Case Study Post.

Case Study 11: A 38-year-old man has been increasingly anxious about his job in a large manufacturing company. He feels that he has been passed over for a promotion several times. The patient is preoccupied with many small events and conversations that have occurred at work during the year and worries how his superiors will interpret them. He finds it difficult to control his worrying. During the day at work he feels restless and edgy. At home he is irritable and has difficulty sleeping. He wife asks him about work but he doesn’t want to talk about it.

In my initial impression, it seemed fairly obvious that the patient is suffering from Obsessive Complusive Disorder due to his preoccupication with small details or events. He worries that his bosses are overlooking him and dwells on the subject to a point where he is on edge, irratable and restless. It also occurs to me that this man has Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Symptoms of which include being restless or edgy, fatigue, difficulty concentraiting, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep disturbance. He seems to match the criteria fairly well so I can conclude that he does in fact have Generalized Anxiety Disorder. I feel that Generalized Anxiety Disorder is common with the stresses of work and life so I feel that treatment should include peaceful hobbies such as yoga or meditation and a reduction of caffene from his diet, perhaps switching from coffee to green tea.

http://www.behavenet.com/capsules/disorders/gad.htm

-Jackson.

Suppp yo. (Entry Post - Famous People with Psychological Disorders)

Kso, I gotta do this Psychology project thing and I'm apparently blogging about someone famous who has a psychological disorder. Pretty nifty.

So what I thought was interesting that Marylin Monroe had a collection of mental disorders including depression and BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder). Depression and Borderline Personality are actually fairly similar mental illnesses. They both imcompass rapid mood swings, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide or hopelessness.
Monroe had an extremely sucessful carrer of movies and music. She was in such classics as "Some Like It Hot" and "The Seven Year Itch". By initial impressions, not many people would have thought that the extrovert that Monroe was battled something as serious as depression, but it was very true. Her carrer was affected in the later years of her life as these signs became more and more apparent.
Monroe's death is still rather mysterious but from the looks of it, it was an apparent suicide. Her years of alcoholism and chemical dependency took a harsh toll on her physical and mental health. She is still known for her great talent and amazing impact on American pop culture in the 50s.





-Jackson.