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Schizophrenia Dissociative Disorders Personality Disorders. Schizophrenia. Most severe 1% of U.S. 50% of people admitted to mental hospitals Rarely before teens or after 45 Effects both men and women. Symptoms. Two Types -Positive – excessive behaviors
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Schizophrenia • Most severe • 1% of U.S. • 50% of people admitted to mental hospitals • Rarely before teens or after 45 • Effects both men and women
Symptoms Two Types -Positive – excessive behaviors -Negative – deficits in behaviors
Symptoms • Delusional beliefs • Persecution – people are plotting to harm them • Grandeur – they are someone important • Reference - beliefs that songs or newscasts are directed at them with signals • Hallucinations • Visual or hearing voices • Disorganized speech and thought • Word salad • Emotional and behavioral disturbances • Exaggerated to inappropriate to no emotions
Theories of Causes • Genetics • Biological – Dopamine Hypothesis • Over activity of dopamine neurons in brain • Diathesis – stress model • Inherited or environmental predisposition • Stressful events then trigger it • Video • Anderson Cooper
Somatoform Disorders • problems or symptoms that do not have a physical cause • Take up an excessive amount of time or thought to be more serious than is • Symptoms present for 6 months • Types: • Illness Anxiety Disorder (hypochondriasis) • Conversion Disorder • NY Girls • CBS News
Dissociative Disorders • Psychological disorders that involve a sudden loss of memory (amnesia) or change in identity • Two main types • Dissociative Amnesia • Dissociative Identity Disorder
Dissociative Disorders • Dissociative Amnesia • Memory loss with no biological explanation • Follows traumatic or stressful event • Dissociative fugue – amnesia+travel
Dissociative Disorders • Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) • Formerly multiple personality disorder • 2 or more distinct identities are said to alternately control a person’s behavior • Symptoms way to deal with horrific stressor • Critics – fantasy prone or emotionally vulnerable • Crash Course • Oprah
Personality Disorders • Characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning
Personality Disorders • Three clusters • A: Odd/eccentric • B: Dramatic/emotionally problematic • C: Anxious or Fearful
Cluster A • Paranoid Personality Disorder (PD) • Huge distrust of others • Guarded and suspicious • Oversensitive to setbacks • Withdraw from others
Cluster B • Antisocial Personality Disorder • Sociopath or psychopath • Exhibits lack of conscience for wrongdoing even towards friends and family • Must be at least 18 • Violent crimes/serial killers • More males
Cluster B • Borderline Personality Disorder • Emotionally unstable • Feelings of emptiness • Fears of abandonment • More females • video
Cluster B • Histrionic Personality Disorder • Lack a sense of self worth • Attention seeking behavior • Inappropriate sexual behavior • Excessive emotions • video
Cluster B • Narcissistic Personality Disorder • Undeserved need for admiration and praise • Feel entitled to special treatment • Takes advantages of others to get what they want • Crash Course • video
Dementia • 47.5 million • Deterioration in cognitive function • Accompanied by deterioration of emotional control • Alzheimer’s most common type of dementia • No cure