REFLECTION JOURNAL 2 - COMMON PSYCHOLOGICAL DİSORDERS AND SYNDROMES

Living in a metropolitan area has drawbacks as well as advantages. We spent most of the days trying to get to somewhere on time, fulfilling our responsibilities and allocating some time for our family and friends. In this busy schedule, we forget to take care of ourselves; thus, we cannot realize the changes within ourselves. Due to this exhausting life style we may come down with some psychological problems which should be taken and handled seriously.  Otherwise, irreversible mental disorders will be waiting for us. Here are the  6 most common of these disorders and syndromes, I researched them thoroughly. I hope you will enjoy and be aware !

•                 Obsessive – Compulsive Disorder

This disorder causes intrusive thoughts and uneasiness in patients’ minds. People with obsessive-compulsive disorder have thoughts which recur and persist in spite of the struggles to ignore and counteract them. For instance, compulsive people wash their hands very often thinking that every object around them is filthy or they pass the same road many times ( more than 10) , because they develop an obsession for a thing on the road. The examples can be multiplied, but the essence of the disorder is the same : Refractory and alarming thoughts occupy and exhaust patients’ minds irritatingly. The causes are both psychological and biological.

•                Borderline Personality Disorder

This disorder is characterized by unusual variability and depth of moods of the individual. People with this disorder have changing personalities; thus, unstable interpersonal relationships. They might be feeling sad and worthless while feeling successful, happy and worthy beforehands. They might praise you highly in one second and humiliate disgrace in another. The reason for this disorder is mostly genetic , but how the patient was treated in childhood and adolescence plays an important role, as well.

•    Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Dysmorphophobia  is a disorder in which the patient is excessively concerned with his/her physical

appearance. They find their body defected in one or more features. The distress caused by thinking too much about the body and appearance impairs occupational and social functioning of the individual. This disorder co-occurs with depression, anxiety and social isolation. The reason for this problem is different for each person; however, it, generally, stems from mental and physical abuse or emotional neglect.

•                 Excessive Empathy Syndrome

In psychology, empathy is defined as putting oneself in someone else’s shoes. However, in colloquial

language, it is described as taking other people’s ideas and beliefs important more than necessary; thus and so, someone else’s ideas affect the individual’s decisions and life style. A person with excessive empathy problem does not consider what he/she thinks and believes, and shapes his/her life according to others’ desires. Selfishness is in the minimum level with such people, which is an unwanted feature in a psychologically healthy person. These people do so to comfort  themselves, they think that anything that is performed with good intentions will please other people and will make them impossible to accuse of any action. The reason for this syndrome is the immaturity of the individuals both in character and social life. They do not have the ‘self’ notion and are exposed to neighborhood pressure for a long time.

•              Monday Syndrome

People who work or study under tiring conditions find it hard to start a new week after a lovely and peaceful weekend. No matter how nice the weekends seem, they convert these days into awful times. They cannot enjoy the moment, because they are deeply occupied with thinking  'the moment'.