There are quite different mental health issues which individual can develop for instance anxiety, psychosis and eventually depression. The word psychosis denotes a condition when an individual does lose the touch with the reality. When a person suffers from this kind of episode, it is a true signal of an underlying illness. This can be […]
Nomophobia is a term that the medical field has actually come up with for the behavioral addiction to cell phones. It translates to no mobile phone phobia and various other terms such as mobile phone dependence can be associated with this addiction. Susan Ladika addresses in the article, Technology Addiction, that those who are addicted […]
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Get startedIn this day and age working adults and kids growing up in school have become more anxious these days. I have found that only a certain amount of kids are not afraid of interacting with other people. Most kids these days are becoming to have anxiety and social awkwardness. I propose that we as a […]
An individual of society may go through a lot of changes and experiences during their lifetimes. From the moment the person is born, society ends up playing a huge role on shaping their social interactions, their behaviors, their morals and the things that end up driving their decisions; whether it is love, education, success, wealth, […]
All throughout America highschool teens and young adults in college are playing video games. Of course all mothers think their child is addicted, but the truth is that these video games have a much bigger affect. Many researchers have conducted studies on the effects of video games on behavior, drug use, alcohol use, mental health, […]
Biopsychosocial Michael Peters was a 50 year old Caucasian resident at the Ed Thompson Veteran’s Center, a substance abuse residential rehabilitation facility for Veterans. Michael attended group sessions but didn’t contribute to discussions or interact with anyone. He was very quiet and isolated a lot. Michael grew up in Bushwick, Brooklyn. He was the son […]
Are you happy or are you sad? Everyone wakes up feeling sadness, but these feelings usually pass over time. Lack of awareness of the symptoms may cause people to consider the feelings that they have to be normal, therefore the person most likely will dismiss them, this occurs more with teenagers because they tend to […]
This is really important for me because this is a huge problem that affects a lot of people and childrens, for me being sad its something horrible and I couldn’t imagine being sad for most of the days of the week, I want to change the way people feel and try to make them happy […]
Post-traumatic stress disorder also known as PTSD is a physiological condition caused by exposure to traumatic events in a human’s life experience. This condition is mostly diagnosed to those recognized as veterans. They have lived their life to serve but experience life’s most traumatic events while doing their job. For example, have you ever had […]
Anxiety is the number one mental illness that teens are diagnosed with in the United States, and ten percent of teens are diagnosed with anxiety in the US alone (11 Facts). If ten percent of teens in the United States suffer from anxiety, then roughly four million teens in the U.S. are suffering from this […]
Abstract With 20% of America’s population suffering from one anxiety disorder or another each year, these ailments need to be addressed and treated as effectively as possible. Anxiety causes a significant increase in a person’s risks for other health issues including substance abuse, heart disease, and more (News in Health, 2016). With such dire statistics, […]
Anxiety in our Modern Society Steven Hayes, PhD once said, If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. (Boyes, 2013). This quote from Dr. Hayes is explaining that without change there will no different outcome. This quote relates to the principles of society because it shows that if […]
I take this opportunity to extend my greetings to all and offer my appreciation for this chance. The perception that communication disorder equates to total affliction is broad. These conditions are not only manageable but also are within the realms of fully being eliminated through the active therapeutic channels and regular counter habits. The inability […]
Freud mentioned that OCD is played out in overt thoughts and actions. Specifically, he mentioned that Id impulses equals to obsessive thoughts and Ego defenses equals to counter-thoughts or compulsive actions. Also, OCD is related to the anal stage of development where people who suffer from it usually has period of intense conflict between the […]
Opening There are different reasons to why people experience anxiety, one reason is going to the dentist. According to The University of York (2018), an estimated 30 percent of the adult population from around the world that experience dental anxiety. People who experience anxiety have different undesirable symptoms that are produced just at the thought […]
