Abstract Obsessive Compulsive Disorder OCD is a neurological and psychological disease that affects a lot of people all over the world. ... It is a crippling disease that can cause people to not want to leave their homes for fear of contamination or fear that something bad will happen to them. ... Many who are pregnant develop OCD because they begin to worry about what could or what would happen to their newborn child. The stress of all the worrying is what is seen to cause OCD in in the partner of the pregnant woman. ... Pauls, 2011) In a family you will do anything and everything humanly po...

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Nonetheless, Harris was able to understand and rationally participate in the court process because she did show understanding of what she had done and knew what the consequences of these actions were. ... Family members also reported that Harris had been seeing things such as false bugs in the linens at work, she had failed to recognize her own name, would stare through you instead of at you, and stayed awake all night talking on the phone to no one at the other end (Blanco). ... Assistant District Attorney Linda Allen believed that Harris was fully capable of knowing what she was doing and th...

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* 3 types of conflict: - approach-approach- a choice must be made between 2 attractive goals (e.g. you can't afford both-should u buy the blue sweater or the gray jacket?) ... Highly stressful type - approach-avoidance- a choice must be made about whether to pursue a single goal that has both attractive and unattractive aspects (e.g. being offered a job promotion with much more pay but you"ll have to move to a new city you hate) Quite stressful * Life Changes are any noticeable alterations in one's...

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Just to be what you thought people wanted you to be? Even if it meant losing you life? ... What is an Eating Disorder? ... People may think that in order to be happy and successful, you have to be skinny, so that is what they strive for. ... In the person's mouth, they lose teeth, have gum disease, enamel erosion, or sore throat from vomiting. ...

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What is also widely believed by many psychotherapists is that many psychological disorders and problems are due to the repression of memories of childhood sexual abuse. ... Assuming that if you can't disprove that a patient was sexually abused, and then she/he probably was, is not a good en...

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Just exactly what is suicide, Webster's defines suicide as the act or an instance of taking one's own life voluntarily and intentionally especially by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind. ... (Borowsky 2001) Although there are no exact test in determining what child is at risk for attempting suicide one can look what constitutes a low, moderate, and a high risk for suicide. ... In 1996, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) listed suicide as the ninth leading cause of death in the US, taking the lives of 30,862 people. ...

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