Mark Graham
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I am a person who really likes to read and write and to share what I learned with all my education. My page will mainly be book reviews and critiques of old and new books that I have read and will read. There will also be other bits, too.
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More on DID
There are a few other ways that Dissociative Personality Disorder manifests itself, and here are a few of the them. The first one that I want to mention is 'Dissociative Fugue' or as one in a fugue state means that the person is in a state of confusion over a personal identity, as in when there is travel away from home. There is a partial or a complete identity loss or gain for the person to figure out where one belongs and there is what is known as 'flight state' when for a short amount of time away from home there is a less than complete change of identity that is triggered by some kind of stressor, so that the person is able to cope with what is going on and given time to think through what is really happening to them and come back to the reality of their life. There could be a single or repeated episodes of this form of DID. The person can have no recollection of being in a state of fugue, but the symptoms will go away simultaneously also the explicit memory will go away, but the implicit memory will be intact. One must deal with mood extremes along with anxiety and other contributing factors.
By Mark Graham3 years ago in FYI
Dissociative Disorders
Who remembers the classic movie entitled 'Sybil' back in the last century. This is the story of a women who has many multiple personalities otherwise known as Dissociative Disorders. There was also a daytime drama 'One Life To Live' where a staple female character had DID due to being sexually abused as a child. This diagnosis is one that is very rare in the mileau of Dissociative Disorders where consciousness is altered along with memory. This also involves broad to specific memories for those who are diagnosed. By the way this is also one of my favorites of learning about mental disorders.
By Mark Graham3 years ago in FYI
Mania
Now for Mania for this side of it there are low levels of depression and it seems to help to regulate the 6-proteins modulate at levels at the post-synaptic level like the drug Prozac which is a SSRI and need more Serotonin. There is a genetic vulnerability and the 1990's in England a person for I am not sure if it was a scientist or psychologist found that chromosomes are what are the patterns for mood disorders such as Bi-Polar 1 with one or more episodes and it seems even with prior treatment with Lithium and having four episodes.
By Mark Graham3 years ago in FYI
Cognitive theories
Cognitive theories are dealing the theories by Aaron Beck there is a negative triad in a belief system that goes from the SELF to WORLD to the FUTURE and back and forth between these ideas. There is a problem in thinking. There is problematic thinking along emotional states of thinking. One interprets own experiences in a structured way and what causes a depressive or a manic episode. We can create negative schemas that setup for depression along with dysfunctional thoughts that affect your present experiences.
By Mark Graham3 years ago in FYI
Mood Disorders
Part two of Mood Disorders picks up with the sub-types of Major Depression. The first would be one known as 'Melancholia' which has features like a loss of interests and pleasures, has a distinct depressed mood more intense in the morning, weight loss, excessive guilt, lethargy, depression, maybe psychotic behaviors and delusions/false beliefs. There could also be hallucinations that give a false sense of perceptions and auditory hallucinations are more common. With Depression catatonic features along with behavioral disturbances.
By Mark Graham3 years ago in FYI
Mood Disorders
What are mood disorders? In learning about these disorders it is important to know that there are extremes in the major groups that fall on a continuum from Depression to Mania. These affect disorders have a 90% chance of diagnoses of Depression, Dysthymic disorder that shows in affect of irritability or elation. In Depression there a number of ways shown and it varies for what it said in the DSM IV along with emotional symptoms like sadness and just feeling unhappy. There is a disorder known as 'anahedonism' that is a loss of enjoyment and pleasure. The patients/clients that exhibit this kind of diagnosis exhibit an apathic sense to things and show a lack of motivation that could just be the feeling of irritability of whatever is going on in their lives. In working with children and adolescents with anxiety there is or may be feeling of worthlessness. The physiological signs and symptoms as well as the behavioral signs and symptoms varies. There are sleep disturbances as in too much or too little sleep or appetite problems, again too much or too little.
By Mark Graham3 years ago in Education
More on Phobias and Others
More on Phobias will continue with Specific phobias when a specific object or situation that is experienced creates a panic attack when coming in contact. These are usually irrational fears. These usually come in 'groupings' such as animals, natural environmental occurences that are situational. Examples of animals are from dogs, cats, snakes; floods, tornados, hurricanes and even cars, planes in going places. Other phobias include fear of blood and injections and other injuries that could happen if one would faint. There are others that are too many to figure out a reason why. There are also many psychodynamic reasons for phobias to numerous for this article to mention.
By Mark Graham3 years ago in Education
More on Anxiety disorders
As promised here is more on anxiety disorders starting with another theory one known as 'humanistic' this is one theory that states when children have developed a harsh set of standards to achieve and maintain to be acceptable to them and others. Another theory is known as 'extentialism' and anxiety is when there is an universal fear of limits and responsibilities of your existence. The 'cognitive' theory is when the conscious and the unconscious thoughts are focused on threats and are constantly thinking about it. The 'biological' theory is when the neurotransmitters (GABA) when a deficiency of GABA receptors/transmitters are excessively firing in the limbic system. The 'genetic' theory is that some are born to a biological vulnerability to have Generalized Anxiety.
By Mark Graham3 years ago in Education
Anxiety disorders
This next lesson article is what was presented in chapter five dealing with anxiety disorders and how to help clients and patients deal with what is going on with them. In dealing with these kinds of disorders it is all about adaptive fears versus maladaptive anxiety. What is meant by 'adaptive fear' this is when the persons concerns are realistic given the circumstances presented. 'Maladaptive fears' are unrealistic concerns and statistically will not happen and will not hurt too much and will survive. Adaptive fears will result form out of fear when normal fear subsides. Maladaptive fears when the level of threat gets out of proportion to a particular fear. The threat is eliminated but the fear continues and there will be and have an anticipatory fear about the future.
By Mark Graham3 years ago in Education
