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Diagnostic Criteria for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common and intricate psychiatric problem that develops as a result of experiencing traumatic experiences, greatly affecting an individual’s mental health. PTSD is a condition that can cause a variety of symptoms, affecting cognitive abilities, emotions, physical sensations, and behavior. This can result in long-term difficulties and a higher likelihood…
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Prevalence, Diagnostic Criteria, and Features of Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder
Disinhibited social engagement disorder (DSED) is characterized by socially abnormal actions including straying from a caregiver, agreeing to travel with a stranger, and engaging in excessively familiar physical activities (such as hugging strangers) with strangers. The frequency range of symptoms for DSED is found to be between 4% and 11% and its prevalence rate of diagnosis…
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The Positives of Psychopathy
Psychopathy is a psychological construct that refers to callous and unemotional patterns of attitudes or behaviors. While much of the popular opinion on psychopathy is actually negative, there are some behaviors of psychopaths which are also seen positively. An evidence of the allure of psychopathy can be seen in the fact that Ted Bundy, the…
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Psychoeducation: Understanding Your Addiction
Addiction to chemical substances is not a comfortable condition. According to a study, 2.2% of people in the world have a problem with drugs or alcohol. 1.5% of people have an alcohol use disorder, compared to 0.8% of people with all substance use disorders put together (0.32% had a cannabis use disorder, 0.29% had an…
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Prevalence, Diagnostic Criteria, and Features of Reactive Attachment Disorder
Reactive attachment disorder is a trauma- and stressor-related early childhood syndrome caused by social neglect or maltreatment, according to the DSM-5. Children with this condition have trouble making emotional connections, cannot feel pleasant emotions, cannot tolerate physical or emotional contact, and may react aggressively when held, caressed, or comforted. Children with this condition are unpredictable,…
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Prevalence, Treatment, Diagnostic Criteria, and Features of Excoriation (Skin-Picking) Disorder
Excoriation disorder, often known as skin picking disorder, is a mental health problem defined by the recurrent act of picking one’s skin, resulting in tissue damage and causing functional impairment and/or discomfort. This pathological, obsessive, and repeated picking of skin that causes tissue damage is also referred to as neurotic excoriation, dermatillomania, or psychogenic excoriation.…
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Why Do Pathological Liars Lie?
Lying is a very common behavior per se. There are various reasons one might choose to lie. Perhaps you do not want to cause trouble with your boss, so you might lie that there no problems at work. Perhaps a young adolescent might lie to his parents to cover up the fact that he was…
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5 Red Flags of Pathological Lying
In the current digital sphere, communication has diversified. No longer does one have to speak to each other directly. While this has greatly increased the convenience of communication, it has also increased the convenience for pathological lying. Yes, this did just escalate quickly. Pathological lying is a pattern of behavior of distorting or hiding information…
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Horus’s Problems at Work – The Story of a Man with Hoarding Disorder
“Horus, are you going to tell me what are we gonna do about this?” Sara asked Horus, pointing towards a pile of empty packs of cigarettes and matchboxes right underneath his desk. Horus sighed. Sara was an attorney and Horus was her assistant. She was not the only one who had noted the cigarette packs…
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History, Prevalence, Diagnostic Criteria, and Features of Hoarding Disorder
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) includes hoarding disorder (HD) in the group of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRD), which also includes trichotillomania, excoriation disorder, and body dysmorphic disorder. A person with a hoarding problem develops an unjustified attachment to their material belongings and finds it difficult to let go of…
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Walter White Character Analysis: Personality Profile and the Origins of Heisenberg
Walter White – aka Heisenberg – is the main protagonist of the American series Breaking Bad. Played by Bryan Cranston (a great actor), White is a chemistry teacher at J. P. Wynne High School. Safe to say, he has a middle class life, involving all the perks and pits of ‘mediocrity’. At the start of…
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7 Movies You Should Watch to Understand Panic Attacks
Are you looking for movies on panic attacks to understand what they look like? If that is the case, you are at the right place! The following is the list of 7 movies you must watch to understand panic attacks: Girl, Interrupted (1999) In the film, Winona Ryder plays the role of a young lady who,…