These types of mental ill health are known as Affective disorders, they involve periods of time where the individual experiences feelings of extreme sadness or extreme happiness, the individual may also experience a fluctuation between the two emotions over this period of time. PERSONALITY DISORDERS: - Personality disorders usually become noticeable in adolescence or early adulthood, but sometimes start in childhood. The individual’s patterns of behaviour and thinking differ from the expectations of society. These thinking and behavioural patterns are very rigid and may interfere with the person's normal day to day functioning, They can make it difficult for individuals to start and keep friendships or other relationships, and individuals may find it hard to work effectively with others. Individuals may also find other people very scary, and feel very alienated and alone.
Unit 2 : Understanding stress Section 2.1: The symptoms and causes of stress 1, Define the term “stress”. Stress – is a sign of excessive overload and a negative response to pressure caused by demands from someone’s aspect of life/lifestyle (work place, relationships, personal problems, health or financial pressure).It Effects the mind, body or both leaving people feeling exhausted. Left untreated for a long time can cause deep depression or anxiety disorders. 2, Describe how stress can affect an individual. In other words, describe some of the symptoms of stress.
Insomnia is a common problem for people that suffer or have suffered from physical abuse. This is can be caused by fear, stress, anxiety, feelings of guilt, and inability to let go of what happened in the past. A person may be afraid to go to sleep because they may have very vivid dreams about being physical abused. Insomnia can make a person find it very hard to function during the day as
The victim must then show signs of avoidance socially, to their thoughts, inability to recall information about the event, and/or restricted views of their future. Most often victims of PTSD have difficulty falling asleep do to hyper arousal, high anxiety, irritability, and are easily startled. These symptoms must last for at least a month and must greatly impact the victims’ life thru distress, social impairment, or other significant parts of their lives (Schiraldi
As the mass impedes on the brain or blood vessels, symptoms such as seizures and speech problems can occur. Epilepsy, classified as a brain disorder, occurs when a group of nerves in the brain generate abnormal electrochemical impulses. These impulses cause stroke-like symptoms including strange sensations, irrational behaviour, muscle spasms, convulsions and loss of consciousness. A hemiplegic migraine is a specific type of migraine headache that often runs in families. Migraines, throbbing pain in one area of the head, are often accompanied by nausea, vomiting and sensitivity to light and/or sounds, according to the Genetics Home Reference.
Unit 55 Outcome 1 1.1 Identify common causes of distress Often causes of distress are through events happening such as a death of a loved one or friend, financial difficulties, relationship problems, illness. 1.2 Describe signs that may indicate an individual is distressed * Lack of concentration * Lack of motivation * Fatigue * Looks pale * Anxiety/panic/worrying * Irritability or short temper * Being tearful 1.3 Explain how distress may affect the way an individual communicates The individual may become withdrawn and avoid social outings, unable to face reality or responsibilities, impact on confidence causing low self esteem , worries easily and become very panicked and anxious, avoids eye contact. 1.4 Explain how working
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From being deployed for a long time and seeing violence troops are extremely prone to developing PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Symptom). Post Traumatic Stress Symptom is an anxiety disorder that can occur after you have been through a traumatic event. A traumatic event is something horrible and or frightening that you see or that happens to you. You can feel afraid or feel that you have no control over what is happening. PTSD can affect one’s life so much that they can put their own lives at danger or others.
Possible Symptoms of A.S.D Subject sense of numbing, detachment, or absence of emotional responsiveness. Reduction of awareness of his/her surroundings (ex, "In la la land") Derealization(everything feels unreal.) Depersonalization(Out of body experience) Dissociative amnesia (ex, unable to recall important aspects of the traumatic event.) The traumatic event is excessively reexperienced in at least on of the following ways: repetitive images, thoughts, dreams, illusions, flashbacks of the event, or a sense of reliving the experience; or distress on exposure to reminders of the traumatic event Avoidance of stimuli that reminds the victim of the trauma (ex, thoughts, feelings,conversations,activities,places,people). Symptoms of anxiety or increased arousal(ex.
PTSD After Traumatic Events How has your life been affected by 9/11? In the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, Oskar struggles mentally with his dad’s death as he develops PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and appears to be normal on the outside but inside is having a rough time dealing and trying to overcoming it, much as other kids who suffered from the tragedy of 9/11. Agoraphobia and fear of terrorist attacks are two components of PTSD that a high percent of the people diagnosed deal with. According to MedicineNet.com, “Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an emotional illness that that is classified as an anxiety disorder.” People such as Oskar suffer from this illness because of a traumatic event that occurred in their lifetime that they aren’t able to overcome. MedicineNet states in their own definition that: “…fear, may cause PTSD.