For this week’s discussion, we will explore common mental health disorders. Select a disorder from the list below that you are not familiar with, meaning you or another person you know does not have this disorder. In other words, select a disorder that you would like to know more about. In your post:
Identify the disorder that you selected.
Write about what characterizes that disorder. (What are the symptoms?)
Describe what makes you curious about this disorder.
Choose from this list of disorders:
Substance Use Disorder
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Insomnia Disorder
Agoraphobia
Dyslexia
Anorexia
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Learning about a disorder that you are not familiar with can help you to understand the range of disorders that are present in modern-day society. It can also give you an idea of the various ways in which psychological disorders affect others.
Note: If you are already familiar with these disorders, you can either choose one to research and learn more about, or you can choose a different disorder.
Choose from one on Psych Central’s site: Symptoms & Treatments of Mental Disorders.
To receive full credit, remember to write 2 posts in the discussion: one original and a response to another student. Your original should be at least 7 sentences, and your reply should be 4 sentences.
Go to this site (http://openstaxcollege.org/l/SRRS) (Links to an external site.) to complete the SRRS scale and determine the total number of LCUs you have experienced over the last year.
Once you have completed the stress test, you will receive a score and some suggestions that you can use to mediate your stress level. Please use your critical thinking skills to analyze the findings of your stress test. Discuss your impressions of the accuracy of the stress test, given your personal life situation. Now give several solutions from the rest of the chapter for mediating your stress levels. Your response should be two full typed (double-spaced) pages. Your assignment will go through Turnitin, and must be uploaded as a .doc or.docx file.
“The Holmes and Rahe Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) uses the correlational research method to identify the connection between stress and health. That is, respondents’ LCU scores are correlated with the number or frequency of self-reported symptoms indicating health problems. These correlations are typically positive—as LCU scores increase, the number of symptoms increases. Consider all the thousands of studies that have used this scale to correlate stress and illness symptoms
