According to the United States Census Bureau, roughly 55% obtain insurance through an employer, while about 10% purchase it directly. About 31% of Americans were enrolled in a public health insurance program: 14.5% (45 million – although that number has since risen to 48 million) had Medicare, 15.9% (49 million) has Medicaid, and 4.2% (13 million) had military health insurance (there is some overlap, causing percentages to add up to more than 100%). The percentage of non-elderly workers with employer-sponsored coverage has been falling, from 68% in 2000 to 61% in 2009, the latest year for which data is available. While the primary cause of falling rates of insurance is the rising cost of health care for employers, the economic downturn since
An anxiety disorder is diagnosed if the persons response is not appropriate for the situation, if the person cannot control the response, or if the anxiety interferes with their normal functioning. Anxiety disorders include post traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorders, specific phobias, panic disorders, generalized anxiety disorder and social anxiety disorder. Psychotic Disorder - Psychotic disorders involve distorted awareness and thinking. Two of the most common symptoms of psychotic disorders are hallucinations - the experience of images and sounds that are not real, such as hearing voices and delusions, which are false beliefs that the ill person accepts as true,
Schizophrenia refers to a psychiatric disorder which affects the coherence of one’s personality due to emotional instability and detachment from reality. It is mainly associated with anxiety disorders and depression. The symptoms of schizophrenia are outlined hereafter: auditory hallucinations, disorganized patterns of speech (characterized by preponderance of word salad) and thought processes, paranoid delusions, lethargy, social withdrawal (or isolation), impaired social cognition, impairment of executive functioning and catatonia. Usually, the onset of these symptoms manifests itself in young adulthood (20-30 years of age). The prodromal phase of schizophrenia is characterized by dysphoria, petulance, transient psychotic symptoms, alogia, anhedonia, gaucheness and social withdrawal.
Disorganized schizophrenia is when their behavior or speech is much unorganized and could cause inappropriate emotion. Catatonic schizophrenia causes one to repeat another ones behavior or speech purposely. Undifferentiated schizophrenia has many and varied symptoms. Residual schizophrenia has withdrawals. Someone can have an identical twin and only one could have schizophrenia.
This mental disorder makes it difficult to differentiate between what is reality and what is fantasy. The symptoms of schizophrenia are divided into positive and negative symptoms. An individual must display at least two positive symptoms or one positive symptom as well as a negative symptom. Positive symptoms are symptoms that are only present in people with schizophrenia and atypical to the average person, such as hallucinations. Negative symptoms include deficits of standard emotional responses, such as lack of motivation or inability to experience pleasure.
However it is thought that about 1 to 2 percent of the population has borderline personality disorder. It is twice as common in women then males. An increase in major depressive disorder, alcohol uses disorders and substance abuse is found in first-degree relatives of persons with this disorder. It is estimated that 2% of the general population have Borderline Personality Disorder, while about 10% among individuals seen in outpatient mental health clinics, and about 20% among psychiatric inpatients. It ranges from 30% to 60% among clinical populations with Personality
1. Bipolar disorder is a diagnostic term to describe abnormal mood swings ranging from disabling depression to extreme mania. There are four variants of Bipolar disorder that include: Bipolar I, Bipolar II, Cyclothymia, and Bipolar (NOS). Bipolar I, is characterized by a minimum of one manic or mixed episode and at least one sustained episode of depression. Bipolar II, is characterized by having recurrent episodes of major depression and at least one hypomanic episode that are more extreme than with Bipolar I; mixed episodes are more rare in Bipolar II.
Psychotic disorders: are mental illnesses that are characterised by psychotic symptoms, which can generally be described as a loss of contact with reality. Substance related disorders: are disorders of dependence, intoxication, abuse, and substance withdrawal caused by various substances, both legal and illegal. Eating disorders: Any of a range of psychological disorders characterised by abnormal or disturbed eating habits such as anorexia nervous. Cognitive disorders: Are a category of mental health disorders that primary affect learning, memory, perception, and problem solving and include; amnesia, dementia and delirium. 1.2.
PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA Paranoid Schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness in which reality is distorted, also known as psychosis; people with Paranoid Schizophrenia cannot tell what is real from what is imagined. Paranoid Schizophrenia is one of the most common diagnosed forms of Schizophrenia; it only affects 1% of the general population, about 2.2 million people. People diagnosed with schizophrenia make up about half of all patients in psychiatric hospitals and may occupy as many as one quarter of the world's hospital beds. People with schizophrenia have problems remembering, paying attention, and communication .Some researchers believe Paranoid Schizophrenia develops as a young child, but major symptoms do not affect the mind fully until
I knew the use of Ritalin was wide spread, but I had no idea the extent. Today in the United States approximately 2 million children are diagnosed with ADD and ADHD (Treva 1999). It is more common in boys than girls with boys having an occurrence 2 to 3 times more often than girls have. The production of Ritalin has increased seven-fold in the last 8 years and 90% of it is consumed in the United States (Gibbs 1998). Shouldn’t that cause us to question the sheer number of children we have sedated in this country?