What do the disorders from the DSM-5 teach us about our minds?
That is my guiding question for this Final Project. I have decided to base this project after our most recent project in Disease, where we focused on mental disorders and the DSM-5. For that project, we chose our own disorders to learn about, presented information about them to the class, and finally, created a simulation of that disorder. I chose Delusional Disorder, which is related to Schizophrenia and it is where someone can't differentiate reality from their own imagination. I simulated it by showing the class a video called, The Tucher Zone. You can see more information on what I did with that presentation, farther back on my blog.
For this Final Project, I used the guiding question to look a little bit deeper into the DSM-5 and the significance it has to mental disorders. I put together a slide show where I explain the DSM-5 more in-depth and briefly mention some more information about Delusional Disorder. I made a poster that I used in my previous project but amped it up a bit and added more information about DD. Below you will see my slide show and in that, my exploration of the guiding question. Enjoy!
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Don't Ban the Flies
This is the last Action Project for our humanities class, Forbidden Books. For this project, we continued to focus on the banning of books and based this on what we did with our last project, focusing on Dogma. We used the independent reading books that we chose at the beginning of this unit to write a research paper. The criteria for this paper were to choose a side on whether or not our books should be banned and gain a little more context on this concept. I took the side of the book not being banned and you can read my paper below to learn more about the book and why I took that side. The paper was about 3 pages long (not including works cited page), so I put it into a slide show so that it is easier to read. You will see the slide show and an original image I created below. Enjoy!
MEM. Lord of The Flies Watercolor. 2020 |
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Real or Not Real?
For this AP, everybody in our class was supposed to look through the DSM-V and find a disorder they wanted to focus on for their project. For mine, I chose Delusional Disorder, which is related to Schizophrenia. I chose this because it was what most caught my eye and I've always been interested in learning about Schizophrenia. The medical definition as stated by the Cleveland Clinic is, "Delusional disorder, previously called paranoid disorder, is a type of serious mental illness -- called a 'psychosis' -- in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined. This is unlike people with other psychotic disorders, who also might have delusions as a symptom of their disorder."
If I were to define it in my own words, I would define it as a state in which someone can't differentiate reality from their own imagination; It includes delusions but is different from other disorders because it doesn't contain any other symptoms of psychosis. Three DSM-V criteria for this disorder are, "The presence of one or more delusions for at least a month", "If mood episodes occur concurrently with the delusions, the total duration of these mood episodes is brief relative to the total duration of the delusional periods", and, "The delusions re not attributable to the physiological effects of a medical condition (eg. Alzheimer's disease) and are not better explained by another mental disorder, such as body dysmorphic disorder or obsessive-compulsive disorder" (90). Delusional disorder also affects the right hemisphere of the brain. This is because the right side of the brain dominates self-recognition, emotional familiarity, and ego. An explanation by https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-01/nlmc-daw011309.php states that it, “...may cause delusions by disrupting the relation between the monitoring of psychic, emotional and physical self to people, places, and even body parts.”
For this presentation, I explained a little bit about Delusional disorder and then went straight into showing the class a video (credit to my friend, ES for giving me the idea). The video was called The Tucker Zone and it worked as a simulation for delusions because it plays with your imagination and makes you think that what you see is real or happening right there in the room. When I asked the students how they felt, they mainly talked about how the experience seemed very real and how certain parts were triggering for them. I then created a graph using my lesson plan for the brainwaves of the students during my presentation, along with a piecewise function for that graph. The last thing I did was to create a flyer that gives a summarization of the disorder and provides more context, recommendations of support, etc.
I hope you enjoy my project!
Lesson Plan:
MEM. Lesson Plan. 2020 |
Graph:
MEM. Brainwaves Graph. 2020 |
Piecewise Function:
y { 0 (x-8) +4 if 2< x ≤ 8
-1 (x-9) +3 if 8< x ≤ 9
Flyer:
MEM. DD Flyer. 2020 |
Video:
Works Cited:
“Delusional Disorder.” Cleveland Clinic, https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9599-delusional-disorder
DSM-V
https://cdn.website-editor.net/30f11123991548a0af708722d458e476/files/uploaded/DSM%2520V.pdf
Nyulmc. “Delusions Associated with Consistent Pattern of Brain Injury.” EurekAlert!, 13 Jan. 2009, https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-01/nlmc-daw011309.php
The Tucker Zone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3txhT2ncNOU&feature=youtu.be
“Chicago Psychiatrists - Psychiatrist Chicago, Cook County, Illinois - Psychiatric Nurses Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.” Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/psychiatrists/il/chicago
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