Case Study 9: A 27-year-old, athletic young man has an intense fear of needles. He tries to rationalize his fear by explaining that he is just being cautious and protecting himself from acquired immunodeficiency disease syndrome (AIDS). He realizes that his fear is irrational but is unable to control it. The patient has fainted twice in the past when his blood was drawn during a physical examination. He becomes extremely anxious at the sight of a needle and worries for days before an appointment with his physician or dentist.
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The treatment: He is has a specific phobia and it is very treatable. He should get behavior therapy where one meets with a trained therapist and confronts the feared object or situation in a carefully planned, gradual way and learns to control the physical reactions of fear.
This athletic young 27- year old is suffering from specific phobia. People with this disorder have excessive fear of exposure to an object or situation that will cause anxiety usually in the form of a panic attack. He knows that the disorder is unreasonable.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Friday, November 7, 2008
Week 1: Ernest Hemingway's Bipolar Disorder (mood disorder)
Ernest Hemingway
He was born in Oak Park, Illinois. At the age of seventeen, started his career as a writer in Kansas City. He joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army after the United States entered WWI Serving at the front, He was hurt numerous times, was praised by the Italian Government, and spent uncountable hours in hospitals. After arriving back at the U.S., his writing skills earned him a spot as a writer for Canadian and American newspapers He was sent to Europe to cover events pertaining to the Greek Revolution. Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris in the twenties. He mentioned this in The Sun Also Rises (1926). As a reporter in Spain during the civil war, he used his experiences to create, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940).
He was born in Oak Park, Illinois. At the age of seventeen, started his career as a writer in Kansas City. He joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army after the United States entered WWI Serving at the front, He was hurt numerous times, was praised by the Italian Government, and spent uncountable hours in hospitals. After arriving back at the U.S., his writing skills earned him a spot as a writer for Canadian and American newspapers He was sent to Europe to cover events pertaining to the Greek Revolution. Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris in the twenties. He mentioned this in The Sun Also Rises (1926). As a reporter in Spain during the civil war, he used his experiences to create, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940).
Ernest Hemingway was able to live a prosperous life until he was at the age of 61. As he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and insomnia, he established an addiction to alcohol. He was later diagnosed with diabetes and suffered from liver failure. His life and career was basically over at that time. He suffered severe amnesia after the electro-convulsive therapy was not successful. The memory loss disrupted his writing career and the everyday life he loved. He committed suicide in 1961.
Any struggle is hard to overcome. Ernest Hemingway's bipolar disoder was hard to overcome and it led to his death. I believe that he suffered from post-traumatic stress after his time in the war was over. Like any disorder, the effects that a person has are unimaginable. I also thought that his disorder could have been linked to the paternal line in the family. They suffered from a hereditary disease called haemochromatosis which the body had excess iron concentration in the blood. Members of his family including his father and his sisters also committed suicide. Ernest was a good man that wrote many books that will influence many people in society today.
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