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Fredy Aviles: Okay. Welcome to Psych 101 today we're talking about psychological disorders. Okay, it's chapter 15 we're not covering the chapters in order, it seems like we skipped a few of them. But these are the ones we need to cover Fredy Aviles: Okay, we're going to talk about all of this. Okay. Bunch of different types of disorders. So let's, let's just get started this just an outline. Okay. Actually, before we talk about disorders, I need to mention something called the DSM.
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Fredy Aviles: The DSM stands for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and the DSM five there. It's the fifth version. Um, it might have changed, actually, last I heard it was on the DSM. Fredy Aviles: Five are means revised that might be on version six. Now, something like that. But anyway, there's there's big thick book really thick. Okay. Fredy Aviles: Thousands of pages big thick book that's called a diagnostic and statistical manual mental disorders.
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Fredy Aviles: Which provides information about mental disorders about psychological disorders. Okay. And it uses five dimensions to diagnose mental disorders like five rules five things that need to be followed.
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Fredy Aviles: To help diagnose mental disorders. Now I do want to caution you guys, this is just a book that provides information, a lot of good information. It is used by experts by, you know, train psychologists to help diagnose disorders. It is not really meant to be used on its own. Okay.
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Fredy Aviles: Because there can also often be some Miss diagnosis or they can be some disagreement about whether someone has a certain disorder or not. Okay. So it's a guide. It's an aid, it's not. It's something that you should use without training is what I'm saying, okay, and
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Fredy Aviles: I want to mention before I get to the disorders. Before we get to other things I want to mention. Well, how do you even know if you have a psychological disorder tell you even know
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Fredy Aviles: I'll tell you about that in a, in a moment. So here are some disorders here. Actually, I'll tell you guys now. But how do you know if you have a certain psychological disorder. Fredy Aviles: Let's say, like, major depressive disorder, alcohol abuse or specific phobia. These are just some examples here. It's a graph right shows you how common Fredy Aviles: Some disorders are, how do you know if you have a psychological disorder.
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Fredy Aviles: Right. Um, well, here's the thing. What makes it a psychological disorder. What makes it abnormal is if you have trouble coping. If it's causing problems for you. Like you might feel down, you might feel a little bit sad that doesn't mean you're depressed when you are depressed.
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Fredy Aviles: It will cause problems for you. Fredy Aviles: You know, you're, you're more likely to struggle in school, we're likely to struggle with your relationships, more likely to have problems with work with others. It affects your life. That's what makes it abnormal. That's what makes it a psychological disorder.
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Fredy Aviles: If you're coping just fine and you feel a little bit bummed out that doesn't mean you're depressed. We all have anxiety. Even I have some anxiety. I have some stress. Fredy Aviles: You know, especially when I'm dealing with my work. That doesn't mean I have a problem. How do you know you have a problem. Fredy Aviles: Well, when it's causing you problems when it's affecting your ability to function normally.
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Fredy Aviles: That's when you know you have a problem that you have a stress disorder, you have an anxiety disorder, and we'll talk about that. But here we have different psychological disorders here and we have Fredy Aviles: You know, females in red and males in the light blue if you can see that or light or kind of grayish and the blue is the, the total that's both males and females. And you can see that for major depression there.
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Fredy Aviles: More females than males suffer from major depression lifetime surveillance. That means the chances that you're going to develop a Fredy Aviles: major depression. Let's say about 20% chance in females. It's less for males, maybe like that 13% chance Fredy Aviles: But you can see for alcohol abuse. There's a lot more males close to 20% who will have problems with alcohol abuse alcoholism. Then there are females.
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Fredy Aviles: phobias. Those are things that have to do with an irrational fear and excessive fear. I'll talk about that females are more likely to suffer than that for males. Fredy Aviles: You have social anxiety disorder, more likely more females drug use more males will have problems with drugs than females. Fredy Aviles: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder more females are likely to have that problem generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder obsessive compulsive disorder. Justin me on
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Fredy Aviles: Most disorders, you'll actually find that more female suffer from them than males. There are some disorders. Fredy Aviles: That male suffer more from and it's telling which disorders. Those are, it's usually things that have to do with drugs and things that have to do with violence.
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Fredy Aviles: And just being awful. Okay, those are the ones that male suffer from female suffer more from like mood disorders and anxiety and things like that. And there are more of those than there are those other ones.
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Fredy Aviles: So let's keep going.
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Fredy Aviles: Here's just a
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Fredy Aviles: How would you call this a figure here that
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Fredy Aviles: That tells you that something known as comorbidity CC you have here the first circle there on the left in the light gray. Fredy Aviles: That's it's it's labeled as obsessive compulsive disorder. And then the light blue one on the right, that's labeled as major depressive disorder. Notice how the circles overlap.
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Fredy Aviles: 41% comorbidity. What does that mean comorbidity call means together morbidity has to do with illness or disease. What that means is that if you have major depressive disorder. If you have depression.
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Fredy Aviles: You Probably not. Probably, but there's a probably a 41% chance that you also have obsessive compulsive disorder.
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Fredy Aviles: If you have obsessive compulsive disorder. There's like a 41% chance you also you are also depressed. Here's the point about this. What this means is that
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Fredy Aviles: That disorders, often go together when you have one problem, there's a good chance you also have another problem.
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Fredy Aviles: If you have depression, there's a good chance you probably also have an anxiety problem and obsessive compulsive disorder is one of those problems, its prominence do with anxiety. Fredy Aviles: That's what we often find with people who have psychological problems psychological disorders that they usually don't only have one problem. A lot of them have more than one
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Fredy Aviles: Okay so obsessive compulsive disorder and major depressive disorder frequently occur in the same person that's comorbidity
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Fredy Aviles: When you have depression. You also usually have anxiety problems, not usually. But a good chunk of them close to half also have anxiety problems. Fredy Aviles: Some people just have depression. Some people just have obsessive compulsive disorder, but a lot of them will have both. That's what that means.
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Fredy Aviles: And not give you other examples of this. As we progress. So let's talk about some of these mood disorders and a lot of these by the way you've already heard about. Okay. Fredy Aviles: You're going to understand what they are. Okay, so I try not to spend too much time on this, so we can get through the lecture.
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Fredy Aviles: There'll be some weird ones that you're going to have to pay a little bit more attention to. But a lot of these you've already heard about, like, major depression or just called depression. Fredy Aviles: You probably already heard about that you have some idea of what it is. Here are just some symptoms that are found on the DSM.
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Fredy Aviles: major depression is depressed when you have a depressed or irritable mood. So you feel awful right there's feelings of worthlessness, I can give you a whole bunch of other things. So you feel awful feelings of worthlessness often there are suicidal thoughts there is often lack of appetite.
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Fredy Aviles: You don't base you have trouble sleeping.
