In cognitive therapy, the therapist takes an active part in solving a patient's problems. ... le the patient carries the whole burden of finding the answers they came to therapy for initially. ... The patient says her appetite got worse and she became physically ill with the progression of her depression. ... The fear of being mentally ill was so horrible that I decided to take my entire bottle of sleeping pills rather than face the shame of being a mental patient."... Whereas, Oster & Montgomery stated that "when parents are struggling over marital or career problems, or are ill themselv...

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Also patients were given a little more freedom but the cure rate was still low. ... Psychotherapy is any form of treatment for psychological or emotional disorders in which a trained person establishes a relationship with one or several patients for the purpose of modifying or removing existing symptoms and promoting personality growth. ... People who are ill may also have visual hallucinations, a door in the wall where no door exist, a lion, a tiger, or a long dead relative may suddenly appear. ...

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The may feel very hopeless which can often lead to suicide. (4) Anxiety - Patients may experience the psychological manifestations of anxiety. Sixty to seventy percent of depressed patients report feelings of anxiety and sometimes extreme worrying... Therefore, diagnosis should not lie only in the physician's hands but be associated with parents, teachers and anyone who interacts with the patient on a daily basis. ... Oster & Montgomery (1996) stated that "when parents are struggling over marital or career problems, or are ill themselves, teens may feel the tension and try to distract the...

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Description of Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a chronic and progressive mental illness in which patients distort the senses of perception, thought, and reality. ... There is a considerable correlation between the closeness of genetic relationship to a schizophrenic patient and the probability of developing the disorder. ...

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They try to do many things at once, are impatient, and easily irritated and angered - the type B personality is marked by relatively relaxed, patient, easygoing behavior * Type A behavior is a contributing factor in heart disease * The immune response is the body's defensive reaction to invasion by bacteria, viruses, etc... It is marked by a history of diverse physical complaints that appear to be psychological in origin * Conversion disorder is characterized by a significant loss of physical function with no apparent organic basis, usually in a single organ system * Hypochondria ...

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