Borderline Personality Disorder By Jamie Germain NURS 325 Mary Stewart Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is an emotional disorder that causes emotional instability, leading to stress and other problems. With borderline personality disorder your image of yourself is distorted, making you feel worthless and fundamentally flawed. Your anger, impulsivity and frequent mood swings may
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Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 Self-Assessment 3.3 Narcissism 3-4 Interpretation of Self Assessment 3.3 5 Relationship to Chapter 3 6 Self-Assessment 6.1 Symptoms of Stress 7 Interpretation of Self Assessment 6.1 8-9 Relationship to Chapter 6 10 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In most work environments there is a narcissist that creates unwanted stress every day they are at work. The self-assessment topics that I completed were chosen because I can relate on a personal level. Whether
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2016 has been a very triumphant year for social media celebrities. Kylie Jenner, the baby of the Kardashian/Jenner crew, has accumulated a total of eighty million Instagram followers and a whopping net worth of ten million dollars. She runs her own business, owns six different cars, and resides in her million dollar home in Calabasas, California. Jenner might be one of the most successful women in this era, thus making her the role model of millions of girls all around the world. Now here comes the
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assume that facebook alone has caused the spike on narcissism. As researcher Shawn Bergman pointed out, "There is a significant amount of psychological research that shows that one's personality is fairly well-established by age 7," given that facebook's policy doesn't allow users to register until age 13 " the personality traits of typical users are fairly well-ingrained by the time they get on a social network.
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Eating Disorders Shannon Wulf 2/9/14 Lana Coxton Eating disorders are conditions defined by abnormal eating habits that may involve either insufficient or excessive food intake to the detriment of an individual's physical and mental health. Bulimia nervosa is a disorder characterized by binge eating and purging. Purging can include self-induced vomiting, over-exercising, and the usage of diuretics, enemas, and laxatives. Anorexia nervosa is characterized by extreme food restriction to the point
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Psychotherapy is a treatment between a trained professional and a person or group.Psychotherapy aims to increase the individual's sense of his/her own well-being. Psychotherapists employ a range of techniques based on experiential relationship building, dialogue, communication and behavior change that are designed to improve the mental health of a client or patient, or to improve group relationships (such as in a family). Psychotherapy may also be performed by practitioners with different qualifications
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The Psychology of Eating Disorders Does the saying “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” stand to be true? For some the answer to this question would be yes. But, to the many health aid companies who advertise in popular teen magazines, commercials, movies, and television shows the answer might be different. The companies that sell “health aide/beauty products” have made a science of understanding the most effective way to advertise and market their products. They spend hundreds of millions
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delve into the DSM-IV looking at each of the six elements and we will attempt to isolate the disorder in the DSM-IV that fits Jim’s situation. In these pages, it is hoped that we can find a rational explanation to what mental disorder Jim is dealing with as stated in the DSM-IV according to the definitions available. Lastly, we will examine the benefits and disadvantages of having the DSM-IV classify disorders according to the information-contained in-between the covers of the DSM-IV. Case Study Jim
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Girl interrupted The 1960s was a decade of tumult and change. It was a shift in almost everything, from values, music and norms, from collar-workers to flower-children. Counterculture and hippies were essentially what summed up the rebellion in the 60s. It was a whole new generation of baby-boomers, who came of age as teenagers and adolescents and older generations were against the rejection of traditional values and the new unconventional ways of the baby-boomers, which were strange and scary
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ability to relate to others and daily functioning. Just as diabetes is a disorder of the pancreas, mental illnesses are medical conditions that often result in diminished capacity for coping with the ordinary demands of life. Serious mental illnesses include major depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and borderline personality disorder. The good news about mental illness is that recovery is possible. Mental
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