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Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder which can disrupt a person’s perception, thought, speech, movement and almost every aspect of daily functioning. Schizophrenia is one of the disorders that involve psychotic behavior; it usually involves delusions (irrational beliefs) and/or hallucinations (sensory experiences in the absence of external events).
There can be positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia and also disorganized symptoms (Lewis, 2009). Positive symptoms generally include the more active manifestations of abnormal behavior or an excess or distortion of normal behavior; these include delusions and hallucinations. Negative symptoms include deficits in normal behavior in areas as speech and motivation. Disorganized symptoms include …show more content…

anhedonia ( where she wants to avoid dating and intimacy relationships)
• Positive symptoms of delusions of persecution and hallucinations, where the voices told her to kill her little sister.
. Voices can be triggered if someone (male) roughly handles or touch her. Her schizophrenic seemed to be triggered engagement of some kind of intimacy, this led to Lucy thinking that she could never be able to date and therefore have a normal life

Grace’s mother - Bipolar
Bipolar is a mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness of depression and the overexcited and unreasonably optimistic state of mania. Bipolar mood disorder is accompanied by the signs of both episodic depressed mood and episodic mania. Carson, Butcher and Mineka (1996) describe bipolar disorder as the series of attacks of elation and depression, with periods of relative normality in between. It is marked by extreme changes in mood, thoughts, energy and behaviour.
Manic state
• Period of abnormally high emotion and activity
– Supreme self-confidence - delusional
– Grandiose ideas and movements – too many goals in too little time
– Flight of ideas – rapid and loosely shifting thoughts that jump from topic to topic.
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Afterward, victims re-experience the event through memories and nightmares. When memories occur suddenly accompanied by strong emotion and the victims her reliving the event, she having flashback. Victims most often avoid anything that reminds them of the trauma. They display a characteristic restriction or numbing of emotional responsiveness, which may be disruptive to interpersonal relationships. It is an emotional disorder occur after physical assault (particularly rape), car accidents, natural catastrophes, or the sudden death of a loved one.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Diagnostic Criteria:
• The person has been exposed to a traumatic event in either ways: The person experienced, witnessed, or was confronted with an event or events that involve actual or threatened death or serious injury; and the person’s response involved intense fear, helplessness, or horror.
• After the traumatic event has occurred: Recurrent, involuntary, and intrusive distressing memories of the traumatic event, Recurrent distressing dreams in which the content of the dream are related to the traumatic

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A: Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence in (one or more) of the following: 1: Directly experiencing the traumatic event(S) 4: Experiencing repeated or exposure to aversive details of the traumatic event(S) B: Presence of one (or more) of the following intrusion symptoms associated with the traumatic event(S), beginning after the traumatic event(S) occurred: 1: Recurrent, involuntary, and intrusive distressing memories of the traumatic event(s) 3: Dissociative reactions in which individuals feels or acts as if the traumatic events were recurring C: Persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with the traumatic event(S) occurred, as evidenced by one or both of the following: 1: Avoidance of or efforts to avoid distressing memories,

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Although change in behavior is one of the major symptoms of bipolar disorder, Holden also displays having suicidal

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After a traumatic event such as war, a lost loved one, or physical or sexual abuse, a person will have a very hard time remembering anything even who they are as a person. (mayoclinic.org) People who were diagnosed with this seem confused and as if they cannot decipher reality from dreams. Suicidal thoughts and actions can also be a symptom due to the stress that puts an individual into that situation. Patients say they had woken up “numb” from all emotions and hurt, as if they had experienced so much pain it has become natural and not a burden at all, while in reality they just forgot what they were grieving or hiding from. A person can also show signs of anxiety due to the immense stress of not having a clue why their life seems so alone.

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“Exhibit 1.3-4, DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria for PTSD - Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services.” NCBI, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK207191/box/part1_ch3.box16/. Accessed 22 May 2024. Friedman, Matthew J. - "The 'Standard'" “History of PTSD in Veterans: Civil War (-- removed HTML --) DSM-5 (-- removed HTML --) - PTSD.” National Center for PTSD, https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand/what/history_ptsd.asp. Accessed 22 May 2024.

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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health problem that develops following exposure to a stressful event or a situation of an exceptionally threatening or catastrophic nature. These symptoms are grouped into four types: intrusive memories, avoidance, negative changes in thinking and mood, and changes in emotional reaction. Being exposed to such an event can challenge our belief that life is fair and affect our sense of security and safety. One main hallmark of PTSD is that the individual re-experiences symptoms in a vivid or distressing way, and this often occurs nightmares or flashbacks. Also, traumatic child loss is a major trigger in PTSD.

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Additionally, they can be classified into four categories: intrusion, avoidance, changes in cognition and mood, and changes in arousal and reactivity. Symptoms that fall into the intrusion category deal with reoccurring thoughts, memories, dreams, and flashbacks of the event. These visions can feel so realistic that the person might feel like they are reliving the experience. The avoidance category contains symptoms such as avoiding reminders of the traumatic event such as people, places, and objects, avoiding remembering or thinking about the event, and not talking about what occurred or how they feel. Furthermore, PTSD causes alterations in cognition and mood which affect the person’s ability to remember important parts of the event and distorts beliefs themself or others.

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There are 3 clusters to PTSD. the first cluster is re-living the event. The way the person relives the event is by having recurring nightmares and images that can happen at any time. During this cluster the victim has extreme emotion and physical reactions. The second cluster is avoiding reminders of the event.

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Introduction In 1980 the American Psychiatric Association added PTSD as a disorder with specific symptoms that could be diagnosed in Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be triggered by a major traumatic event such as witnessing death based on war, racism, terrorism, and or death a loved one, the act of rape and or police brutality. These experiences are marked (cognitive psych book) by horrific memories associated with the event that can create anxiety and or personality changes.

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Literature review Symptom types of Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is generally divided according to symptom types. The symptoms of schizophrenia have been divided into three specific complexes (i.e., positive symptoms, negative symptoms and cognitive deficits; Buchanan, 2007), while others use a dichotomous model, such as type I and type II Schizophrenia (Crow, 1980) that roughly corresponds to positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia (Andreasen, 1982). Positive symptoms were characterized over the past 150 years by active excesses in normal functioning; while negative symptoms of schizophrenia are characterized by a loss of normal functioning (Berrios, 1985; Rector, Beck & Stolar, 2005). Hence, while there are different symptom types, all typologies and dimensional models acknowledge negative symptoms. Negative symptoms of schizophrenia are thought to be a marker of dysfunction and cognitive impairments (Rabinowtiz et al., 2012).

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