Abnormal

Do You have Internet Addiction? Quiz

After you've answered all the questions, add the numbers you selected for each response to obtain a final score. The higher your score, the greater your level of addiction and the problems your Internet usage causes. Here's a general scale to help measure your score: After you have identified the category that fits your total score, look back at those questions for which your scored a 4 or 5. Did you realize this was a significant problem for you? For example, if you answered 4 (often) to Question #2 regarding your neglect of household chores, were you aware of just how often your dirty laundry piles up or how empty the refrigerator gets? Say you answered 5 (always) to Question #14 about lost sleep due to late-night log-ins. Have you ever stopped to think about how hard it has become to drag yourself out of bed every morning? Do you feel exhausted at work? Has this pattern begun to take its toll on your body and your overall health?
 * 20 - 49 points:** You are an average on-line user. You may surf the Web a bit too long at times, but you have control over your usage.
 * 50 -79 points:** You are experiencing occasional or frequent problems because of the Internet. You should consider their full impact on your life.
 * 80 - 100 points:** Your Internet usage is causing significant problems in your life. You should evaluate the impact of the Internet on your life and address the problems directly caused by your Internet usage.

__** CHAPTER 12 NOTES: MENTAL DISORDERS – Page 462 **__ //** The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association **//
 * Congratulations, your score is: 28**


 * 1.5 million hospitalized; additional 4-5 million seek help
 * Depictions of mental disorders are often inaccurate
 * Statistically, mental patients are less violent than those in the “normal” population

What constitutes abnormal behavior?
 * 1) Person suffers from **discomfort** more or less continuously. (Shows up as extreme anxiety, endless worry, or long periods of depression; feels something is wrong w/ his/her life more than the average person does)
 * 2) Person is behaving in a **bizarre** fashion. (Misinterprets what is going on or what others are doing/saying; afraid to go to work or school; frequently comes completely apart over minor things or sinks into a depression about them)
 * 3) Person is very **inefficient** and is therefore unable to perform their life roles properly.

Characteristics of Abnormal Behavior:
 * 1) **Inflexible** in their responses to almost everything (Ex: Shy, withdrawn man goes to a party and a few people are nice to him; instead, he thinks they only “feel sorry” for him)
 * 2) Constantly see a **threatening** environment (Ex: See danger, rejection, and failure around every corner)


 * ** Disorder ** ||  ** Subsets **  ||  ** Description **  ||  ** Comments/Connections/Questions (CCQ) **  ||
 * ** First diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence ** || -Hyperactivity

-Autism || -Child fears, conduct disorders, frequent bed- wetting or soiling, and other problems in normal social and behavioral development. - Austistic spectrum disorders: major impairment in social, behavorial, and language development) learning disorders. ||  ||
 * ** Cognitive Disorders ** || -Delirium

-Dementia

-Amnesiac || Problems caused by physical deterioation of the brain due to aging, disease, drugs or other chemicals, ot other unknown causes. - An inability to think straight - Loss of memory and other intellectual functions. ||  ||
 * ** Substance-Related Disorders ** || -Alcoholism

-Chemical abuse || Psychological, behavioral, physical, social, or legal problems caused by dependence on, or abuse of, a variety of chemical substances, such as alchohol, heroin, cocaine, amphetamines, hallucinogens, marijuana, and tobacco. ||  ||  ** (Thought disorder, hallucinations, delusions, inappropriate emotional responses) **  || -Schizophrenia
 * ** PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS **

-Catatonic Schizophrenia

-Paranoid Schizophrenia

-Undifferentiated Schizophrenia || -Most serious mental disturbance; schizophrenia affects about 1% of the population; often arises in late adolescence or early adulthood; word salad (incoherence) and clang associations (rhymes); cycles of lucidity and psychosis; heredity does not seem to be the key factor (90% of patients do not have members in their immediate family who suffer from it); environment may contribute to the development for those who have a predisposition; linked to high levels of dopamine

-Disturbances of movement; does not speak or says little; appears to be in a stupor; may rigidly hold strange posture and may not move for hours

-Strong feelings of persecution or suspiciousness; delusions

-Lacks distinguishing symptoms ||  || ** (deal with one’s emotional state) ** || -Dysthymic Disorder
 * ** MOOD DISORDERS **

-Major Depression

-Mania

-Bipolar Disorders (Manic Depression or Manic Depressive Psychosis) || -Affective disorders - Major disturbances of mood (depression, overexcitement (mania), or alternating episodes of each extreme (bipolar disorder) ||  ||  ** (most common) **  || -Panic Disorder
 * ** ANXIETY DISORDERS **

-Phobic Disorders

-Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder || -Specific fears (Phobia); panic attacks; generalized feelings of dread; rituals of thought and action (OCD) causes controlling of anxiety.

