Abnormal Psychology Case Study Examples

PTSD

is 28 years old and he is a veteran, having finished his tour in Iraq with a purple heart. Roman has been experiencing reoccurring nightmares for the past 4-6 months. He is withdrawn from his friends his family, anxious around others and has been drinking heavily.

Someone with Suicide

63 year old Robin Williams is a man that puts many smiles on peoples face. But the down fall is he is suicidal. He committed suicide in 2014. The reason he did this is because he was dealing battling with Parkinson's disease and dementia. But multiple sources and close friends also confirmed the actor was depressed.

PTSD sexual trauma

Alyssa Milano was 19 years old when she was first assaulted, she was attending a concert and when everyone made a mad rush to the stage and during that everyone was pressed tightly together, she was assaulted. She was never able to find her perpetrator. Whenever she was in crowded areas she would freak out because it reminded her of that night. Eventually she was able to talk about it to her friends and family, but it was years later. Milano is now a prominent voice for the #MeToo movement.

Illness Anxiety Disorder

Ashley Hall she is 35 years old and lives in Milwaukee Wisconsin. When she was 10 years old her father physically abused her. For about 10 months now she has been significantly anxious about her health. She self-examines several times a week, she makes doctor appointments and constantly consults other physicians about the same issues. She is very unhappy about her medical care because she doesn't think the doctors are taking her serious and all the results keep coming up negative. She has a hard time keeping any kind of relationship because she's constantly worried about her health. Ashley has been let go from one job because she missed work so much going to all the doctor visits constantly.

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Bai Yang is an 18-year-old Chinese male from rural China. He has been sent to the states to further his education at Harvard. He has a lot of stress and pressure from his family to succeed. Despite his many attempts to stop, one of the ways copes Bai's is by pulling out his hair. He has no eyebrows and is starting to bald.

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Chronic condition marked by persistent inattention, hyperactivity, and sometimes impulsivity

Billy is 6 years old, Caucasian, and the youngest child of 3 who lives in Baltimore, Maryland. His symptoms started before the age of 6 while in kindergarten. He is often unable to engage in leisure activity and this results in behavior trouble. He has trouble keeping his hands and feet from fidgeting and moving. He often gets off topic with tasks that involve prolonged thinking and struggles with school work of this type. He often does not complete school work and is easily distracted.

Anorexia Nervosa

Casandra is a young girl in her early 20s. Her friends and family have noticed she has lost a lot of weight and looks unhealthy. Whenever she goes out and eats with people, they have noticed she has to go the bathroom right after she eats and stays in there for quite some time. Not only this but she always seems very weak like she could pass out at any given second. They think her new diet of not hardly eating anything may have something to do with it. She constantly thinks she is overweight too even though she is skinny.

PTSD (Based on Military)

Chris Kyle was a middle man who lived out in Texas. His symptoms included: Feeling upset by things that remind you of what happened having nightmares, vivid memories, or flashbacks of the event that make you feel like it's happening all over again feeling emotionally cut off from others. Kyle was credited with 160 confirmed kills—not only an astounding number but an indication that the U.S. military today still considers counting dead enemy something worth doing. He has taken peoples life and since he had done that so many times, he had been diagnosed with this disorder. He was on medication and going to therapy.

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder with Substance abuse disorder

David is mid to late thirties, married, and a retired sniper of the US military. He started to suffer trauma and flashbacks of his tours during his leave off from military duties. His time served showed him horrors of war and death of many people. Certain triggers in his civilian life would cause flashbacks of his time served. His emotions became altered to the point that even a dog playing with his son would cause him to become angered over fear of the dog hurting his son. the symptoms have last for close to a decade between tours and his time on leave. Has developed a drinking problem to combat the issues he is facing and relies on nicotine to relief stress.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Drew is a 21-year-old student. He has always had trouble focusing due to constant stress. He worries about the little things like what the weather will be like the next day. Its hard for him to fall asleep at night due to constant worrying. He is afraid what the next day might bring him. He doesn't know how to stop all the worrying.

Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PDD)

Gia is a 29 year old actress. She has been in several shows on MTV, mostly reality shows. While growing up she always hated having her period because of how she feels a week or two before her menstrual cycle starts. She explains to her friends that she feels a huge shift in emotions and eventually feels hopeless. She has experience suicidal thoughts a few time as well. Gias friends believe shes just being dramatic and tell her to spend the night with them when shes feeling like this just in case. She also mentions that as soon as her period starts, her feeling of deep depression stops.

Agoraphobia

Jenny is a 23-year-old Caucasian female who just graduated college. Jenny typically spend most of her time at home because she does not like being in public or traveling. Whenever Jenny is in public she sometimes panics and breaks down because she does not feel like she is in a safe place. Jenny tries to avoid situations in which could trigger a panic attack in public.

Reactive Attachment Disorder

John is a 10-year-old African American child, who lives with his single mother in a poor city. Since John's father left when he was very young, his mother has had a hard time caring for him because she is all alone. John has been having unexplained withdrawal, fear, and sadness whenever he is at school because he does not meet the basic needs of comfort, affection, and nurturing when he is at home with his mother. Since Jon's basic needs are not being met from his mother and that his father does not live with him, John does not have a healthy attachment to any of his parents.

