Essay on Psychological Disorder

A psychological disorder is a condition where a person suffering from it has strange feelings, behaviors, and thoughts. These disorders are associated with persistent behavioral patterns that may seriously affect the normal functioning of the mind and life. Different such disorders have been studied, identified, and classified and they include; eating disorders like anoxia nervosa, personality disorders, for example, the antisocial personality disorder and mood disorders such as depression (Brown, 2012).

No specific causes of these disorders have been recognized, but contributing factors as by existing studies and close examination of patients suffering from psychological disorders include childhood experience, the presence of a chemical imbalance in the brain, heredity, prenatal exposures, illnesses, and stress. (Holdeman, 2009).

Optimal psychological wellness.

Optimal psychological wellness is the state where our bodies and our minds are in balance we generally feel purposeful and happy in our lives. In other words, optimal psychological wellness means when our thoughts are at peace, and there is nothing that disturbs their functionality (Chow, 2010).

How it can be achieved?

Optimal mental wellness can be achieved through the following three pillars; physical/self-care, relationships, and vision. The three are discussed below;

• Self-care

This involves taking good care of physical bodies; this can be done through considering the food that we feed our bodies and brains. A balanced diet is good for the care of our bodies to keep us healthy and our body parts to function to their optimum. We should avoid food such sugary food, alcohol and high fructose syrup that can cause inflammation in our bodies including our brains and thus causing failure. Sufficient hydration is also healthy for our physical care. Enough sleep is essential as well for a healthy mind. Doing regular exercises is also crucial in keeping our bodies fit and sickness-free. We should observe all these to our lives better and avoid sickness.

• Relationships

Our relationships with people around us and ourselves can support and empower us to tackle challenges that we may be facing in our day-to-day activities, and they make us struggle to our level best in life. When one is in a good relationship with others as well as themselves, he or she is protected against diseases, pains, stress, and mental imbalance. Through the sharing of our problems with our friends or relatives, we feel relieved of them, and we might get a solution from someone else’s experience with the issue. The person in problem feels less pain when he or she shares it to another person or people that he confides in than when he or she handles it all by himself or herself (Deci & Ryan, 2008).

• Vision

This is the purpose that someone has in life, lack of it gives room to psychological disorders to emerge. Vision makes one realize the meaning of his life and have a reason to care for it preciously, but without it, life lacks direction, spark, and purpose. A person without a vision is like an animal, he has no target to work on, and thus he sees his life as useless and therefore depressing himself.

Personality development

Personality development is the growth of organized patterns of behavior in an individual that makes him or her unique to others. It also involves how one acts and thinks on ideas that could be facing him. Personality development is vital in an individual’s life because it enables him to associate well with other people around him. It also makes him view life differently from how others do and thus allowing him to face challenges of living with ease.

We develop personalities throughout our lives from our infant days. Many factors affect our personality development such the environment around us for example family, school and those people we interact with most of the times. Another factor is the heredity of traits of an individual personality takes over from our parents.

Are personalities hard-wired?

Yes, some personalities are genetically transferred from a parent to a child, this is shown in situations where a parent and a child possess the same personality traits. However, some characteristics are received after birth from the immediate environment that we live in (Raghubir, 2012).

Basic nature of people

Human beings are the unique creatures on earth in that they have the ability to think, feel, and act. Humans possess these abilities naturally from the day they are born until they die, they never stop learning from their experiences and the environment around them. From the day a baby is born, it starts learning a few things from its mother, recognizing her face and many other activities that show the power of humans.

My development history

The furthest I can remember of my past is the time I joined preschool, my first day in school is one that will never forget. My mother took me on that day, I was happy to have been enrolled but the problem started when my mother wanted to leave, I started crying so much demanding that she goes back with me because everybody was a stranger to me. This continued for a week when I began familiarizing myself to the school life and life outside the home. I later came to like school afterwards, where I had made friends we play together. All my time from preschool to high school I learned to a social person which enabled me to make friends with a lot of people including teachers.

My birth was a normal one as my mother told me that she had no complication in giving birth to me. My social nature made me elected to the student council in high school which has built my political dream that I wish to pursue after school.

My problem in career will be those people who are antisocial and can’t express themselves well. I will be glad to work with social and friendly people whom they have a problem they are open. I will try to teach the antisocial people the social characteristics and their importance so that we can ease our work.

References

Brown, G. W., & Harris, T. (2012). Social origins of depression: A study of psychiatric disorder in  women. Routledge.

Chow, H. P. (2010). Predicting academic success and psychological wellness in a sample of Canadian undergraduate students.

Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. (2008). Facilitating optimal motivation and psychological well-being across life’s domains. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne, 49(1), 14.

Holdeman, T. C. (2009). Invisible wounds of war: Psychological and cognitive injuries, their consequences, and services to assist recovery. Psychiatric Services, 60(2), 273-273.

Raghubir, P. (2012). Are visual perceptual biases hard-wired?. In Visual Marketing (pp. 155-178). Psychology Press.