Psychoanalytic Anxiety: A Case Study

Everybody has at one point of another experienced feeling trapped and needing to escape from something, but that does not mean everyone has anxiety. It is so easy to use anxiety as an excuse to try to get out of an assignment, presentation, or simply to get special treatment. While many people use it as an excuse, it is much more than that to others. A person can feel like they dying, and there is no way out. What is this thing that is taking over so many people’s lives?

The patient, a thirty-three year old female singer, is having difficulty sleeping, simple activities like getting groceries tire the patient easy, complains of neck pain, and cannot concentrate. The patient experiences worry and anxiety. However, when asked about what specifically, many things were brought up but none were more important than the other.

A way to direct the topic of anxiety is to look into the theories behind different peoples emotions and also reactions. Anxiety can occur in an individual because distress and fear take action. It could be as simple as being afraid of insects or heights, or it could a larger scale, like due self consciousness with physical appearance or body weight. Reading an individuals anxiety can be hard to comprehend and as an individual who understands psychology we all know that we should deal with anyone who suffers from a heavy load of anxiety in a gingerly manor. Many people go about hiding their anxiety, or express in it an unhealthy habits. Psychologist try and work with through counseling to shorten stress and dissect the situation thats causing

In a prerecorded episode of crash course Hank Green vocalizes the need for awareness of a very minimalized disorder known as anxiety. Beginning with the introduction of anxiety in the 1970’s and ending with today’s perspective on anxiety. Green mentions that anxiety is something that not a lot of people understand. It’s part of being human but, can turn into fears, panic attacks and other disorders (C. 2014). Generally, that blinds others from grasping what anxiety really is and is usually used as a joke or explanation for a fear. The truth is that anxiety is not being afraid of spiders or organizing your closet twice a week. Anxiety is going beyond that organizing your closet two times a week and maybe doing it every day to the point where all your clothes are lined up in a certain way. Green also states that “anxiety is not just about the fear itself a key component is what people do to get rid

The objective of the experiment is to identify the individuals who can be beneficial to society from their polygenic risk scores associated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Previous studies revealed that healthy siblings of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder were over-represented in creative professions, displaying a positive association between creativity and psychological disorders. But whether this association is due to shared genetics or environment still remained uncertain. Thus researchers used polygenic risk scores of psychological disorders generated from overall population of Iceland and the results from two other mega-analyses to test this question.

Instructions: Read the following case study about a woman, Allison, who is suffering from anxiety. After you have read the case study, diagnose Allison and present some methods of treatment by answering the questions.

It has been established that Karen’s problems are not physiological. The case shows that she is overly obsessed with the desire from anything that could jeopardize her health. For example, she constantly sanitizes her hands and also uses glasses to shield the eyes from the fluorescent rays. Most of the things that may be affecting Karen could be beyond her control, but she doesn’t admit this. She also hates hospitals as she believes they are hotbeds of illnesses.

Cassie, Counseling, and Anxiety: A Case Example The first chapter of Groups: A Counseling Specialty examines the existence of various types of groups, the emphasis of these groups, and the clients who benefit the most from their existence (Gladding, 2012). To help solidify understanding of the presented material, the text provides case examples that allow readers to reflect on how certain group aspects have been, or can be, applied to their own lives. In “Cassie Tries a Counseling Group,” the potential benefits to be reaped from joining a counseling group are magnified.

The claimant had psychiatric visits on 06/08/2017 and 06/13/2017 with Laarne Sparks, Ed.D, LCDG, LMFT. It was noted that the claimant had a lot of anxiety at work but had been less anxious at home.

I think Freud would say that my situation created anxiety and that I am using avoidance as a defense mechanism. I would say that assessment would be true, that is the thing that I have the most anxiety about in my life right now. I’m not completely sure if it’s the anticipation of having to talk about it with my parents or finding out what they are going to say, once the conversation is over. But either way, I am still neglecting to deal with the cause of my anxiety. I will continue to have anxiety because I am not dealing with it in a healthy manner, because I am avoiding talking about it all together.

Case Study: Anxiety Levels and Exercise The following is a case study of a female patient with severe levels of anxiety due to a genetic disorder. Anxiety is extremely common among people who have a disability (3). Numerous studies have indicated that high anxiety levels will lead to a sedentary lifestyle. My future line of work will be Occupational Therapy.

I believe we will all become anxious during this new process. I have never dealt with real anxiety personally until I started the program and I now have to practice calming techniques with myself. I'm usually the calm person when a patient begins to deteriorate or when something is going on with a family member or friend. Coworkers make fun of me sometimes because how calm I remain and still get the job done. I'm glad that you mentioned having the confidence to ask questions. Thats one of the biggest fears in new nurses that I experience while orientating them, so I make it a point in the training process on how to ask an appropriate question.

Cognitive therapy is similar to psychoanalysis in that it examines clients’ emotional reactions, cognitive therapy also explores clients’ narratives. Moreover, cognitive therapy assumes that clients are affected by automatic thoughts and beliefs to which they are unaware, but unlike psychoanalysis, cognitive therapy does not equate cognition's with the unconscious. Even though automatic thoughts and core beliefs may be nonconscious, repressed and dissociated experiences and other reified constructs are not part of cognitive therapy. Cognitive therapy is short-term, lasting between twelve and sixteen sessions, and psychoanalysis is long-term, lasting for years. Cognitive therapists are active and directive and they structure counseling along

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Anyone could have anxiety especially when they that person is in college. Jake being diagnosed with anxiety disorder because his classes have gotten harder is completely normal. A behavioral psychologist, a cognitive psychologist and a humanistic psychologist would all look at this problem differently. A behavioral approach would look at stimulus and response, a humanistic approach would look at his free will, and a cognitive approach would look at his intelligence.