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Fredy Aviles: you withdraw from people you're grouchy you're irritable. That's major depression. You just feel awful you feel like you would rather be dead. And I'm not exaggerating. Fredy Aviles: Okay. Depression is awful. I've experienced that in my life when I was younger, and I can tell you that it is awful. You feel like you're the most worthless.
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Fredy Aviles: miserable person in the world. You don't want to be bothered you want to be left alone. You're grouchy you're irritable, you often sleep too much or can't sleep at all. Fredy Aviles: You don't take pleasure in just about anything. Everything seems just miserable and awful. It's the most common mood disorder, by the way, and we'll talk about a few
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Fredy Aviles: But depression is very, very common, as we saw in the graph earlier about one in five about 20% of females will experience major depression at some point in their lives. That means they'll have depression, to the extent Fredy Aviles: That it will be developed and it will cause problems in your life, not just you feel bummed out every now and then, because it's normal to feel bummed out every now and then.
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Fredy Aviles: You know, it's just normal. Okay, especially if you go through a breakup, or you lose a family member, someone you know you lose a loved one. It's normal for you feel awful for a while. But what happens is you get better.
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Fredy Aviles: If you are depressed. You don't really get better. You feel awful and you continue feeling awful for months or even years as a matter of fact for you to have depression, you have to have these feelings for like at least six months.
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Fredy Aviles: Otherwise, it doesn't really qualify as depression because we all have ups and downs. It has to continue its major depression and usually last a long time it will last months or even years okay if it's not treated
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Fredy Aviles: Just them. Yeah. Is it just me has less intense depression that will last at least two years this tamia is like when you're feeling down you feel awful. It's not as extreme as depression, but it seems to last longer. Okay, last at least two years. Okay.
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Fredy Aviles: I'm not sure that's even a different psychological disorder. It just seems like less intense depression, but it does seem to last longer, but even major depression by itself can last for years. Okay.
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Fredy Aviles: Let's talk about other ones. There's also bipolar disorder. And I'm sorry, guys. I can't really show you guys the videos because it doesn't really work on zoom. For some reason, a lot of people told me Fredy Aviles: That they can't hear it. Right. There's audio problems. So I'm not going to try to play that or some links there might be some links there to videos that you guys can watch on your own via YouTube and stuff.
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Fredy Aviles: But another mood disorder is called bipolar disorder. It's also called manic depression.
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Fredy Aviles: This is when you fluctuate between two extremes. Okay, there's alternating mania and depression. We know what depression is. That's when you feel awful. Fredy Aviles: Okay, when nothing brings excitement you if you feel miserable worthless. You have suicidal thoughts and things like that. That's depression. We talked about that. Fredy Aviles: But these people sometimes feel depressed and sometimes they also experience mania mania is the opposite of depression.
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Fredy Aviles: They feel excessively excited. They're talking. They're shouting. They're basically they act like like they're on a control. Sometimes you ever heard the word maniac a maniac right is someone who's kind of out of control. Right. Well, these people experienced mania.
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Fredy Aviles: Okay. They act like maniacs they're really happy and excited and they'll party. They'll drink like crazy. They'll do drugs and they'll, they'll be out of control. It's the opposite of depression. They feel wonderful.
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Fredy Aviles: And then days later, they can feel miserable and depressed and suicidal. Fredy Aviles: So they go through these two extremes. That's what bipolar means bi polar bi means to polar means to extremes two poles. Okay. They can be normal in between. Fredy Aviles: Okay, you can have normal mood in between where you know if you catch them on one of their good days, you might not know that they have a problem.
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Fredy Aviles: But then they might be depressed for days and then normal for a few days and then may and then and have mania for several days and they and they'll go back and forth in this cycle over and over again. It just keeps going to keep going through this cycle.
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Fredy Aviles: Okay, um, let's keep going.
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Fredy Aviles: There are ok so those were mood disorders, there are many more by the way that we've talked about depression to stimulate bipolar disorder. There are other mood disorders, but those are the some of the more Fredy Aviles: Common ones. Okay, now let's talk about anxiety disorders, anxiety disorders are disorders in which well you're very anxious, in one form or another.
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Fredy Aviles: One type of anxiety disorders, called the phobia phobias are excessive unreasonable fear of something Fredy Aviles: See, we're all afraid of things right, we're all afraid of certain things. A lot of us are afraid of snakes. Okay. A lot of people are just, you know, afraid of several things. We all have fears.
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Fredy Aviles: But that doesn't mean you have a phobia. When you have a phobia. That means it's excessive it's unreasonable. You are so afraid of something that it causes problems in your life like social phobia.
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Fredy Aviles: Fear of social situations. People who have a social phobia, they're so afraid of going out in public. Fredy Aviles: That they won't leave their house. They won't go to work, they won't go to school, they won't go anywhere. They are so afraid of social situations.
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Fredy Aviles: That is excessive that is unreasonable that's causing problems in your life or people who have claustrophobia fear of tight spaces is what that is. They won't get in an elevator. They won't get into a small car.
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Fredy Aviles: Into a crowded subway. That is abnormal. Okay, you need to do those things just to go through your normal everyday life.
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Fredy Aviles: Or people who have snake phobia, like I said, a lot of us are afraid of snakes. I'm afraid of snakes. When I go hiking, I go jogging. Fredy Aviles: And I go through those hills. I'm always looking. Make sure there's no snake in my path right I'm afraid of them. Most people are afraid of snakes, but I don't have a phobia people who have snake phobia are so afraid of snakes.
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Fredy Aviles: If you just show them a picture of a snake they freak out, they get so scared of just looking at a picture a snake on TV I sneak in real life. They'll run away screaming
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Fredy Aviles: That's excessive that's unreasonable. Most of us are not that afraid of snakes, etc. There are many phobias. There are people are afraid of heights afraid of public speaking.
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Fredy Aviles: There's people who are afraid of all sorts of things you can. Here's the thing. You can become afraid of just about anything you can develop a fully of just about anything. Why because phobias are usually learned through classical conditioning. Remember that form of learning right
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Fredy Aviles: They are usually learned and you can learn to become afraid of anything. As a matter of fact, go ahead, go on YouTube and look up some videos and you will find that Fredy Aviles: There's people who have all sorts of strange phobias and if we were in class, I would show you a video of someone who is afraid of mustard.
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Fredy Aviles: There's people afraid of pickles. You can become afraid of just about anything that sounds really strange.
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Fredy Aviles: But the thing is, you can develop a for me up just about anything. But these are more common phobias. A lot of people are afraid of snakes. Fredy Aviles: Some people have snake phobia. There are many, but these are fears that are excessive and unreasonable. Okay. They have to be problematic. They have to be unreasonable intense so that they cause problems in your life.
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Fredy Aviles: Other anxiety disorders panic disorders.
