Pica Eating Disorder What is Pica? Pica eating disorder is defined as the persistent ingestion of non-nutritive items for at least one month at an age for which this behavior is developmentally inappropriate. This does not include culturally sanctioned eating practices (An Update on Pica n.d.). Some items that pica sufferers eat are but not limited to: • Soap • Buttons • Clay • Hair • Cigarette Butts • Paint • Glue • Sand/Dirt • Plaster • Laundry Starch • Coffee Grounds • Paper • Toothpaste • Chalk
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Stop being so full of yourself: Narcissistic Personality Disorder A young handsome man‚ who views his female suitors as unworthy of his beauty is condemned by the gods to never find true love. One day he saw his reflection in a pool‚ and he stares at himself lovingly for so long eventually he simply withers away and dies. This is the story of Narcissus in Greek mythology for which Narcissistic Personality Disorders is named for. NPD is a serious life consuming disease that is characterized by
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Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents General Psychology Fall 2013 For those dealing with an anxiety disorder getting help can be difficult for multiple reasons. First‚ distinguishing between normal and abnormal worries and reactions can be difficult for a person. Once a person has realized they need help they face the reality that mental illness is often stigmatized‚ causing those suffering to feel ashamed and embarrassed and scared to reach out for help. They worry
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Borderline Personality Disorder 1. Borderline Personality Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder 2. Abstract Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships‚ self image‚ affects‚ and marked impulsivity believed to affect
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new personality and mental perspective of life. Dissociative Identity Disorder is a mental illness that allows the brain to perceive a new identity through the holder’s eyes. I became familiar with the mental illness by watching the famous television show Bates Motel. The main character‚ Norman Bates‚ is a seventeen year old caucasian male that has no history of any mental illnesses. He has symptoms of dissociative identity disorder from the significant impairments in most areas of his life. There are
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Address the Solution Not the Cause There are many different opinions regarding eating disorders‚ whether they are genetic‚ ethnic‚ cultural problems‚ or a culturally reactive problem. Stereotypes from the past believe that white middle class adolescents have the most related problems in eating disorders because of their anglo-saxon cultural backgrounds. Research has shown that imagery of the ideal Western body has had a chain reaction of body shape and eating habit conflicts between all ethnicities
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What is Antisocial Personality Disorder? Shayne C. Frost Ivy Tech College Psychology 101 R. Carpenter Abstract In this paper I will be informing you about Antisocial Personality disorder. I think we all have our own image of what a person with (APD) is but how much do you really know about it? I will be going into the causes of (APD). Things like influences from the environment‚ and how a person’s home life was as a child. I will be looking at how (APD) is diagnosed by professionals
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a condition in which people have an excessive sense of self-importance‚ an extreme preoccupation with themselves‚ and lack of empathy for others ( Board‚ A.D.A.M. Editorial). Three parts of this disorder will be dabbled upon in this paper‚ the description‚ the causation‚ and the treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. The first of which will be the description. Narcissistic Personality Disorder is characterized by a long-standing pattern of grandiosity
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Major Depressive Disorder Major Depressive Disorder‚ also referred to commonly as depression‚ is a brain disorder that causes both physical and psychological symptoms in the patients of whom it effects. Depression is very common‚ but the symptoms can be extremely severe and potentially deadly if left ignored or untreated for any significant period of time. The cause of depression can be a combination of genetic‚ environmental‚ and psychological factors. Depression is a chronic disorder and can affect
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Borderline Personality Disorder Borderline personality disorder is a psychiatric disorder that often puzzles professionals in how to define and or categorize. There has been this back and forth debate amongst professionals on whether to categorize this disorder as either a mood or personality disorder hence its title “borderline” making it a unique disorder in that it trails on the outskirts of both. This disorder marks a pattern of ongoing symptoms in unstable mood swings‚ behaviors‚ self-imaging
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