It is normal to have a fear, because fear is wired within human beings. Fear is paired with emotions, and emotions may control a person’s behavior and reaction to certain situations. Most psychologist and psychiatrist have discovered that this is how the human mind and body synchronize with each other. If prolonged our sense of fear can manifest into something bigger, such as a personality disorder. Authors of horror genres place disorders within their stories, because situations that are life-threatening can alter a person’s mindset, such as a zombie apocalypse. A psychologist or psychiatrist may not be present during the zombie apocalypse, but if there were such professionals available, a character like Morgan Jones would be the perfect patient. AMC’s television series The Walking Dead, and Robert Kirkman’s and Tony Moore’s The Walking Dead comic book has given readers and viewers an example of how a situation such as a zombie apocalypse would make an individual develop “Paranoid Personality Disorder.” Paranoid personality disorder can be examined through the field of psychology, which plays an important role within these stories because psychology allows us to analyze and evaluate a character’s condition through specific research of various disorders. Through the field of psychology, Morgan’s development of fear and paranoia can be furthered examined by looking at the situations he was placed in. Psychology can help readers further examine how this disorder effect Morgan’s decisions, so that an effective treatment can be proposed.
A goal of a psychologist would be to examine Morgan Jones’s sudden transition from average to a paranoid mental state, so that the psychologist can determine if Morgan truly exhibits characteristics...
... middle of paper ...
... many drugs available to reduce anxiety symptoms, such as Valium and Prozac, researchers warn that patients shouldn’t get too dependent on the drug (Siegel 198).
Works Cited
Dobbert, Duane L. Understanding Personality Disorders: An Introduction. Westport,
CT: Praeger, 2007. Print.
Freeman, D., & Freeman, J. (2008). Paranoia: The 21st-century fear. Oxford, UK:
Oxford University Press. Pp. 189.
Freeman, Daniel, and Jason Freeman. "Is Paranoia Increasing?" The Psychologist 22.7
(2009): 582-585. PsycINFO. Web. 19 Mar. 2014.
Siegel, Marc. False Alarm: The Truth about the Epidemic of Fear. Hoboken, NJ: John
Wiley & Sons, 2005. Print.
Stout, Martha. The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes
Our Behavior--and How We Can Reclaim Our Courage. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. Print.
Courage is not simply about how well you deal with fear, how many noble deeds you accomplish, or how you overcome life threatening situations. Courage is the practice of determination and perseverance. Something like, an unwillingness to abandon a dream even when the pressures of society weigh down on your shoulders; society will make you feel tired, humiliated, broken, and confused. Actually, it can be effortlessly said that daily courage is more significant than bouts of great deeds. Since everybody undergoes demanding circumstances on a daily basis, and most of us will not be called to perform a great deed, courage comes from those daily struggles and successes. However, Kate Bornstein is one person who has been able to transform her everyday life into a brilliant deed of courage. She threw herself into an unknown abyss to discover truth that many others would never dare tread. Ingeniously combining criticism of socially defined boundaries, an intense sense of language, and a candid autobiography, Bornstein is able to change cultural attitudes about gender, insisting that it is a social construct rather than a regular occurrence, through here courageous writing.
Anti-anxiety drugs are another way of reducing stress levels. They counter hormones in the body that make you anxious. Barbiturates are another form of anti-anxiety drugs. They are depressants of the central nervous system and can be effective in reducing anxiety. However there are side effects with barbiturates these include lack of concentration or lack of coordination. Also anxious patients who stop taking barbiturates report numerous symptoms such as delirium, irritability and increased sweating.
In the literary work, Speaking of Courage, Tim O’Brien highlights the trying struggle of a post-war solider attempting desperately to integrate himself back into American society. Paul Berlin’s trials and tribulations exemplify the “dominance of a citizen culture in the United States,” as mentioned by Dr. Decker in class. American society does not allow for the soldiers we have sent off to fight to return as warriors.
In A&E’s television show Bates Motel, we are instantly drawn to Norma Bates played by actress Vera Farmiga. In the first episode we see Norma as she is ironing her husbands shirt. With a family of four and a father on disability, their income is extremely stretched. Norma’s continuous shopping for clothes, shoes and curtains that they simply do not have the money for. As a result her husband becomes very violent. Norman (her son) played by actor Freddie Highmore, is in his bedroom and over hears the argument but instead of going to where the fighting is occurring, he goes to the kitchen to grab a metal pot. Next thing you know his dad is dead, Norman blacks-out, and Norma is dragging his bloody body rolled up in a rug down into the basement.