Gender Dysphoria

John is a 21-year-old Caucasian male, and is attending school at his local university in Louisiana. Growing up, John has always felt uncomfortable about being in his own skin. John has expressed no interest in sports, even though his father had tried to encourage him into joining a team and would much rather be with his mom in the kitchen and spend time with her. John at night secretly cross dresses in his room and feels much better about himself when he does. John feels as though he was a mistake and hates the fact that he was born a male, believing that he is the wrong gender.

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Laura Wright is a 25-year-old female who is on trial for murder. You notice that Laura does everything three times. When she touches something, she touches it three times. You also notice that she is very clean. She will not sit or touch anything unless she has cleaned it (three times). She gets outrageously mad if anytime interrupts this routine.

Bipolar Disorder

Mariah Carey is a 49 years old singer that was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder in 2001. But she had told magazine that she was living in denial and isolation for years. But the singer has to take medications and go to therapy. She has mental issues where she gets really mad but she is working being better in public.

Bulimia

Michele is a 19 yr old aspiring model and obsessed with her weight, as she wants to be skinny. She feels that being skinny is "normal" and does anything she can to prevent weight gain. She is preoccupied with her body weight and has a fear of gaining weight. After episodes of eating abnormally she often vomits and exercises excessively to prevent herself from gaining weight. She has also been using laxatives as well as dietary supplements or herbal products for excessive weight loss. She has been purging once a week for about three months.

OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)

Name: Abby Williams Age: 19 Gender: Female Ethnicity: Caucasian Location: California Symptoms: • Constantly late to scheduled events • Intrusive thoughts that she will get sick and die • Known to wash hands aggressively and repeatedly (to the point of cracked hands) • Spotless house with no carpet • Carries around hand sanitizers • Tries to avoid direct physical contact with people, doors, animals, etc.

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Nate is a 45 year old black male that grow up in an abusive home and now, lives in a big city, pretty much alone. Throughout Nate's life, he has been in and out of prison for several violent offenses, first starting as a child with animals, then as he got older against other people. Nate sees nothing wrong with lying, deceiving, manipulating, and hurting other people to get what he wants. Nate usually acts without thinking and doesn't feel bad if he ends up hurting another person.

OCD

Taylor is a 19-year-old white female in College. Taylor experiences recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, and impulses. These impulses have sometimes made her late to class as she will dwell on situations and get stuck in a "rut" until she feels the issue has been solved. An example of her urge would be constantly checking to see if her door was locked before leaving for class. She feels driven to perform and carry out her urges and if not, it will cause her great discomfort and stress throughout the day.

Stimulant Use Disorder

Thomas is an 18 year old white male from a very wealthy family that has just graduated high school. Thomas has decided to not go to college, like the rest of his friends, and instead, work with his dad in the family business. Ever since his friends went off to college, Thomas has been feeling down, left behind, and bored, since his dad doesn't really make him do much at work. To make himself feel better, Thomas started hanging out with some new friends that got him started on several drugs that make him feel like he has more energy and attention, which at first he really liked. Several months later, he has gotten himself in a lot of trouble because his health has declined and he owes his friends a lot of money because his drug use. Even though he knows its wrong and his family will be hurt, he decided to steal some money from family, in order to keep his friends happy, so they will give him more drugs.

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A teenage boy comes in with extremely dry hands and puts hand sanitizer on twice while in session. He talks about how he cannot open a door without cleaning his hands or even touching something that another person has touched. He mentions how he knows what he does is strange and he gets teased at school; but cannot help it. He feels sad and he wants to stop, but does not know how too.

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A woman comes in crying because her husband is leaving her and she does not know what to do. She states that without him she is not going to know what to do with her day and she does not know if she could live without him, A week later she comes in talking about how she has found someone new who will take care of her and loves her. But while also talking about this she is going on about how if this new person leaves she does not know what she would do with her life.

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A young man comes in and he seems anxious. He starts talking about how his left hand is causing him to be worried about all the time. After more talking you notice that he mentions how he has a couple darker spots on his skin, and he covers them with makeup and worries all day long about the makeup coming off and people seeing them. Even though they are simply very small spots on the skin.

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A young woman walks into the therapist office very upset. She states that she is always happy and there is nothing wrong. She is just a happy person, and nothing is wrong. Her speech quite quick and while she is speaking, she cannot keep herself still. A few weeks later she comes back in and she is sad and saying that she is all alone in the world. She does not use drugs and does not have another diagnosis. She has trouble with work and being around her friends and other people when she is in one of these moods where she feels down.

Trichotillomania

Ahlana is a 20 year old female who has stressed out during her years in college and whenever she gets home to her family. She experiences an immense amount of stress from her classes and sports because of the amount of homework, the types of homework assignments, too long of practice hours, and performance within her sport. Ahlana's speech class had brought out an incredible amount of anxiety, causing her to scratch, sweat, jitter, stutter, and restless nights thinking about the assignment. To release tension, she began repetitively and compulsively pull out her hair, so she began to realize the pleasure in it "working". Unfortunately, Ahlana had continued to "tear her hair out" throughout the entire semester because it diminished the anxiety within her. Later on she began to skin-pick because that allowed for the time to pass as she would think of the horrors of the next project.

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Alan McNure is a 45-year-old male from Atlanta, GA. Sometimes Alan has a difficult time remembering things or concentrating. Somedays he is perfectly fine, but other days he does not act like himself. His wife has reported that there have been times at home where he has zoned out at the diner table and he will not respond if questions are being asked. She has also reported that Alan claims that things are happening, or he sees things that are not there. She wonders if he is hallucinating.

