Psychopathology Essay

Psychopathology primarily deals with the study of mental disorders. Most information that I am aware of about psychopathology and diagnoses of mental disorders has relied on data and anecdotes of symptoms from adults. Many problems and mental disorders that often affect adults cannot be properly explained in terms of causes or influences in their current stage of life. Some adults would indicate some sort of event or psychological awareness that occurred during an earlier age compared to their adulthood. Because problems that may have stemmed from birth and childhood may moreover affect adulthood, the need to study psychopathology in early developmental stages created an opportunity to construct a more holistic view of psychopathology. The

To me, ADHD is one of those disorder that you can tell a person has just by having a 5 minute conversation with him or her upon first meeting. When I worked as an undergraduate in the university’s library, there was this guy who would always be on the floor that I was assigned. He was a doctoral student in history and was very nice. However, when speaking with him, sometimes he would cut himself off or jump to another subject. Eventually, he told me that he was diagnosed with ADD. ADD is no longer in the DSM, but he was a fairly older guy so maybe that is why he had that diagnosis; he most likely was diagnosed over a decade ago. This leads to another concern that I have about ADHD. There are currently two types of ADHD, the inattentive type, the hyperactive type, and the combined inattentive and hyperactive type. In chapter 18, the author stated at one point that some people did not see the need to differentiate between the inattentive and hyperactive aspects of ADHD. I disagree and vouch that the subtypes do not change. There are individuals who are hyperactive but can pay attention; they just have so much energy. Then there are individual who just cannot concentrate and pay attention for a certain amount of time. Then there are the individuals who cannot sit down at a place or pay attention. Therefore, we need those breakdown of ADHD which can help, especially when deciding to choose a treatment