Make Your Own Psychology Flash Cards The best way to use flash cards is to make your own set of study tools. This way you can incorporate the information from your class notes and required readings. Remember this handy rule of thumb – if your instructor talked about it in class, then it will mostly likely be on the exam. Start by getting some blank index cards in whatever size works best for you....
They can be used by everyone, from those dealing with mental health conditions such as depression or bipolar disorder to those who just want to keep tabs on their stress levels. These programs can do everything from helping you visualize trends to even generating reports you can share with a therapist or doctor. Though they are not a replacement for therapy, many of these programs also offer coping tools to help you deal with challenges you may be facing....
Philosophers, physicians, and researchers have long tried to find connections between personality and physical health. During the time of the ancient Greeks, Hippocrates and Galen suggested that there were four humors (or personality types) and that each was connected to susceptibilities for certain physical or mental illnesses. Interest in the topic persists to this day and research has found that personality traits can be important health predictors. Researchers have found that the personality traits exhibited during childhood are linked to later health and are tied to other key health markers including overall longevity....
People with hypersexuality might exhibit a host of problematic sexual behaviors like consuming pornographic content excessively, excessive masturbation, or engaging in sexual activities with a large number of partners. The lack of recognition of hypersexuality as a mental disorder has resulted in many people living with the condition without an official diagnosis. This article covers the signs of hypersexuality, causes, and outlines potential treatment options. Characteristics of Hypersexuality Hypersexuality looks different in every individual who has the condition....
In addition to taking more than 240,000 lives in the U.S., the COVID-19 pandemic has caused millions of people to lose their jobs. Most people haven’t seen their friends or loved ones for months and will be forced to spend holidays away from them. This is all happening alongside news about widespread protests of police violence, historic political division, and the deaths of role models and civil rights leaders. “People seem to be looking for more bad news all the time—even those little things that don’t impact them directly,” says Amy Morin, LCSW, psychotherapist and editor-in-chief of Verywell Mind....
The answer to this question depends on several factors. The biggest cause of ADHD is genes, which means that ADHD does run in families. Even if no one in your extended family has officially been diagnosed with ADHD, you might notice family members with characteristics and traits that resemble ADHD. Despite this strong genetic link, if you have ADHD, it doesn’t automatically mean your child will, too. This is because it is a combination of genes and environmental factors that determine whether a child develops ADHD....
Let’s take a look at what makes something a mental illness, in what instances anxiety is a symptom of a mental illness, and how to get diagnosed and treated for an anxiety disorder. What Is a Mental Illness? Mental illnesses are psychiatric conditions that impact a person’s moods, behaviors, and thoughts. They are common: about 1 in 5 people experience mental illnesses, and up to 4% of people experience a severe form of mental illness....
Late-Life Onset The onset of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) specifically can occur at any point in the life cycle, though the average age of onset is 31 years old. Of all anxiety disorders, however, GAD stands as the most common in late-life with estimates in the older adult age group ranging from 1% to 7%. Its prevalence in older adults may in part be reflective of the tenacity of GAD. Young adults who struggle with generalized anxiety can experience a recurrence of symptoms in the middle and later stages of life....
Moreover, advocating for mental illness and giving back to the mental health community can be extremely powerful for both families and patients. Patient advocates even say that their advocacy work helps to strengthen their own mental health recovery. Overview Ultimately, it is important to pay attention to your mental health. And activism is a way that caregivers, loved ones, patients, and all those touched by mental illness can give back to and aid others....
Lithium is a naturally occurring element that was found, in the late 1800s, to have mood-stabilizing properties. The first paper on using lithium to treat what was then called manic depression was published in 1949. The FDA approved lithium in 1970. Even now, the specific way lithium helps people with bipolar disorder is complex and not fully understood. When Is Lithium Prescribed? This drug is formally approved to treat manic episodes of bipolar disorder when symptoms such as grandiosity, racing thoughts, hypersexuality, delusions, hallucinations, and decreased need for sleep appear....
Psychiatrist and psychotherapist Viktor Frankl developed logotherapy after surviving Nazi concentration camps in the 1940s. His experience and theories are detailed in his book, “Man’s Search for Meaning.” Frankl believed that humans are motivated by something called a “will to meaning,” which is the desire to find meaning in life. He argued that life can have meaning even in the most miserable of circumstances and that the motivation for living comes from finding that meaning....
Types Most people with a fear of cooking are actually afraid of one or more elements or possible outcomes of the cooking process. If your mageirocophobia is severe, however, you may find that most or all of these elements apply to you. Fear of Causing Illness: This appears to be the most common cooking phobia of all. It is true that there are a number of possible foodborne illnesses, and media coverage has led us to believe that they are quite common....
Researchers, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals who treat panic disorder have long debated about what criteria to include in the diagnosis of panic disorder. Given that panic disorder and agoraphobia are relatively newly classified disorders, that there are many public misconceptions about panic disorder, and the difficulty that mental health professionals have in agreeing about the diagnostic criteria, it is not surprising that panic disorder has the potential to be misdiagnosed....
Researchers recently transformed an RV into a mobile telemedicine unit to provide treatment for opioid use disorders and deployed it in rural areas of Maryland for more than a year. The results of the trial, published in JAMA Network Open late last month, found the innovative approach was as successful as conventional treatment clinics. With rural communities disproportionately affected by the opioid epidemic and lacking treatment programs, the success of the mobile treatment program could offer a potential way to bring more support to those areas....
Thankfully, as devastating as NOWS can be to infants, it is treatable with both medical and non-medical techniques. Read on for what to know about NOWS, including symptoms, causes, treatments, and coping. Symptoms of Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome Every infant who was exposed to opioids during pregnancy will experience withdrawal symptoms a little differently. Factors that may influence an infant’s symptoms include: Characteristics of the birthing parent’s metabolismThe particular types of opioids used during pregnancy, including whether they were prescription or non-prescriptionThe length that the infant was exposed to the opioidWhat other substances the birthing parent consumed, including other illicit substances and/or nicotine...
In simple terms, a boy feels that he is competing with his father for possession of his mother, while a girl feels that she is competing with her mother for her father’s affections. According to Freud, children view their same-sex parents as a rival for the opposite-sex parent’s attention and affection. History of the Oedipus Complex Freud first proposed the concept of the Oedipus complex in his 1899 book “The Interpretation of Dreams,” although he did not formally begin using the term Oedipus complex until 1910....
