Psych. Blog #12

In the text ,on page 594, mental health workers view psychological disorders as ongoing patterns of thoughts, feelings, and actions that are deviant, distressful, and/ or dysfunctional. If someone is acting abnormally they may not have a psychological disorder. If this abnormal behavior starts to interfer with a persons life and they cannot go through their day without avoiding such actions, then they have a psychological disorder. Another thing to add is that an abnormal action might be a normal action in the eyes of someone else. So, it all depends on the person and their way of being normal rather than someone eles's normal.

My mother went through a phase of major depressive disorder. Major depressive disorder is a type of mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or a medical condition, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities. The feeling of depression is like being in a nightmare that never ends. You are always sad, tired, and feel helpless to the world around you.

One thing I learned was that most cerial killers have  antisocial personality disorder. When you first think of antisocial you think that the person does not like people and/ or is a hermit. Antiosocial personality disorder is really a personality disorder in which the person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist. A major thing I learned is this type of person can be charming and you wouldn't know they had a disorder. This explains why cerial killers can get away with killing so many people. You don't realize that they are not normal. Normal being discribed as not wanting to kill people.