The movie As Good As It Gets is about a grouchy novelist‚ named Melvin Udall‚ who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Melvin doesn’t like anybody. He is very cold-hearted and disrespectful to everyone he comes in contact with. He carries his own silverware into restaurants‚ locks his apartment door five times a night‚ and never steps on a sidewalk crack. Melvin is completely obsessed about making everything a routine. Every morning he goes to the same restaurant where he sits
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suggest chemical and hormonal changes in the brain may be the cause but there is more research being done to better understand the disorder. Some theorist suggests that kleptomania is linked to the imbalance of the hormone serotonin‚ which regulates mood and emotion. Low levels of serotonin are common in people with impulse behaviors. The neurotransmitter dopamine is also linked to kleptomania. Dopamine causes pleasurable feelings and when a person steals it releases the “feel good” neurotransmitter dopamine
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Thomas Moore 4/13/2013 HCA 240 Brian Eigelbach Mental illness affects one in four people‚ that’s an estimated 57.7 million Americans. Psychiatry is the medical specialty that diagnoses and provides treatment for mental illness. Mental illnesses are medical conditions that change a way a person thinks‚ feels‚ there mood‚ ability to relate to others‚ and the way a person functions daily. Mental illnesses do not target any specific person by age‚ race‚ religion
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Name: Debra Age: 26-year-old Family History: Debra is a 26-year-old married woman. She is an elder sister to two of her younger brothers. Both of Debra’s parents loved and cared for all children although Debra’s mother was rather an anxious and somewhat depressed person and also suffers from specific phobias‚ like the fear of spiders and snakes. Debra’s father is not one to show affection very often as he demands for good performance‚ in both academic and social areas‚ and a lack
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thoughts of suicide (Comer‚ 2011). Unipolar depression is thought to be caused by a combination of factors rather than being developed from one source or exposure. Depression is in part‚ a genetic biochemical imbalance of the neurotransmitters serotonin‚ norepinephrine and dopamine in combination with stress. The institute details specific personality traits correlated with depression. Their studies revealed that individuals who show: 1. High levels of anxiety‚
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Causes and Potential Treatment I Case Studies Brenda L. Brown Axia College of University of Phoenix Causes and Potential Treatment II Case Studies Case Study I: Josephine a 47 year old woman whom I label her with the disorder
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The word “depressed” and its multiple variations are thrown around casually in every day conversation. Often‚ one will say something like “that movie was so depressing.” Sometimes‚ a person who is feeling blue will describe his mood as depressed‚ but he does not actually have Clinical Depression. Clinical Depression‚ also called Major Depressive Disorder‚ is a serious‚ severe psychological disorder that affects the everyday lives of many individuals. It is actually quite common as “at least 10% of
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The prescribing health provider I interviewed is a part-time psychiatrist at the VA Long Beach Healthcare System. To begin‚ I started the interview by inquiring how she prepared herself to work in the field of psychiatry. For her undergraduate study‚ she stated that her major was in biology at first but‚ after being fascinated to learn about psychological aspects of chronic medical illnesses in her health psychology class‚ she changed her major to psychology. Then‚ she went to medical school to study
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azapirones (5-HT1A receptor agonists: buspirone) and long term drug treatment regimes with antidepressants - Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI’s) which act by blocking the reabsorption/reuptake of serotonin by nerve cells in the brain and leaving more serotonin improving mood. Serotonin & norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRI’s) increase the levels of both neurotransmitters (serotonin & norepinephrine) by inhibiting their reabsorption back into to the brains cells e.g. venlafaxine‚ aropax
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Biopsychosocial Case Study Of Jeffrey Dahmer Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men between the years of 1978 to 1991 in which he participated in necrophilia‚ dismemberment and cannibalism (Meyer‚ 2006). As a child‚ Dahmer was shy and suffered from low self-esteem. At a young age‚ Dahmer displayed abnormal behavior starting with the collecting of dead animals and using acid to strip off the meat having necrophilia desires. This escalated in his teen years turning into fantasies of killing and mutilating
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