The person may suffer with responses that are un appropriate in certain situations as well as the usual signs (rapid heartbeat, sweating and nervousness. Anxiety disorders include post-traumatic stress, obsessive compulsive disorder and phobias. Psychotic disorders - involve distorted awareness and thinking. People experience images and sounds that are not real. The ill people believe they are true despite being shown evidence.
Mood disorders are thought to be caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. Traumatic events can also cause a person to become depressed. Personality disorders – affects the individual's patterns of thinking, feelings and behaviour. People with a personality disorder may find that their beliefs and attitudes are different from the majority of people. Others may find the individual's behaviour unusual, or erratic and may find it difficult to be around them.
Intrusive memories can include flashbacks, or reliving the traumatic event for minutes or even days at a time as well as upsetting dreams about the traumatic event. Symptoms of avoidance and emotional numbing involve trying to avoid thinking or talking about the traumatic event, feeling emotionally numb, avoiding activities you once enjoyed, hopelessness about the future, memory problems, trouble concentrating, and difficulty maintaining close relationships. Often, a person with PTSD will change their entire outlook on life after a traumatic event. The symptoms of their PTSD will cause them to reevaluate their life, and often cause them to make irrational decisions based on fear of such an event occurring
What kind of image comes up in your mind when you think of a person with a mental illness? Do you think of a person who is really dangerous and violent? Many people have negative attitudes and stereotypical image toward mental illness. But do they really know what it means to be mentally-ill? Do they know that mental illness can happen to anybody?
P3 – Explain factors that may lead to abusive situations Adults most at risk There are certain groups of people who appear to be more vulnerable to, or at risk of, abuse than others. They tend to be people with physical or learning difficulties or mental health problems. This can also include older people and people suffering from dementia because they are in a confused state. People in these groups tend to be more accepting of what happens to them, this could be because they don’t really understand the situation or because of some strong medication they might be taking. Sometimes people in these groups tend to be isolated with limited social networks and low self esteem.
Generally caused by a traumatic experience, people with dissociative identity disorder describe it as being more than one person. The presence of these two or more distinct or split identities consistently take power over a persons life. Most of us experience a mild case of dissociation. For example day dreaming, or getting lost in a really good song. With intense cases of dissociative identity disorder, there distant memory variations that hinders a person's ability to recall personal information.
People with this illness may seem charming, but they are likely to be aggressive and as well as irresponsible. They may have numerous somatic complaints and perhaps attempt suicide. Due
Bipolar I Disorder and the Diathesis-Stress Model Abnormal Psychology December 5, 2011 Professor James Morley People experience a wide range of emotions throughout ones life; it is simply a part of human nature. Feelings of depression, elevated levels of anxiety, and reckless behavior, are in fact, normal in brief stints, as it would be considerably unhealthy to stifle such emotions. However, in some instances “such moods swings become so prolonged and extreme that the person’s life is seriously disrupted” (Alloy, Manos, Riskind, 2005, p. 246). This is when a disorder becomes categorized as an illness, rather than simply the stresses of everyday life. Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that involves both manic and depressive episodes.
The third type is stomach and bowel problems. Above all, situations of acute stress can lead to hypertension, migraines, chest pains, decreased libido, and rapid heart beat. Posttraumatic Stress is a trauma based anxiety disorder characterized by flash backs, avoidance of stimuli associated with the traumatic event, and chronic arousal symptoms lasting longer than one month. Most importantly, psychological problems can occur in anyone who has experienced a traumatic episode, such as a physical attack, rape, or a natural disaster. One problem experienced is vivid hallucinations of the event.
This can make life appear meaningless and lead to depression. Stress can also affect relationships greatly. If one partner is over stressed, they can react unreasonably to the other person and be quite difficult to deal with. This can act like a chain reaction whereby the stress the person is under causes them to behave badly with their partner which can lead to more rows and arguments. These in turn can lead to more stress within the relationship for both parties.