Antisocial Personality Disorder

Antisocial Personality Disorder
Silence of the Lambs
Silence of the Lambs is a movie about the FBI trying to catch a serial killer Buffalo Bill. Buffalo Bill is killing women to make a suit for him to wear because he wants to be women. The FBI sends a new agent to a mental asylum to talk to Doctor Hannibal Lector who is a very gifted psychologist but is also a notorious serial killer his self and a cannibal. The FBI is hoping that Dr. Lector will help them catch Buffalo Bill. The FBI sends young women Clarice Starling to talk to lector. She trades stories from her personal life to feed lectors sick gifted mind. So he will help her catch Buffalo Bill. At the end Buffalo Bill is caught. But Hannibal Lector escapes the asylum and contacts Clarice.
This relates to psychology in many ways the first way is that doctor lector is a psychologist with antisocial personality disorder but he understands what going on in his own mind. You can find antisocial personality disorder on page 486 in chapter 12. Buffalo Bill also has Antisocial Disorder, which is long-term, persistent pattern of impulsive, selfish, unscrupulous, and even criminal behavior.
Buffalo Bill can also relate to chapter 8 motivation and emotion. On page 312 they talk about sexual orientation. In the movie Hannibal talks about Buffalo bill being a homosexual. Homosexual is term referring to gay me and lesbians whose sexual desire or behavior is focused on members of their own sex.

Depression

Depression
Last Days.
Gus van sant’s movie last days is inspired by musician Kurt Cobain last days. The main character in the movie is a musician named Blake. Who has a drug addiction and is seriously depressed. Blake just roams around his house not saying a word just in a sad daze. He has a hard time doing daily actives like making food for his self and he finally just gives up. He has many people living in his house and to escape he spends days in the woods just so he can be by himself. At the end of the movie he ends up locking himself in his studio and the movie ends tragically when Blake can no longer fight his depression and kills his self.

I watch this movie on July 1 at 9 pm the movie is Rated R and is 96 minutes long.
This Relates to Chapter 12 Psychological disorders. On page 474 it talks about depressive disorders. In the movie Blake was suffering from major depressive disorder, which is defined as a condition in which a person feels sad and hopeless for weeks and months, often losing interest in all activities and taking pleasure in nothing suicide is associated with a variety of psychological disorders, but is mostly tied to depression.

Treatment of Psychological Disorders

Treatment of psychological disorders
Lithium

Nirvana has a song entitled lithium, which is about someone who is suffering from schizophrenia.
I'm so happy 'cause today
I've found my friends
They're in my head
I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you
We broke our mirrors
Sunday morning is everyday for all I care
And I'm not scared
Light my candles, in a daze
'Cause I've found god
yeah, yeah yeah
yeah, yeah yeah
yeah, yeah yeah
yeah, yeah yeah
yeah, yeah yeah
yeah, yeah yeah

I'm so lonely, but that's okay, I shaved my head
And I'm not sad
And just maybe I'm to blame for all I've heard
But I'm not sure
I'm so excited, I can't wait to meet you there
But I don't care
I'm so horny, but that's okay
My will is good
yeah yeah yeah (x6)

I like it - I'm not gonna crack
I miss you - I'm not gonna crack
I love you - I'm not gonna crack
I killed you - I'm not gonna crack

I like it - I'm not gonna crack
I miss you - I'm not gonna crack
I love you - I'm not gonna crack
I killed you - I'm not gonna crack

I'm so happy 'cause today
I've found my friends
They're in my head
I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you
We broke our mirrors
Sunday morning is everyday for all I care
And I'm not scared
Light my candles in a daze
'Cause I've found god
This relates to chapter 12 and chapter 13. It relates to chapter 12 psychological disorders. Schizophrenia is defined as a pattern of severely disturbed thinking, emotion, perception, and behavior that constitutes one of the most serious and disabling of al mental disorder. We know the song is about schizophrenia because the song talks about finding his friends, and hearing voices in his head. This also relates to psychology in chapter 13 treatment of psychological disorders because lithium was a drug that was used to help treat schizophrenia.

The Varying Effects of Drugs

The Varying Effects of Drugs
From Meth Addict to Mom
The article is about Jodi Sweetin the actress, who played Stephanie Tanner on Full House. The actress is now 26 married to her second husband and just became a first time mom. In the article Sweetin talks about her addiction to crystal meth. Sweetin says that the drug wreck her marriage to her first husband, who was a police officer in Los Angles and took over her life. When Sweetin was 22 and in still in college she tried the drug, which popular among her friends. Sweetin says the drug became a crippling habit. She remembers waking up in the morning and feeling horrible because she hadn’t done the drug yet. Then in 2005 she was hospitalized after a night of partying. She realized she had hit bottom. She told her parents about the addiction. She entered a rehab center and then lived in a sober living for six months. While she was in the sober living her and her husband decided to get a divorce. She met her second husband in May 2007 and they married shortly after they met. Her and her new husband just welcomed there first child a baby girl, who he both say has changed there lives.

This Relates to chapter four on consciousness and section eight on the varying effect of the drugs. The article deals with substance abuse, which is defined as the use of psychoactive drugs in ways that deviate from cultural norms and cause serious problems for the user. The article also deals with addiction which is defined as a physiological state which there is not only a strong craving for the drug but also in which using the drug becomes necessary to prevent unpleasant withdrawal symptoms.

Sleep Disorder

Sleep Disorders
The article I found is an advertisement for health.com. It has a road sign that look like a no parking sign, but instead of saying no parking it says no sleeping from 11 p.m. until 6a.m.

This relate to chapter four in our psychology textbook. Chapter four is on consciousness. But in section four of the chapter is talks about Sleep Disorders. The road sigh from the article is referring to the most common sleeping disorder, which is insomnia. Insomnia is defined as a sleep disorder in which a person feels tired during the day because of trouble falling asleep or staying asleep at night.