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Fredy Aviles: Panic disorder is when you have recurrent panic attacks.
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Fredy Aviles: So you keep having panic attacks and here's some symptoms of a panic attack a pounding heart sweating shaking shortness of breath, chest pain, those are just some symptoms you actually feel like you're having a heart attack. When you have a panic attack.
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Fredy Aviles: But it's actually an anxiety problem you have a panic attack when you have a panic attack, it's usually because you've been so stressed out so anxious for so long. Fredy Aviles: That you can't handle it and you have a nervous breakdown and you basically you feel like you're having a heart attack. You feel like you're going to die. Now that's a panic attack. Now, when you have these over and over again. Then you have panic disorder.
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Fredy Aviles: People have panic disorder. They have panic attacks so often.
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Fredy Aviles: That they, you know, they basically feel them coming. They no one's coming and they have to leave the room. They have to stop whatever they're doing and go away somewhere where they can calm themselves down Fredy Aviles: They have them so often. Now, if you had one or two or something like that doesn't mean you're a panic disorder. I even me. I've had a panic attack in my life. I've had one
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Fredy Aviles: I was just under a lot of stress. When I first started college I just felt awful. I felt miserable. I wasn't doing well. I felt I was coping right and
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Fredy Aviles: You know, one day I went to sleep.
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Fredy Aviles: And then I woke up screaming like somebody who's trying to kill me.
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Fredy Aviles: And you know, I realize now that was a panic attack is really what it was.
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Fredy Aviles: But I've haven't had a whole bunch of them. I don't have a problem. I don't have panic disorder. Right. But people have panic or they have panic attacks again and again.
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Fredy Aviles: And that you can see how it would ruin your life. I've had students who are panic disorder and I've given me their Fredy Aviles: Their basically their accommodation, right, something that says they have a disability student has panic disorder and may have to leave the room at any time.
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Fredy Aviles: Right. That causes problems. You can't even be in the classroom. When you feel one coming and it's going to cause problems. It's going to make it difficult for you to learn difficult for you to do well in school difficult for you to have relationships difficulty for you to keep a job.
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Fredy Aviles: Okay that's panic disorder.
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Fredy Aviles: Another anxiety disorder is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. As a lot of you know it.
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Fredy Aviles: PTSD. Okay. A lot of you have heard about this. Most of you probably know what this is. This is post traumatic stress disorder. Fredy Aviles: And I'm trying to give you a very brief definitions, because if you look these up, especially in DSM, you'll see there's a ton of information about these I'm just giving you just enough so you understand what they are.
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Fredy Aviles: So posttraumatic stress disorder is when you keep re experiencing the emotions associated with a traumatic event. Fredy Aviles: You've been traumatized. That's one way to put it. Right. You've had a very horrible experience. Fredy Aviles: And you keep reliving the experience you keep having the anxiety, the fear, the nightmares associated with that traumatic event. So one example. Let's say you
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Fredy Aviles: Let's say you served in the military, and you went in there. You served in Iraq or something like that and you watch people die in front of you. You were shot at. Maybe you were almost blown up. Or maybe you were even
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Fredy Aviles: You know almost blown up by one of those IDs not and now you're, you know, you're missing part of your leg or or you have your severely injured or something like that. Fredy Aviles: Um, a lot of people come back with this problem post traumatic stress disorder where they basically they have this stress disorder. They're traumatized.
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Fredy Aviles: And they wake up with, you know, have you know after having nightmares and fears. They hear you know like fireworks a fourth of July and they think they're there again right at war, and they think that somebody trying to kill them.
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Fredy Aviles: You know, sudden noises can can really set them off. That's post traumatic stress disorder. Fredy Aviles: Okay, you keep re experiencing the emotions and the fears. If you didn't have it. You wouldn't over react to those things you wouldn't feel that way.
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Fredy Aviles: But it's not just war experiencing war that can lead to things like that. Maybe you've been in a car accident and you almost died. And you keep having dreams and nightmares about that and you refuse to get in a car or something like that. But suppose dramatic stress disorder.
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Fredy Aviles: It can even happen to children if they watch a scary movie.
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Fredy Aviles: They can become traumatized or traumatized from physical or sexual abuse. Fredy Aviles: And basically it means that they're traumatized. They keep having the fear, the anxiety keeps coming back and they can have nightmares. Right. Fredy Aviles: That's what it is. And it can make people violent, it can make people feel like they're on edge. You know, it can, it's it's really problematic. That's post traumatic stress disorder.
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Fredy Aviles: Another one is generalized anxiety disorder. And by the way, the little asterisks there or the little star or a little flower, it was that was just a
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Fredy Aviles: A kind of cue, a reminder for me to kind of read. You guys have a specific case, and then we can talk about it, but we can't really do it via zoom can do this live so I'm just going to tell you about it. Okay. Fredy Aviles: Generalized Anxiety disorders and other anxiety disorder. This is a disorder where you worry excessively about many things.
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Fredy Aviles: You see, when you have a phobia, there's a specific thing you're afraid of when you have generalized anxiety disorder everything makes you anxious, it seems like everything you worry about many things.
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Fredy Aviles: So you're restless, right. You can't relax you have difficulty concentrating you're very grouchy or irritable. Let me tell you more about this. Okay. Um, you basically worry about everything. Fredy Aviles: Even things that should be positive. Let's say there's a The holidays are coming up right let's say thanksgivings coming up.
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Fredy Aviles: And you start worrying. Oh my god, what am I going to do I need to, you know, I need to get an outfit I need to make sure I get the, you know, I get the turkey and I do all this stuff and and there you are all stressed out and grouchy and anxious about this.
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Fredy Aviles: You worry about work you worry about school you worry about your children you worry about the home you worry about everything that's generalized anxiety disorder, you're always anxious, you're always worried and you're grouchy you're irritable. Right.
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Fredy Aviles: That's generalized anxiety disorder. Here's the thing about gentle exercise order we worry about a lot of things in our life right we have Fredy Aviles: A lot of us will have problems and we'll worry about things people have generalized anxiety disorder. They are they've gotten so used to worrying about things that they can't stop worrying.
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Fredy Aviles: My mother had this for many years. She had a job where her boss was really mean always yelling at the employees always telling them to work harder and work faster. Fredy Aviles: And she got that job for decades and even after she retired. She had generalized anxiety disorder. She was grouchy and irritable and and she would always worry about things worry about the holidays worry about birthdays and worry about everything.
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Fredy Aviles: Over the years, she has calmed down, but you get so used to wearing that you can't stop and you worry about everything. Fredy Aviles: That's generalized anxiety disorder and remember it's a problem if it causes you difficulties at school at work and your relationship if it's if you cannot cope. We all have anxiety, we won't worry about things right when you have this. It's a real problem and it's ruining your life.
