Essays on PDD

Introduction

In our everyday life, we experience stress at every corner. Instances like losing a loved one, losing a job or even divorce can make an individual feel sad, lonely, scared, nervous or anxious. It is our normal response to such stimuli, and they are usually accompanied by physiological changes in our body systems. According to the diagnostic and statistical manual (DSM) of mental disorders, mental illness have been categorized into several groups. DSM-IV used axes to categorize mental disorders into five axes. The first axis included all the psychological diagnostic categories except for the mental retardation and personality disorder. ...

There are many people in our society today who live with different types of disabilities. One particular type of disability happens to be Asperger’s Syndrome. The big problem for people who live with Asperger’s syndrome is that they lack the ability to show emotion most of the time, or they find it very hard to be socially acceptable. For this reason, having a great adulthood experience for people living with Asperger’s syndrome seems impossible. People diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome can still lead productive, well-meaning lives, and have a great adulthood experience because there is a ...

Introduction

Autism is a childhood developmental disorder that affects the brain’s normal development of communication and social skills. It is a physical condition that appears in the first three years of life and is linked with abnormal biochemistry in the brain. The causes of autism are not ascertained but autism is largely attributed to genetic predisposition and the environment. A plethora of research studies have also suspected other causative factors like mercury poisoning, diet and vaccine sensitivity among others but these factors are yet to be proven (Pubmed, 2010). Autism has a variety of symptoms depending on the level of infection ...