...Is it Anxiety or ADHD? Are you feeling anxious or sad? Were you diagnosed with anxiety disorder or depression? Many people are seeking help for symptoms such as, sadness, restlessness, mood changes, low energy, insomnia, trouble waking, emotional, forgetful, and even job or relationship problems. The above symptoms can be caused by many psychiatric disorders. Many physicians are diagnosing these people with depression or anxiety and throwing them anti-depressants and sending them on their way. What if the medication does not work? I want to make sure nobody goes years and years like I did trying every anti-depressant and anti-anxiety medication out there with no relief. They may very well have those disorders, but is there an underlying cause? What if the root cause is ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)? My essay is on ADHD and how it is being overlooked and going undiagnosed/misdiagnosed in most adults. I am also exploring the questions, is it Anxiety or ADHD? What came first? The ADHD or the Anxiety? Did the ADHD cause the other disorders? What can be done to inform people about ADHD and that it is not just a childhood disorder? The sources I chose to do my research were from ADHD websites that do lots of research on the subject and also from a very informative booklet from an ADHD class my psychologist took. There was so much great information from these sources that it was very difficult for me to choose what to include in this essay. I gathered lots of facts...
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...INTRODUCTION: TOPIC SENTENCE: HYPOTHESIS: The influence of chronic medical conditions on adolescents has a great significance on the psychological development however the efforts of heath care professionals can promote a healthy psychological development. OUTLINE OF ESSAY :The first part of this essay will be demonstrating the theories and psychological concepts that relate Discuss the impact of chronic medical conditions on adolescents (12-18yo) and identify ways of promoting resilience or positive development (1300 min-1500 max words to the influence of chronic illness upon the adolescent. Following this the exploration of the positive attributes the health practitioner has on the psychological development. FIRST PART: THE INFLUENCE OF ILLNESS ON THE WELLBEING OF THE ADOLESCENT CAN BE EXPLORED THROUGH THEORIES TOPIC SENTENCE: > It is first important to consider that the influence of the chronic illness on the adolescence depends on the severity of the illness. For this essay the chronic illness considered will be of mild-high severity. The onset of the chronic illness will also be considered, this essay will be identifying with early onset. > PIAGETS FORMAL OPERATIONS - Ability to move from "what is" to "might be" and "could be" Piaget identified through the theory of formal operations (cognitive theory) that the adolescent become equip with the ability to think beyond the "Concrete Operational Stage" of development. Within this stage of "Formal...
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...AP Essay #1 Henry Z 04/21/10 Smith Pd. 2 Behavioral, psychoanalytic/psychodynamic, biological, and cognitive perspective each has its own cause of anxiety and treatment for reducing these anxieties. Behavioral anxiety can be caused from trauma. Trauma is when an extremely distressing experience that causes emotional shock and may have long-lasting psychological effects. For example, someone getting raped. Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic anxiety can be caused by the three interacting systems that Freud theorized: id, ego, and superego. The id is a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. For example, a infant crying out for satisfaction. The ego is the largely conscious, "executive" part of personality that among the demands of the if, superego and reality. For example, being constrained by the law because one knows it is bad to break it. The superego is the part of the personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment and for future aspirations. For example, someone with a strong superego may be virtuous. Biological anxieties can be caused by a lack of serotonin which leads to depression. Depression is a state of unhappiness and hopelessness. Cognitive anxiety is caused from depression. Specific treatment techniques used for reducing anxiety used by professionals for each of the four perspectives: reward/punishment, free association, drugs/medication and...
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...In this essay, I will discuss a major disorder called anxiety. To elaborate, "anxiety can be defined as a feeling of worry, nervousness, or fear about an event or situation". Generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder and agoraphobia, specific phobia, and social anxiety disorder are all group as anxiety disorder. In further detail, generalized anxiety disorder is characterized by intense, uncontrollable, unfocused, chronic, and continuous worry that is unproductive and distressing. The client may worry about real life situations such as dealing with a loss of a loved one. Keywords: anxiety, panic disorder, agoraphobia, specific phobia, social anxiety disorder Anxiety Anxiety is defined as "mood state characterized by marked negative affect and bodily symptoms of tension...misfortune"(Durand,2016). Also, it may involve behaviors, feeling, and physiological responses. The behaviors it would include is complaints from the client and pacing back and forth. Furthermore, a person who has anxiety may have many different symptoms. According to, Mayo Clinic “the symptoms of anxiety include sweating, trembling, feeling weak or tired, and increased heart rate” (Anxiety,2017). As well as, breathing rapidly, trouble concentrating or thinking anything other than the present are also symptoms of anxiety....
