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PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER - LESSON 181

Now in this post we would learn about somatoform disorders and others. Somatoform disorders:- These are a group of disorders in which it is a mental disorder characterized by physical symptoms for which no particular cause or injury can occur. The physical symptoms such as abdominal or chest pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, palpitations, deafness, blindness, and paralysis are not oftenly explained by a physical or other mental disorders or by injury and are not side effects of medication, drugs, or alcohol. People who suffer this disorder may go various medical evaluations and tests to be confident that they do not have an illness related to a physical cause or central lesion. Whenever the patients suffer from this disorder they become worried so that the doctors are also unable to find a reason for their health problems. The symptoms are lasted for several years like the other illnesses. Examples of  Somatoform disorders are 1. Conversion disorder and  2.Hypochondriasis.

SEXUAL AND GENDER IDENTITY DISORDERS - LESSON 180

In this post we would learn about Sexual and Gender identity disorders:  Gender identity disorder which is the formal diagnosis used by physicians and psychologists to explain the person's significant gender dysphoria. It described the attributes related to transgender, transsexuality and transvestism and also it is a psychiatric classification. This Gender identity disorder in children is mostly common and is considered clinically distinct from GID which appears in adolescence or adulthood which has been reported by some as intensifying over time. Cross-gender behavior is strongly disapproved in many cultures. It sometimes results in significant problems for affected persons and those in close relationships with them. The Sexual disorders are divided into two types. They are 1. Paraphilias,   and 2. Dysfunctions. P paraphilias:- In this term para means abnormal, philia means attraction to or love. These are characterized by recurrent intense sexual urges, fantasie

PERSONALITY DISORDERS - LESSON 179

Now in this post we would try to learn about the personality disorders:  Personality disorders :- Personality disorders are starting patterns of thinking and ways of relating to and perceiving the environment and one's self. Whenever these traits become rigid and inflexible, founding impairment of working, distress, and conflict with others, they contains personality disorders. Examples of personality disorders are 1. Antisocial disorders :- Those people with this disorder may include persistent lying, apparent lack of remorse or empathy, inability to keep jobs or stay in school, lack of realistic, long term goals, maintain relationships such as marriage, poor behavioral controls, elevated self-appraisal or a sense of extreme entitlement, a history of childhood conduct disorder, tendency to violate the boundaries and rights of others, disregard for the safety of self or others etc., 2. Histrionic disorders :- The people with this type of disorder may suffer from exhibitio

DISSOCIATIVE, EATING, AND MOOD DISORDERS - LESSON 178

Now in this post we would try to learn briefly about the remaining disorders. Dissociative disorders :- These disorders are chronic or unexpected disturbances of memory, uniqueness, consciousness, or perception of the environment that are not caused by the direct effects of brain damage or drug abuse. There are four dissociative disorders. They are 1. Depersonalization disorder, 2. Dissociative amnesia, 3.Dissociative fugue and 4. Dissociative identity disorder. Its symptoms can include 1. Multiple mannerisms, thoughts and faithfulnesstjat are not equal to each other. 2. Headaches and other body pains cannot be explained. 3. Deformation or loss of related time 4. Comorbidity. 5. Depersonalization. 6. Derealization. 7. Great memory loss 8. Depression 9. Flashbacks of abuse/ trauma. 10. Loss of familiarity and personal connections. 11. Numerous panic/anxiety attacks. 12. Auditory hallucinations of the personalities inside their mind. Eating disor

PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS - LESSON 177

Post-traumatic stress disorder:- This is the development of symptoms like intense fear, helplessness, insomnia, nightmares, and diminished responsiveness to the external world following exposure to a traumatic event. Delirium and dementia:- These both are the disorders of abnormal mental processes of thinking, perception, reasoning and judgement also called cognition. Delirium is an acute and temporary disturbance in the ability to focus attention, perception, incoherent speech, irrelevant, rambling and   disorientation to time, place or person with memory impairment. It is a systematic syndrome caused by a chemical or disease-process which is disrupting the neurons of the cerebral cortex. Delirium tremens is brought on by withdrawal after prolonged periods of heavy alcohol ingestion. Dementia is a habitual loss of intellectual abilities involving impairment of judgment, memory, and abstract thinking as well as changes in personality. Dementia may be occurred by the