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Fredy Aviles: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, otherwise known as OCD.
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Fredy Aviles: All of you probably heard about this one.
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Fredy Aviles: And the name kind of speaks for itself. You have them sessions and you have compulsions Fredy Aviles: The obsessions are pervasive involuntary thoughts. Let me explain that obsessions are things that you think about that. You can't stop thinking about Fredy Aviles: The pervasive, they're always there. These thoughts there involuntary. You can't control them, and they keep coming back.
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Fredy Aviles: So an example might be you think your hands are dirty right you you keep thinking, My hands are dirty. My hands are dirty right Fredy Aviles: And those repetitive thoughts drive the compulsions that's the repetitive behavior. Fredy Aviles: An example might be washing your hands over and over again. So you keep thinking, your hands are dirty, your hands are dirty, your hands are dirty. So you wash your hands over and over again.
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Fredy Aviles: And then you feel better after you wash your hands and then the thought comes back, your hands are dirty and then you wash again and then the thought and you the thought comes back and you keep doing this over and over again.
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Fredy Aviles: And people who have this type of OCD, they wash their hands so much that their hands will begin to bleed. After a while because you're rubbing away the skin. If you wash your hands too much.
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Fredy Aviles: But there's people who obsess about their health. There's people who obsess about cleanliness at home.
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Fredy Aviles: Or about their work.
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Fredy Aviles: You know,
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Fredy Aviles: My wife has this about her work. She's a teacher and she's always working
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Fredy Aviles: If she's not grading she's looking at her lectures and redoing them making them better.
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Fredy Aviles: And there you know and then she if she finds things extra time, she will actually reorganize all her papers all her work and she'll having this mess everywhere and all she's doing is reorganizing stuff that's all CD right keeps obsessing about her work.
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Fredy Aviles: She also obsesses about cleanliness right she rearrange things around the house. Just the other day I was trying to find the Q tips. I don't know where they are. Why, because she moved them. They used to be somewhere. Now there's somewhere else she does that, with a lot of things.
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Fredy Aviles: If she ever has. She works really hard. But if she ever finds that she has extra time all she does is reorganize things
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Fredy Aviles: And it drives people crazy it drives her nuts, too. She's always always worried about stuff that's obsessive compulsive sort, but you can be about many things you can obsess about Fredy Aviles: You know, like I said about your health about safety about all sorts of things. You keep having these thoughts, keep coming back over and over again and that drives you to do certain things over and over again and it becomes
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Fredy Aviles: really problematic. It can be so debilitating, by the way, that there are people who have obsessive compulsive disorder, to the extent that they can't even leave their homes. There was one case, I've heard about where I actually saw a documentary on TV. This guy who had this obsession that
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Fredy Aviles: If he took a step forward, he had to take a step back.
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Fredy Aviles: So they had this thoughts. Right. I took a step, I have to take a step back and what does this mean he couldn't go anywhere. He will he couldn't leave the damn house because he had this just this OCD about movement.
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Fredy Aviles: And he was basically trapped in his home. He couldn't get out, he wouldn't. And he was just so incredible how obsessed. He was with that. Fredy Aviles: And it would basically me meant means he couldn't do anything for himself. Right, that's an extreme example, you might have it in a lesser form. If you have this, but if it's causing you problems that means it's abnormal
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Fredy Aviles: All right, here are some. There are some disorders, I said that are going to sound a little bit weird. Most of these you've heard about some of them are a little bit weird. And you have to pay a little bit more attention study a little bit more
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Fredy Aviles: We're going to the point of where we're going to talk about those weird ones. There are what we called psychosomatic disorders psychosomatic disorders are disorders where you have a physical illness. Fredy Aviles: that's caused by something psychological like stress and anxiety attention headache and older or a rash, right. Those are just some examples. A psychosomatic disorders. Basically, when you have such severe stress, anxiety that it makes you physically sick.
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Fredy Aviles: You think of physical illnesses usually appearing do something physical. Right. Something you eat. Fredy Aviles: Or something you did or maybe you can. You, you, you know, something bit you or something like that. But no, this is something psychological causing a physical problem is what this is.
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Fredy Aviles: If you get very stressed out, you can get a headache. There's nothing wrong with you physically. It's basically the stress is making you have a headache, you can develop an ulcer a rash.
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Fredy Aviles: What happens is stress over time or severe stress can weaken your immune system and when your immune systems weekend you can develop all sorts of illnesses, you can develop cancer, high blood pressure, I've rash, all sorts of things.
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Fredy Aviles: Turns out that our mind can make us sick. That's a psychosomatic disorder when something like stress and anxiety and usually that's what it is stress or anxiety causes physical problems physical illnesses.
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Fredy Aviles: Now there are some other ones that actually also are weird. And these are called tomato form disorders and tomato former soldiers come in different forms. It's going to sound like psychosomatic disorder. It's not the same thing. Fredy Aviles: So made a form disorder is when you have an apparent physical illness with no identifiable physical cause. So you think there's something wrong with you, but there's no evidence that anything is wrong with you.
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Fredy Aviles: Keep in mind that with with psychosomatic disorders. There is something physically wrong with you here. There is nothing wrong with you, but you think there is patients believe they're ill, but they have no physical symptoms.
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Fredy Aviles: And it comes in different forms and here are the different forms. Here's two of them. Fredy Aviles: There's some adaptation disorders. One of them so monetization disorder is when you have vague minor physical complaints without a physical cause when you complain, complain of vague minor things
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Fredy Aviles: But there's nothing wrong with you. It's all in your head, so to speak. So you complain a back pain that your back hurts that you're dizzy that your shortness of breath or that you have a rush. But there's nothing wrong with you, there's nothing there.
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Fredy Aviles: You may complain of joint pain, or that you have that you feel like you need to pee all the time and things like that. There's actually nothing wrong with you. It's all in your head.
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Fredy Aviles: That is the meditation disorder.
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Fredy Aviles: You go to the doctor doctor can't find anything wrong with you.
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Fredy Aviles: That's the meditations for that vague minor things okay not conversion disorder is when you have more severe dramatic problems. Okay. Fredy Aviles: Conversion disorders. When you have a dramatic specific disability without a physical cause so you complain about things that are extreme but there's no evidence there's anything wrong with you.
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Fredy Aviles: going blind before a test. There are people who basically who are so um
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Fredy Aviles: You know so anxious about their tests.
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Fredy Aviles: so stressed out about it that they literally lose the ability to see, they can't see.
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Fredy Aviles: But there's nothing wrong with their eyes. It is all psychological and by the way they are not faking it, they're not making it up. They can't see, but it's all because of stress. It's all because of something psychological
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Fredy Aviles: And I have experienced that, by the way, when I was first learning how to drive.
