Review Article on Teenage Eating Disorders Anorexia is an emotional illness in which a person refuses to eat. It occurs mainly among adolescent girls and young women. The word anorexia means without appetite‚ but anorexics may be extremely hungry most of the time. They avoid food for psychological reasons. The chief physical symptom of anorexia nervosa is severe weight loss. Other symptoms include low blood pressure‚ slow heartbeat and growth of fine hair on the body. The start of
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Megan Orcholski November 15‚ 2012 Eating disorders “Approximately 7-10 million women across the country suffer from eating disorders. Most research into these serious disorders has been conducted on females. However‚ as many as a million men may also struggle with the diseases” stated EDAP in 2012. Eating disorders are very serious conditions that cause people distress by obsessing over not gaining weight and intense anxiety about food. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental
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Anorexia nervosa (AN): an eating disorder characterized by an in ability to maintain normal weight‚ an intense fear of gaining weight‚ and distorted body perception. Clinicians diagnose an individual with anorexia nervosa when he or she shows three basic types of symptoms: severely restricted eating‚ which leads the person to have an abnormally low body weight‚ intense and unrealistic fear of getting fat or gaining weight‚ and disturbed self-perception of body shape or weight. In other words people
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Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa‚ Bulimia Nervosa‚ and Binge Eating Disorder Taylor N. Dougherty Grand Canyon University: BIO-319 December 5‚ 2012 Eating Disorders In today’s society‚ humans feel the need to be perfect and appealing. Fit‚ size zero models are seen on every corner. Many women and men cannot handle the pressure and develop one or more eating disorders. “Eating disorders are a group of serious conditions in which one is so preoccupied with food and weight
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PERSONALITY Personality is the particular combination of emotional‚ attitudinal‚ and behavioral response patterns of an individual. Some ideas in the psychological and scientific study of personality include: Personality changes Personality development‚ the concept that personality is affected by various sources Personality disorder Personality genetics‚ a scientific field that examines the relation between personality and genetics Personality pathology‚ characterized by adaptive inflexibility
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Amnestic Disorder Riddhi Bulsara September 1st 2011 Clinical Asepsis My paper is going to be about Amnestic Disorder. “Amenstic disorder is a group of diorders that involve loss of memories. Previouly established‚ loss of ability to creat new memories‚ or loss of the ability to learn new information”. As defined by the mental health professional ’s handbook‚ the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ‚ fourth edition‚ text revision (2000)‚ also known as DSM-IV-TR. Amnestic Disorder
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why whenever people describe other’s personality; they usually refer to the attitude and behavior? It is because people’s attitudes speak of their personality. But there is more to behavior and attitude that comprises a person’s character. Their emotional‚ mental‚ spiritual‚ and physical well-being all build up their so-called personality (Exforsys Inc.‚ 2010). According to Sadhuji (2008) the environmental factors that exert pressures on people’s personality formation are the culture in which they
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Dissociative Disorder I. What is dissociation? * Can be defined as a condition that involves disruptions or breakdowns of memory‚ awareness‚ identity or perception. * What causes dissociative disorder? * Psychological trauma * Sexual abuse * Stressful events * What are the effects of a dissociative disorder? * Automatic switching of personalities during moments of stress * Losing time‚ or dissociative amnesia
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Dissociative Disorders What are dissociative disorders? A dissociative disorder is the breakdown of one’s perception of his/her surroundings‚ memory‚ identity‚ or consciousness. There are four main kinds of dissociative disorders: 1. Dissociative amnesia 2. Dissociative fugue 3. Dissociative identity disorder (previously called multiple personality disorder) 4. Depersonalization disorder What are the main characteristics of each dissociative disorder? Dissociative amnesia: A
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Psychological Disorders’ Presentation “Psychological disorders are behaviors or mental processes that are connected with various kinds of distress or impaired functioning (Nevid & Rathus‚ 2005).” Many people battle different kinds of disorders ranging from anxiety‚ dissociative‚ somatoform‚ moodiness‚ schizophrenia‚ personality‚ and many other disorders (Nevid & Rathus‚ 2005). Some are so mild that people do not recognize when they have it‚ and some are so severe that they become a
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