Реферат: Abnormal Psychology Mental Disorders Essay Research Paper

suffered from it including Ernest Hemingway and Vincent Van Gogh.

One of the major steps in treating some one with bipolar disorder is

diagnosing it. People often say they of symptoms similar to those of the

disorder as a result of a different disorder. These symptoms include hearing

voices, being possessed by something, and having a sleeping disorder. In order

to determine if a patient suffers from the disorder or not, family members are

often questioned to see if the patient acts the way they claims they do. They

are often asked about the patients sleeping since it is hard to fake a sleeping

disorder. A family history is often obtained to help decide if bipolar is a

lily candidate.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

http://www.ocdresource.com/helpingocd.html

http://www.psyc.memphis.edu/students/abramowitz/ocd.htm

http://www.social.com/health/cic/mental_health/obsess.html

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is a anxiety disorder that about one

million people in the United States suffer from. Those suffering from the

disorder have repetitive thought, images, or ideas that they can not get out of

their head. These repetitive thoughts lead to anxiety which causes the suffer

to resort to a competitive behavior.Then in order to try to deal with these

thoughts sufferers often have rituals they preform to try to satisfy their

thoughts.

One of the more common repetitive thoughts that those with obsessive

compulsive disorder have is that they contaminated by dirty objects. This leads

to them often washing their hands constantly often taking off layers of skin.

Similar to the Glen in the movie who would go through more than a bar of soap a

day.

Obsessive compulsive disorder was once thought to be rare but now is

thought to effect around two percent of the population. Many cases go

unreported making to hard to get an exact number of those who suffer. It