Today I am working as a registered nurse at a specialty hospital for behavioral health clients. I am preparing to meet with a newly admitted client, F.A., whom has been medically diagnosed with social anxiety disorder. Social anxiety disorder, also known as social phobia is a chronic anxiety disorder marked by fear and excessive self-consciousness […]
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 […]
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Get startedMany people have questioned, hypothesized, and sought to ascertain if anxiety impairs memory. The answers are almost unanimously yes, but there is fluctuation in the severity, type of memory impairment, and noted lasting effects. In this paper I have compiled research from various sources related to the study of anxiety and how it impairs memory […]
Introduction: The nature of working in healthcare entails exposure to death. Death anxiety, according to Doenges (2016) is a nursing diagnosis defined as a Vague uneasy feeling of discomfort or dread generated by perceptions of a real or imagined threat to one’s existence (p 219-222). Lee & King (2014) add that Caregivers who experience death […]
Mrs. Lancaster is a 39-year-old Caucasian female who has a European heritage in which she has no strong ties remaining. English is her primary language. She appears to have behaviors consistent with American beliefs and values. She is married to Joseph Lancaster who works from home, and she has two school aged children, ages 8 […]
The average human blinks about 15-20 times per minute. This would result in 1,200 blinks an hour, and an astounding 28,800 blinks in a day. (Cronin, 2012) Now, when have you ever had to remind yourself to blink? The answer to this should across the board be virtually never. Our brain automatically tells our body […]
Abstract In the past couple of decades, the use of Virtual Reality (VR) has become increasingly prevalent. Virtual reality is mainly used today to treat anxiety disorders through exposure therapy, but it is also increasing in frequency regarding research. The goal of the present study is to determine the effect of VR immersion on evoked […]
While there is no single definition of the term anxiety, there is a general consensus among scholars that the word refers to a number of disorders that trigger apprehension, fear, nervousness, and worry. Naturally, anxiety influences individual’s feelings and behavior. While mild levels of anxiety are normal and essential for survival, extreme anxiety leads to […]
Ferris Bueller says it best Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. What Matthew Broderick’s character is basically saying this, life flashes before each individuals lives, they should all ponder about what has been going on and take control of themselves. According to […]
Both children and adolescents occasionally experience the anxiety that accompanies stressful events. Alarmingly, it isn’t uncommon that many children and teens in the US are diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders and co-occurring disorders like depression and separation anxiety disorder (SAD) have a dramatic effect on a child’s quality of life. Generalized anxiety disorder […]
The doctor said not to worry, but that’s not so easy. You see worrying is my thing. I worry about everything, from what people think of me to what kind of shoes I’m wearing. I’m always dreading going to the doctor. Sitting in awkward silences with a woman telling my mum her 16-year-old daughter has […]
Experiencing claustrophobia has changed the norm of socializing for numbers of individuals around the world who undergo the irrational fear. Claustrophobia is an anxiety disorder that is the fear of closed environments or having no escape, such as elevators or crowded rooms with no windows. Placing an individual in a triggering situation may lead them […]
Teenagers and young adults have always been developmentally difficult, with new pressures from peers, academics, and family. However, in a world whose technology is developing and changing almost exponentially, growing up in the 21st century poses new challenges and stressors on the mental health of adolescents and young adults. WIth the competition and cost of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fads, like swallowing live goldfish as a party trick and surfing on the hood of moving vehicles, may be on the list of college student contributions to America, but it cannot be denied that they have also contributed to the most important parts of modern history books such as the initiation of The Civil Rights […]
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 […]
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 […]
Thesis Statement: Famous singer, Britney Spears suffers from many disorders one such as the bipolar disorder. Britney once lost custody of her two sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James when her bipolar disorder got out of control. She was briefly hospitalized when her mental state exploded. Britney happens to get very out of control when […]
The foreground question I sought to answer was In pediatric patients with asthma does hypnosis or music lead to greater stress reduction? The most important concept in this question is maximizing the amount of stress reduction. My final working set was the search ((((((((Adolescent[MeSH Terms]) AND Child[MeSH Terms]) NOT Adult[MeSH Terms]) AND hypnosis) or music) […]
Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that can affect everyone of each race, age and gender. This mental illness is known as a mood disorder that causes uncontrollable shifts in moods from excited to severely irritable. Those suffering with bipolar disorder experiences episodes of mania or depression. Individuals that are diagnosed with bipolar disorder can […]
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 […]
