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¶ … psychological basis of mental illness is certainly only half of the story. Though mental illness is genetic, the actual symptoms and condition being presented is based on a careful marriage between biological and environmental factors. In particular, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), is a mental illness in which "people have unwanted and repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas, sensations or obsession, or behaviors that make them feel driven to do something (compulsions)" (National Institute of Mental Health, 2011). This mental illness, like many others is multi-faceted, in that there is a physiological process associated with it, a set of symptoms that manifest, certain diagnostic criterion and then a set of treatment options.
Foremost, the physiological process of mental illness is mainly concerned with the brain and certain regions of it. The physiological process is a process that evaluates the neural mechanisms of perception and behavior. Research examining the brain has found that "a selective deficit in neurobehavioral response suppression in may be related to failures in the development maturation of frontostriatal circuitry" (Rosenberg, 1998, p. 623). Upon further exploration of the physiological the researcher's conclusion, it is safe to conclude that certain neurons have not matured which has contributed to the physiological process of having OCD. Since the neurons are not communicating with each other by all means possible, certain messages and communications are lost, thus leading the obsession and compulsions...
Symptoms include but are certainly not limited to having "persistent, upsetting thoughts (obsessions) and use rituals (compulsions) to control the anxiety these thoughts produce" (National Institute of Mental Health, 2011). People with OCD have these obsessions and compulsions to such an intense degree that it "interferes with daily life and they find the repetition distressing" (National Institute of Mental Health, 2011)
In order to diagnose OCD in a patient, one must gather information about the over behavioral rituals that are being preformed as well as the cognitive rituals that may also be preformed (Swinson, Richard P., 2001). It is important to gain as much of a detailed composite of the individual suffering from the obsessions and compulsions to truly evaluate what is going on. Additionally, "patients may not be aware that they are engaging in repetitive cognitive activity that serves to reduce anxiety," so in turn, it is important to ask directly "if patients report certain fears but do not report associated behavioral rituals" (Swinson, Richard P., 2001). Finding out as much information about the person's daily life is imperative to diagnosing OCD. Observing a person with OCD may yield observations including seeing the person wash their hands over and over again if they have a…
Riccardi, Christina J, Timpano, Kiara R, & Schmidt, Norman B (2010). A Case Study Perspective on the Importance of motivation in the Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Clinical Case Studies, Volume 9, (Issue 4), pages 273-284.
Rosenberg, David R. & Keshavan, Matcheri S. (1998). Toward a Neurodevelopment Model of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Biological Psychiatry: Official Journal of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, Volume 43 (Issue 9), Pages 623-640.
Swinson, Richard P (2001). Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Theory, Research, and Treatment. New York: The Guilford Press.
When one throws the element of ethnicity into the mix, the process of diagnosis becomes even more difficult. Let us take, for instance the effect of religion on the diagnosis of a mental illness. In some religions it is considered to be "normal" to experience visions, see ghosts, and talk to the dead. However, from a strict clinical standpoint, these things do not exist and therefore indicate a break from
American writers from both the antebellum South and the North commented on the great differences between the white people in the two regions (Ibid; Samuda). Note though, the table data below regarding the percentage of males who completed high school by race, 1940-1980, which will provide data for further discussion regarding utilization of testing to stratify recruits: Table 1 -- Males 18-21 Who Completed High School By Percentile Race 1940 1950 1960 1970 1970 White 40 49 56 68 78 Black 11 18 33 49 60 (Source: Binkin, p.94) How is
Metal Health Mental Issue 2226 Mental Health Researches indicate that poverty and mental illness are correlated with each other in a broader spectrum. This research paper is commissioned on the basis of two exhaustively researched hypotheses: H1 Poverty can cause mental illness and H2 Mental illness is subjected to poverty. Throughout this research paper, these two hypotheses have been investigated from scholarly academic resources. At the end of the proposed research it has
People in professions where there is a particular social pressure to be thin (such as models and dancers) were much more likely to develop anorexia during the course of their career, and further research has suggested that those with anorexia have much higher contact with cultural sources that promote weight-loss. There is a high rate of reported child sexual abuse experiences in clinical groups of who have been diagnosed
Childhood Obesity and Its Affects on Self-Esteem, Learning and Development Childhood obesity has reached alarming proportions in developed nations of the world and its prevalence is continuously rising from 1971. In the Scandinavian countries, childhood obesity is less than compared to the Mediterranean countries; yet, the amount of obese children is increasing in both cases. Even though the highest rates of childhood obesity have been seen in developed countries, and at
" In addition, many anthropologists have agreed that "cultural expectations define the ways in which drinking, both normal and abnormal, is done in a society" (Mandelbaum 1965: 288) (Wilcox, 1998). Comparisons of drinking behavior patterns across cultures suggest that, "like all other behaviors in any given cultural system, were based on cultural expectations. Who drank and when and how much they drank was determined by custom" (Wilcox, 1998). For example,