Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

I have a good friend whose daughter Brittany, has been diagnosed with OCD, she was diagnosed at the age of sixteen. Her symptoms are repeated unwanted thoughts, counting in threes all the time, repeating actions three times each, She also says that when she steps with one foot, she has to step the same way with the other foot, she has to keep everything neat and even. Her treatments is Cognitive Behavior Therapy, she isn't on any medication because she has also been diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis and is on a lot of medicines for that.


On page 468, it says that Obsessive-Compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder in which a person becomes obsessed with certain thoughts or feels a compulsion to do certain things. Brittany has repeated unwanted thoughts, which are the obsessions, and the actions she takes to try and control those thoughts are the compulsions, such as counting in threes keeping everything neat and even.. The treatment that she is having is also in the book on page 512, which is a methods designed to help the client identify thoughts that create awkwardness, and once these obstacles are brought to light, the therapist describes new and more adaptive ways of thinking and encourages the client to learn and practice them.

Antisocial Personality Disorder

A popular TV show that I watch almost every time it's on is House, it usually airs on Tuesdays at 8:00pm on fox, channel 18. In this series, Dr. Gregory House is a brilliant infectious disease doctor that thrives on the challenge of solving unusual medical conditions to save lives. But, at the same time he has borderline antisocial personality disorder. He is selfish, impulsive, and usually in every show has some type of criminal behavior. He has an extreme disregard for other people's rights, Constant irresponsibility. He only has one so called friend and his name is Wilson and House doesn't even fully trust him.

on page 486, the book describes Antisocial Personality Disorder as a long-term, persistent pattern of impulsive, selfish, unscrupulous, even criminal behavior. House's behavior in every episode is selfish, he does whatever he feel he has to do to figure out whats wrong with his patients. His criminal behavior in most episode is breaking into patients homes looking for clues to what may have caused their illness. He is a perfect example of Antisocial Personality Disorder

Dissociative Identity Disorder

I recently watched a movie called, Me, Myself, and Irene, which I have watched several times before. This movie was made in 2000 and it is a comedy, in this movie, Charlie Baileygates is a Rhode Island trooper who suffers dissociative Identity Disorder after a series of bad events. He develops a split personality whose name is Hank and he is the total opposite of Charlie. Charlie and Hank are in a constant battle for the affection of Irene.


On page 472 it describes dissociative Identity disorder as a dissociative disorder in which a person appears to have more that one Identity, each of which behaves in a different way. This is exactly what Charlie and hank did. Charlie was the nice guy who would do anything to help people and Hank was selfish, only thought about himself and what he wanted and when he wanted it. I believe the ID part of Hanks personality was in control, which can be found on page 421 in the book.

Schizophrenia

I have a friend that has been diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia, he lived on a ammunition dump in Hiroshima after World War II and spent many hours alone. His main symptom is Paranoia, he thinks people are watching him, He thinks that people do things just to let him know they are watching him, he hears things such as people cocking shot guns. He makes himself believe that everyone around him are his enemies, out to hurt him, or take his life. The treatment he received included 19 shock treatments and they put him on haloperidol (Haldol), but he would not take it like he was suppose to because he felt like the doctor was out to get him.


In chapter 12 on page 480 I learned about schizophrenia and that it is one of the most serious and disabling of all mental disorders. On page 485, it talks about personality disorders such as paranoia, which my friend also has. Then there is the Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) that can be found on page 525 in our book,in which convulsions are induced.

The Id, Ego, and Superego

In the Rock Hill herald on October 6th, 2008, in an article, I read about this husband who said that women were always attracted to him and are always flirting or coming on to him and he didn't know why. He said that he had always been faithful to his wife, dispite the temptations . He stated that he and his wife were going through a rough time in their marriage and that while this was going on he and another woman became really close but nothing sexually has happened, but even though he didn't cross the line to adultery, he was feeling enourmous guilt about the closesness he felt with this other woman. His delima was whether to tell his wife about this other woman or not.

In Chapter 11 it tells about the Id, Ego and Superego and this article is in relation to that. The ID was the man's uncounscious wanting to be close to the other woman, it didn't matter the consequences of his actions, He wanted it and thats all that mattered at the time, the Superego is his conscious telling him he shouldn't have been close with the other woman and is now making him feel guilt for his actions, and the Ego is what has him trying to decide whether to tell his wife about the other woman, because the Ego is what tries to satisfy both the ID and the Superego. In my opinion the ID was in control in the beginning and now the super ego and ego are in control