Antisocial Personality disorder

Alex Hernandez is 30-year-old male. He grew up Mexico and moved to the U.S. at the age of 12. Alex would be very deceitful to adults, he would get into lots of trouble like theft, destruction of property, and anything that violets the law. His parents thought that he was just being a teenage boy and would outgrow this stage. As Alex got older, he became very hostile and developed major anger issues. His friends could tell him how something terrible happened and he wouldn't show any remorse towards them. He gets in trouble a lot and fails to learn from the consequences. He is very disrespectful to others but uses charm and manipulation when he wants something. Alex has no disregard for right or wrong and believes he is superior to everyone around him.

Dissociative Fugue

Alex is a 42-year-old Caucasian male, who was a former MVP while playing Major League Baseball. Recently, Alex has woken up from his sleep at different locations throughout his house without any memory of how he got there. Alex also has been seen by his family members acting like a totally different person. Alex sometimes forgets that he won an MVP award when people ask him if he remembers winning the award.

Personality Disorder

Amy Winehouse was a 27-year-old female living in London England. Her systems included: Fear of abandonment, Unclear or shifting self-image, Extreme emotional swings, Chronic feelings of emptiness, and self-harm. Her self-harm ended up taking her own life. She was currently trying to help because there is a cure for this disorder.

Schizophrenia

Amy is a 23-year-old African American hairdresser in Atlanta, GA. Amy has experienced delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized behavior for the past 8 months. Because of this, she finds it very hard to manage her business. She has contemplated suicide but has yet to follow through. She is currently being medicated with Risperidone for her symptoms.

Anorexia Nervosa

Ashley is a 22-year-old ballet dancer. She lives in New York and most of her time is spent perfecting her dance. Ashley is a Caucasian female and comes from a single parent home. Ashley's mother, who is heavily involved with in her ballet has been controlling her diet since she was a little girl. Growing up, Ashley's mother restricted her from many foods and was always hassling her about her weight. Ashley is part of the nation's best ballet team, and the demands of the job are taxing. Ashley believes that for her to be the best dancer she can be, she must be light in weight in order to perfect her dance moves. Ashley has restricted herself from most food and eats 700 calories or less a day. Ashley is very thin and has low energy, and other family have taken notice of her appearance and have pointed it out to her, but she feels as that she needs to be even smaller.

Hoarding Disorder

Augustine is a 42 year old woman living in southern Florida. She has two kids who are grown and no longer live at home. Augustine lives among the lower middle class, so she frequently shops at thrift stores and yard sales for good deals. She was neglected as a child, and feels the need to collect things that look appealing to her in order to make her feel whole. She collects things on a frequent basis. Her house is filled from floor to ceiling with things that she loves. Lots of her things remind her of the past, even if she just bought them for herself. The local health department and her two kids have suggested she clean out her things and organize them. They say that her house is becoming inhabitable due to the amount of things she has blocking access to basic necessities. She gets very angry when her kids tell her to clean her house, and starts to make a dramatic scene if they try to throw things away.

Shizoid PD

Austin is a 32-year-old Latino male living is Houston, Texas as a rancher. Over the years, Austin has become very alone, as he has alienated himself from friends, family, or any type of close relationship. Austin is very dull, has difficulty relating to others, frequently daydreams, and behaves in way that others perceive as odd. In essence, he appears cold and aloof and is currently living alone. Austin has a difficult time relating and engaging with those around him.

Schizophrenia

Betty Joe is 55-year-old woman who lives in Los Angeles California. Her father has been diagnosed with schizophrenia disorder and passed away many years ago. Betty has lost interest in everyday activities. She doesn't make eye contact and he hygiene care is very poor. She believes that her married neighbor Frank is in love with her and is flirting with her if he says hello. Betty claims she hears her dead best friend talking to her on a daily basis. When she communicates with people her speech is very disorganized like she is putting meaningless words together.

Agoraphobia

Billy is a 23 yr old male living in the heart of New York City, a few years ago he was robbed. Since then Billy stays in his apartment, works from home and has all groceries delivered to his front step. Billy is terrified of being in public. Whenever he tries to go out in public his heart rate increases, he has chest pain as well as trouble breathing. Billy also starts to feel dizzy, light headed and experiences stomach pains sometimes diarrhea.

Brief Psychotic Disorder

Britney is 35 years old Caucasian female, living in Atlanta. She has recently gone through a nasty divorce and is currently going through child custody battle. After one of the hearings, Britney has a sudden emotional outburst and is confused about what just happened. During the next week she admits to having suicidal thoughts. However, a month later Britney no longer has suicidal thoughts, nor has she had any more emotional outburst.

Bulimia

Cassidy, a twenty-year-old Caucasian female, is a full-time student at USC - Fresno. She is around five foot, five inches and weighs one hundred and seventy pounds. She is a gymnast and is in good physical condition, but she is always tired. Each Wednesday, she goes on a "binge." Her usual binge consists of a meal of two hotdogs, a large order of onion rings, two Big Macs, a large order of fries, and a large strawberry shake with extra whipped cream. After eating, she immediately feels shame and goes to the bathroom in her dorm to vomit repeatedly. After vomiting, she drinks a Gatorade and goes to the gym to work out for three hours.

