LIFE EVENTS AND PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS * RITA CHATTERJEE‚ M.A.‚ M. Phil (Medical and Social Psychology Trainee); MANU ARORA‚ M.D.‚ D.P.M.‚ Senior Resident; Central Institute of Psychiatry‚ Ranchi‚ India. * drmanu2004@rediffmail.com * Citation: Chatterjee‚ R. & Arora‚ M. (2005) Life events and psychiatric disorders. Mental Health Reviews‚ Accessed from <http://www.psyplexus.com/mhr/.html> on CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS Life Events Researchers have long been interested in understanding
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and Addiction Writer(s) : Daria J. Kuss and Mark D. Griffiths Source : www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph Social Networking Sites (SNS) or in this case Facebook has been causing serious addiction amongst individuals these days. This situation is no longer seen as an addiction but as a serious mental health issue. People these days spend majority of their time online by surfing Facebook in their virtual community. Psychologists describe this scenario as ‘Facebook Addiction Disorder’ (FAD)
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DESCRIPTION Depression is one of the commonest psychiatric disorders. Depression ranges in seriousness from mild‚ temporary episodes of sadness to severe‚ persistent depression. Patients of depression often present with vague somatic symptoms or aches and pains in general clinical practice‚ for which no physical cause is found on assessment. Clinical depression is the more severe form of depression‚ also known as major depression or major depressive disorder. It isn’t the same as depression caused by
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Among the many psychiatric disorders‚ schizophrenia is one that has the least known about it. This disorder is characterized by a disruption in the individual’s ability to regulate their own thoughts‚ emotions‚ and actions or rather their overall behavior. The onset of schizophrenia is not until later in an individual’s life‚ typically beginning at the end of their teenage years extending into early adulthood. However‚ the time of diagnosis as well as the progression is essentially unique to each
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an adolescent male born 07/24/2002‚ who has been diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder‚ generalized anxiety‚ panic disorder‚ social phobia‚ social anxiety‚ anorexia‚ self-injurious behavior. His treating provider‚ Ricardo P. Bayola‚ MD recommended that he be placed in continued adolescent inpatient psychiatric care from 02/11/2016 forward. The carrier has denied coverage of continued adolescent inpatient psychiatric care as not medically necessary. A letter from the carrier to the member‚ dated
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Psychiatric Disorders‚ Diseases and Drugs Psychiatric Disorders‚ Diseases and Drugs Axia University Instructor: Allen Meyer Date: July 31‚ 2010 Axia University Instructor: Allen Meyer Date: July 31‚ 2010 Avery Paco Avery Paco Schizophrenia‚ emotional disorders‚ Anxiety and Tourette’s syndrome are all classified as psychiatric disorders. There is a thin line between neuropsychological disorders and psychiatric disorders. Though the two types of disorders are a result of a dysfunctional
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Internet Addiction Disorder Good morning‚ everybody. I’d like to show you a presentation about Internet Addiction Disorder. Let’s start. First of all‚ ask yourself “without your computer or the Internet what would you do?” In the world of quickly advancing technology‚ it is hard to ignore the Internet which is becoming more and more important in lives of users worldwide. But the ugly truth is that the Internet is as addictive as it is useful. IAD is a speculated mental disorder made and introduced
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Humberside Fire and Rescue Service STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES FOR Chemical and biological hazards S.O.P. No 5.3 PRODUCED BY: OPERATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICE HEADQUARTERS HUMBERSIDE FIRE & RESCUE SERVICE STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES |
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FINAL ESSAY: “Evaluation of the anti-psychiatric approach to understanding mental disorder” Alberto del Río Aguilar Index 1. The anti-psychiatric approach 1 a. Introduction 1 b. What is madness? 2 c. The emergence of a mental disease 3 d. Labelling diseases: the importance of the background 4 e. The problem of medicalization 6
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Co-occurring Disorders and Addiction SUBS500_ B02_201230 Treatment of drug and alcohol addiction is seldom as simple as merely addressing the particular chemicals addict is taking into his body. More often than not‚ addicts suffer from other disorders in conjunction with their chemical dependency. The clinical reference to such a condition is called co-occurring disorders (Doweiko‚ 2012). According to Arias and Kranzler (2008) an estimated 1.1 percent of the U.S. population has an alcohol
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