Borderline Personality Disorder is diagnosed predominantly in females. There is approximately a 3:1 female to male gender ratio for this disorder.
...ents from sleeping, patients may be prescribed anti-anxiety medications. As a last resort, doctors may use antidepressants in conjunction with mood stabilizers because using antidepressants solely could potentially make the manic moods more extreme.
... the brain, assuming the medications directly treat anxiety. It is a process of elimination of sorts- it is one step in the scientific process of discovery. Thus, perhaps the prescribing of such medications will facilitate researchers. However, I think the scientific community ought to bear in mind the potential dangers of this method before applicating its results directly to patients.
The obsessive-compulsive’s style of functioning is composed of excessive rigidity, the distortion of their subjective experience of autonomy, and the loss of reality. The obsessive-compulsive is highly resistant to the influences of others due to a restriction of cognition. Suspicious thinking and a loss of reality characterize the paranoid style. Projection is the paranoid persons’ primary defense. Paranoid people are chronically suspicious, contributing substantially to their loss of reality. The paranoid actively scans his environment, searches to confirm his suspicions, and ignores evidence that denies what he suspects to be true. The two styles are much alike; they both have a way of having loss of reality at times
Anti Social Personality Disorder is also known as ASPD. “About 2.5 to 3.5 percent of people have ASPD. This condition is much more common in men than in women.” (Lees McRae College) Everyone has their own personality and not one person is exactly the same. “People with anti social personality disorder are also called sociopaths.” (Leedom) Different causes are particular to look for when diagnosing this disorder. Though rare, it is important to understand the disorder as well as its symptoms, treatment and strategies. “Lifetime prevalence for ASPD is reported to range from 2% to 4% in men and from 0.5% to 1% in women. Rates of natural and unnatural death (suicide, homicide, and accidents) are excessive.” (Black, 2015)
Fear, panic, paranoia, and mass hysteria can take over people and start to rule their lives. These things can make people start acting irrationally and do crazy things. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller shows what fear and panic can do to a person. In Salem, fear and paranoia shows how strong the peoples beliefs are, so when Abigail and the girls start accusing people of being witches, everyone panicked and believed them. The people of Salem and the court learned that Abigail and the girls were pretending but they had fear of what could happen if they told the people after they already killed so many innocent people. Even today, fear and paranoia can affect what people do and what they think. Terrorism can cause fear and make people start doing some irrational things. Fear, panic, paranoia, and mass hysteria have the power to destroy a community and people’s lives.
More than two million cases can be found altogether in psychological and psychiatric records of multiple personality disorder also called dissociative identity disorder. It is often thought that multiple personality disorder is a trick, a bizarre form of "play-acting" that is committed by manipulative, attention-seeking individuals. It is not. Multiple personality disorder is a "disorder of hiding" wherein 80-90% of multiple personality disorder patients do not have a clue that they have the disorder. Most know that there is something wrong with them; many fear that they are crazy, but few know that they have a disorder.
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) hinders people’s security, makes interpersonal and interpersonal relationships difficult, worsens the person suffering from the disorder’s life and those around them, effects their affect and self-image, and generally makes a person even more unstable (Davidon et al., 2007). This disorder is a personality disorder which effects the people’s emotions, personality, and daily living including relationships with other and job stability. People with BPD may experience a variation of symptoms including but not limited to: intense contradictory emotions involving sadness, anger, and anxiety, feelings of emptiness, loneliness, and isolations (Biskin & Paris, 2012). This disorder makes it hard for the person with the disorder to maintain relationships since they have tendentious believe that people are either strictly good or bad. Also, they are sensitive to other people’s actions and words and are all over the place with their emotions so those in their life never know which side to expect. (Biskin & Paris, 2012)
Avoidant Personality Disorder From the moment a person is born, his or her personality begins to take shape. In infancy, childhood, and later adolescence, the individual explores a multitude of behaviors. Of all the behaviors, or personalities, the person experiences, one of them will stick with them until the day they die.
We have all met a person who always has to be the center of attention and engages in inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behavior. It may be obvious that something is “off” or not quite “normal” but many do not realize this behavior could be the result of a disorder known as Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD). According to Paul Rasmussen of Furman University, “an individual with a histrionic orientation displays an active dependency characterized by a strong need for external validation in the form of interpersonal attention, support, and reassurance”. This paper will explore the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment as well as risk factors of Histrionic Personality Disorder.
towards the idea that this newfound loyalty is part of a plot to cause harm.