a) Nicky has an intense fear of being overweight. Although she loves to cook she
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a) Nicky has an intense fear of being overweight. Although she loves to cook she hardly eats at all. She also has a distorted body image in which she sees herself as “fat” despite the fact that her physician says she is 20% underweight for her height, age and bone structure. She exercises excessively and still rigidly and obsessively diets despite being 15 pounds lighter than her original dieting goal.
b) Myra was at the bank to cash a paycheck when two armed men held up the bank. Before the ordeal ended with the cops arresting the two burglars, Myra witnessed another customer being shot and killed by the men. Since this tragic event, Myra has been unable to enter a bank. She wakes up often throughout the night with nightmares of being shot. Her administrative position requires her to make the bank deposits for the small company she works for. However, she has been unable to complete this duty
c) Leila was recently involved in a horrifying car accident. She was lucky to emerge from the accident with only minor physical injuries. However, she can't remember anything that happened from about two hours before the accident until she woke up in the hospital the next day. Leila is suffering from
d)Paul is unresponsive to most social stimuli. He rarely smiles, talks, or makes eye contact with others. He seems indifferent to everyone, including his parents. He engages in solitary, ritualistic behaviors such as constantly flapping his hands. He sometimes goes into sudden tantrums or panics. He also insists on the same familiar food each day.
A) Select from the following disorders in deciding which disorders are being described in the above case scenarios AND B) Remember to justify how you arrived at your decision Generalized Anxiety Disorder Specific Phobia Social Anxiety Disorder (Previously Social Phobia) Panic Disorder Agoraphobia . Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Dissociative Amnesia Dissociative Identity Disorder . Major Depression Bipolar Disorder .Schizophrenia Autism Spectrum Disorder Anorexia Nervosa . Bulimia Nervosa Binge-Eating DisorderExplanation / Answer
a) aneroxia nervosa . Its symptoms include distorted view of body and perceiving oneself as overweight wven if you are underweight and hence quit eating because of the same which is the case with Nicky and hence I derived this answer.
b) post traimatic stress disorder. It is caused by exposure to a certain stressful event and it involves negative thiughts behavior etc and also avoidance of that event
c) dissociative amnesia as it is the loss of selective memory and leila lost the memory between the time period of 2 hours before the accident to the time when she woke up in the hospital . Hence this is the answer .
d) social anxiety dosorder. This is so because the person shows desocialisation in this which is thee case with oaul hemce i chose this answer
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