Many people choose Antidepressant medication as a treatment because that is the first thing their doctors suggest. Antidepressant medication may relieve some of your depression symptoms, but it also comes with significant side effects and dangers. What’s more, recent studies have raised questions about their effectiveness. Learning the facts about antidepressants can help you make an educated decision about what’s right for you. Most mental health experts agree that when depression is severe, medication can be helpful, even life saving.
In this paper, I explore the signs and symptoms of acute stress disorder and acute stress reactions, coping skills, treatment of, and if having a child with cancer can lead to one of these disorders. Introduction Everyone experiences some type of stress throughout his or her life. The loss of a job, divorce, becoming a victim of crime, and getting married are all examples of stressful experiences. Although the aforementioned events are stressful, having a child with cancer has a devastating effect on both the child with cancer and his or her family members. Parents of a child with cancer are affected emotionally, physically, financially, and spiritually (Fletcher, 2010).
Dissociative Identity Disorder, or DID, is a severe mental disorder that cause the patient to experience severe dissociation from the environment and others around them. Dissociation is kind of like daydreaming, which most of us have experienced. People with DID experience a “lack of connection in a person’s thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity”, according to WebMD, a reputable site that provides health information (Costello). Many doctors and psychiatrists believe that DID starts because of a traumatic experience and victims of this disorder dissociate themselves from certain situations to alleviate pain and anxiety that the situation may cause. Although many doctors believe this, there is no proven cause of Dissociative
Why is it that I had trouble solving my own problems? Almost every time I asked for advice was when I was emotionally unstable. I realized that I had trouble coming to my senses whenever I was upset, sad, or angry. Throughout my life I have seen many other people face the same problem when they are emotionally disturbed. We can see a good example of how emotions can hinder rational thought in the first chapter of Charlotte’s Web.
The worse cases of PTSD last for years, sometimes increasing because of the impact on the individual that has experienced it. Symptoms need to be recognized for proper treatment. Symptoms The symptoms of PTSD usually fall into three categories, including, 1) reliving, 2) avoiding, and 3)hypersensitivity. Individuals with PTSD tend to be in avoidance of normal activities. What kind of injuries and diseases are related to your profession?
There is also a treatment of cognitive behavioural therapy. This is a talking therapy that can help you manage a schizophrenic patient problems by changing the way they think and behave.CBT cannot remove the problems, but can help them manage them in a more positive way. It encourages them to examine how their actions can affect how they think and feel. Also an Antipsychotics can be given this is to reduce the amount of dopamine in the brain. There are also community programmes and mental health teams to help schizophrenic patients.
A great deal of research has been undertaken on bereavement. Sooner or later bereavement becomes part of nearly everyone’s experience. Bereavement can be viewed as a normal and natural experience, one of which most people manage to come to terms with over a period of time. Nevertheless, it is associated with a period of intense pain and suffering for most people, with an increased risk of developing mental health problems. For some of these individuals mental health is extreme and persistent, so for this reason bereavement is a concern for clinical practise.
Stress is something that everyone experiences frequently. In the matters of post-traumatic stress, it is a disorder that should not be taken lightly. Most mental disorders are overlooked and negatively judged, even though they are extremely common for Americans. Stress and disorders are difficult for not only the people with the disorders, but for those that love them, as well as everyday people that come in contact of them. From personal experience, as well as evaluating my participant’s life and her involvement, I noted that it is very important to have a strong support system surrounding one with PTSD.
Speech Anxiety For most people public speaking is extremely nerve-racking and causes a lot of anxiety, and I’m no different from any of those people. I hate giving public speeches. To be honest, I’m not quite sure why I have such a fear of public speaking. It’s nothing more than getting up in front of people and talking about things you know or love. I’ve tried a lot of techniques to try and calm my nerves.
Children with ODD are constantly defiant, hostile and disobedient. They don’t like responding to instructions or taking orders from others, and they actively refuse simple requests. Sometimes they eagerly blame others for their own mistakes, can lose their temper easily, and act in an angry, resentful or touchy manner. Term watch Oppositional: hostile or confrontational action or behaviour. All children occasionally react in this way on a bad day or if upset by a situation, and many teenagers go through troublesome times.