Review of Mental Illness
True/False
1.
A person with obsessive-compulsive disorder recognizes that the
obsessions or compulsions are excessive and irrational.
2.
The symptoms of somatization disorder are intentionally produced.
3.
Fainting is a dissociative symptom.
4.
Dissociative amnesia involves an irreversible memory disturbance in
which memories of personal experience cannot be retrieved verbally or remain in
consciousness.
5.
The prevalence of dissociative fugue may decrease during times of war or
natural disaster.
6.
Individuals with avoidant personality disorder are best characterized as
people who look for others to take care of them.
7.
People with paranoid personality disorder are distrustful and suspicious of
other people.
8.
People with schizoid personality disorder prefer solitary activities and may
be perceived as self-absorbed.
9.
Common among schizophrenic individuals are delusions of persecution,
thoughts that people are out to get them.
11.
Evidence gathered from twin and adoption studies demonstrate a weak
genetic component for schizophrenia?
12.
Prior to the 1950s, people with schizophrenia were sometimes treated with
prefrontal lobotomies.
Short-Answer
13.
What is a panic attack
14.
Describe Agoraphobia.
15.
What may cause OCD?
16.
What are dissociative symptoms?
17.
What is a conversion disorder?
18.
What is a manic episode?
19.
Describe borderline personality disorder.
20.
What is histrionic personality disorder?
21.
Describe narcissistic personality disorder.
22.
Describe the four subtypes of Schizophrenia.
Analyze the following situations by labeling these individuals with a
particular mental disorder, and explaining according to what symptoms
you have placed them in a particular category.
23.
Karen was a 36 year-old single, unemployed woman. She sought therapy
because she had recently been discharged from a local hospital, where she was
taken after deliberately ingesting an overdose of sedatives combined with
alcohol. Karen said she made this suicide attempt when a man she had been
dating for about three months told her he didn’t want to see her anymore. Karen
lost consciousness from the overdose, and spent the next three days at the
hospital’s intensive care unit.
A therapist that had worked with Karen in the past pointed out that this
was Karen’s third suicide attempt in the past two years (the other two involved an
overdose and wrist cutting) and, the therapist said she did not want to treat Karen
anymore. She described Karen’s suicide attempts as ‘manipulation’, stating that
Karen was not serious about working on her problems, and was using suicide
and other forms of self-harm to draw attention to herself and avoid confronting
her underlying disturbance. These other forms of self-harm included Karen’s
making small cuts on her arms and legs with a razor blade, and tearing off the
scabs to make her wounds bleed. Typically she would do this when feeling alone
or rejected.
24.
Each morning Sarah felt compelled to perform a large number of rituals to
verify that everything in the apartment had been left in a safe condition. She was
concerned that her negligence might bring about some untoward event (a fire, a
flood) that would cause damage both to her apartment and more importantly it
seemed, to her neighbors. Thus, Sarah had to check that the stove had been
turned off, the faucets turned off, the windows closed, and that various
appliances were unplugged, including the hair dryer, the microwave oven, the
toaster oven, and the T.V. set among others. Just checking all the different items
once would have been a chore, but Sarah typically felt compelled to check each
item several times. Often after checking one item, Sarah lost track of what she
had already checked and would have to go back and check everything all over
again. On a bad day it could take Sarah two hours to get out of her apartment.