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 […]
Agoraphobia is a situation where fear characterized with anxiety is believed to enter into certain locations or at vacuum. Phobic in our understanding can be said to be an order that is marked by persisting an irrational fear of any type of object or any situation that cannot pose or bring forth any danger that […]
In today’s modern society, the average college student is sleep deprived more than ever. Sleep deprivation is the situation or condition of suffering from a lack of sleep. Sleep deprivation is real, and only researchers are the only ones who know it is a big problem throughout colleges and universities worldwide. Sleep deprivation has many […]
It’s tuesday night, and Billy, a high schooler, is doing his homework. Billy usually has an astronomical amount of homework since his coursework is rigorous, but this night is different. Billy realizes he has a very important test tomorrow and winces at the thought. Soon after he finishes his homework it is midnight, and he […]
Abnormal psychology is a portion of psychology that focuses on studies that contain unusual patterns of behavior, emotion and thought. There are many topic that are related to Abnormal Psychology. Although like there are many topics related to Abnormal Psychology I want to research one topic in particular. I want to put my focus on […]
The emergence of transgender rights has drawn political science and public opinion scholars to empirically assess public attitudes about transgender people and their rights. Basic civil human rights is a privilege every human is entitled too. This on going debate has prompted the Trump ad-ministration to make transgender rights almost obsolete. Continuous observation has provided […]
There are more phobias than people can actually realize. Everyone has some sort of phobia whether they realize it or not. They each work in different ways and work differently of everyone. Researchers are starting to find and use different types of technologies for phobias; For example, FMRI and PET. They are using these to […]
Many people get diagnosed with psychological disorder each day. Myers and Dewall (2016) state that nearly 1 in 4 adults in the U.S. suffer from a diagnosed psychological disorder. There are many different types of mental disorders. Disorder can range from substance abuse, anxiety, depression, bipolar among many others. This paper will describe a patient by the name of Tricia who exhibits symptoms of Anxiety Panic Disorder.
Tricia has clear symptoms of Panic Disorders. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders clearly state that anxiety disorders share characteristics of fear and nervousness and correlated behavior disturbances. It is estimated that 1 for every 75 people are diagnosed with panic disorders each year in the U.S. (Myers & Dewall, 2016). Tricia is a 24-year-old female who just recently graduated college. She just recently got involved in a serious relationship after going out with him for several months. At the age of 7 Tricia was removed from her biological parent’s household because of physical abuse. She lived in a foster care for several years until she finally got adopted at the age of 13 by her foster parents. When Tricia was 10 years old she experienced her first panic attack after being moved again to a different foster home. This information is helpful to know because research indicates that the life experiences the patient had in the last twelve months before her first initial panic attack is crucial to know because it can pin points the trigger of the anxiety disorde (Faravelli, 1995). In fact, Faravelli (1995) conducted a study that consisted of twenty-three participants that were diagnosed with panic disorders what Faravelli, was trying to determine was the correlation of the life events that led to these episodes within the twelve months leading to the attach. The results indicated that participants had significance life event s when compared to the controllers group (Faravelli, 1995). This information correlates with Tricia’s background because more than likely Tricia was afraid of being moved again since she had gone from foster home to foster home.
Tricia was taken to the emergency room because she had strong heart palpitations, consistent sweating’s, shortness of breath as well chest pain or numbness and dizzy spells. Her foster parents thought she was going to have a heart attack so decided not to take a chance and seeked medical helped. It was on that first visit where the doctors talked to Tricia and her foster parents about panic attacks. That same night however, Tricia also admitted to the doctor and the foster parents that she had also experienced before heat sensation as well as sometime feeling she was going to choke.
Three months ago she found out that her adoptive mom had stage IV cancer. Tricia is again experiencing, chest pain, nausea, shortness of breath as well dizzy spells and excessive sweating. Tricia however, is afraid that she might have a panic attack in front of her boyfriend because her boyfriend does not know her childhood history. Her boyfriend is worried because Tricia has been avoiding him lately because Tricia is worried she is going to lose control in front of him and he might not be interested anymore. These episodes are affecting her life because she is pushing away someone who cares about her because of fear of rejection. Panic attacks are also affecting her because now she is also worried that she might get cancer and is afraid of dying.
Having a psychological disorder is not something to be afraid of. Anyone who believes that he or she has some of the characteristics of any disorder should look for medical help. The identification and treatment of panic attacks can in fact reduce the probability of developing depression (Goodwin & Olfson, 2001).