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...mood and anxiety disorders each year. What causes this? What symptoms would indicate a mood disorder? What are some treatment methods for such disorders? In this essay I will be discussing unipolar and bipolar disorders in detail; what is the difference between them, available treatment methods for individuals who suffer from these illnesses and signs and symptoms that might possibly happen. According to R.J Comer, (Fundamentals of abnormal psychology, 2005, 4th ed. Chapter 7) Unipolar is described as an individual who has “no history of mania and returns to a normal or nearly normal mood when their depression lifts. Bipolar is described as individuals who experience periods of mania that alternates with periods of depression.” Any kind of anxiety, stress, and/or depression can alternate a person’s ability to function in normal daily activities. Meaning an individual may or may not be able to get out of bed, go into public, or interact with others. What are the causes of such disorders? It could be that a person has been through a traumatic event in their life such as, a disaster, losing a job, divorce, rape, or substance abuse, etc. When such life’s events happen a person can withdraw themselves almost as if they have lost their way and cannot figure out how to deal with such crisis, that things just keep building up on top of each other and never truly heal the root cause. This cycle can go on allowing for the individual to get into more of a depressed state and anxiety causing...
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...Date: 8/5/2013 Site Visit Essay Paper Site Visit Essay Paper Cognitive behavioral techniques are used during a counseling session in a hospital or office setting by therapist. Although I was unable to do a current Site visit to a human service department of a company to write my report, I do know from my own experience some things pertaining to programs that employ behavioral or genitive intervention and or models. In this paper I will attempt to explore some areas within a cognitive intervention such as: • What population participates in the program? • Who presents the program? • How the effectiveness of the intervention is measured • How do they determine a need for the program? • Do they have plans for other programs that use behavioral models and techniques? • What other models and theories are represented in their programs. As we look into the population of participants, it ranges based on the type of behavior being addressed, intervention and motivation strategies. Last year, when I attended my counseling session, it was held in a group session with different people of all ages. This particular group session addressed issues of anxiety and depression. I quickly learned that many people have issues with anxiety and depression, yet they are hesitant to get counseling to change the behavior. Although some may want the help, they often have the fear of having to take medication to alter the behavior without realizing...
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...| Disorders, Diseases, & Drugs | | | Amber Kluever | 3/9/2014 | In this paper you will learn about psychological disorders and diseases, the drugs used to treat those disorders and the negative side effects of those drugs being used for treatment. | Schizophrenia is a disease most commonly associated with madness, also called “the splitting of psychic functions.” They called it that because they assumed that was the primary symptom of the disorder, meaning that the emotions, thoughts, and actions were being broke down. Schizophrenia attacks about 1 % of individuals of all races and culture groups. It usually starts when a person is an adolescence or early adulthood. The hardest part of treating schizophrenia is being able to define it and the symptoms. They symptoms overflow and are the same as some other disorders so you might think it is one disorder and find out that it is actually schizophrenia. Some positive symptoms, meaning there are symptoms that represent an excess or distortion of normal function include, delusions: delusions of being controlled, delusions of persecution, or delusions of grandeur. Hallucinations are imaginary voices telling them to do something. Failure to react with the appropriate emotion to positive or negative events is a sign of inappropriate affect. Odd behavior is when a person has a hard time performing daily tasks such as, personal hygiene, catatonia, and talking in rhymes. Some of the negative effects include, alogia...
