgerald 1). Warhol also had many repetitive works of art and showed signs of anxiety and these are all clear symptoms showing that he had autism. Furthermore, many people with autism have been recognized to have substantial artistic abilities. Therefore, researchers have suspected that Warhol’s autism may have contributed to his art. This art is incredibly famous to this day and has inspired millions. In an article written about the connection of Andy Warhol’s autism and his artwork, the director of the diagnostic centre for Autism states, “She believes that higher functioning forms of autism are often associated with prodigious talent and even with artistic genius” (Thorbes 1). This statement has sparked interest among researchers and they have been gathering information about the relationship between the two since. Andy Warhol is very well known for his pop art pieces and there is a likely chance that autism played a role in his artistic

The latest manual of mental disorders (DSM-5) includes various changes in the Feeding and Eating Disorders chapter as a significant number of professionals diagnosing patients realized individuals were not fitting into certain criteria and therefore being labelled with EDNOS “Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified”. Some of the substantial changes to the Diagnostic Manual include changes to the criteria for Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa. With this is mind my essay with focus on one of these specific subtypes. With evidence showing there has been an increase in Anorexia in the high risk-group of 15-19 year olds in the past decade, and Bulimia on the decrease since the early nineteenth century (Smink, Hoeken, Hoek 2012) my chosen subtype will be Anorexia Nervosa. As statistics are increasing further than those of other subtypes it merits singular discourse. AN remains the most deadly of all mental health disorders, with a 5-10% death rate within 10 years of developing the symptoms, and an 18-20% death rate within 20 years.

These are practices that are necessary in order for a society to continue thriving generation after generation.

Just as all psychological tests are categorized, not all tests are applied for the same use and the same users. Each test is done by a trained or professional to determine what is the situation based on the results and to see what treatment is best for the individual. There are four major psychological tests users are clinical, educational,

So far in the semester I have had a top three out of all the chapter and subjects we have learned about. I chose to start with psychological disorders because I find the concept of multiple personalities and what it abnormal and normal to be interesting. Second, I decided to go with sexuality and gender because sexuality is something that we all struggle with every day along with identifying who we are. Lastly, I decided to go with stress and health because stress is also something that we go through daily and struggle with.

appears at internal functions of a society while relating to social and cultural structures and the

Social Life, our social interactions the ways in which people act with other people and then react to how other people are reacting. Society is essentially created by people and how we interact with one another, our implementation of beliefs and traditions. “Habitualization describes how any action that is repeated frequently becomes cast into a pattern which can then be…performed again in the future in the same manner and with the same economical effort.” (Berger and Luckman 1966) Not only do we construct our own society, but we also accept it as it is because others have created it before us. Society, social interactions, stereotypes, statuses are all in fact “habit”. It makes us who we are and dictates our role in this world. “The way we present ourselves to other people is shaped partly by our interactions with others, as well as by our life experiences. How we were raised and what we were raised to believe affect how we present ourselves, how we perceive others, and how others perceive us. In short, our perceptions of reality are colored by our beliefs and backgrounds.” (SparkNotes Editors2006) Essentially, Who We Are and What Role We Play In Society!!!