Symptom Essays

Signs and symptoms of mental illness can vary, depending on the disorder, circumstances and other factors. Mental illness symptoms can affect emotions, thoughts and behaviours. Examples of signs and symptoms include: • Feeling sad or down • Confused thinking or reduced ability to concentrate • Excessive fears or worries, or extreme feelings of guilt • Extreme mood changes of highs and lows • Withdrawal from friends and activities • Significant tiredness, low energy or problems sleeping • Detachment

Many people believe that the symptoms of cancer are not present until the malignant tumor has spread beyond the stages at which it can be treated. This is not entirely true. Some types of cancer tend to be particularly "elusive" and do not manifest themselves in any way. However, most forms of the condition have noticeable symptoms. The problem is that they are usually similar to the ones of common and much less serious illnesses. For all this reason it is worth learning more about the most common

exemplifies depression, feelings of worthless and lack of sleep. Although shows the symptoms of bipolar disorder: feeling confident, lack of concentration, switching on topics and a desire for sex. Holden Caulfield is an adolescent who shows various symptoms of sickness. Through the book he shows symptoms of bipolar disorder and depression: sleep disorder, feeling worthless, and no care which are all aspects of both. But one symptom that only bipolar disorder has, is the feeling of confidence, which isn't

1. A) Miss S is showing physical symptoms of emotions. She has gone through a lot of stressful situations in the past year with her husband cheating on her, divorce, and now she worries everyday about the woes of being a single mother. The heart palpitations, tingling of the hands, being irritable, and on edge are all physiological responses to the emotions to the events that have occurred in her life over the past year. B) Miss S would most likely be diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder

causing these symptoms Eric experienced from about age 11 to age 15? A pituitary tumor or malfunction could be the cause of all of the symptoms Eric was experiencing between the ages of 11 and 15. The pituitary gland is responsible for the secretion of Growth Hormone (GH), Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH), Adrenocorticotropic Hormone (ACTH), and Luteinizing Hormone (LH) as well as other hormones. We will focus on the four hormones above because they are the cause of the symptoms Eric is experiencing

Rotavirus Infection, Adult Rotavirus infection may also be referred to as the stomach flu. This condition is caused by a virus. These viruses can be passed from person to person (contagious) very easily. This condition may affect your stomach, small intestine, and large intestine. It can cause sudden watery diarrhea, fever, and vomiting. Diarrhea and vomiting can make you feel weak and become dehydrated. You may not be able to keep fluids down. Dehydration can make you tired and thirsty, have

genetic or having a beginning stage. Symptoms in Guillain-Barre syndrome Guillain-Barre Syndrome can develop by a most common of symptoms most the time overlooked as something different. The beginning of the GBS starts with muscle weakness, usually beginning in the legs and can cause weakness in both sides of the body. This weakness can be mistaken of someone having a stroke which usually affects only one side of the body. Around one to ten

inflamed with immune complex deposits post infectious diseases. These deposits occlude the filtration of the glomerular capillaries causing an excess retention of water and sodium in the body (Hockenberry & Wilson, 2015, p.1013). The initial triad of symptoms that should be assessed for in a patient with this disorder are edema, specifically around the eyes in the morning but also gonadal, abdominal, and in the lower extremities of the body as the day progresses, hematuria, the patient’s urine output

20, 2015 for fever, persistent vomiting, and dehydration. At the time that my patient was admitted, the doctor thought that her fever could be from viral upper respiratory infection (URI) as my patient had URI symptoms for the past several days such as runny nose, and cough. These symptoms occur in correlated with her fever onset. The doctor also thought that another possibility that might correlate with her fever

