Depression is one of the most common medical illnesses in the United States. So common that it was given a nickname, “common cold.” Depression is more than just having the “blues’ being “down in the dumps” or experiencing temporary feelings of sadness we all have from time to time. It is in fact a serious condition that affects a person’s mind and body. Depression impacts all aspects of everyday life including eating, sleeping, working, relationships, and how a person thinks about him/herself. People who are clinically depressed cannot “will” themselves to feel better or just “snap out of it.” It takes a combination of prescribed medication, Natural remedies, and psychological help to fully treat Depression.
[pic] Schizophrenia, severe mental disorder characterised by a profound disruption of cognition and emotion, which affects a person’s language, thought, perception, affect and even sense of self. In most countries across the world, the lifetime risk of being diagnosed with schizophrenia is 1 per cent. There is a distinction between acute and chronic onset schizophrenia. In chronic onset, there is often an insidious change in an apparently normal young person who gradually loses drive and motivation and starts to drift away from friends. After months or even years of this deterioration, more obvious signs of disturbance such as delusional ideas or hallucinations, appear.
Cerebral Vascular Accident in Nursing Cerebral Vascular Accident in Nursing Pathophysiology Stroke ranks third, after cancer and heart disease, on the national mortality table of most developed countries (Collins, 2007).There is more than 100 potential causes of strokes, making it the greatest cause of disability (Collins, 2007). Strokes are also the leading cause of brain injuries in adults. Warning signs of an impending stroke include; Weakness, numbness, or tingling in the face or arms or one side of the body, difficulty speaking or understanding words, trouble with vision, severe headache with nausea and vomiting. If these symptoms strike you call 911 for help immediately (New sucess in preventing and treating strokes, 2009). A stroke can be hemorrhagic, ischemic, or embolic in origin.
This medication is known to cause an increased risk to death in patients, memory loss, confusion, loss of reality, increased risk in suicidal thoughts, new or worse depression, new or worse anxiety, agitation or restlessness, panic attacks, increased aggressiveness, angry or violent behavior, an extreme increase in activity and talking, cause the patient to experience strokes that can lead to death, lower white blood cell count, difficulty swallowing, and lastly this medication can cause a serious effect called neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS): this is a rare condition that can happen in patients who take antipsychotic medications especially LATUDA, this medication can and will cause death when these symptoms are experienced high fever, excessive sweating, rigid muscles, confusions, and changes in heartbeat and blood
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
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.
Boys die by suicide four times as much as girls. They also die by suicide mainly by using lethal weapons, hanging themselves or jumping from high places. Overall sixty percent of suicides in the U.S. are being committed with a gun. People, such as, parents, peers, teachers, administrators, and families, who have teens who are trying to attempt suicide might not know if that are trying to. They should look for signs like, teens talking about suicide, going away or dying, or feeling hopeless, teens who pull away from friends and family.
Symptoms of mania associated with bipolar are mood changes and behavioral changes. Some examples of the mood changes are long periods of being overly happy or outgoing and extremely irritable mood or feeling jumpy. Some examples of the behavioral changes are having racing thoughts, easily distracted, being restless, insomnia, and indulging in high risk behaviors. There are also mood changes and behavioral changes associated with depressive episodes in people with bipolar. Some examples of these mood changes are long periods of feeling empty and loss of interest in activities that you once enjoyed.
We have one of the worst adolescent suicide rates in the world. On average 294 youths die from suicide in a year. These rates have tripled since 1970. For every completed suicide there are an estimated 30 – 50 attempts. Suicide affects 1 in 13 Canadians.
Suicide is defined as the intentional taking of one’s own life. In some European languages, the word for suicide translates into English as “self-murder.” Until the end of the twentieth century, approximately, suicide was considered a criminal act; legal terminology used the Latin phrase felo-de-se, which means “a crime against the self.” Much of the social stigma that is still associated with suicide derives from its former connection with legal judgment, as well as with religious condemnation. In the social climate of 2007, suicidal behavior is most commonly regarded—and responded to—as a psychiatric emergency. Demographics of suicide There are almost 11 suicide deaths each year for every 100,000 people living the United States, and for