PPD

Catherine is 19-year-old college students at Georgia State University. She does not have many friends at all due to her terrible attitude and untrustworthy outlook on people. Catherine cannot keep a good friend for longer than two months. She has had five different best friends in the last year due to her distrust and eccentric thinking. Many of her friends describe her as unforgiving, tends to hold grudges and has a difficult time believing anything they try to tell her. Catherine tried to sue a food chain company because she thought that they were out to get her when they messed up her order twice. She had also been diagnosed with anxiety disorder when turned 17.

Adjustment Disorder

Claire is a 40 year old famous female business owner. She owns a flower shop in North Georgia. She has two kids and one on its way. Claire and her husband have been very excited to add a third child to their family. However, a few weeks after her third child's birth she felt anxious, withdrawn attitude, loss of self esteem, and feeling of lost of identity now that she closed down her flower business.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Chase, a thirty-year-old Caucasian male, is an assistant manager at a local fast food restaurant. He got employee of the month and thought that everyone in the restaurant should know. He has made a point to tell all employees multiple times and acts superior to everyone because of the accomplishment. He believes that he will one day become President of the United States. The only person that he communicates well with is the owner of the franchise because he believes that she is the only person that understands him. Also, he has no empathy for his employees and scolds them when they call out sick.

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Chelsea, a twenty-six-year-old Caucasian female, stays in her home on most days, usually binge-watching television shows. She has a difficult time functioning in the workplace or at school due to her multiple personalities. Chelsea was emotionally and physically abused at the age of five, which landed her in a foster home until she was around the age of eighteen. However, if asked, Chelsea does not have any recollection of those events. Her most common personalities include: Gregory, a 5-year-old British boy, Sterling, a 52-year-old businessman, and Molly, a 34-year-old stay-at-home mother. However, there are many more that she can express.

Seasonal Depression Disorder

Christine is a 36-year-old female from Houston, Texas who has relocated to Ohio for a job. During the summer season Christine enjoyed spending her free time outside working in the yard. However, once the weather started to change to winter, she became depressed and withdrew from all activity. On days when the sun was out, she was happy and active but on the dreary days what it was cloudy and freezing she would become depressed again. Then when the season started to turn to spring and the warmer weather was back, she was more active and doing things outside.

Avoidant Personality Disorder

David revealed that he cannot ever remember feeling comfortable socially. Before kindergarten, if he were asked to speak in front of a group of his parents friends, his mind would "go blank". He often felt overwhelming anxiety at children's social functions, like birthday parties, which he would rather avoid the event or if he went, people at all costs. David could answer questions in class only if he wrote down the answered. He distressed if anything did not go according to his plan. Growing up, he had a few friends but never a best friend. He never dated a girl or asked anyone out for fear of rejection. He often wished for that perfect relationship. David went to college and did well for awhile, then dropped out as his grades slipped. He remained self-consciences terrified of meeting strangers. He had trouble finding a job because he was unable to answer questions in interviews. He has no friends as an adult and avoids all invitations to socialize with coworkers. But he constantly wants affection and acceptance but is too afraid to put himself out there to find it.

Binge-eating Disorder

Demi Lovato first started when she was 8 years old because she felt like she was not getting enough attention after her younger sister was born. It continued into adulthood with the pressure of working. The most recent flare up of was after her and one of her ex-boyfriends broke up and she would binge eat when she felt lonely and was missing him. Anytime that she felt lonely she would binge-eat even after the point of feeling full.

Bipolar II Disorder

Demi Lovato is a younger 22 year old famous singer that deals with Bipolar II Disorder. To get away from her pain she has drank alcohol and took pills to get away from the pain. Demi has been in and out of rehabs to help her get better with her disorder. She has also struggled with more than drugs and alcohol. When she was younger she has tried cutting herself

Grandiose delusional disorder

Dylan is a 30-year-old man who spends most days sitting at home. He constantly tells his friends and family that he is really the president of the united states and truly believes it. Also, he believes that he is constantly being followed by people. Not only this but he told his friends that he made it on a gameshow and won a billion dollars but gave it away. He constantly boasts about having a found sense of worth to everyone. It might be why he always thinks the made an important discovery.

MDD (major depressive disorder)

Eeyore's is a grey 45-year-old male who lives in a rural city mothers passed away six months ago from today. He is eating way too much then he usually does, he started sleeping way more than he usually does and stop going out. Eeyore becomes way more irritable when he tries to hang out with his friends. His friends say that since his mother passed away he's been acting this way. They also explain that now his outlook on things are very negative and he lacks any type of excitement.

Panic Disorder

Emma is a 30 year-old Caucasian female that always lived in California. She claims that a few days ago, all of a sudden her heart was racing, she was shaking, difficulty breathing and she had pain in her chest. She claims that there was nothing specifically going on around her and that she was just walking in the streets. She said that she has had this in the past but it had been a month in between the previous time she felt like this. She says that one time she thought that her house was going to burn down and that she was scared she was going to die.

Anorexia Nervosa

Finley is a 19 year old girl. She is from southern California, but is currently studying abroad in Ireland. Her new school is very stressful, and the girls she has met there are not very nice. They are all international models, and Finley is not. They are very mean to her, and make her feel worthless. Because Finley has low self-esteem and very intense fear of being picked on if she gains anymore weight, she has started an intense det regimen. If she doesn't feel hungry, she doesn't eat, and if she feels slightly hungry, she only drinks water in hopes the hunger will go away. She is trying her best to eat as little as possible. In her free time, she exercises as much as possible. She tries to run until she simply collapses, to make herself feel accomplished. Every time she sees a mirror, she becomes slightly depressed, thinking that her dieting has not accomplished anything.