PHOBIAS - 2 - LESSON 176

In this post we will continue the post of lesson 175. 10. Chorophobia - fear of dancing. 11. Coprophobia - fear of feces. 12. Cynophobia - fear of dogs or rabies. 13. Dermatophobia - fear of skin lesions. 14. Diabetophobia - fear of diabetes. 15. Emetophobia - fear of vomiting. 16. Fibriophobia - fear of fever. 17. Gynophobia - fear of women. 18. Heliophobia - fear of the sun. 19. Iophobia - fear of poison. 20. Lepraphobia - fear of leprosy. 21. Maieusiophobia - fear of childbirth. 22. Ommatophobia - fear of eyes. 23. Phthisiophobia - fear of tuberculosis. 24. Proctophobia - fear of rectums. 25. Pyrophobia - fear of fire In the next lesson we will learn about psychological disorders.  Okay. To go to the next lesson from here please click the link below. To go to the prior lesson please click the link below. http://learn-free-medical-transcription.blogspot.com/2010/03/phobias-lesson-175.html Home Page:    http://learn-free

PHOBIAS - LESSON 175

Now let us common we would learn more about psychological disorders Other specific phobias are: 1. Zoophobia - fear of animals. 2. Acrophobia - fear of heights, acr/o means beyond the limit. 3. Claustrophobia - fear of closed-in places; claustr/o means barrier. 4. Androphobia - fear of men. 5. Algophobia - fear of pain. 6. Aurophobia - fear of gold. 7. Bacteriophobia - fear of bacteria. 8. Bibliophobia - fear of books. 9. Carnophobia - fear of meat. In the next lesson we will learn about more phobias. Okay. Come on... To go to the next lesson from here please click the link below. To go to the prior lesson please click the link below. Home Page: http://learn-free-medical-transcription.blogspot.com/

PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS - LESSON 174

Now in this lesson we would learn about psychological disorders. Psychological disorders:- Psychological disorders get in between post traumatic stress syndrome to general phobias. It helps to explain the different psychological disorders and is a good introduction to mental sickness, both mild and severe. The identification and the mutual understanding of mental health conditions has changed over time and across there are still variations in the definition, assessment and classification of mental disorders whenever standard guideline are widely accepted. Freud believed that certain psychological disorders can form when conflicts arise between two or more of these conditions of the personality. This tends to believe the diagnosis, may miss appointments, may neglect medication or may ignore symptoms. The term psychosis is frequently used to explain mental illness. A psychosis involves important impairment of reality testing, with symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations

PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS- LESSON 173

Psychiatric disorders are also named as mental health disorders. This term may be useful in understanding several types of psychiatric disorders. Sigmund Freud's ideas of personality is made up of three major parts. They are id, the ego, and the superego. This term should be used for more severe mental illness rather than some of the less severe types of psychological disorders. But Psychiatrists are able to declare medications and thus they tend to treat more difficult conditions than psychologists can treat with the therapy known as cognitive-behavioral therapy. As earlier explained the terms the id represents the unconscious instincts and psychic energy present at birth and from there. Depending on the situation the basic drives according to the pleasure principle, seek sudden gratification. The id is believed in the thinking of the infants and to be manifest in the uncontrolled actions of certain mentally ill patients. Whereas the ego is the central coordin

PSYCHIATRIC DISEASES AND SYMPTOMS - LESSON 172

In this lesson we came to learn about the remaining psychiatric symptoms. 1. Amnesia: It deals with loss of memory. 2. Anxiety:- This deals with apprehension, uneasiness or dread often accompanied by palpitations, tightness in the chest, choking sensations and breathlessness. 3. Apathy:- In this emotions not present, it also deals with lack of interest or emotional involvement. 4. Autism:- More lack of responsiveness to others, preoccupation with deep thoughts; withdrawal and retarded language development. 5. Compulsion:- It deals with uncontrollable urge to perform the action repeatedly 6. Conversion:- For blindness, deafness, or paralysis none of which have an organic basis, the anxiety becomes a bodily symptom. 7. Delusion:- By logical reasoning or evidence a fixed false belief cannot be changed. 8. Dissociation:- From the real object uncomfortable feelings are separated. Avoidance of mental distress the feelings are redirected toward a sec