NAMI route to address mental illness issues

A local organization will offer a course for families big business with mental illness. The Houston Chapter of NAMI, National Alliance on Mental Illness, is offering a free 12-week program to families who are coping with mental illness.

The classes, facilitated by trained volunteers, will combine scientific information and emotional support for those struggling to care for loved ones suffering from mental illnesses. According to the press release, topics roofed during the 12-week course include the symptoms and behavior of depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, OCD and borderline personality disorder.

Halle Berry raising awareness of mental illness

The actress plays Frankie Murdoch, a woman who suffers from multiple personality disorder in Frankie & Alice. She is keen to make people face the problem of mental illness head on, explaining it is much more productive than people think. Halle has suffered from depression in the past, and says many don’t even understand what having that illness is like.“We should talk about it, I hope this movie incites people to talk about the issue,” she explained. “I see homeless people on the street and I think people think they’re just derelicts or drug addicts, but many of them really undergo with real mental issues.”

In the movie, one of Frankie’s personalities is racist although her being a black woman. That concept intrigued Halle greatly, and she is keen to see how the story is received by fans.“A black woman who splits off into a white racist, right there that’s got to be a story worth telling,” she explained to Pop Tarts. “I really wanted to understand how that could happen, why that would happen and I wanted to see her journey of how she healed herself because our character actually triumphs.”

Harmful Personality Disorder

Antisocial personality disorder, psychopathy, dissocial personality disorder and sociopathy are constructs that have usually been used to predict recidivism and dangerousness, alongside being used to exclude patients from treatment services. However, 'antisocial personality disorder'has recently begun to appear as a treatment diagnosis, a development reflected within cognitive behaviour therapy and mentalisation-based psychotherapy. Many of the behaviour character of antisocial personality disorder are, at the same time, being targeted by interventions at criminal fairness settings. A significantly higher proportion of published articles focusing on antisocial personality worry treatment when compared to articles on psychopathy.

Currently, the proposal for antisocial personality disorder for the Diagnostic and Statistical physical of Mental Disorders, fifth edition, suggests a major change in the criteria for this disorder. While the present definition focuses mainly on observable behaviours, the proposed amendment stresses interpersonal and emotional aspects of the disorder drawing on the concept of psychopathy. The present commentary suggests that developments leading to improvement in the diagnosis of this type of disorder should, quite than focusing exclusively on elements such as dangerousness and risk assessment, point us to ways in which patients can be treated for their problems.

Schizoid Qualities Disorder: Latest Medical Breakthroughs

People with schizoid personality disorder lean to avoid any kind of social activity. A recent study has grouped schizoid disorder with other kinds of personality disorders. People afflicted with this type of borderline personality disorder are known to consistently shy away from any kind of interaction with others. Though there is a subset of the human population who are deemed "loners," medical breakthroughs propose that there is an underlying difference between them and people with schizotypal personality disorder. Some of the tell-tale signs of schizoid personality disorder include aloofness, humorlessness, and dullness.

The latest medical breakthroughs based on schizoid disorder case studies reveals that people with this disorder exhibit a highly flattened or limited spectrum of emotions. They always appear to be indifferent to all that’s going on around them. Some of the latest medical research in this area aims to understand the underlying brain chemistry of someone with schizotypal personality disorder in order to formulate a suitable treatment. One medical breakthrough indicates that personality disorder treatment needs to address the private and inner lives of patients. More often than not, people with a borderline personality disorder tend to be extremely sensitive.