Medical perspective: says that psychological disorders are illnesses and can be cured.
Bio-Psycho-Social perspective: assumes biological, psychological and socio-cultural factors combine to interact causing disorders.
DSM-IV: big book of disorders
Psychotic Disorders: Person loses contact with reality, distorted perceptions.
Anxiety Disorders: a group of conditions where the primary symptoms are anxiety or defenses against anxiety. The patient fears something awful will happen to them. They are in a state of intense apprehension, uneasiness, uncertainty or fear.
Phobia: a person experiences sudden episodes of intense dread. An irrational fear.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD): An anxiety disorder in which a person is continuously tense and apprehensive, patient feels inadequate, is oversensitive, can't concentrate and suffers from insomnia.
Panic Disorder: an anxiety disorder marked by a minute long episode of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and chest pains
Obsessive compulsive disorder: persistent unwanted thoughts (obsessions)
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): flashbacks following a traumatic event, memories causing anxiety.
Somatoform Disorders
Happens when a person manifests a psychological problem through a physical symptom.
Hypochondria: frequent physical complaints for which medical doctors are unable to locate the cause. Believe minor issues are indications of more severe illnesses.
Conversion disorders: report the existence of severe physical problems with no biological reason. Like blindness or paralysis.
Dissociative Disorders
These disorders involve a disruption in the conscious process.
Psychogenic Amnesia: a person cannot remember things with no psychological basis for the disruption in memory.
Retrograde Amnesia: temporary amnesia.
Dissocative Fugue: People with psychogenic amnesia find themselves in unfamiliar environments.
Dissocative Identity Disorder: multiple personality disorder. History of child abuse and drama.
Mood Disorders
Extreme or inappropriate emotion.
Major Depression: Unhappy for at least 2 weeks with no apparent cause.Known as the "common cold' of psychological disorders.
Seasonal Affective Disorder: experiences depression during the winter months, treated with light therapy.
Bipolar Disorder: periods of depression and manic episodes, highs and lows.
Personality disorders
Well established, maladaptive ways of behaving that negatively affects people's ability to function, ways dominate personality.Antisocial personality disorder: Lack of empathy, little regard for other's feelings, view the world as hostile.
Dependent personality disorder: Rely too much on the attention and help of others.
Histrionic personality disorder: Needs to be the center of attention.
Narcissistic personality disorder: Having an unwarranted sense of self importance (big ego)
I feel the people who suffer the most from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are men and women who return from war. These individuals have witnessed and experienced terrible things and often experience night terrors and anxiety.
ReplyDeleteI feel the people who suffer the most from PTSD are men and women who return from war. These individuals have witnessed and experienced terrible things which causes the to have night terrors and anxiety.
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting of the severity of phobias that people suffer from and how many different phobias there are in the world. There's a phobia for ANYTHING! Things that I thought were so simple, like when having a fear of something, just to avoid it ,but with people who suffer from phobias it often controls their whole life and how to go about themselves and their future.
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