Are you the type of person who has a phobia of germs, dirt, or contaminated bodily fluids? Is the only way to feel safe and pure is for you to cleanse yourself countless times a day? Or maybe you're the type of person who has to check things twice, three times or more. Perhaps you're th...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, commonly referred to as OCD, is an anxiety disorder. Although the thoughts associated with this disorder are quite bizarre, they are not the focal point and do not make up the entire disorder. The essential features of an obsessive-compulsive person are recurrent obs...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Obsessive Compulsive Disorder affects the lives of people everyday; but yet some individuals have never even heard of it. I think it is very important for everyone to learn the affects of OCD because of the confusion and problems it can cause. What exactly is Obsess...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder "I know my hands are clean. I know that I have touched nothing dangerous. But... I doubt my perception. Soon, if I do not wash, a mind numbing, searing anxiety will cripple me. A feeling of stickiness will begin to spread from the point of contamination and I wi...

Have you ever been curious about personality disorders even if you are not a psychology student? I'm sure a lot of us have. I am a psychology student but long before I declared it as my major the different ways people act have held my curiosity. One caught my attention because of all the informati...

An estimated four million Americans have Obsessive-compulsive disorder, which includes 1,000,000 children and adolescents. These people with OCD are slaves to their rituals, and their rituals begin to take over their lives. Stephanie, an eighteen year old, had trouble with math because of her OC...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Mind in Decline Outline I. Definition of obsessive compulsive disorder II. Types of OCD A. contamination B. checking C. hoarding D. perfectionism III. Obsessions A. true ...

There are many Psychological Disorders: Bipolar Disorder; Generalized Anxiety Disorder; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; Panic and Agoraphobia Disorder; Schizophrenia.... Disorders like depression, neuroses, anxiety disorders, psychosomatic diseases, posttraumatic stress disorders, are very common in ...

What is Obsessive-compulsive disorder? Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is one of the anxiety disorders and is potentially disabling condition according to national institute of mental health, NIMH (2000). Individuals with OCD become trapped in a pattern of repetitive thoughts and behaviors ...

It's nothing new, that everybody feels depressed at some time or another in their lives. However, it becomes a problem when that depression is so much a part a person's life that person can no longer see the happiness right in front him. Holden Caulfield, in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Ry...

Melvin Udall is a romantic novelist, is selfish manic compulsive who is rude to all he meets. Carol Connelly is the waitress at the restaurant he visits every day, which changes his life after deciding to pursue a relationship with her. Carol is the only person that will put up with Melvin's rude ...

Psychopathology is a relatively new term broadly covering all disorders of mental status. This assignment endeavors to investigate, compare and discuss the symptomology and treatment of four conditions. These disorders are Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Eating Disorders. Anxiety affects thousands ...

Phobia One of the most common topics in abnormanl psychology that touches so many of us is anxiety, the unpleasant feeling of fear and apprehension. This emotional state can occur in many psychopathologies and is a principal aspect of the disorders that have been talked about thus far. These d...

"Soldiers Home" After reading a "Soldiers Home" I was left pondering on all the psychological effects that were left with Kreb, and are common among many veterans who return home from war. After going through War it is shown that it takes time to experience and understand th...

"A lot of our fears and anxieties are learned through communication." According to this article, the things that we hear may affect us as much as the things that we have actually experienced. In other words, when it comes to our brain, we may react in the same way when someone tells us t...

Abnormal behavior- This type of behavior can be described as unusual, nonadaptive, labeled as abnormal by society or characterized by cognitive distortion. There are several perceived explanations of such behavior discussed in the chapter. The demonological explanations believed that one would ac...

My article dealt with the use of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs). SSRIs were introduced in the 1980s and had become one of the most abundantly prescribed drugs. Between the years of 1991 and 2000, prescriptions for SSRIs saw an increase of 740%. SSRIs are used to treat a wide variety...

Introduction Description A depressive disorder is a whole-body illness, involving your body, mood, and thoughts. It affects the way you eat and sleep, the way you feel about yourself, and the way you think about things. A depressive disorder is not the same as a passing blue mood. It is not a sign...

Individuality or Bust Due to the various interesting topics we have discussed in psychology class, I find it hard to pick one topic of discussion. But there are several topics in particular, about which I have mixed feelings. Though they are all very unique topics on their own, they, for som...

The Effects of Stimulants on Your Consciousness A stimulant is a drug that stimulates your body and mind activity. Some of the most commonly used stimulants are caffeine, cocaine, amphetamines, and Ecstasy (MDMA, methylenedioxyamphetamines). Out of the above listed caffeine is the most widel...