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...Irene Torres September 22, 2015 HS-121-1642 Phobia Essay Acrophobia The Phobia I picked to write about is Acrophobia. Acrophobia is one of the most common phobias and is an extreme abnormal excessive and persistent fear of heights. People that suffer from this phobia experience severe anxiety which may include heart racing, shortness of breath, muscle tension, sweating, trembling and intense fear. The person who suffers from this phobia doesn’t just need to experience being in a high location but can experience this phobia in different activities which can include being in a elevator or getting on a ride at a amusement park, going up a ladder even being on a bridge or just the thought of being in a situation where they know that this might be coming up or someone might ask to get on a ride with them or go in a elevator or climb up the ladder to get something. All this can trigger this phobia and the result is to panic. This phobia can easily curtail everyday activities and the main theories used to explain this phobia is that the fear became uncontrollable after a traumatic incident in early childhood. There are different types of methods that they say could help with this phobia. The usual is medication, behavior therapy or relaxation techniques. They say people suffering from a phobia are aware of the inappropriateness if their fears. People suffering from different phobias supposedly have the capacity to accurately control the levels of danger and know that their...
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...INTRODUCTION This essay is all about discharge care planning and will be discussed in two parts, the first part will highlight patient profile, assessment and discharge care planning with evidence based rationale using a framework based on Roper- Logan-Tierney (2000) model of nursing which involve giving nursing care holistically by using 12 activities of living (AL) and also incorporate nursing process to carry out care plan in this essay, which are maintaining a safe environment, communicating, breathing, eating and drinking, eliminating, personal cleansing and dressing, controlling body temperature, walking and playing, mobilising, sleeping expressing sexuality and dying. Also with the above mentioned framework, factors influencing the activities of living which include biological, psychological, socio-cultural, environmental and political economic will be considered. Also demonstration of how discharges are planned and problems identified will be discussed, which will involve members of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) and their roles in the patients care, education and support for family/carers. The second part will explore how recent health service legislation has influenced this care plan and its impact on caring of older people with long term condition. In this essay, issues on professional values according to Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Professional Conduct (2008), which include consent, confidentiality, respect and dignity will be undertaking. For the...
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...Biological approach John exhibits some possible biological abnormalities. He could have inherited a genetic pre-disposition to be aggressive from his father. Serotonin levels maybe unbalanced in his brain due to his depression, add this with his alcohol consumption which will have an impact too. Any one of these things could be an explanation to John’s aggressive behaviour. Psychodynamic approach Psychodynamic approach could say John experienced some kind of emotional disturbance/trauma when he was going through the Psychosexual developmental stages he is verbally aggressive and has now started drinking which would say he could have regressed back to being fixated around the oral stage. Around the oral stage a child will develop an ego and will start to differentiate himself from others. The ego has many defences projection seems to be a big one for John he is projecting his anger from his dad to his boss and his boss to his wife and family. He is also displacing his angry thoughts of his boss and father onto his family as it may be that John is threatened by his father and boss so goes home and takes it out on his wife and family instead who he is not intimidated by. Behaviourist approach Behaviourist approach says all behaviour is learnt. John exhibits several behavioural problems which could be related to learnt behaviour, such as his great need for his bosses approval of things, which has an obvious relationship/connection to his childhood role model his father...
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...below and edit them to make an academic text. In the box below, write the original words/phrases in the left hand column and your editions in the right-hand column. You have an example. (30 pts) CAN MEDICATION CURE OBESITY IN CHILDREN? A Review of the Literature In March 2004, U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona called attention to a health problem in the United States that, until recently, we have overlooked: childhood obesity. Carmona highlighted that the “astounding” 15% child obesity rate constitutes an “epidemic.” Since the early ‘80s, that rate has “doubled in children and tripled in adolescents.” Now more than nine million children are classified as obese. While the traditional response to a medical epidemic is to hunt for a vaccine or a cure-all pill, childhood obesity has proven more elusive. Lacking success of recent initiatives suggests that medication mightn’t be the answer for the escalating problem. In this literature review, I will consider whether the use of medication is a promising approach for solving the childhood obesity problem by responding to the following questions: 1. What are the implications of childhood obesity? 2. Is medication effective at treating childhood obesity? 3. Is medication safe for children? 4. Is medication the best solution? Understanding the limitations of medical treatments for children highlights the complexity of the childhood obesity problem in the United States and underscores the need for physicians...
