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Psy 270 Week 3 Psychological Disorders Essay

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Psychological disorders are disorders that involve your mind. They are thoughts, behaviors, and emotions that causes either self or others to be unable to function, meet personal needs by themselves, and could cause danger to themselves. Basically it’s a mental illness that means they are not able to love someone or work. I picked three psychological disorders to talk about. The disorders are depression, anxiety, and ADD/ADHD. I will be talking about the symptoms, treatment, causes, and what they are. People with depression are gloomy most of the day, or in a depressed mood. Sometimes especially in the morning. They also don’t have any interest of getting out of bed or doing anything. It's hard for people with this disorder to enjoy normal day activities. Its also hard for them to sleep, work, study, and have fun with their friends. The symptoms of depression are loss of energy nearly every day, feeling like you're useless or guilty almost every day, impaired concentration, indecisiveness, inability to sleep or excessive daytime sleepiness almost everyday, unceasingly active or feeling slowed down, reappearing thoughts of death or suicide, unusual weight loss or growth, decreased enjoyment or amusement in almost all activities about every day. There are certain …show more content…

It also can make people very hyper than a normal person. People with this disorder also make impulsive decision or movements. The symptoms of ADHD / ADD are Poor time management skills, trouble paying attention on a task, problems multi-tasking, more than normal activity or restlessness, poor planning, Low frustration tolerance, a lot of mood swings, Impulsiveness, not organized and problems prioritizing, trouble following through and finishing a task, hot temper, and trouble managing

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