Essays on Psychological Disorders

Psychological disorders have been around for decades, though thorough study began late in term of it’s existence. Each disorder has its own combination and variety of symptoms, many including a drop of functionality, such as social and scholastic, mood changes that go from nearly unnoticeable to extreme in changes etc. (A.P.A, 2018) Another set if disorders that affect many are sleep disorders, going from insomnia to sleep apnea. These two disorders have been and are currently still being researched today,…...

As of 2014, there were about 318.9 million people living in the United States. According to statistics provided by The Kim Foundation, about 26.2 percent of the US population that is 18 years old and older are diagnosed with a psychological disorder. In 2004, 57.7 million people dealt with a psychological disorder. One of the most dangerous illnesses of them all is Schizophrenia. It is a long-term psychological disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought,…...

As we know, schizophrenia and its spectrum disorders are chronic and severe mental disorders that affect an individual in many aspects of life. These disorders affect the ability to think and feel, moreover, they affect behavior, meaning that people with schizophrenia may seem as they lost the touch with reality. Sometimes, it can be difficult to diagnose, as there are no tests and the only way to diagnose it is to recognize symptoms that negatively impact on individuals social or…...

Albert Einstein, Kim Peek,Vincent Van Gogh and Thomas Edison all share two thing in common: all four of them battled mental illness, but are still some of the most famous creative geniuses that historically known today. What is a creative genius? A creative genius is a person who displays high intelligence, creative productivity, universality in genres or originality, typically to a degree that is associated with the achievement of new advances in a domain of knowledge. There is a strong…...

In today’s society it is vital for one to have the proper social skills to navigate through a professional and social life in order to succeed. The biology of the human brain along with several other factors such as parenting styles, childhood traumas and the experience of socially traumatic events leads can lead to the development of Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) in a large portion of the population. Sufferers of this psychiatric disorder have trouble establishing the interpersonal relationships that…...

Introduction In recent times, the importance for the need to systematically study and research in psychological disorders has been brought to consideration. The reported cases of various such cases have been steadily increasing and various research is being done to understand the causes and ensure effective diagnoses. Out of all the mental disorders the anxiety disorder are the most common ones constituting about 30 percent of the adult patient cases. People with anxiety disorders tend to avoid things which involve…...

Abstract Psychological disorders are presently striking a large number of population from various civilization, society, occupation and different locations around the world. The main obstacle of psychological disorders is the difficulty to detect on people suffering from these disorders, hence resulting in introducing a worrying amount of undetectable cases and false detection issue. Our methodology aims at constructing detective models to identify psychological disorders among online social media users. These detective models are attainable by engaging a basic data collection…...

A psychological disorder can occur at any stage in one’s life and to anyone. Much like a physical disease such as cancer, they do not discriminate. In our society, there seems to be certain stigmas and stereotypes attached to psychological disorders (although there is more understanding in recent years) and counseling for them, even though many may be overcome, or at least managed in this way, and this is needed for not just your mind or emotional health, but also…...

Psychology is not a single subject of enterprise as infact it can be pinned down to quite a lot of coalated specialities for example developmental psychology, clinical psychology, cognitive psychology,psysiological psychology which all have different focus points.Developmental psychology has a focus point on studying the age-related changes which occur in all living beings across the life span. On the otherhand, clinical psychology is more based on finding the causes and treatment of psychological disorders and adjusment problems for example phobias…...

Abnormality may be specified as behavior that triggers distress, loss of freedom, physical or emotional discomfort, and increased threat of death or injury to self or something that causes a disability of some sort. Unusual behaviour is nevertheless difficult to identify due to the fact that it is, to a big level, based upon the symptoms individuals show. Psychiatrists and psychologists use a standardized system called a diagnostic handbook to assist them but this system isn't without faults. Given that…...

A major part of scientific psychology is the medical diagnoses and treatment of psychological disorders. This can typically be challenging and questionable due to the reality that much of the disorders can be puzzled with others; there aren't constantly clear guidelines in which to follow. An example of this confusion can be seen in the conditions Neurosis and Psychosis. Neither neurosis nor psychoses look like significant classifications in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Illness (DSM-III). The main factor…...

Though at one point in time clinical scientists believed in only one model of abnormality, we now have six very different models. The original model of abnormality was, unfortunately, the product of cultural beliefs. But because no one model can be deemed complete on its own, competing models have since developed to strive for the comprehensive means for treatment. For example, the biological model and the psychodynamic model take very different approaches on understanding thoughts and emotions. All models are…...