Fetishistic Disorder

Gary, a 17-year-old male, has never been interested in what other boys his age has been. His other friends talk about girls and how attractive they are and wants to date them. Gary doesn't see girls in the same way as his friends. Where he still thinks they are pretty, he has never been attracted to them in a sexual way as his friends. One thing Gary has not told his friends is that he gets aroused by toes. He never understood why he finds them arousing or when it started, he just remembers seeing them on TV once and after that those were the only thing that aroused him. What disorder does Gary illustrate?

Bipolar affective disorder

Iylan is a 18 year old college student. His classmates describe him as a very unusually talkative person half the time, other times he seems to be very introverted. Iylan has very poor decision making. For example, if sees an advertisement about a concert from his favorite artist 4 hours away he won't really process all his other responsibilities that day but spontaneously decide to get in his car and drive to the concert. Iyan describes his thoughts like huge marathon of people running all at once in different directions. He seems to be a very happy but will have very short episodes of feeling worthless and decrease in appetite.

Persistent Depressive Disorder

Jane is a 50 year old white female that owns her own clothing boutique in a small rural town. Over the last few years she has felt that a storm cloud has been raining down on her. She always feels down and out about herself and her life in general. She has gradually become more disinterested in the activities she use to love, such as working at her store and hanging out with her friends. One activity that she use to always look forward to each week, Sunday brunch with her husband, she can't seem to get the energy or the appetite to enjoy the way she use to. She feels guilty that she doesn't want to do the things she loves with the people she loves but she just can't help it.

Schizophrenia

Jerry is a 27-year-old fast food worker who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. He has recently for the past 5-6 months seen visions of people and objects that tell him things to do. He has exhibited slurred speech and hyper speech that is often unidentifiable. He has been suspended for inappropriate behavior at work and has seen a decline in hygiene. His mother said the issues have been occurring to her knowledge over the past 9 months. He has seen treatment and the doctors have ruled out bipolar and depressive disorder as the cause. He has often stated that he is living in a simulation and that he is not real himself.

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Jessie Underhill is a 27-year-old female from up state New York. Even though she is in a very populated city, one of her biggest fear are being left alone. She is in and out of relationships because of her extreme emotional mood swings and explosive anger. She has a shifting self-image which aids in her harming herself.

Conduct Disorder

Jezebel, 14-year-old girl, has been what her parents call a "problem child" ever since they could remember. As a younger child she was always hiding from her parents, making scenes in public for no apparent reason, and her parents often find candy that she would steal from convenience stores. In school she cheats often on all her assignments, or just refuses to do them. She doesn't get along with her peers and is often mean to them. Her parents have recently caught Jezebel pulling patches off the family cat, causing the car to meow and whine often. Jezebel finds this funny and refuses to listen to anything her parents say. When they do discipline her, she retaliates by trashing the house or breaking things. She has constantly caused stress and concern for her parents and does not seem to be wanting to change. Against Jezebels will, her parents took her to a counselor to see if there was something that could be done to help her situation. What disorder is Jezebel presenting?

ADHD

Johnny who is a 15yr old male living in rural Ga is having troubles focusing in school. He is extremely hyperactive he fidgets and talks frequently. While at school and even at home he has a decreased awareness of consequences, he often does things with no regard to the affects of his actions. Johnny also is very disorganized in every aspect of his life which contributes to his forgetfulness problem.

Bipolar 1 Disorder with major depressive episodes

Joseph Parker is a 38-year-old who lives in Columbus Ohio. When he was about 20 years old, he had symptoms of distractibility, increase in high risk activities, decreased need for sleep, inflated self, and increase in goal directed activities. But no one really though much about it. His father passed a way a week ago and Joseph has diminished interest in activities. He doesn't want to do anything even things that would make him happy. He's not eating much and loosing a lot of weight. He feels worthless and guilty for the fact that his father is dead like he could have done soothing about it. At work he can't concentrate and is messing up everything and doesn't have the energy to do anything about it.

Pica

Josh is a 27-year-old Caucasian male that has been diagnosed with a mild developmental disorder in the past. Furthermore, he likes eating glass. He has been doing this for over three years now because he likes the noise of the glass crunching. Over the past four years, he has consumed more than 100 glasses and over 250 light bulbs. He also claims to swallow live bullets, up to 30 in one sitting. Josh also states that he doesn't do this for any religious reason but simply because he likes and can't stop eating glass.

D/D Disorder

Kevin a 28-year-old male lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. When he was younger he experienced a traumatic car accident at the age of 8. Now 20 years later he suffers from emotional numbing, alienation and tends to feel like he is outside of his body. He always tends to be majorly stressed majority of his time. When these symptoms start to occur, he finds his self-wondering if he is losing his mind. He tries to explain to many of his friends it feels as though he is detached from his body and observing himself from outside of it.

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

Marge is a 26-year-old college student living in Atlanta, Georgia. She has shown missed deadlines because she has spent multiple hours on course work that was an excellent grade, but she needed to alter the work over and over because of her need for it to be perfect. Her school work has caused her to miss out on new friendships and has weakened friendships with some of her previous friends. Her time with family has decreased significantly as well. Her apartment is littered with objects of no value that include a shirt she has not worn in two years, broken microwave, and a cracked mirror for her bathroom. Group work is impossible for her as she is reluctant to work with anyone.