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Fredy Aviles: And I got on the freeway. I was with my number. I was with my cousins got on the freeway, you know, there was fine and stuff like that. And it was getting a, you know, and then we were getting closer to an exit and they told me. Okay. Exit here so I I exited
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Fredy Aviles: And then they're all like they're all talking to me at the same time. And I'm trying to drive, it's the first time I've been on the freeway I'm exiting and they're all talking to me at the same time I got so stressed out.
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Fredy Aviles: You know, I didn't know what to do and they're telling me all take turns it to the right off to the left, you know, and they're all yelling at me and like I literally I told them I can't freakin. See, I can't. Where, where is it, you know, I can't see you know Fredy Aviles: Luckily, I was okay I slow down, but literally I experienced that for a moment for like a second I felt like I couldn't see
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Fredy Aviles: Okay, so I know that that's real. But there's other examples of it. There are people, for instance, who just Fredy Aviles: Believe. They're so sick so disable that they can't walk and there's nothing physically wrong with them. There are people who believe they're paralyzed. There's nothing wrong with them.
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Fredy Aviles: I'm not saying that there's people out there. There's a bunch of people out there and wheelchairs, who are not really paralyzed. They could walk at any moment. I'm saying that there are people Fredy Aviles: Who believe that they are paralyzed people who believe they can walk in, it's all in their heads. There are some people who have this problem conversion disorder.
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Fredy Aviles: There's nothing wrong with them, but their mind kind of makes them believe that. And then they can't walk the cat move, they can't see right that's conversion disorder. So notice, it is more dramatic more specific summarization disorders more vague other words, that sounds similar
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Fredy Aviles: Other types over here. There's also hypochondria says hypochondria says that when you heard about it, you know. Ever heard of somebody being a hypochondriac.
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Fredy Aviles: Those people have hypochondria says
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Fredy Aviles: This is where they interpret insignificant symptoms as a sign of serious illness.
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Fredy Aviles: So they're always checking for things they look at themselves and they might see that their skin is a little bit wrinkly. So they run to the doctor is a doctor, I have cancer and the doctor check them nothing wrong with them.
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Fredy Aviles: They look at their tongue and they see little bumps and again they go to the doctor, doctor, I have a disease, there's something wrong with me. Nothing wrong with them.
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Fredy Aviles: If they have a headache. They think they have they're getting a stroke or that they have a brain tumor.
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Fredy Aviles: If they have, you know, feel a little bit tired, maybe because
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Fredy Aviles: For whatever reason, they've been
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Fredy Aviles: Working hard or something like that, physically and they're a little bit tired. They think they're having a heart attack and that they can't breathe.
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Fredy Aviles: Thoughts hypochondria ISIS.
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Fredy Aviles: Body Dysmorphic Disorder is different.
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Fredy Aviles: And this one stands out, it's different and interesting. You're not going to get this one confused with the other ones body dysmorphic disorder. Fredy Aviles: What is when they believe that there's something about their body or something about them. That is so abnormal so ugly that they have to hide it. So it has to do with the body, body, and then this means bad morphing shape they believe there's something about their body.
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Fredy Aviles: Something about them. That is so hideous so misshapen that they have to hide.
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Fredy Aviles: This example here, like you believe your face is too ugly to show it. I remember the cartoon when I was a kid, I didn't watch the movie, but this is this image comes from the movie. Fredy Aviles: That the cartoon very old okay I'm Fat Albert. That's the name of the cartoon, and they made a movie about it. There's this character.
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Fredy Aviles: Who's always wearing that something like that or what you call that our hood or whatever. He's always wearing something like that, covering his face all the time we refuse to show his face. He probably has body dysmorphic disorder.
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Fredy Aviles: Doesn't want to show his faith believe there's something really wrong with it.
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Fredy Aviles: That's just one example from the media. But there's other examples of people who Fredy Aviles: For instance, are always covering their nose with a book with their hands with something because they believe their nose is so ugly and so big didn't want anybody to see it, or people who will always cover their ears.
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Fredy Aviles: Or maybe their, their head with a hat or something like that, because they believe their head is so ugly.
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Fredy Aviles: Or there's women who cover their bodies. They were, they always wear baggy clothing or very loose clothing, because they believe their bodies are so ugly. They don't want anybody to see the shape of their body. So they work clothes that hide the shape of their bodies.
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Fredy Aviles: Those are just some examples.
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Fredy Aviles: All right, let's keep going. Okay. We're doing good on time. I think we'll get through this.
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Fredy Aviles: There's other disorders that are also a little bit weird.
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Fredy Aviles: Some of these weird disorders are called dissociative disorders dissociative disorders are when basically something about personality memory or identity is split
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Fredy Aviles: It comes in different forms, but dissociative disorders means that some part of your mind of your memory basically has been separated from your risk from the rest. And that causes Fredy Aviles: Certain problems. One of those is one of them is called dissociative amnesia amnesia, you know, has to do with loss of memory. So dissociative amnesia is when there's a memory loss, without a physical cause
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Fredy Aviles: It's not like you fell and hit your head okay or you're taking drugs and then you can remember things. No, there's no reason for that, right, there's no physical cause Fredy Aviles: So instead what is happening. Usually, is that you're undergoing a lot of stress. A lot of turmoil in your life. And then one day you lose your mind and you don't remember anything or you don't remember who you are.
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Fredy Aviles: And you say, Who am I, where am I, what the hell's going on. You literally lose your mind, you don't know who you are, you don't recognize anybody
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Fredy Aviles: A dissociative few would be when the person with amnesia leaves home and as soon as a new identity.
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Fredy Aviles: So usually what happens is somebody who's under a lot of stress. Fredy Aviles: At one point, or lose their mind they don't no longer recognize themselves in the mirror. They don't know who they are. They don't know who the people around them, which is their family. They don't recognize those people anymore. They don't recognize your surrounding
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Fredy Aviles: And they leave.
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Fredy Aviles: Because they don't recognize anyone or anything. They leave and they start a new life somewhere else.
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Fredy Aviles: Sometimes they've been found away from home.
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Fredy Aviles: You know I'm living a whole new life. And remember, they're not really faking it. It's not those people who fake it, that's different. By the people who fake it. That's called malingering Fredy Aviles: But these people really don't remember who they are, you know, usually because a lot of stress. A lot of turmoil and they lose their mind.
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Fredy Aviles: Lose their memory, so to speak. Usually when things come down, they regain their memories and then they look around, say, What the hell am I doing here, you know, and then they realize who they are and then they go back home. It's happened to two people.
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Fredy Aviles: It's happened to there's a case about a sheriff right you can know being a sheriff being a police officer can be very stressful, very dangerous sure who every now and then he would lose his mind and instead of being, you know, acting like the sheriff, he would become the outlaw type
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Fredy Aviles: And then he would go ahead and mingle with the criminals and become one of them and kind of was and you know basically that's dissociative amnesia.
