Looking at OCD

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a brain disorders were a person will do some daily activities multiple times. [When someone does the same activity for multiple times in the same day and then to repeatedly do the activity multiple times a week.] People suffering from OCD have a routine that they use to keep themselves on paths to function in the society around them. Though to most people the rituals that a person suffering from OCD does it so that they are able to cope in society. To many in society the behavior that is displayed by people suffering from OCD is that too which they think is that behavior of a individual that is in their mind crazy. To be diagnosed with OCD a person has to talk to a practicing physician and their symptoms or the way they act must match those in the DSM-IV. There are many types of disorders, but the seven most common OCD are the checkers, washers and cleaners, repeaters, orders, hoarders, thinking ritualizes, worriers and pure obsessionals. (DSM-IV 456) The people displaying the checker symptom have to check items like the stove is off even if that over 30 times in 30min and a washer is some who repeatedly cleans their hands for germs for and extended time. While a order has to have their house in the most pristine condition and a hoarder is some one who can not get rid of any thing they own.
Over the last decade OCD has become more wildly known and popularized thanks to the shows like Monk. In the show Monk there is a private detective that has multiple disorders one of which is OCD and the need to complete random rituals that in his mind allowed him to function in society. After the death of Monk’s wife he suffers a nervous breakdown where he is unable to continue his job at the police force. Throughout the series Monk is using is supposed disability to his advantage to solve challenging and difficult cases. One condition that persists in a person with OCD are the compulsions which Monk displays in the series. He must repeatedly washes his hands and has to touch everything he passes. The behavior that is displayed in Monk is on the extreme side of the spectrum for OCD. With the public shown Hollywood’s perception of what OCD is that any one with milder case of OCD by medical standards can be thought of by some as being as extreme as Monk.

With people always needing an explanation for their behavior and those of their friends are in need of some way to explain their behavior. “We seem unable to acknowledge that we simply don’t know. The needs for diagnosis and remediation of behavioral and emotional problems are enormous” (Adler 136). In Reading in deviant behavior the story by Adler is very intuitive in the understand of what people believe. Most people are in need of some activity to help them understand why they act a certain way. Understanding oneself for anyone is a challenge and for someone to be diagnosed with a disorder makes harder for them to truly understand themselves. Not being able to fully understand why they act the way they do in society. One of the most effective therapy treatment is cognitive-behavioral therapy. This treatment requires the subject to be exposed to the obsession along with teach a person a healthy and effective way to responded to obsessive thoughts.

OCD can be perceived as a “Disability can serve as a master status and can carry with it stigma”(Taylor 173). Having OCD as a person’s master status makes it seem that there is less chance to considered a contributing member to society . By having a master status of a disability or a mental disorder people face the thought of being judged by people have of them and the ideas the come up with over time and what they see from the behavior displayed by the individuals. By being perceived as having a disability even though it may be considered a mental disorder some people can be aliened from society for having a different way of going through life. If you look at the story of Emanuel who grew up with a father that did not believe his son to be different but when people at Emanuel said there be a problem his father decided to home school Emanuel and his so later found out he had ADHD but was able to function in society with little interference. After talking to a physiologist he was told he Had ADHD but was only give lessons in social interaction which were to his advantage. Emanuel was a boy if the government had its way in school he would have been placed in a slow learning class room and probably would have been unable to achieve a college degree.
Attach  is an audio clip of Emanuels story.
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American Physiological Association, “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder “, American Physiological Association, Washington DC , 456-463

Adler A. Patricia, Reading in Deviant Behavior, Allyn & Bacon Pearson, Bosten MA, Ch 20

Taylor J Steven Reading in Deviant Behavior, Allyn & Bacon Pearson, Bosten MA, CH 26

Geration Rx

Generation Rx is a film that discuses the effects of prescription drugs and there psychiatric effects on children. This documentary looks in to are metical system and its willingness to prescribe children psychiatric drugs that effect a child’s mental development so long as the child is prescribed the drugs. Its not to say all drugs prescribed to children affect them adversely only that some drugs adversely effect children’s mental development. The main drugs that were discussed in this film were Ritalin, Fluoxetine, Prozac which have all been prescribed to children. For some of the drugs prescribed to children there negative effects were no told to the families of the children.
Ritalin is prescribed to people that are suffering from “ADHD” also know as “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder“. Within the documentary they brought up an issue were scientist had a problem explaining what was the defining and the symptoms of ADHD. In 1990 the diagnoses for ADHD rose by 740% from the privies decade. If doctors are unable to tell what the exact symptoms of ADHD then how can they diagnose so many kids with it. Why is it that with so much medical knowledge are unable to explain the exact symptoms of ADHD. In the documentary it discusses how teachers say that they believe a student has ADHD due to the fact that the student wont settle down in the classroom.
The drugs Fluoxetine, Prozac are two drugs that after they were given to people in the community and were told there were no side effects began to suffer. Most notably people began to suffer horrible dreams and thoughts of suicide. Between 1980-1999 There were 28,000 adverse effects and 1,600 suicides which were all people who had one of the drugs in there system. Not to say all these acts are caused by the consumption of the drugs but with people suffering adverse effects just after starting the drugs make it seem as the cause the effects. But for the doctors that were on the council all had a tie to the drug company’s coming out with the drugs so they all were able to profit from the drugs while people suffered terrible side effects.
If people only focus on the drugs that are given the negative spotlight like Cocaine, PCP and Marijuana we seem to forget that prescription drugs can be just as bad. With prescription drugs they are more trusted and families don’t usually watch out for them and may not realize there is any danger from the drugs. But anything that contains the word drug hold some possibility of causing harm even if a drug says it may be harmless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNCxWkwI7As&list=PLA7D309B84E482D47&index=10&feature=plcp

Tough Guise

Tough Guise is based on the way in which men are perceived by how Masculine they are and by the men around them. To be considered a man you must be strong show no fear or show any emotion that would be perceived as feminine. Insults that we as a society are derived from feminine body parts like Cunt, Pussy. With the way in which males are brought up to think they are not to show any fear or that they are weak or not strong enough to all the things a normal male can do. If a man was to try and do any activity that is by societies slandered feminine then they would be then harassed and made fun of for doing stuff like watching soap operas or watching girly movies like twilight. To be a male and to like any thing considered feminine is some thing that make it seem to others that they are not manly enough for societies standard. So by societies standards any male that does to match the way in which television portrays what a man should look like. In the 1980’s if you did not look like Sylester Stallone, or Arnold Schwarzenegger then you were not considered to be a real manly man. So if you were smaller than what was portrayed in the media or acted differently than what was portrayed in the media you are look down upon as being less manly. No matter the way in which a man act like the medias image of masculinity it will never stay the same over the years.

http://youtu.be/79ijDA_1FVY