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...HLSC 111 essay 2 (b) Discuss the impact of chronic medical condition on adolescent (12-18 years old) and identify ways of promoting resilience or positive development Essay draft Introduction- 4 sentences. Include one scholarly related articles/ something Body AT LEAST 1 scholar source per paragraph: * Paragraph one- introduces chronic medical illness- 3 examples. Meaning from Mosby’s dictionary or something * Paragraph two- Impacts of chronic conditions on their quality of life * Paragraph three- How chronic conditions affect families, friends and people around you * Paragraph four- Ways in which adolescents can cope with these situations * Paragraph five- external accessible factors that could improve a patient’s resilience Conclusion- about 5 sentences. Introduction Chronic condition is defined as prolonged health conditions that are incurable or otherwise stays with a person for a long time (over 6 months, according to Australia Bureau of Statistics http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/4B4499E66C702262CA2572360002BF7F?opendocument). Living with chronic conditions in adolescent stage can prove to be a difficult time, leading to impacts including psychological and social consequences (Olsson & Toumbourou, 1996). For this reason, the greatest challenge these adolescents faces is building self-resilience to cope with their chronic illnesses. Thus we will discuss the impacts of chronic medical conditions on adolescents and identify ways...
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...at increased risk of committing violence. This essay will argue that people with mental health problems are modestly at an increased risk of violence but when influenced by substance abuse the risk of committing violence is at a greater risk. The scope of the essay will consider works from academic journals and empirical evidence on mental health and violence, which has influenced the debate of this essay. First, we need to consider that increased risk of violence is modestly greater than someone without mental health problems. According to The Lancet (1997), John Monahan and Colleagues from the MacCarther Foundation Research Network on Mental Health and the Law found the relationship of mental health to be modest contrary to societal belief. They did research with patients in hospital and those released had periodic visits within that year. To compare varying violence they surveyed a random selection of people in the general population. The researchers only found the findings to be modestly greater. They conducted a second survey showing that people with mental health were no more violent than the general population, except for those with mental health problems who had substance abuse problems. Looking at violence and mental health it is important to also look at other influential factors such as substance abuse. As mentioned by Howitt (2011) when people with mental health problems are taking prescription medication it can lead to side effects such as aggression...
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...STRESS, ANXIETY, HABITS AND PHOBIAS This essay is about the relationship, similarities and equally differences between stress, anxiety, habits and phobia’s. I am going to demonstrate and explain my understanding of the subject and how I would use my skills as a therapist to best treat the symptoms and issues faced by someone suffering with a particular phobia using the information gathered from the practice sessions I have undertaken to date, reading, the Chrysalis module notes and information I have taken away from class. I will also try to cover and explain some of the ethical topics regarding the above. Firstly then I am going to discuss the relationship between stress, panic and anxiety and try to explain the differences. Stress is a common feeling that the majority of people will suffer with at some point, when faced with a new situation that causes them to be frustrated, angry or frightened it is however short lived and when removed from that particular stressful environment the person will usually feel better and no longer experience any long term negative effects. It is a necessary part of life as if we had no stress or feelings of fear we would not be able to choose the appropriate course of action in our sub-conscious when we maybe need to be aware of danger commonly known as the “fight or flight mechanism”. We would also have no motivation to do anything productive. (chapter 6 Stress Reduction, Hypnosis for change). However Chronic stress (when a person is...
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...What are the differences between sleep apnea and Insomnia? How do we treat us the two? How has the FDA halted the treatment of sleep apnea? Researchers have long wanted to know the answers to these questions and they have them. There are key differences between Insomnia and Sleep apnea. Along with appropriate pharmacologic treatments, Doctors have discovered plenty of ways to help with the disorders. The research is there and can teach one all about it if they so choose to find it. The research available has been very helpful in writing many essays on the topic of both disorders and many have found them very helpful in writing their own essays. First of all what is Sleep Apnea? Obstructive sleep apnea affects up to four percent of middle aged adults the common complaints that come with are snoring, daytime sleepiness and disrupted sleep {Victor LD, Am Fam Physician, 1999, Nov 15;60(8):2279-86. National Stroke Foundation, 2005, www.stroke.org.} Apnea is the Greek word for without breath. Sleep apnea causes you to stop breathing for at least 10 seconds while you are sleeping, many times throughout the night. Sleep apnea however does not cause many problems with you breathing throughout the day. The risk factors for sleep apnea are age usually between 40 and 60 is the highest risk. Ethnicity with African-American, Pacific Islanders and Hispanic being the highest risk. Smoking drinking and some medical conditions such as diabetes also put you at a higher risk {Victor...
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