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Fredy Aviles: There was another case of some old man who basically lost his mind. One day didn't remember where he was. He ran away from home. And then he was found in a nearby town.
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Fredy Aviles: selling tickets to a porno theater. They used to have those in the past. I don't not during my time, but in the past, they usually actually actually used to show pornography, like in the movies.
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Fredy Aviles: Nowadays, of course, everything comes to the internet. But those are just some examples. And that can happen. Fredy Aviles: And here's one that you guys have heard about and I can't show you guys the video, but you can find you know videos about this on YouTube. Fredy Aviles: Okay, and that's usually what I will do in class as we're doing this live. Okay. There's also dissociative identity disorder.
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Fredy Aviles: Otherwise known as multiple personality disorder. All of you have probably heard of multiple personality disorder. This is one, there seems to be different people living inside you that you're sharing your mind with different people and they take over at different times.
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Fredy Aviles: Are the movie me, myself and Irene with Jim Carrey that's supposed to be a comedy. I actually haven't seen it, but it's supposed to be about that.
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Fredy Aviles: But, you know, and you literally feel like you are different people at different times. Then a different person emerges at different times.
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Fredy Aviles: And there's been cases of this where people, a lot of people who have developed this disorder have actually experienced severe sexual or physical abuse. Fredy Aviles: And it seems that that basically what the mind does is that the mind creates a different personality to kind of handle the difficulties or the stress the anxiety, the problems. And then the other one is driven underground so to speak to the unconscious
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Fredy Aviles: And so, that person may take over at different times and the other one is pushed out of awareness and then maybe the up that one goes away and the other one comes out, you can have more than two bother you can have three for Fredy Aviles: That video there that I'm not showing you guys about someone who had like 53 different personalities.
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Fredy Aviles: Seems you have different people living inside him at different times, it seems kind of spooky some somewhat weird
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Fredy Aviles: But Freud's theory, by the way, for he talks about the unconscious and the conscious mind phrases Freud's theory is the only thing that could account for those kinds of things.
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Fredy Aviles: How your identity, your, your memory. Your personality can be driven underground to the unconscious in different ones can emerge to deal with different situations. It's interesting, right, and we would know a lot more if you watch the video, but you've all probably heard about this.
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Fredy Aviles: Let's keep going. There are other disorders, you, you guys have all probably heard of schizophrenia. Turns out there's different kinds of schizophrenia.
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Fredy Aviles: There's more than one there is disorganized schizophrenia. Fredy Aviles: In which the person speech and behavior is disorganized and by disorganized. I mean, it doesn't make any sense. Okay, so that might be disorganized speech where the person jumps from subject to subject and and and they're not coherent their, their speech doesn't make any sense.
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Fredy Aviles: They talk about different things. I don't want to. The time is right. You know, you got to seize the moment
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Fredy Aviles: Whatever it is, I don't, I can't even imitate okay but there's speeches all over the place. It doesn't make any sense. Fredy Aviles: And then there's behavior is disorganized their behavior doesn't make any sense. Don't be laughing for no reason, making gestures, giving somebody the finger and you know for no reason.
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Fredy Aviles: deprecating, which is pooping urinating in public. Now I'm aware that there are homeless people who do that and they do know what they're doing and they try to hide that these people don't know that what they're doing is wrong, they will do it right in front of people.
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Fredy Aviles: That's disorganized schizophrenia.
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Fredy Aviles: And by the way, with disorganized schizophrenia, there is something wrong with the brain.
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Fredy Aviles: Okay, that's what the research shows there's something wrong with the brain. There's also catatonic schizophrenia catatonic schizophrenia. That's what that image is showing you there with catatonic schizophrenia. There is disturbed motor behavior.
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Fredy Aviles: There are basically problems with movement they alternate between two states, they can be in a catatonic state, which is what the picture is showing Fredy Aviles: Where they're in mobile their mute, they're frozen like a statue, they won't talk. They won't react. You can poke out them, you know, move the they won't move. Push them over. They'll just fall on the floor like some frozen statue, they won't react.
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Fredy Aviles: And they may stay that way for minutes or hours.
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Fredy Aviles: And then they can have what's called a inactive state where they're the opposite. They're excited. They're talking. They're shouting
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Fredy Aviles: So one time they're frozen. The other time. They're the opposite disorder of movement that's called catatonic schizophrenia. It's really weird, but it does exist.
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Fredy Aviles: Now, there's also paranoid schizophrenia. When you guys think about schizophrenia, you're probably thinking about paranoid schizophrenia. Fredy Aviles: That's what was depicted in the in the movie A Beautiful Mind, which is a very good movie. By the way, okay, very good movie. It's people who are paranoid schizophrenia. They have certain symptoms they have these three symptoms extreme suspiciousness
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Fredy Aviles: You know, like the FBI is after me. People are trying to kill me. The Russians are after me.
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Fredy Aviles: They have that's the suspicion is where they think people are out to get them and they also have delusions, the delusions are things that they believe that are kind of
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Fredy Aviles: Can't possibly be true. Sometimes they are grand delusions, where they believe things that are just way out there. Fredy Aviles: So a delusion might be. I'm a CIA agent or something like that. I'm a code breaker. Right. That was hired by the government to track down the Russians Rama CIA agent and reality, they're not
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Fredy Aviles: Right. They have these delusions and they really believe that, by the way, they're not faking it. And then they mail, by the way. Some of them have what you call Grand Illusion. They believe things that can't possibly be true.
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Fredy Aviles: There's probably someone in downtown LA who believes he's Jesus, by the way, when I was younger I'd run into him. He was there and there's always people out there. Fredy Aviles: Who are schizophrenia and are delusional. There are people who believe there are Jesus there someone in Utah, who believes he is God.
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Fredy Aviles: And he has his group of followers by the people who believe in him. He's probably just a paranoid schizophrenia.
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Fredy Aviles: There are other people who have believed that there are Napoleon or Joan of Arc or someone like that someone who isn't alive anymore, but they believe that they are that person.
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Fredy Aviles: They're probably just mentally ill paranoid schizophrenia. Okay, um,
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Fredy Aviles: They also may have hallucinations, you know, and hallucinations usually common auditory form right they hear voices that's sometimes Fredy Aviles: That's what the hallucinations are auditory hallucinations. Some will also some will have visual hallucinations, but that's more rare where they see things that aren't there where they think they see their dad grandmother standing there talking to them.
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Fredy Aviles: Or they think they hear the voice of God or they see God in front of them talking to them.
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Fredy Aviles: If you run across people like that. Some of them do take on our kind of religious tone here.
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Fredy Aviles: Those people are probably mentally ill.
