When people think of movies that are known for having a message about psychiatric mental illnesses, the movie Fight Club, directed by David Fincher is a common one people mention. This movie is about an office worker, who is also the narrator and suffers from insomnia. He gets tired of his boring life and meets a guy named Tyler Durden. The narrator drops his old life and finds himself living in a rundown building with Tyler, and together they come up with the underground fight club. This club has strict rules and Tyler, who is the leader, makes the other members do random acts of vandalism to show the city who is the boss. The narrator follows Tyler religiously, until he meets a female (Marla) and realizes he can be happy without Tyler and …show more content…
When treating DID, the drug class to be found most effective and have the least side effects would be the atypical or second generation antipsychotics. The reason the second generation drugs are used more is because they have effect on both the positive (delusions, hallucination and disorganized thinking) and negative symptoms (flat affect, avolition, alogia, anhedonia) of a psychotic disorder. There are many types of drugs in the class, but the one that helps with anxiety, depression and psychosis is risperidone (Risperdal). The dosage of this drug is described in our book as “the 1-2-3” regimen. This is the method where the drug dosage is increased slowly relating to the patient’s response to the medication therapy. The dose usually starts at 1 mg twice per day, then the second day 2 mg twice per day, and lastly the third day twice per day. The therapeutic range for this drug is 4-8 mg/day, even though if needed the patient can have up to 16 mg/day. The route this drug can be given is oral, and more recently they came out with an IM or subcutaneous injection that would need to be given every two weeks. This medication should also be taken on an empty stomach. Some common negative effects can include tachycardia, chest pain, orthostatic tension, headache, insomnia, anxiety, abnormal vision, increased urine, weight gain or loss, dry mouth and many others. Some lab data that …show more content…
The article states that it is important that the person gains self-reflection and self-evaluation during therapy to have a trusting relationship with the psychiatrist. The ending goal is that the patient will have effective coping skills and better relationship patterns. During the therapy the article says, “The psychiatrist attempts to reveal the unconscious components of the patient’s maladaptive functioning and attends to resistance as it reveals itself,” (Gentile, Dillion, Gillg. 2013). This results in change and the understanding of self-awareness has begun. With DID, patients usually suffer from depression and anxiety, depression is commonly linked with suicide ideations. In the end of Fight Club, the narrator suffered from depression and wanted to commit suicide. If you successfully treat a person’s depression, this can often lead to the removing their need to commit suicide. Wendy Hill wrote an article, Nonpharmacological Treatment Options for Mild to Moderate Depression, where she gave the importance of nonpharmacological treatment and some common ones to use with depression. The article states, “Several suggestions that may be helpful in treating depression or keeping depression from progressing or recurring are adding daily physical exercise, yoga or stretching, increasing the amount of
...apine, quetiapine, aripiprazole, risperidone, and may include ziprasidone) to treat psychotic symptoms, and mood stabilizers such as lithium or valproate to control manic episodes.
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necessarily he wants, but the society accepts. So the journey begins, with Tyler in the front seat. searching for a person he could be, he uses his friends, friends of friends, his physical surroundings, to be one person in all of his obstacles. Tyler establishes, in the beginning of the novel, his ordinary world. The first incident that happens in the novel, shows the foundation of his want to change.
The results of this experiment are shown in the compiled student data in Table 1 below.
Clozapine and the Treatment of Schizophrenia Clozapine, marketed by the trade name of "Clozaril," is a member of the dibenzodiazepine class of antipsychotic medication, and is one of many types of neuroleptic drugs. Clozapine is an atypical medication because it differs from the older conventional drugs such as Halodol or Lithium. The difference between atypical and the older drugs is because there less neuroleptic activity as a result of more specific receptors utilized. The atypical drugs work effectively to treat psychotic illnesses and tend to have fewer side effects than their predecessors. Clozapine has been found to be the most effective antipsychotic drug for treatment resistant schizophrenia.
The dopamine theory behind the cause of schizophrenia states that in part excess dopamine is a possible factor or there is more than an average number of dopamine, Type 2 receptors. Risperidone acts on the dopamine D2 receptor (Sarason, et al, 2001, pg. 368). Risperidone is a psychotropic drug and is part of the chemical class of benzisoxazole derivatives used as a treatment for schizophrenia, with some results for bipolar manic disorder, as well.
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According to Gamble and Brennan (2000), the effectiveness of medication for schizophrenia to relieve patients from psychotic symptoms is limited. Although patients have adequate medication, some received little or no benefit from it and almost half of them still experience psychotic symptoms. They are also more likely to suffer relapse (Gamble and Brennan, 2000). Furthermore, Valmaggia, et al. (2005) found that 50% of patients who fully adhere to anti-psychotic medication regimes still have ongoing positi...
The following research was published in the Psychiatry (Edgemont) Journal Online in March of 2009 by Paulette Marie Gillig, MD, PhD. There are also contraindications involving the treatment of DID. Caution needs to be taken while treating people with DID with medications because any effects they may experience, good or bad, may cause the sufferer of DID to feel like they are being controlled, and therefore traumatized yet again.
Classical antipsychotic treatments are commonly used to treat schizophrenic patients with major positive symptoms of schizophrenia, such as Thorazine, Haldol, and Stelazine (Gleitman et al., 2011). Antipsychotic treatments are usually administered with a variety of psychosocial treatments including social skills training, vocational rehabilitation, supported employment, family therapy, or individual therapy (Barlow & Durand, 2014). This is to reduce relapse and help the patient improve their skills in deficits and comply in consuming the
Caught between two brick walls, the narrator of the novel, Fight Club, struggles to maintain his life between chaos and boredom. One may say that, the life of the narrator was extremely complete; he had worked hard enough to maintain a stable life financially, but his life was a life of no risks. Playing life so safely, it led the narrator down a very lonely rode. The narrator 's loneliness devoured his life, stealing his sleep, and his peace of mind; his loneliness led him to attend several support groups to relieve him of his isolation. Although the narrator did not have any need to join any support groups, he found comfort in the emotions expressed during the meetings; this release of stress over
The narrator, on the other hand, does not want Marla and tries to get her out of his life so he can have Tyler all to
There are many movies that portray mental and psychological disorders, from these I chose the award winning movie: Rain Man. Rain Man was released on December 14, 1988. In the beginning of this movie, a car dealer, Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise), learns that his father has died and returns home to Cincinnati to attend his funeral. Charlie and his father had a falling out with each other starting when Charlie was sixteen years old and decided to steal his father’s car for a victory lap around town. His father reported the car stolen, resulting in Charlie being arrested. Charlie’s friends got off with a warning, however Charlie’s father decided to leave his son in jail for two days before he got him out. Charlie’s mother died when he was two years
These three approaches give the patient encouragement. The other major form of treatment for personality disorders is pharmacological. There are many types of drugs that doctors prescribe for patients like these. These drugs are classified as antidepressants. Imipramine, desipramine hydrochloride, doxepin, chlordiazepoxide, and diazepam are some common antidepressants.
The narrator meets Tyler and realizes quickly that Tyler is everything he is not. The narrator is disappointed in his life when he compares it to Tyler’s. “I am nothing in the world compared to Tyler. I am helpless. I am stupid, and all I do is want and need thin...