Psychological Disorders And Gender Analysis

Men and women have different levels of risks of getting mental illnesses such as alcohol dependency. This is “more than twice as high in men than women. In developed countries, approximately 1 in 5 men and 1 in 12 women develop alcohol dependence during their lives” WHO 2015. This clearly shows that men and women have different risks when it comes to health and illness. Men are also twice as likely to have personality disorders, but women are more likely to have anxiety and depression than men are. Women have more accounts of sexual harassment and rape and this has a knock on effect to the amount of people with depression.

The poster is going to outline the definition of abnormality and describe two diagnostic classification systems whilst referencing the diagnostic criteria for Schizophrenia and an overlook of its subtype catatonic schizophrenia.

Chapter Thirteen of the textbook discussed psychological disorders (Licht, 2014). Depression and anxiety are just a few common ones. A subsection in the chapter analyzed the psychological roots of depression - one, of which, was the intriguing concept of ‘learned helplessness.’ “According to researcher Martin Seligman, people often became depressed because they believe they have no control over the consequences of their behaviors” (Licht, 2014).

There was not much research going into the topic of gender dysphoria compared to other disorders in children, however, there is evidence that researchers are becoming more and more interested about gender dysphoria and seeing the benefits in putting research into it. There could be a possible connection between depression and gender dysphoria in a way that outside factors influences the onset of depression on adolescents with gender dysphoria, outside factors being gender norms in society, possible events that happen in childhood, and so on. It is not to say that individuals with gender dysphoria automatically have depressive symptoms caused by the disorder itself, but rather it is the outside factors that cause depression to occur in adolescents with gender

The purpose of this assignment was to accurately diagnose Marla and to find causes and prospective treatments for her disorder. Marla is a 42 year old Hispanic female who comes to the mental health clinic complaining of having trouble sleeping, feeling “jumpy all the time,” and experiencing an inability to concentrate. (Joan Rachmel, syllabus description of final assignment) These symptoms are causing problems for her at work where she is an accountant. Upon first look at her case a few different disorders come to mind like ADHD, PTSD, and depression with mania.

This semester consisted of four projects. Communication, stress, personality, and psychological disorders projects. While working on these projects I discovered new and old information about myself. I agreed with a majority of the results from the projects. The only project I did not entirely agree with was the psychological disorders project. I don’t believe I am bipolar, and the test claimed that I was. I also believe I have OCD, because I like everything organized and clean at all times. I was shocked when the test results explained that I don’t show any signs of OCD. Although I did not fully agree with the results from the psychological disorders project, I learned a lot.

The primary tool used to diagnose ADHD is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5). Unlike the DSM 5, its predecessors including the DSM-II 1968, DSM-III 1980, DSM-III-TR 1987, DSM-IV 1994 and DSM-IV-TR 2000 did not include diagnostic criteria for adults. Considered a childhood disorder ADHD was often overlooked in the adult population (Mueller & Asherson, 2012). There have been several changes made to the diagnostic criteria for ADHD in the DSM-5 which now includes adults affected by the disorder. Changes include adding examples to the criteria to facilitate application across the lifespan; the age of onset has been changed from age 7 to age 12, this gives more reliable childhood recall of difficulties; subtypes have

There are many myths and misunderstanding of psychological disorders, so I believe that we need to understand the psychological disorders correctly. As the textbook states, many people believe that the people with mental illnesses are more dangerous than the people in the general population because the portrayals of the people with psychological disorders in the mass media are usually described them as violence and dangerousness. Mental health care is important as much as physical health care, however, the education of the psychological disorders is not enough for the public. The devastating social stigma of the psychological disorders is also from the myths and misunderstanding of the disoders. Therefore, after proper public education of psychological

Infidelity is the action or state of being unfaithful to a spouse or other sexual partner. In evaluating the topic of ‘what psychological disorders do men vs. women deal with while going through infidelity,’ it is made distinctly clear that infidelity affect the two genders starkly different. It has been found through research that women widely understood in society to be more emotional, suffer from ‘anxiety and depression illnesses’ while men mainly suffer ‘anti-social disorders and disorders’ resulting from substance abuse.

As individuals in this life we go through various obstacles that can either make us or break us. Women comparable to men are more prone to depression.Depression in the words of Dr. Sapolsky said that depression is when someone cannot appreciate things and have a hard time finding pleasure in a painful situation.

Gender differences do have an effect on depression. Girls are more affected with depression than boys because girls develop maturity earlier than boys. When young adolescence girls reach puberty they grow to become more self -conscious of their self- imagine than boys. Boys are more acceptable to their body change such as gaining weight or regaining muscles. In adolescence girls they seem to always compare themselves to others and their never satisfied with their appearance. This can lead to severe eating disorders

Gender Dysphoria Disorder indicates an individual's emotional cognitive unhappiness with the assigned gender, but is more clearly defined when used as a diagnostic category. Gender Dysphoria relates to the affliction that is associated with the incongruence between one’s accustomed or disclosed gender and one’s appointed gender. Many acquire anxiety if the desired physical mediations by means of hormones and/or surgery are unaccessible.

Regarding what is known as, "mental illness" makes it hard to believe or not to believe that mental illness is real and not a myth. With the ongoing changes that are made to diagnosing patients as well as the symptoms they "must" encounter, it is hard to know exactly what medical abnormalities would fall under this category to be diagnosed with what is known as a mental illness. Do to the various definitions and meanings that fall under "mental illnesses" I would have to say that I agree and disagree with what Thomas Szasz has written. Szasz has some great points but many that I disagree with.

As health is seen as a holistic concept we also have to focus on the psychological side of health. Mental illnesses affect around one in every three people and an individual?s gender is a critical determinant of mental health and mental illness. Women are much more likely to develop mental health problems then males do. The most predominant of these disorders are depression, anxiety and somatic complaints.

The connection between gender and psychological disorders seems to be hard to ignore and yet today we still lack the distinct research and treatment necessary to resolve the epidemic of psychological disorders in women. Women are twice as likely to suffer from anxiety disorders than men, a study showed 10% of mothers obtain a mental health problem during motherhood while only 6% of fathers experience these issues (“Mental Health Statistics: Men and Women.") and women predominate over men in rates of major depression (Astbury, Cabral). The gap in between men and women experiencing these mental health problems seems to be clear but we have to ask ourselves, why? We often associate mental health issues with individual