PTSD Case Study Learning Team C PSYCH/515 May 10, 2012 Professor Barbara Steffens Abstract Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disorder that will affect many people every year. So far, statistics have shown that 51% of women are experiencing PTSD symptoms while 60% of men are experiencing symptoms of this disorder. However, clinically, women are at a higher rate for developing the PTSD disorder; than men. This disorder is basically trauma that is still in experience from a situation of previous anxiety in one’s life that left a traumatic scar. PTSD disorder can develop within a child during childhood trauma and abuse, or can result from traumatic situations as an adult of an individual.
Bipolar I Disorder Bipolar I Disorder is a complex mood disorder that disrupts the quality of life for an individual with the occurrence of an episode or episodes known as Manic Episode during the course of the condition. According to Lyons and Martin (2009), a manic episode is described as a period of time in which an individual becomes highly talkative, hyperactive, easily irritated, over excited, very outspoken, and is not aware of their psychotic symptoms. Sometimes a person will only experience one episode (single manic episode), but this is rare because many times it is extremely common for that same person to experience another episode. The majority of people diagnosed with Bipolar I Disorder will indeed undergo the combination of two distinguished episodes at one time. Another episode is commonly known as a Depressive Episode.
It says that OCD usually develops gradually, psychosocial stressors like changes in living situations, relationship problems, or work problems can cause onset. Which may explain why I have OCD. My mom and dad got divorced when I was three, and she got remarried and divorced again when I was a young teen. Then, we moved a lot. I went to one Preschool, one Elementary School, three Middle Schools, one High School and this is my fourth College.
While in the psychiatric ward this is where she is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. Borderline Personality Disorder is the most frequently treated personality disorder for in-patients. Borderline Personality Disorder can be described with many different characteristics. One may have spontaneous mood changes that may only last a few hours at a time. Other characteristics that appear are casual sex, binge eating, self injury such as cutting, substance abuse and intense moods of aggression.
This movie tells the story of Chris Sizemore, a real-life woman diagnosed with DID. She was thought to develop the disorder in reaction to witnessing several terrible accidents at a young age. The movie describes three personalities that were successfully merged or integrated into one within one year. More accurately, the person depicted in that movie reportedly had to contend with over twenty personalities that took more than forty-five years in order to be able to coexist in a functional way with society. This is of course a depiction of a severe case of this disorder; there are many diagnosed cases not nearly so severe, but they can still be very traumatizing in their effects on the individuals attempt to live a normal life in
Sometimes the light and smells could have an effect on this disorder but the reasons why are still not known. This has started a series of chemical changes that irritate the pain sensing nerves around the head and causing the blood vessels to expand and leak chemicals which further irritate the nerves (1996-2012). It is stated that migraine runs throughout the families due to their genes. The number one trigger is hormonal changes. Two-thirds of women sufferers only get their headaches around the time of their period.
According to www.justgreatadvice.com, a mixed episode is being both happy and sad, up and down, all at the same time. Generally, this translates into the patient being very depressed emotionally, but displaying symptoms of mania such as inability to concentrate and lack of sleep. The other main type of bipolar disorder is bipolar type II. Bipolar type II is depressive episodes shifting back and forth with hypomanic episodes, but no full-blown manic or mixed episodes. I like to think that a person that has bipolar type II is always “in between” highs and lows or back and forth.
“Among injury victims relatively high prevalence rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been found. PTSD is associated with functional impairments and decreased health-related quality of life”(Haagsma, Polinder, Olff, Toet, Bonsel, & Van Beeck 2012). People who suffer with PTSD have reported agitation, excitability, dizziness, fainting, felling there hear beat in there chest, and headaches. Young children have their own set of symptoms, they include: wetting the bed, not talking, unusually clingy to a parent or other adult, and when playing they may act out the event. Older children and teenagers often show symptoms in the same manner that an adult does, however they could become disruptive, disrespectful, and even feel guilty for allowing the event to happen
Some studies suggest that pregnancy may lessen symptoms: “In one study, 800f patients with affective illness (predominantly bipolar) experienced an improvement or a diminution of symptoms of their mood disorder during pregnancy” (Altshuler et al. 1998). At the same time, these studies are contradicted by other studies. For instance, in a study involving women with bipolar type I disorder, “…women reported manic mood changes, in each case occurring during pregnancy” (Blehar et al., 1998). Manic episodes and cycling seemed to occur exclusively during
Single Parents with Young Children Beckford, Martin “The Telegraph” Oct 10, 2008. In reviewing research from Martin Beckford, Social Affairs Correspondent with The Telegraph, I learned quite a lot of interesting information pertaining to the emotional problems children raised by single parents face. Research says that children from broken homes are five times more likely to develop emotional problems than those living with both parents. This could be true, due to the fact that parentless children, seem to act out more, when one or both parents are missing. The Office of National Statistics, interviewed parents, teachers, and children themselves, and found that many suffer from emotional problems such as depression, anxiety and aggression.