Insomnia

Maria is a 25yr old pop star who is very famous living in the busy city of Los Angeles. She has 3 kids and a career that is on the decline. It demands her to work long hours in the studio as well as spending a great amount of time on the road traveling. By the time she gets home everyday its already late and she still has to tend to her kids. She finally gets to lay down around 2am and she reports having trouble falling asleep as well as staying asleep. With her having kids she wakes up around 7am and she never feels well rested which contributes to poor performance in her profession. She is also very impulsive and sometimes aggressive as a result of her inability to sleep. Other symptoms also include: Moodiness, Lack of energy, difficulty focusing, and lack of motivation.

Bipolar II Disorder

Mariah Carey is an early 40s female that lives in California. She has shown symptoms of unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks. She doesn't want to carry around the stigma of a lifelong disease that would define me and potentially end my career ... I was so terrified of losing everything. She is getting treated with medication and she is in therapy.

Delusional Disorder

Mary is a 50 year old woman. She is currently dating a man named John. Mary and John have been living in Pennsylvania all their lives. Mary has been experiencing these episodes of craziness, where she starts to become really paranoid about someone chasing her and trying to hurt her. John says they last only for about an hour or so, and she only experiences these episodes about two to three times a month. He says he thinks it may be related to her past, as she is a retired navy seal. Her episodes of paranoia are brief, unlike PTSD, so they are not sure what could be happening. Up until these episodes in the last year, Mary has always been very healthy. Aside from these episodes, she lives a normal life, and can function very well on her own.

Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder

Matthew is 8 years old. He lives with his mother and father in Phoenix, Arizona, he has a younger sister who is just a couple months shy from being 3 years old. Matthew is not considered to be the best student, having temper outbursts at school for small reasons, like if a classmate were to take his seat during free time. Matthew, as describes by his parents seems to be constantly irritable, and they feel as if they are walking on eggshells around him. Onetime when he was playing with his little sister, he pushed her after she had taken his crayon and she had fallen to floor pretty hard. Matthew parents are concerned that as he gets older that he will only get more violent.

Opioid Abuse Disorder

Mick is a 24 year old African American living in Harlem, New York. Mick is part of the homeless community in Harlem. Mick has been a known heroin user for the past two years. He can only go about 12 hours before having to get another dose. Mick was brought into the hospital after being found passed out from an apparent OD, where he was later revived. After 10hours in the hospital Mick became agitated, shaky, and hyper-vigilant, and with physical symptoms such as dilated pupils, excessive sweat, and runny eyes and nose.

Bipolar I: Current Stage Manic

Milo is a 20-year-old Caucasian male who is living in Chicago. Milo can get really upset when someone eats his cookie. He also cannot sleep at night, he keeps talking when he wants to tell something and he is easily distracted. This happens at least twice a week. Furthermore, he can have days where he cannot get out of his bed and he doesn't want to speak to anyone. Most of the time, he is very impulsive and has high-energy. One time, he even stole a baby, left everyone and drove to Florida because he thought the baby would be better off with him, although he didn't have any money on them.

Social Anxiety Disorder

Moses, a 16-year-old male, loves hanging out with his family. They enjoy playing board games, card games, watching movies, and having family cookouts. Moses is always happy, laughing, and having fun during these times. Moses has good grades and is often reading in his free time. His parents have always wondered why Moses never talks about any friends from school. In middle school they used to ask, but it just made Moses upset and embarrassed, so they stopped. The pattern continued into high school and they also started to notice that when they went out to eat Moses stuttered a lot and blushed when trying to order. He never wanted to go out to do activities, saying instead he preferred to hangout at home. Recently his grades started to drop in a couple classes. During the parent-teacher conferences, the teachers informed his parents that Moses had difficulty presenting his projects and often skipped classes when he was required to. When confronted by his parents, Moses started to get panicky and distressed. He said he hated being in front of people and couldn't do it. What disorder does it appear Moses suffers from?

Bipolar Disorder

Name: Dante Age: 16 Gender: Male Ethnicity: African American Location: Detroit Symptoms: • Mania o Often finds himself in inappropriate sexual encounters o Aggressive behavior even towards those he trusts o Spends his nights needed only a couple hours of sleep • Depression o Recognizes his bad thoughts, but refusal to seek help o Sleeps more often than normal o Lack of energy to get out of bed

Substance Abuse Disorder

Name: Joseph Brown Age: 18 Gender: Male Ethnicity: Caucasian Location: Las Vegas Symptoms: • Had a surgery and continues to take pain medication after pain free • Known to have dizzy spells from taken more medication than recommended • After running out, searches for more • Pays high amounts for refills of the pain meds • Got caught trying to make a fake doctors prescription note When found without the medication, goes through withdrawals

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Name: Matt Carson Age: 27 Gender: Male Ethnicity: Caucasian Location: Midwest Symptoms: • Doesn't maintain lasting relationships • Has superstitious beliefs and paranoid thoughts regards people around them • Social anxiety partially caused by their paranoid ideations regarding other people • Dislikes holding conversations with people Parents always suspected schizophrenia

Alzheimer's Disorder

Pat Summit was a 59-year-old female living in Knoxville Tennessee. She was first diagnosed with early onset dementia, Alzheimer's type, in 2011. Early-onset, also known as younger-onset, refers to cases diagnosed in people younger than 65. Her Symptoms included forgetting newly learned information and important dates; difficulty solving basic problems like keeping track of bills or following recipes; losing track of the date or time of year; misplacing things; and not being able to retrace your steps.

