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PSY205 Motivation and Emotion

   

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Running head: MOTIVATION AND EMOTION Motivation and EmotionName of the Student:Name of the University:Author note:
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1MOTIVATION AND EMOTIONAbstract: Julie is unable to reconcile herself with the fact that she has adopted various strategies to combather weight gain issue, and yet has been able to do nothing about it. This is impacting hermotivation negatively, and this loss of motivation is highly undesirable in case of a Diabetespatient, as it is an important tool needed for efficient management of the patients with Diabetes2. This depressive symptom lays a burden on the family, patient and the health care system. Incase of Julie, the rate of depression is assumed to be more because at present she is unemployedand is suffering from extreme joint pain, along with the weight gain issue. Hence, the reportintends to analyse the case of Julie thoroughly, identify the chief motivational problems she iscurrently experiencing and accordingly offer treatment therapy that can cure her of the problem.
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2MOTIVATION AND EMOTIONBrief Overview of the Case:The case at hand, suggests that Julie is currently suffering from Diabetes 2, which is notonly affecting her physical health, but is also affecting her mental stability and emotional well-being. Starting with the diagnosis, Julie’s life has remarkably changed. From being anadministrative assistance in the past, she has been reduced to a crippled person suffering from ill-health, battling with the problem of weight gain as well as the anxiety caused by the loss of anormal, carefree life she used to lead earlier. Obesity is a very common condition of almost anypatient suffering from Diabetes 2, and in fact 85% of the patients are uncontrollably obese oroverweight. However, Julie is unable to reconcile herself with the fact that she has adoptedvarious strategies to combat her weight gain issue, and yet has been able to do nothing about it.This is impacting her motivation negatively, and this loss of motivation is highly undesirable incase of a Diabetes patient, as it is an important tool needed for efficient management of thepatients with Diabetes 2. In controlling diabetes as well as managing weight, self-care behaviourof the patient can only help the patient control diabetes through strict adherence, which howevercan be impacted by the patient apathy, characterized with lack of initiative and motivation. Description of Problems:As stated by Grover et al., (2015), motivation and self-regulation plays the mostsignificant role in consideration with management of weight and other related behaviours.Leading a predominantly sedentary live has become a regular activity of people in the recenttime. Accordingly, it is justifiable to adapt certain psychological as well as other self-regulatoryfeatures in the behaviour of a person in order to be motivated and control weight. According tothe Theory of Planned behaviour, there is predictive power to and there can be changes in the
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