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BILLY PILGRIM: PTSD OR SEVERELY PSYCHOTIC?

shelters to get corpses out "as a sanitary measure," is how he puts it (Hayman et al). Even more gruesome was his description of t...

Bone Density And Dieting: Professional

track and cross-country runners, that physicians need to take note of amenorrhea and/or a history of stress fracture, and have sus...

Nutrition Concerns in AIDS

at best, death usually occurs within a few months to a few years after the virus attack on the human system. Maintaining proper n...

Hypothetical Marijuana Study

such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent, beginning in early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts" (DSM-IV,...

Neurosis and Psychosis (Overview)

Neurosis," 2007). Many are familiar with anxiety as it is common in society in addition to depression. OCD is obsessive compulsive...

Harris & Weiss/Topics in Autism

the "Yu Family," with parents Harold and Grace. Eddie is their oldest child. Eddie is such a "good" baby, demanding little attenti...

Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome And The Counting Method

upon as wholly overwhelming. II. SUMMARY The individual conjures up a traumatic memory while the therapist counts from ...

Panic Disorder and Marriage Therapy

for no real reason. Symptoms can include: Trembling...

Relationship Between Language-Based And Learning Disabilities

Beyond that, however, is the fact that any student who is struggling with language will not be able to read and write as well as a...

Attachment And Separation

for their future relationships and interactions (Pendry, 1998; Practice Notes, 1997). There are three conditions for attachment de...

Graves Disease/Proposed Research

variety of immunologic features that are similar to autoimmune hypotheroidism, such as "high serum concentrations of antibodies ag...

Dissociative Identity Disorder: Behavior Analyst Explanation

in a single multidimensional self" (Stephens, 2005). Key indicators include: * The presence of two or more distinct identities, ...

Mental Retardation & Psychopathology

mental illness. One area of practice where this factor in Christian psychiatric practice may prove effective is in regards to the...

Bipolar Disorder

the brain has long been thought to be the cause, but researchers at Washington University have discovered possible structural abno...

Interventions For Aggressive Preschool-Age Children

out of them but that is not true. Studies consistently demonstrate that at least half of the children exhibiting aggressive behavi...

Bipolar Disorder

their moods tend to swing between extreme poles of emotion. A depressive episode is characterized by symptoms such as depressed mo...

Vets with PTSD

with sudden flashbacks intruding on thoughts (Fagan and Freme, 2004). Other symptoms include: an exaggerated startle reflex, sleep...

Parenting Styles And Attachment

parents provide the kind of nurturing and care the baby needs, the five senses are positively stimulated" (Smith, no date). Pare...

Eating Disorders and Differing Perspectives

bulimia it is helpful to first examine the so-called facts. According to these "facts" eating disorders affect females more frequ...

PTSD and Employee Management

Is The American Psychiatric Association has specific guidelines for diagnosing PTSD, specifying that the ordeal which has t...

Reaction Paper to the National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research Report 'Wake Up America: A National Sleep Alert'

they are tired, or not getting enough sleep, they can quickly understand how a large number of people in the nation could make a b...

Quality of Life and the Effects of OCD

that ultimately triggers the beginning signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children who have suffered a bout of strep ...

Overview of Dementia

strikes first in the medial temporal lobe, memory recall, confusion and forgetfulness are typically the first identifiable symptom...

Mood Disorders and Schizophrenia

environment which fed the development of the disease, relapse is not uncommon ("Schizophrenia," 2006). Complete recovery is a poss...

Children Suffering from Antisocial Personality Disorder

has a direct correlation with unattached disorders, with institutionalized children reflected as being particularly compromised in...

Etiology of OCD

(i.e., taking more than an hour a day) or when they cause marked distress or significant impairment for the individual (Diagnostic...

Discussion of PTSD

disorder, or a family history of anxiety and neuroticism" (Grinage, 2003). The body responds in measurable ways to various stress...

Problems Associated with Eating Disorders

One set of arguments, those that argue that unusual eating behaviors such as anorexia and bulimia are not in actuality eating diso...

Definition and Types of PTSD

Hurricane Katrina is one of the most recent examples of an event that resulted in PTSD among some victims. Szegedy-Maszak (2005) ...

Anorexia Nervosa and Its Possible Basis in Biology

and anxiety has long been considered indicative of triggering behavior inherent to the eating disorder. An impulsive personality ...