Most scientists believe that schizophrenia is a biological disease caused by genetic factors, an imbalance of chemicals in the brain, structural brain abnormalities or abnormalities in the prenatal environment. ... Support for this hypothesis comes from anti-psychotic drugs, which reduce psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia by blocking brain receptors for dopamine. ... Despite these findings, many experts believe that excess dopamine activity alone cannot account for schizophrenia. ... Most physicians use anti- psychotic drugs to treat people with schizophrenia. ... The drugs reduce or eliminat...

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Sell, a nonviolent pretrial detainee was forced to take antipsychotic, mind-altering drugs. ... I believe a community has the right to be safe from people like this man. ... I believe this should be left to professionals to decide. Judith Appel, an attorney with the Drug Policy Alliance, agrees with me. She hopes, "people not courts can decide what drugs they will take"....

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They tend to believe that all of the unhappiness they are feeling and experiencing will go on forever. ... They often don't believe that anyone can help them, and they feel helpless and hopeless within their situation. They believe that they can either live with the pain or end it by ending their life. ... Youth who are intending suicide often feel worthless, alone, unloved, unlovable, and they may believe that they are a burden on their parents. ... They believe that these feelings will last forever and that nobody can help them. ...

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Believing that others are plotting against you is statistically abnormal and is usually diagnosed as a delusion of persecution. However, intelligence is believed to be distributed along a normal, bell-shaped curve, and people with IQ above 132 are statistically infrequent, or "abnormal". ... Disability or dysfunction is the primary criterion for identifying abnormal drug use. ...

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Psychology Final Chapter 13 - Stress, Coping, and Health * The biopsychosocial model holds that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors * Health psychology is concerned with how psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness * Stress is any circumstance that threaten or are perceived to threaten one's well being and that thereby tax one's coping abilities * Frustration occurs in situations where the pursuit of some goal is t...

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Although the cause of schizophrenia is unknown, researchers believe that you have a higher risk if; it passed down through family, other family members have a disease like schizophrenia, being born in the winter, complications or brain injury during birth, being exposed to viral infections during pregnancy, or a substance abuse problem. Those people who develop symptoms slowly, don't receive treatment, misuse drugs and alcohol, live in industrialized countries, are male, live in social isolation, or have poor family support, may be at greater risks for recurring relapses or a poor progn...

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There are many types of personality disorders and each one has different symptoms and characteristics. Some characteristics are shared by different disorders. People who rebel against their culture or society or who have outbursts and rages or have trouble with social skills, how they see themselves...

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There are several defenses a person can raise to show that he lacked the "intent" or mens rea to commit the crime. You have heard of most of these. 1. Entrapment. This defense is primarily used in drug and prostitution cases. The idea here is that the police induced or persuaded a person to commit ...

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Those who believe in the ability of psychotherapy to identify true repressed memories defend their viewpoint on the high frequency of known child abuse and sexual molestation. ... The supporters of repressed memories believe that many victims find their experiences too terrible to remember. ... People with DID (MPD) may experience any of the following: depression, mood swings, suicidal tendencies, sleep disorders (insomnia, night terrors, and sleep walking), panic attacks and phobias (flashbacks, reactions to stimuli or "triggers"), alcohol and drug abuse, compulsions and rituals, psychotic-li...

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"OMG you're so retarded!" "Ugh. I'm so depressed." "Dude. I swear I'm like bipolar sometimes." Sound like the white girls on your Twitter feed? How much do you want to bet that none of them are actually mentally ill? Retarded. Bipolar. Schizo. OCD. These words are thrown around without a single tho...

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People with Dissociative Disorders may experience any of the following: depression, mood swings, suicidal tendencies, sleep disorders (insomnia, night terrors, and sleep walking), panic attacks and phobias (flashbacks, reactions to stimuli or "triggers"), alcohol and drug abuse, compulsions and rituals, psychotic-like symptoms (including auditory and visual hallucinations), and eating disorders. ... Allison believes the child who later develops MPD, generally has gone through a life threatening trauma, or has been abused on a regular basis, as where with DID the traumatic situation isn't ...

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(Flanders 1991) It is believed that teenagers attempt suicide roughly ten times more frequently than adults. ... (Borowsky 2001) Additionally, for girls, somatic symptoms, having a friend attempt or complete suicide, other illicit drug use, and a history of mental health treatment predicted attempting suicide for black, Hispanic, and white youth. . ... (CDC) Many believe this number is a gross underestimate. ...

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Some specific forms result from brain injury due to physical trauma or drug effects. ... In the same way that people inherit genes that control height and eye color, biosocial theorists believe that antisocial behavior characteristics may be inherited (Siegel & Senna, 1991, p.96). ... The discrepancies were believed to reflect refinements in testing methods and scoring rather than differences in the mental ability of criminals. ... I believe that besides psychologically, education, family support and strong values is the key to depreciate the number of criminal activities being committed by...

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Most researchers believe that it is a combination of genetics and environmental factors that contributes to a person developing schizoaffective disorder. ... There are suggestions that environmental trigger such as "an early brain injury "either through a complicated delivery, prenatal exposure to the flu virus of illicit drugs; or it may be emotional, nutritional, or other deprivation in early childhood- (Schizoaffective Disorder) would be enough for some one with an affective disorder to develop the psychotic symptoms for schizoaffective disorder. ...

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She believes her cell phone is tapped because its making funny clicking sounds, and that her roommate was not who he claimed to be, rather an imposter impersonating his voice. ... Her disorder should be treatable with high dosages of the toxic drug lithium, slowly decremented over time. ...

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A patient who believes a treatment in going to be effective has a much better chance of showing improvement than does one who in neutral or pessimistic- even when the treatment in subsequently shown to have no direct or relevant physiological effects. ... Freud believed that the interplay of id, ego and super ego is of crucial significance in determining behavior. ... Freud believed that appropriate gratification during each stage is important if an individual is not to be fixated at that level, which otherwise arrests the emotional development during childhood or adolescent level. ... Some ...

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Body image involves our perception, imagination, emotions, and physical sensations of and about our bodies. It is not static, but ever changing; sensitive to changes in mood, environment, and physical experience. It is not based on fact. It is psychological in nature, and much more influenced by sel...

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And costs escalate still further if a worker's untreated depression contributes to alcoholism or drug abuse- (The Effects Of Depression In The Workplace). ... The study from Mind, the mental health charity asked 1,500 people about their perception of mental illness. 61% believed work stress was the main cause of mental problems. 27% said they would lie to their boss if they had to take time off because of mental stress-. ... He/ she does not try to do anything about their predicament because they do not believe that anything can be done. ...

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Studies conducted by Quinn & Nadeau in 2002, Rucklidge & Kaplan in 1997 and Solden in 2005 confirmed that girls that are left untreated with ADHD are at risk for developing low self-esteem, social isolation, underachievement, anxiety, and depression, as well as sexual risk-taking behavior and consumption of drugs and alcohol. ...

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Introduction Would you risk everything just to be skinny? Just to be what you thought people wanted you to be? Even if it meant losing you life? Up to twenty-four million people have an eating disorder in the United States alone. The body type known as ideal is possessed by only 5% of American femal...

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Some believe that it is only the environment and family home life that causes psychopaths. ... One was the use of drugs to increase the psychopath's basal reactivity or decrease their rapidity of adaptation to stimuli. ...

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