Stress, Adjustment and health Flashcards
What is psychosomatic medicine?
its key feature is the notion that there is a connection between mind and body and that helping the mind and help the body. an example could be trying to help with depression because it causing a lot of unhealthy habits that are in turn causing health problems
Discuss the role of personality in relation to health behavior and healthy environments.
The 4 funny Links of how personality and environment can kill you
Link 1: common cause
some things can both cause medical problems and influence your personality. Examples could be a stroke or Downs syndrome
Link 2: Habits affecting health
Your personality is like a predisposition to what habits you will develop and different habits have different health consequences
Link 3: Stress Response
Your habit could also be the result of coping or perhaps just the way you handle stress. blow of steam by going to the gym or maybe falling asleep with a little nightcap
Link 4: Stress response sick role
Some people stress so bad that they don´t function and take on a “Sick role” to cope with the problems and perhaps escape them.
Discuss the concept of “The sick role”.
“The sick role” is a set of societal expectations about how a person should behave when ill. Sometimes, people take on the sick role even though there is no organic condition that can account for their activities. A personality link here is that highly neurotic people might retreat to the safety of the sick role when they encounter challenges or stressful situations in their lives.
What are somatopsychic effects and disease-caused personality changes?
Give some examples.
Body can change the mind
Dementia, stroke, traumatic brain injury can dramatically alter your personality
Explain the “diathesis-stress model”. Give some examples.
everyone has a different disposition for disorders and can therefore handle different levels of stress
lets say you need total 10 stress to develop a disorder. your disposition for that disorder is then a static addition to whatever stress you might have. starting with 7 or 3 makes a massive difference in the amount of stress you can handle
this explains how different people with the same amount of stress don’t experience the same thing. or how people with the different amount of stress could still be in the same place
What is a personality disorder?
Describe the different personality disorders
Cluster A - the odd, eccentric or suspicious
Paranoid:
is paranoid
Schizoid:
social isolation and indifferent to others
Schizotypal:
Social isolation because they’re weird but still have a desire for social relationships.
Cluster B - estet barn impulsive, theatrical, promiscuous
Antisocial - anti the social construct, don’t care for rules or norms, stereotypical criminals
Borderline - instable self image and interpersonal relationships because of emotional instability
Histrionic - attention seeking, standing on table and singing
(that one guy from quest for the holy grail)
Narcissistic - self-centered and lacks empathy
Cluster C - anxious and fearful
Avoidant - timid person that wants to avoid social interactions and relationships
OCD -obsessive compulsion - needs to be in control of everything
Dependent - they are dependent on a person for all their needs and cant function on their own (regression but if it was a personality)
Describe, explain and give examples of type A behavior pattern and type A personality.
Real go getters, angry at the world. also they will probably die from a heart attack
What are the “Human Termites”? Discuss the results of the research; conscientiousness, sociability, childhood cheerfulness, stress etc.
a bunch of smart people that died earlier or not
Conscientiousness - good, make good habits and stick to them
Sociability - good to make friend but bad to make friends that take drugs, do dumb shit and die (form bad habits)
Cheerfulness - they grew up to be hopeful and optimistic people that discounted problems. Smoking wont give ME cancer, it happens, but not to me.