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Fredy Aviles: Okay. When you someone claims to be God, they claim their Jesus, they could they say that they talked directly with God and that is the whole God's Fredy Aviles: face and voice and all that stuff probably a paranoid schizophrenic. Fredy Aviles: Now, I know there are those holy books, the Bible and things like that where they talk about things like that. And I'm not talking about that.
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Fredy Aviles: Right, I'm not gonna say anything about your religious beliefs. But I'm talking about people claiming things today, right, those people are probably just mentally ill. Fredy Aviles: And you have to be careful with these people because they can cause a lot of trouble, and they can cause people to die. There was that guy. Jim Jones.
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Fredy Aviles: He was a preacher he believed the FBI was after him. He believed that he spoke directly to God and that God spoke to him and he believed that people were after him.
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Fredy Aviles: He moved his whole congregation to another country and they all wound up dead. They all drank some poison Kudo end up dead. There's the heaven gates cold. Fredy Aviles: Right, these people who believe that they were going to be rescued by aliens and taken to a better life. They were probably being led by a paranoid schizophrenic. There's the Waco, Texas incident.
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Fredy Aviles: There are these nutcases out there, promoting conspiracy theories promoting colts and things like that. And there are some people who fall prey to that and it usually ends very badly and ends and violence that ends in death.
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Fredy Aviles: Be very concerned if you hear about people claiming these things, they're probably just schizophrenia.
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Fredy Aviles: Okay, and some of them, like I said how people who believe in them.
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Fredy Aviles: There are people who also have undifferentiated schizophrenia. In other words, they have a variety of symptoms that don't fit any of the other types Fredy Aviles: There's also what we call residual schizophrenia, people who are under medication. Fredy Aviles: A lot of their symptoms have gone away. They still have a few that's residual they have a little bit of schizophrenia, but they're doing a lot better. There is medication for this.
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Fredy Aviles: Right, that can make them a lot better. And they have to stay on the medication if they get off of it, they will go back to being just as paranoid as they work. And by the way, they can also be dangerous. They can kill you if they think you're trying to kill them. Okay. These paranoid schizophrenia.
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Fredy Aviles: Let's keep going.
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Fredy Aviles: Now we're going to get into some really interesting stuff. Okay. There are also a personality disorders personality disorders are when people have developed inflexible maladaptive ways of thinking and behaving personality disorders are basically
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Fredy Aviles: You know, just personality forms that people have developed they've usually have had, you know, difficult
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Fredy Aviles: Times in their life very bad upbringing, very bad situations or have been Fredy Aviles: Really bad parenting and it doesn't mean that it's that they've all been sexually abused or neglected or things like that. A lot of them have Fredy Aviles: But some of them actually, it's just that they've been spoiled rotten or they've been led to believe things that are true. They've been given some very, very bad.
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Fredy Aviles: They've grown up around bad people bad parenting developed some really weird maladaptive ways of thinking and behaving. Fredy Aviles: And it's very difficult to change them, by the way. Fredy Aviles: So schizo personality disorder is one example. These are people who are. It sounds like schizophrenia, but it's not. These are people who don't want anything to do with people.
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Fredy Aviles: They don't enjoy being around people. They don't want to be around people, they don't even have relationships. They don't care about sexuality or anything.
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Fredy Aviles: They don't want to be around people at all.
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Fredy Aviles: And here's the thing. They don't really, it's one thing for you to be depressed and lonely and stuff and just stay away from people that way. Fredy Aviles: It's another thing to purposely choose to stay away from people. These people aren't lonely. They're not miserable. They don't want anything to do with anybody.
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Fredy Aviles: They don't express mashimo much emotion sadness, anger, happiness, nothing. There's very few activities that they enjoy if they if there's activities that they do. It's usually things that don't involve any interaction with other people.
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Fredy Aviles: That's abnormal. We are social
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Fredy Aviles: We want to be around other people's other people when we're not around them were miserable. We're lonely we're upset. These people, rather, I would rather do without people and don't need anybody. They really don't need anybody. They don't feel lonely or sad or anything.
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Fredy Aviles: There's also paranoid personality disorder which reminds me of some people by the way that I've heard of on TV. Okay. And on the news. Fredy Aviles: paranoid personality disorder. It's going to sound like paranoid schizophrenia, but it is not it is different. These are people who have pervasive unjustified distress suspiciousness people who believe that people are out to harm them out to get them out to screw them over.
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Fredy Aviles: And the thing is these thoughts are always it's pervasive. They're always think people are out to get them people are out to spread lies about them out to harm the reputation or do something back to them and it's unjustified. No one is trying to hurt them. It's not true.
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Fredy Aviles: And they're always very suspicious of other people.
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Fredy Aviles: And they may believe in conspiracy theories and all kinds of weird and crazy things. By the way, which our president has been promoting Fredy Aviles: And it's a very bad thing to promote stuff like that okay paranoid personality disorder, right, when you are so friggin paranoid that you're promoting all this nonsense. Fredy Aviles: And because you're a very important popular person. You're the president people believe you.
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Fredy Aviles: And and it's just not a very good thing. Okay, but I have my suspicions about this person right they show these symptoms. Fredy Aviles: But that's paranoid personality disorder and it comes in many forms. And by the way, Fredy Aviles: A lot of them are so paranoid that they can't even stay in one place, they'll move around from place to place. A lot of them are homeless because they just don't trust anyone
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Fredy Aviles: When it's that severe. There are some people who are just paranoid. By the way, it may not have a personality disorder where it's that problematic. Fredy Aviles: Where it causes those severe problems. But remember, if something causes problems for you, right, if you are so paranoid and you believe in all these conspiracy theories, all these people out to harm you all these people out to get you, that you don't get along with anybody.
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Fredy Aviles: Right, and that you have a lot of problems with people, you probably have a disorder.
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Fredy Aviles: Okay, there's other personality disorders. There's also Dependent Personality Disorder. These are people who are Fredy Aviles: Dependent. Okay. The name kind of says it all. These are people who haven't existed need to be taken care of. They feel helpless on their own.
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Fredy Aviles: They have difficulty making decisions difficulty expressing disagreement with people they lack self confidence or submissive, they're claiming. Let me explain. These are people to some extent that act like children. Fredy Aviles: They need you to tell them what to do. They need you to take care of them and do everything for them.
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Fredy Aviles: They, they can't take you saying anything mean about them because they will cry.
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Fredy Aviles: They feel that, you know, there are loads of they feel that they're no good. They'll you know there's submissive, they'll, they'll, they'll just you tell them something they'll just give in.