-Problems caused by traumatic events(rape, military combat (posttraumatic stress disorder)) ||  || ** (expressed in bodily symptoms) ** || -Conversion Disorders
 * ** SOMATOFORM DISORDERS **

-Hypochondriasis || - Physical symptons (paralysis and blindness= no physical cause) -Unusual preoccupation with physical health or with nonexistent physical problems(hypochodriasis, somatization disorder, pain disorder) ||  || ** (disconnects or disassociates certain events/behaviors from one another; very rare) ** || -Amnesia
 * ** Factitious Disorders ** ||   || -False mental disorders that are intentionally produced to satisfy some psychological need. ||   ||
 * ** DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS **

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-Dissociative Identity Disorder || Psychological caused problems of consciousness and self-identification (loss of memory- amnesia, or the development of more than one identity- multiple personality) ||  || -Unsatisfactory sexual activity (Sexual dysfunction – motivation and emotion) -Identifying with the opposite gender ||  ||
 * ** Sexual and Gender Disorders ** || -Sexual dysfunction || -Problems of finding sexual arousal through unusual objects or situations (i.e. shoes or exposing oneself)
 * ** Eating Disorders ** || -Anorexia Nervosa

-Bulimia Nervosa || -Eating too little -Binge eating followed by self-induced vomiting ||  ||
 * ** Sleep Disorders ** || -Sleep wake Cycle

-Insomnia || -An inability to sleep well at night or to stay awake during the day. ||  ||
 * ** Impulse Control Disorders ** || -Compulsiveness || -Compulsive gambling, stealing, or fire setting. ||  ||
 * ** Adjustment Disorders ** ||   || -Failure to adjust to, or deal well with, such stressors as divorce, financial problems, family discord, or other unhappy life events. ||   ||
 * ** PERSONALITY DISORDERS (Personalities are “off-center”) ** || -Antisocial Personality (Psychopaths and Sociopaths)

-Borderline Personality || -Lack of conscience; often in conflict w/ the law and show little or no concern, guilt, or anxiety; sometimes have a family history of neglect and rough treatment

-Created in 1980; characterized by intense and unstable relationships w/ others; very dependent; self-destructive behavior to manipulate others; suspicious and therefore difficult to treat ||  ||

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Abnormal Psychology – Schizophrenia

Define the following terms in your own words before you look at the Diagnostic Criteria for Schizophrenia. Use www.vocabulary.com, www.visualthesaurus.com , www.dictionary.reference.com/studenthandbook , [] , and []

1. Delusions: Imagining, hallucintating something 2. Hallucination: Delusions, something that is not real; a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside [|the] mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders. 3. Derailment: to cause to fail or become deflected from a purpose; reduce or delay the chances for success or development of  4. Catatonic: a [|syndrome] seen most frequently in [|schizophrenia], characterized by muscular rigidity and mental stupor, sometimes alternating with great excitement and confusion. 5. Affective: Feeling emotional 6. Alogia: The inability to speak because of mental deficiency, mental confusion, or aphasia (brain lesion). 7. Avolition: 8. Dysfunction: a consequence of a social practice or behavior pattern that undermines the stability of a social system. Failure to show the characteristics or fulfil the purposes accepted as normal or beneficial. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">9. Prodromal: An early symptom indicating the onset of an attack or a disease; a premonitory symptom. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">10. Residual: Remainder; leftover; something that remains to discomfort or disable a person following an illness, injury, operation, or disability. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">11. Attenuated: To make thin, weakened <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">12. Schizoaffective: Exhibiting symptoms of both schizoprenia and bipolar disorder. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">13. Physiological: The processes and functions of all or part of an organism. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">14. Autistic: a pervasive developmental disorder of children, characterized by impaired communication, excessive rigidity, and emotional detachment. abnormal self-absorption, usually affecting children, characterized by lack of response to people and actions and limited ability to communicate. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">15. Pervasive: To become spread throughout all parts of; diffuse; fill. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">16. Auditory: The sense of hearing <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">17. Catalepsy: a physical condition usually associated with catatonic schizoprenia, characterized by suspension of sensation, muscular rigidity, fixity of posture, and often by loss of contact with environment. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">18. Mutism: The state of being mute; inability to speak due to a physical defect, conscious refusal, or psychogenic inhibition. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">19. Echolalia: the uncontrollable and immediate repetition of words spoken by another person. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">20. Echopraxia: the abnormal repetition of the actions of another person.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Look through the Diagnostic Criteria for Schizophrenia handout. Describe which type of schizophrenia Sybil’s mother had, listing her characteristics. How did Hettie’s condition impact Sybil? How did this contribute to her dissciociative identity disorder?