OCD

Robbe is a 38-year-old male with a Caucasian background. Sometimes when he gets sick and tired of listening to his thoughts. He says that he always scared that somebody is going to die or that something bad is going to happen. He keeps opening and locking the door for several times in the hope he can prevent these thoughts from happening. He needs to do it until "it feels right" and when the number is even. Four, eight, or twelve are the preferred numbers. Furthermore, he claims that it is not just with opening and locking the door, it is with everything he does and it is really interfering with his daily life.

ODD

Rocket, being around age 3 biologically and about age 25 because of his adult surroundings. Rocket is from an intergalactic dimension and was made from an experimental lab; therefore, no parents. The animal presents violent actions towards any human or animal around him. He Always challenges and argues with Peter Quill authority (the leader's of the guardians), stole the precious batteries from the Sovereign, purposely tries to irritate the rest of the crew, enjoys destroying what's not his (spaceships or other's property), loses temper easily when called any type of animal (mouse, rat, fox, racoon, etc.), and violated the rules by breaking out Xandar's prison.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Ron is a 17-year-old high school student who moved to a new school district last year. When Ron's parents told him they were planning on moving 3 months before the move, he became excessively worried about how the move would affect him. He started having trouble concentrating at his old school which pushed him behind in his classes and increased how much time he spent worrying. By the time he had transferred to the new school, his parents noticed he was extremely irritable, had trouble sleeping, and had started complaining of headaches and back pain. They figured he would improve as he adjusted, but a year later, he started to skip classes and refused to leave his room most days because he could not stop himself from worrying about things that could go wrong throughout the day.

Gambling Disorder

Ron is a 65-year-old Caucasian male who is a retired business owner living in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ron's former business made him millions of dollars that now since he is retired, he spends most of his day at the casino. Ron loves blackjack, and places bets up to $100,000 a game. Ron became very good at blackjack, and one day he won over $3,000,000 in one game and the casino had to kick him out. Ron is not banned from that casino for almost causing them to run out of money.

Substance-Use Disorder

Ryan is a 22 year old college student. He is from and is currently attending school in Atlanta, Georgia. He is in his last year of college, and is trying to have as much fun as possible before he graduates. Both of Ryan's parents are alcoholics. They do not pay much attention to what Ryan does since he lives on his own now, as long as he does not flunk out of college. However, Ryan has been excessively partying on the weekends. All of his friends love to play beer pong and get wasted every weekend. Ryan does the same. He loves to drink because it makes him feel relaxed so he can have a better time, and not stress about school. Some of Ryan's professors have noticed that Ryan has been skipping class and failing test grades recently. One of Ryan's classmates has mentioned how they constantly see him with a beer in his hand, or passed out in front of his apartment. He has already been fired from his job due to not coming in because he had a hangover. Ryan is about to flunk out of college, and is very worried, so he keeps drinking in order to make himself feel better. One of his friends recommended him staying away from alcohol for a little while, but Ryan only became increasingly angry and ran off. When Ryan is not drunk, he tends to be more irritated with everything. His friends are debating if they should take him to a doctor, because he has become someone other than who they were used to hanging out with.

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Sam is a high school student learning how to date young girls his age with the help of his sister and therapist and through observation of how other guys his age interacts with females his age. Throughout the show you see that Sam doesn't react normally to basic situations. For example, there is a scene where he is riding the bus and he sits up straight because he doesn't like the way that the bus seat feels on his back. There is also a scene where he is on a date with a girl and he is wearing ear canceling headphones to block out all the noise in the coffee shop. Also, in one scene he talks about how he doesn't really like to be touched that it makes him jumpy it has to be a hard touch not soft, when the girl touches him, he freaks out and pushes her away.

Trypophobia

Sarah Paulson, who plays Ally Mayfair Richards on Season 7 of American Horror Story, a female character displaying major signs and symptoms of trypophobia. Her symptoms would be incredible and considerably increase as the subject is continued to be spoken about. The symptoms that I observed include: fainting, wheezing, loss of breath, loss of motion, frozen bodied, screaming episodes, and many more. Throughout the season she is presented multiple fears such as clowns (coulrophobia), bee hives, coral, and such. However, the reason for the bringing out of the phobia, specifically, is that the actor in real life, not to the extreme, can relate to the phobias presented in the season. I would recommend the self-help treatment for Mrs. Richard's trypophobia because it will allow her to gain more self-confidence and less reliance on anyone else for assistance with this matter (considering in the show, this is exactly how she handled the phobia).

Somatic Symptom Disorder

Sarah is a 35-year-old sales clerk who immigrated to America when she was 20 years old. Last year, she was up for a promotion at her store when she started to develop a shooting pain in her left shoulder. She saw on a health commercial that left shoulder pain could be indicative of a heart problem. Her doctor ran some test, and they all showed that nothing was wrong. However, as time went on the pain began to increase and Sarah became more and more consumed with trying to figure out what was causing the pain. She started to call out off work and, consequently, lost the promotion. The pain spread closer to her chest and she started to see other doctors whose test also came back clear.

Seasonal Depression Disorder

Selena is a 18 year old Latino from Miami, Florida, has recently started college near coast of Maine. During her first semester in Maine she enjoys the mild summer whether and spending her free time at the coast. However, during the end of her fist semester up in Maine she started noticing she little motivation to go out with her friends after classes, and started having trouble getting up for classes. This continue during the first half of her second semester, but became less severe toward the end of the semester when she started going back out with her friends.