Generalized Anxiety DisorderSarah is eighteen years old. She frequently has migraines, difficulty sleeping, and muscle pains that are unable to be alleviated. Sarah experiences severe difficulty in social interactions, asking questions, and processing stress. From the time she was ten years old, Sarah could not control her overthinking, worry, or fear. This worry often interfered […]
2Over the past few years, marijuana and its many compounds have been becoming increasing popular around the world. One compound in particular, cannabinoid (CBD), a non-psychoactive compound of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), has been of great interest as a potential treatment for numerous medical diseases. As recent as 2018, cannabinoid has been approved as an alternative anticonvulsant […]
Big Picture: Thousands of people struggle with some form of anxiety in their daily life. Many choose not to seek help but what happens to the people that do. A form of anxiety is obsessive compulsion disorder which is where people have unwanted, reoccurring thoughts that affect their day to day life. For this disorder […]
It is normal for a person’s body to respond to pressures, threats, demands, and dangers in life. At times I feel like I am overloaded and having a hard time to cope with the demands in my life. Stress can be both negative and positive. Stress makes overthink, feel fatigued, get headaches, have increased anxiety […]
Failure is such a harsh and intimidating experience and thought to a developing mind. I recall the first time I felt out of control as life took over and I had no option but to fail. As we go through life, failing in that moment brings panic, sadness and even fear but at the end […]
In this essay I will be discussing about the causes of drug abuse from seven perspectives of psychology. Drug abuse is the state of using drugs habitually. Drug abuse affects every community and life of individual itself and his/her family. According to a research (Dube, 2003) various reasons cause drug abuse, one of them is […]
Abortion has been an ongoing issue, it continues to spread in a way of not stopping because we live in a world where the economy is constantly falling in a way that doesn’t allow some people to reach a successful stable life as in people who are becoming pregnant. Certain decisions must be made when […]
MANAGING SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER INTRODUCTION 1. The concept of fear dated back as far as 400 BC. During this time, Hippocrates, an ancient Greek physician described the overly shy person as “someone who loves darkness as life and thinks every man observes him”. When fear is persistent and exaggerated, it results to tension and stress […]
Create a reflective piece using the Gibbs Reflective Model which identifies an incident in the workplace where there was a lack of leadership. Use critical analysis of a reflective cycle to explore how this incident has increased your knowledge and understanding of professional practice with respect to the values and behaviour s in the field […]
The operant approach to chronic pain was intended to concentrate upon external pain-induced responses and the social implications of the nature of feedback. The operant model has been particularly described by Fordyce et al (1968, 1976) based upon the work of other individuals in the behavioural field, for example Skinner. The operant theory implies that […]
STRESS MANAGEMENT IN LOW INTENSITY CONFLICT OPERATIONS CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION “Life is a long sequence of stressors” – Mirza Galib General 1. Stress is an inescapable part of modern life. It is the psychological and physiological reaction that occurs when an individual perceives an imbalance between the level of demand placed upon him and his […]
Develop a good attitude Stress is a feeling of emotional response to a threat or challenge in everyday life and thus one ought to know how to deal with it so that it does not affect the mental and health status of the body. Developing a positive attitude is a good instinctive approach in managing […]
This is a research and psychoanalysis paper on Marilyn Monroe and the life that she lived. The first part explores many aspects of her life, starting with her childhood and ending in the passing of Marilyn. The start goes into her heritage and later discusses how that, and the rest of her life, affected her […]
Abstract This paper reports findings from several psychological journals that explain how self-esteem is not entirely based on a person’s childhood because humans ultimately have the free-will to choose how much they value themselves. The varying sections of this research will analyze the process of self-esteem development on the human brain, specifically in the anterior […]
This research paper will discuss specific phobias among pediatric population: the major topics this paper will address will include how children develop a specific- phobia as well as the most effective treatment for phobias in children. Specific phobia is defined as an extreme fear of a specific object or situation (Sue, Sue, Sue, & Sue, […]