PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER

Psychological Disorder

Abstract

Although psychological disorders, usually signals some form of abnormal behavior and thinking process, the anomaly may be difficult to determine, especially as it varies from culture to culture. This report studies Anorexia Nervosa and bipolar disorder. Psychologists have a few standard approaches to defining abnormality for diagnostic purposes. One of them is a statistical approach, which assesses the behavior is determined by how it conforms to or is different from most people. The behavior can be assessed whether it is consistent with social norms and cultural norms, an approach that avoids condemning nonconformists as abnormal behavior that, while unusual, may not violate social standards, and may even be valued in their culture. Another way to assess the normality of behavior is whether it is adaptive or unsuitable, and to what extent it hinders in everyday life. In some situations, psychologists may also be assessed solely on the basis of normality of a person made unhappy or uncomfortable with their own behavior.

Psychological Disorder

Anorexia Nervosa

Considered rare, anorexia nervosa has become an important public health problem in Western countries. Predominantly affecting young women, a central element of this disorder is an abnormally low weight achieved by extreme caloric restriction. This behavior is motivated by what was described as a relentless pursuit of thinness, a morbid fear fatness or weight phobia. Long-term follow-up studies indicate that anorexia nervosa associated with serious morbidity and mortality from 4% to 18%. Over the last decade, many studies have addressed the possible causal factors. Although there have been significant advances in the understanding of anorexia nervosa as a multifactor disorder, the exact mechanisms that govern its expression remains elusive. (Pope 1983) Epidemiology

There is debate about the long-term trends in incidence and prevalence of anorexia. However, it seems, has become more common, especially among young women, as it occurs most often in adolescence, age of onset can range from preschool to adolescence middle age. In most cases, women are still 5% to 10% of those presenting for treatment men. Once regarded as a disorder of the upper social classes, it now seems to be well represented across the socio-economic spectrum. Eating disorders are widespread in both rural and in urban environments. There is evidence that some athletes, especially in sports that emphasize leanness to enhance performance and appearance (eg, gymnastics, figure skating, ballet), are at increased risk of anorexia or related eating disorders. Symptoms

Description of self-starvation among the earliest religious zealots to assume that some variant of anorexia can be traced back to medieval times. Richard Morton, usually credited with the first medical description in 1689 and he was acutely seized the key clinical feature: "I do not remember that I never in my practice all see one that was familiar with the living so much waste with the highest degree of consumption (as a skeleton, clad only with skin). Although the discussion remained the priority of discovery in the 19th century, disorder erupted as an individual with clinical descriptions of the seagull in ...