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    especially the extremely impressionable youth of America. Today’s youth is becoming heavily reliant on social media outlets such as Tumblr, Instagram, and Facebook, but it comes with a problematic cost, mental disorders on the rise. Eating disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, and other mental disorders are rapidly becoming more and more common in hospitals all across the nation, and social media is fueling the fire. There are solutions, though, ones that can and will work. New solutions are being created

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    panic disorders are easily spotted,some are not. If they are not talked about you would never know that the person was diagnosed with anything.Some commonly known illnesses would be : ADD/ADHD(Attention Deficit Hyper Activity Disorder), OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder),PTSD(Post Traumatic Stress Disorder),Autism, Depression ,and eating disorders like bulima and anorexia. The lesser known illnesses include : SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) Schizophrenia ,Bipolar and personality disorders. There

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    What is Intermittent Explosive Disorder? Intermittent explosive disorder (IED) are several repeated episodes of impulsive, aggressive, and angry verbal outbursts in which someone should act out of proportion to any situation and can negatively impact significant relationships not only with family but as well as work and school. Individuals that have this disorder usually can not control their emotions.This disorder usually begins in someone’s childhood (after year 6) and more common individuals

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    When most people think of mental disorders, many tend to think of depression, bipolar disorder, or even Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The one thing these three disorders have in common is they all can be associated with a disorder called Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). A person with MPD “behaves as if under the control of distinct and separate parts of the personality at different times” (Bull). As research has advanced on the studying of MPD, researchers have deemed the official diagnostic

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    mates, unrealistic beauty standards established by the media are harmful for women because they lead to unethical, profitable gain for large industries and self-harming practices including eating disorders. Harsh and unrealistic beauty standards lead to destructive practices, including eating disorders and unsafe surgeries. “In this focus what has been overlooked have been the vicious body practices that girls and women have come to take on themselves in the West in the mistaken belief that they

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    Introductory Paragraph: Everyone copes with difficult thoughts, feelings and situations in different ways and some feel that the best way to cope with these difficulties is by self-injury. It is a way that they believe makes them escape or feel better and it may seem wrong, but it’s important to understand what leads them to such extent and how we can solve it. This term paper will be analysing an article that follow a clinical sample of self-harm patients in a duration of 6 years to understand

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    In my personal life as a Christian it has not been easy at all in my forty-three years on the planet earth, I had struggle with issues dealing with a mental illness of bipolar disorder, which had and some days even today, though struggle can be seen and does has some affected both my mental state of mind but also parts of my life as well. But with dealing with the symptoms, throughout my life I had face the demon in the room so to say many times, and faced him down with the help of Christ. There

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    the article of "Parental Mental Illness and Eating Disorder in Offspring", Bould and other researchers (2015) presented a study which investigated the causal relationship between parental mental illness of specific types and eating disorders in their offspring (p. 383). In addition to the data from a longitudinal record-linkage study of children resided in Stockholm County in Sweden from 2001 to 2007, Bould et al. (2015) used the eating disorder status of the children and their parental mental illness

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    with Hannah. Mary worked with Hannah each day little by little helping her become part of the class. Hannah is a student who I would consider to be emotionally disturbed and have autism. Reading about her daily life at school, life at home and her personality I began to understand her as a student who has autism. In the past, it was common for students to not be diagnosed with autism. After reading Lovey it is clear that Hannah was both emotionally disturbed and had autism. Lovey helped me understand

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    instance, she lashed out at herself and this helped her focus on something other than her depression, which had been clouding her mind recently. Vic did more to suppress her depression than just self harm. Throughout the memoir she encounters eating disorders, impulsive thoughts and actions, excessive drinking, drug use, and

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