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abnormal disorder requirements
threatens self or others. ←→ interferes with ability to live
it deviates cultural norms - eccentricity
approaches to mental health disorders
→ biopsychosocial model
→ biomedical model
cause
→ result of biological, mental, and social interactions
→ biological disease
prognosis
→ manageable
→ curable
wellness
→ proper function
→ absence of psychopathology/mental health disorder
DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
they tell you the:
→ diagnostic criteria (what you need in order to be diagnosed with a certain disorder)
→ prevalence (frequency)
→ age of onset
→ cultural issues
they don’t tell you:
→ treatment
lost of awareness
dissociation
→ it is limited to specific external reality
OR
→ limited to internal reality
fantasy prone reality
when some people have the ability to fantasize a whole different reality and feel like what is happening in that reality is real
dissociative disorders
→ dissociative amnesia(“i don’t remember”) - blocking out the trauma so you don’t have to remember………….fungue state(“who am i”) - very very rare, comes randomly, stops randomly
→ depersonalization-derealization disorder (“is this real?”) - “alien control”, feels are though someone else is in control
→ dissociative identity disorder - has multiple identities which all have distinct traits and they all serve different purposes
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