She believes his treatment of her is due to her ending the relationship. Alice is experiencing difficulties sleeping and concentrating. She states she is getting only a few hours of sleep each night, is becoming increasingly depressed, and often tearful. Alice denies any increase in alcohol or drug use. Alice’s symptoms have lasted at least three months and appear to be getting worse.
Were there any barriers or challenges that inhibited your ability to complete the assessment tool? How would you address these in the future or
d. What information can be brought to bear? 2. Fomultae one or more problem statements. 3. What are the decisions, outcomes, and relationships in the problem?
By 7 p.m., Brenda’s eyes are red from the drinking, and dark and dead from stress. She hasn’t been out of the house for two weeks. Not since her husband, Larry Raines, went to jail on a charge of incest. The green towel in her hand is covered with rust-colored stains, and droplets from a nosebleed trickle like a line of angry ants down the front of her once-white nightgown. Sitting on the couch, she swings from happy to sappy to angry as if someone
Individuals may also find other people very scary, and feel very alienated and alone. ANXIETY DISORDERS:- there are many types of Anxiety disorders that affect each individual in different way the main types include: Generalized anxiety or GAD is characterized by excessive, exaggerated anxiety and worry about everyday life events with no obvious reasons for worry. Post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD is a lasting
Risk Assessment: Cor Pulmonale NR 282 Pathophysiology II Spring B – 2013 Cor Pulmonale Introduction My patient is a 42 year old Hispanic female with a past medical history of pneumonia and hypertension. She is a single mother with one child (son) and is employed as a cleaner in a general hospital. She denies smoking but drinks alcohol occasionally. She denies using recreational drugs. The patient presented to her physician’s office with shortness of breath, chest pain, excessive coughing, and excessive fatigue and states that, “she has fainted on occasion before”.
• Did you learn a new skill or clarify an interest? Did you experience anything that surprised you? What feelings or thoughts seem most strong today? How was your experience different than you anticipated? Was what you learned in the service learning experience different than what you learned in class?
Effects of stress on Hypertension Stress effects a variety of different topics such as blood pressure, anxiety, change in behavior, and many more topics the list goes on and on. Most people are unaware of the effects stress has on your body. They try to down play it as nothing is wrong, but it fact stress can really put a toll on your body and the way you act. The topic that’s going to be talked about that stress effects is Hypertension. Hypertension and stress go hand in hand; stress has a direct effect on hypertension.
Individual Programmatic Assessment: Disorder Paper Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that affects 2.4 million American adults over the age of 18. Although it affects men and women with equal frequency, schizophrenia most often appears in men in their late teens or early twenties, while it appears in women in their late twenties or early thirties (National Alliance on Mental Illness,2012). It is a chronic, brain disabling illness. Many people diagnosed with schizophrenia have difficulty deciphering fantasy from fiction. They sometimes cannot tell what is real and what is not.
In moderate to severe traumatic brain injury there could be permanent memory loss, trouble with speech and loss of coordination among other visible and invisible symptoms. Since the individual did not have these issues prior to the injury they will most likely have a negative effect at first. Due to the loss of abilities, they may experience mood changes, anger, depression or anxiousness. These internal psychological challenges may also be compounded by the social anxiety they may feel. Unfortunately, the general society is unforgiving toward those with special needs or differences.