Female orgasmic disorder

Sherry who is 32 has been in a long-term relationship with her boyfriend for about 10 years now. She recently went to the OBGYN because to get her yearly checkup. While she was in her doctor's appointment she talked with her doctor about her sex life and the concerns she was having. She told her doctors that her and her boyfriend have been dating and sexually active for 8 out of the 10 years they been together. The problem was that since she has been with him she has never had an orgasm even if they tend to go longer during sex. She was concerned with the result so decided to tell her doctor and see if there is anything she can do.

Sexual Dysfunction

Si-woo Park, a 35 year old woman from South Korea, who has experienced sexual abuse, and suffer from sexual trauma. Do to her cultural traditions and religion, she feels guilty whenever she would consider sexual intercourse with her husband, not to mention her past negative sexual encounters. When Mrs. Park would gain enough confidence to participate in this activity, she would start to receive burning, throbbing, and some itching in her vagina during and after penetration. Mrs. Park has experienced this vaginal pain for approximately 11 years and would try to participate in sex 3 times a week, everytime she experienced pain. I recommend medication, sex therapy, and psychotherapy for Mrs. Park. Medication (specifically Intrarosa because of less severe side effects) could help with the pain symptoms and/ or emotional distress, sex therapy offers specific techniques to help, and psychotherapy which would help with anxiety, fear, and/ or trauma.

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Stacey is a 22-year-old Caucasian college student in Atlanta, Georgia. She is majoring in psychology and is doing fairly well in school. Stacey is particularly outgoing in one of her major psychology class, always dressed extremely nice and staying after class to ask questions. At first the professor found her rather charming and quick witted. However, as the semester started to go on the professor began to find her to be flamboyant and rather attention-seeking. The next semester Stacey was in several of the professor's colleagues' courses. The colleague spoke to the professor about her behavior mentioning that she is always seeking his approval and even seems to be seductive at times. They both decided it would be best to report this behavior to the college's counseling services.

Delusional Disorder - Persecutory Type

Steve, a forty-year-old Caucasian male, has been a police officer for eighteen years. Around six months ago, he developed the delusion of someone following him home each day after work. He has installed video cameras outside his home, but only two, nothing too extreme. Steve is in good physical condition and he uses no illegal drugs. He functions well at work with no marked impairments. Steve has only one uncle, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. However, Steve's clinician concluded that the criterion for schizophrenia are not met in his case.

OCD

Tiffany is a 25 year old hispanic female that lives in an apartment in a big city. Tiffany loves to have everything extremely neat and clean, to the point her roommate is fed up and thinking of moving out of the apartment. Tiffany is constantly cleaning and washing everything in her apartment, she washes her bed clothes everyday, she washes the same dish several times until she feels it is clean enough, and sometimes she can't relax if something is out of place. At first, Tiffany was so excited about moving out of her parents house and living with her friend, because she has always felt her mother was critical and overbearing of everything she did, so now she's heartbroken that her friend is threatening to move out.

Specific Learning Disability

Tommy is an 8-year-old African-American boy from rural Texas. He has started to have some difficulty in school. Although his scores are average in most subjects, his teachers have started to notice that he does not like to read aloud. When asked to read aloud, he becomes extremely uncomfortable and often mispronounces words he should know. After extensive tutoring for 6 months, one of his teachers decided to have him read out loud without his peers around and found that Tommy was still having difficulties with phonics. The teacher noticed that he is reversing his letters so that w's are m's and b's are d's.

DID (dissociative identity disorder)

Travis is a 23-year-old white male living in upstate New York with no job. Travis experiences occasional blackouts, auditory hallucinations, and has trouble recalling situations other people have told him he has been apart of. He sometimes refers to himself as "we". On some days, Travis talks, dresses, and acts differently than his normal self. He has issues with hostility, trust, public relations, and communication depending on how he chooses to act that day.

OCD

Vincent is a 40 year old, Caucasian male that lives in a small town. He is germaphobic, constantly washing his hands after touching items or opening car doors with a rag. Vincent exhibits tics in sets of two, every door he opens must be opened twice, when he is nervous he clicks his tongue twice and so forth. He has an obsession with blonde Caucasian women in their 30s, followed by a compulsion to stab the women.

Factitious disorder by proxy

Vinny is a 10-year-old kid who participates in sports. His mom thinks he is a little bit too slow for his age. She takes him to the doctor to get his legs looked at. The doctor says he is perfectly fine. Vinny's mom goes on to lie about his medical records so he can have surgery on his feet even though he is perfectly fine.

Alcohol Use Disorder

William is a father of 9 children and hasn't really taken responsibility to take care of his own kids. His eldest daughter Sara has worked two jobs to keep the family alive and well. William however disappears weeks at a time. Daily he has strong urges to drink alcohol and he seems to have built a tolerance to alcohol so he needs to drink more than usually to get drunk. William only comes around to his family to ask for money or eat their food, he doesn't have a job and has no interest in being a role model to his kids.

Factitious Disorder

With this disorder I could not find someone that had it. But in the movie "The Act" movie actor Joey King played the part of having a Factitious Order. She would go in and out of hospital and like she was really sick when she was not and make people feel sorry for her. This a disorder that people make up on their on to get attention.