Abnormal Psychology: Mental Disorders

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parents. If both parents have the disorder the chance of their off
spring having the disorder jumps to forty times that of of an off spring with
normal parents. Some times as equally as important as finding what causes
a disease is finding what does not cause a disease. It is said that
Schizophrenia is: not caused by a domineering mother and/or a passive father,
not caused by childhood experiences, poverty, or not caused by the feeling of
guilt or failure.
People who have schizophrenia can be divided up into three equal groups:
those who only have one episode in their entire life, those who have continual
episodes but live normal lives between them, and a third group who have never
ending symptoms. The symptoms that define an episode of schizophrenia can
generally be described as deterioration from a previous level of functioning.
The number one symptom of schizophrenia is the inability to separate the
real form the unreal. As stress starts to build and the ...

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Unlike many other disorders,
bipolar effects a higher percent of those with a higher social status.
Bipolar disorder usually comes on while the person is in their early
twenties. It is thought that the disorder is ³polygenetic² meaning dependent
upon several genes. This conclusion was reached because child who have parents
with the disorder are up to twenty times more likely to suffer from it. Though
the disorder can cause serious problems, many famous and successful people have
suffered from it including Ernest Hemingway and Vincent Van Gogh.
One of the major steps in treating some one with bipolar disorder is
diagnosing it. People often say they of symptoms similar to those of ...

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