During this class I have learned a great amount of information about myself, my friends, my family, and those I associate myself with on a daily basis. I have learned many theories upon theories and the amount of research that the psychologists study that goes into the theories. I believe that my favorite chapter under study during this course would have been chapter thirteen which covers psychological disorders. Over the years I have been fascinated with psychological disorders and what makes people have the disorders, what causes them, and is there anything that society can do to help these people. When reading chapter thirteen they talk about the most popular disorders that are out there. The most common ones are anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders, dissociative disorders, mood disorders and schizophrenic disorders. Before taking this class, I had no knowledge on psychological disorders; I just knew that they existed. I was taught the difference between them all. The first one being anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorder is when you have “high levels of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat.” I think that there are many more people out there with this disorder and may not even know it. Anxiety is a very common thing and most persons in society get it but may perhaps think it is not severe or it is normal. In the book it says that people with anxiety disorder “worry about minor matters related to family, finances, work and personal illness. This is the reason why I think many people have this disorder and may not know it because all of the things that this person with this disorder cares about are things that are in our everyday life and we deal with on a daily basis. One disorder that I was very intrigued in was posttraumatic stress disorder. My best friend has this disorder and I was excited to learn more about it. I was very surprised to find that