You have a scratchy throat. You start searching the web for the cause of your symptom, and you find everything from the common cold, to a more serious illness such as throat cancer. You then start to panic, thinking you’re dying when you’re really not. While many people experience these thoughts, and jokingly call themselves hypochondriacs, there are many people, who suffer from this disease on a daily basis. Hypochondria is an overwhelming fear that you have a serious medical condition, even though

may present with intermittent, cyclical, or constant pelvic and/or back pain.1 Symptoms tend to come and go with the menstrual cycle and can be a key sign to recognizing the condition.1 Other symptoms of endometriosis include pain in the hypogastric and perineal region, and pain in lower back and lower extremities.1 Hallmark symptoms of endometriosis are general pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea, and dyspareunia.2 Other symptoms may include painful bowel movements or pain during urination while on menstrual

Facial Paralysis. Bell’s palsy is characterized by muscle paralysis or weakness on one side of the face. Symptoms of Bell’s Palsy includes weakness of one side of the face that causes it to droop, dry eye or excessive tearing, runny or stuffy nose, diminished or distorted taste, difficulty blinking, and numbness in the affected side of the face. Bell’s Palsy comes on suddenly and the symptoms tend to peak within a few days. In the prognosis of Bell’s Palsy, patients can fall into one of several groups

about the clinical side of concussions. How does the medical community define a concussion? Dr. Gabriel: A concussion results from impact to the skull or body causing acceleration/deceleration forces that produce biochemical changes in the brain. Symptoms include dizziness, nausea, vomiting, headache, irritability, vision changes, and decline in attention, memory, and speed of processing information. If a person doesn't lose consciousness, could they still have a concussion? Dr. Adams Rieck: It

would take pictures of people who would be waiting in line for food, or homeless people (16). Polio was a very common disease in the Great Depression (Hecht 13). At that time doctors did not have a vaccine for polio, to prevent it. Some common symptoms were stiff neck, fatigue, muscle pain, muscle weakness, sudden temporary or permanent paralysis, etc. (Hetch 17). The disease was highly contagious (Sherrow 17). The disease itself causes most people to become paralyzed, or partially paralyzed (Hecht

You're sitting at home one evening doing the same thing you do every night, when suddenly a strange uncomfortable feeling comes over you. Your chest tightens, you heart races, you get lightheaded, and an uncontrollable feeling of panic comes over you. You walk around the room, pacing back and forth, wondering what could be wrong with you. Heart attack? No. Stroke? No. What on earth could be making you feel like this? Are you dying? If not, you certainly feel like you might be. So what could cause

Contextual Conceptualization The client’s current symptoms of significant depressed mood, difficulties sleeping, and fatigue could be stemming from the client’s identity confusion as well as experiences of racism, marginalization, invalidation, negative family dynamics, and history of trauma. The client encountered several challenges related to his multicultural background that aversively impacted the development of the client’s identity that individuals who are members of the dominate culture do

A few situations can trigger the thirst mechanisms, such as consuming high amounts of salty products and low amounts of water. An overconsumption of salty products increase the blood sodium level which eventually signals the body to drink water. Also, inadequate levels of body fluid can cause the mouth to experience a dry sensation because its tissues’ are only exposed to a limited supply of fluid. Lastly, blood loss, sweating, and diarrhea can also signal the body to increase fluid intake through

The symptoms of Raynaud’s are varied. The frequency, severity and duration of the vasospasms are important factors in the diagnostic process. What is generally common are cold fingers and toes, a change to the color of skin tone as a response to stress and/or cold, and either numbness, and/or feelings of sting pain or prickles as the skin responds to warming or relief of stress. The color of the affected derma area will usually go from white to blue as the coldness sets in, and, then, with warming

sufferers often have feelings of complete despair, hopelessness and a lack of purpose in life and enthusiasm for the world around them. Depression may be one part of another condition or it may be its own concern apart from any other illnesses. It is a symptom of bipolar disorder, but not the entire disorder, depression is a very large part of manic depression and other associated illnesses but not the whole of manic depression. Although depression

ways. There are some symptoms that are a common thread through Ebola and the red death, and some that do not remotely resemble those from the other disease. Based on what I have read the red death and Ebola were not from the same country or even same time period. From the readings, I know that the reactions to the red death and Ebola were related in some ways, but different in others. The diseases may be quite similar, but they do not seem to be the same thing. The symptoms of Ebola consist of coughing