Psychopathology: Schizophrenia, Depression, Eating Disorders Analysis

This presentation provides an overview of psychopathology, focusing on schizophrenia, depression, and eating disorders. It discusses the causes, symptoms, treatment, and management strategies for each condition. For schizophrenia, the presentation covers genetic inheritance, chemical imbalances in the brain, and environmental factors as potential causes, along with symptoms like delusions, hallucinations, and negative symptoms, and treatments including medications and psychosocial therapy. Regarding depression, the presentation explores life events, genetic factors, and prescribed medicines as causes, symptoms like irritability, loss of focus, and insomnia, and treatments such as psychotherapy and antidepressant medications. For eating disorders, biological, psychological, and environmental factors are examined as causes, with symptoms like chronic dieting and obsession with food contents, and treatments including medical care, nutritional guidance, and therapy. The presentation also includes a case scenario involving a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and discusses management strategies. The presentation concludes by emphasizing the importance of early diagnosis and intervention in managing mental disorders.

Psychopathology

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•Introduction
•The causes, symptoms, treatment
•Schizophrenia
•Symptoms of schizophrenia
•Treatment of schizophrenia
•Management of schizophrenia
•Causes of Depression
•Treatment of Depression
•Management of Depression
•Causes of Eating disorders
•Symptoms of Eating disorders
•Management of anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders
•Management of Callie's condition
•Conclusion
•References
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Introduction
• The psychopathology can be described as a scientific study of mental illness
through evaluating factors contributing to related disorders.
• It include the criterion of determining actual causes of particular mental problem
which may consider under several categories such as psychological, social and
genetic.

The causes, symptoms, treatment
• There are various types of mental problems which has their own causes and
symptoms.
• It is required to evaluate them properly to provide correct medication to patient
for improving their health.

Schizophrenia
• Schizophrenia can be considered as a serious mental problem in which an
individual interpret wrong about reality due to abnormality of their psychological
status.
• It include the signs including hallucinations, delusions and extremely disordered
thinking & behaviours that impairs regular functioning or even may be disabling.

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• Genetic inheritance
• Chemical imbalance in brain
• Environmental factors

Symptoms of schizophrenia
• Delusions – This include false beliefs of an individual which are not based on real
aspect in which normal gestures of other people indicates harmful to such individuals.
• Hallucinations – The people suffering from schizophrenia have perceiving sensations
that are not real including hearing different voices.
• Negative symptoms – This include improper and disorganised speech of a person
including impaired communication and meaningless speech.

Treatment of schizophrenia
• Medications – In context of schizophrenia, there are several effective
medications which can used to treat the same like Risperidone, Olanzapine,
Quetiapine, Ziprasidone, Clozapine and Haloperidol.
• Psychosocial therapy – This refers to a therapy which include
rehabilitation, cognitive remediation, individual psychotherapy family and group
therapy in order to treat the schizophrenia.

Management of schizophrenia
• The schizophrenia is a critical disease which does not consist any prevention but
early diagnosis helps to avoid complicated situations.
• If an individual know that their ancestors have this problems then they can take
advice of doctors to avoid such situations and determine chances of occurring
such condition.

Depression
• The depression refers to a mental health condition which consist overwhelming
feeling sadness, isolation and despair that effects on ability of an individuals to
think, feel as well as conducting functions.

Causes of Depression
• Life events
• Genetic factors
• Prescribed medicines and drug abuse

Symptoms of Depression
• Initially, it include irritability, agitation, restlessness and lower sex drive.
• Secondly, people lost the capability to focus, concentrate and make decision
properly.
• Thirdly, a person having depression face insomnia and habit of sleeping too
much.
• It involve change in appetite or weight along with eating too much or too little.