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Fredy Aviles: You know, if you yell at them, they'll just cry. Fredy Aviles: They're just extremely dependent. They're like children. They don't know how to take care of themselves, they cannot they need somebody to tell them what to do. Tell them how to do things. Tell them how to feel how to think and it's very, very abnormal
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Fredy Aviles: I've had a student like this, you know, going through college. But yeah, she had this problem, you know, and stuff like that and Fredy Aviles: It was just sad. But yeah, I need to be careful. I needed to be careful what I said. Fredy Aviles: Around her because it was, she was very easily shaken and start to cry for any little thing and stuff like that.
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Fredy Aviles: But let me give you a better example, rather than talk about my students because I really shouldn't even don't matter to take your name, but there was, there have been many cases of this
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Fredy Aviles: Of
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Fredy Aviles: Basically it's mostly women, by the way. It could also be meant, but mostly women. Fredy Aviles: There are women, for instance, were brought up in a very strict household and they're told what to do and what to think and how to behave themselves.
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Fredy Aviles: And then, then when they grow up, it's just assume that they're just going to get married and they get married and they marry someone a husband who tells them what to do and what to think and they're not really allowed to think for themselves or to decide anything for themselves.
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Fredy Aviles: And they don't learn to take care of themselves. And then one day, their husband leaves them or their husband dies because women often outlive their husbands and there they are. They don't know what to do with themselves.
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Fredy Aviles: They need someone to tell them what to do. So I'm going to take, take care of them, someone to tell them what to think. Right. That's Dependent Personality Disorder. It's not always women, the vast majority of cases like over 60% are women, but it but it could also happen to men.
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Fredy Aviles: Now, there's also avoidant personality disorder which by the way is still mostly women. There are some of these disorders that are more prevalent in women. Fredy Aviles: And some that are more prevalent and men will get to the ones that are more off more common in men in a moment.
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Fredy Aviles: Okay, there's avoidant personality disorder just people who are very avoided basically people who are hypersensitive they're extremely fear for criticism of rejection. So you always have to be nice to them.
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Fredy Aviles: Or they break down and cry and they're very fearful of being rejected.
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Fredy Aviles: So they'll often avoid people and won't get involved with people. Fredy Aviles: They feel inadequate right that there are no good, they feel they're unappealing. They're inferior that they're stupid and they shouldn't say anything. Right. They have difficulty forming intimate relationships. Fredy Aviles: They want to be with other people, but they're so shy so fearful so sensitive that they can't they are really afraid.
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Fredy Aviles: And because of that, they're often very lonely but they want to be with people. They are so hypersensitive been so avoided, they will often be loners and consider themselves losers.
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Fredy Aviles: And think about this, you probably have heard of people like this. I've seen people like this. Some of these people. You may be thinking about may have avoidant personality disorder. They're so fearful of people Fredy Aviles: So hypersensitive they want to be with people they definitely won't be with people, but they have difficulty forming relationships because of that.
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Fredy Aviles: They will, you know, get involved with people, but you almost have to guarantee that you won't hurt them that you won't leave them and you won't do anything bad to them.
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Fredy Aviles: And you tell them that. And there are no guarantees in life.
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Fredy Aviles: Okay, but that's avoidant personality disorder. So where are the ones for men. All right. We'll get to those in a moment. Most of these are women Borderline Personality Disorder. Now picture Britney Spears right there. Right. I suspect that Britney Spears.
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Fredy Aviles: Had this or still has it okay that showed all the symptoms Borderline Personality Disorder is when you basically have an unstable or extreme self image mode relationships. Let me explain right basic. Let me explain your image is unstable you change your looks, constantly
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Fredy Aviles: Maybe your hair color, the way you wear your hair, your clothing and all that stuff. It's not just that you change your look constantly is also a very extreme Fredy Aviles: You will dress and provocative ways are you, where you have hairstyle that get a lot of attention. Fredy Aviles: Your mood is also very unstable and extreme very happy at some point and depressed and angry miserable and other times, and you fluctuate between these extremes. And you might think that they have
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Fredy Aviles: Bipolar Disorder, but they don't they, they're borderline it's different unstable relationships there with one person is. Oh, I found the man of my dreams are going to get married of these will be wonderful. And then two weeks later, that when somebody else.
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Fredy Aviles: And then that person is the one very unstable very extreme. They're very impulsive.
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Fredy Aviles: And engage in self destructive behavior impulsive self destructive behavior. Fredy Aviles: With impulsive self destruct behavior and talking about promiscuity, they'll sleep with this guy or this person and then that person, they'll do drugs them mutilate themselves. These are the people, by the way, who cut themselves. Okay.
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Fredy Aviles: Or they'll cut their own hair like Britney Spears did when Britney Spears did this to herself, and I know it's been a while since she did this. Fredy Aviles: Right, that's when I realized, oh my god, Britney Spears at borderline personality disorder not understand why she does the things that she does, why she's acting so crazy.
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Fredy Aviles: When she did that, that's a form of self mutilation, so it's cutting your skin.
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Fredy Aviles: Okay, but the self destructive behavior right sleeping with people you just met.
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Fredy Aviles: You know the drug use and this wild extreme crazy behavior self destructive behavior and the unstable image and mood, that's borderline personality disorder.
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Fredy Aviles: And I have met people like this right but Britney Spears seems to be one person in the media, who at the time right when she was popular in the 90s. She seemed to basically
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Fredy Aviles: Have all the symptoms. She's kind of out of the limelight now so you don't really see this but Fredy Aviles: Yeah, she definitely met the criteria and she was in she was getting psychological help for her problems. I think they diagnosed with bipolar and something else, but I'm pretty sure she had this too. Fredy Aviles: Because I mean, she had all the symptoms. Here's one for you guys don't get you guys thinking narcissistic personality disorder.
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Fredy Aviles: And yes, that's a picture of Donald Trump. And I know some of you may like Donald Trump and you voted for him. Fredy Aviles: I know right. This being California. Most of you did not. And most of you don't like him, but I do know that there's some of you who voted for him. Okay. Because he is that popular. But here's the thing. Fredy Aviles: Guess why there are so many problems with Donald Trump so many scandals so many difficulties.
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Fredy Aviles: Because in my opinion and the opinion of many other experts psychological experts. He suffers from what you call narcissistic personality disorder. Fredy Aviles: The tendency to to regard oneself as grandiosity self importance to such an extent that is pathological. In other words, it is basically a mental illness. It's different than having high self esteem believing in yourself.
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Fredy Aviles: Preoccupied with fantasies of success believe they deserve special treatment react aggressively when their view of themselves. Fredy Aviles: Their ego is threatened. Now let me say more about this because this probably doesn't convince you that Donald Trump has personality narcissistic personality disorder. But think about the things that Donald Trump has said.
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Fredy Aviles: He has said that he is the best president
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Fredy Aviles: That there's no one like no one who has done the things that he has done for this country. He has said that he is so good looking. They're all women flirt with him and think about that. He's an old man that is not true.
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Fredy Aviles: Okay. He has been he doesn't believe the expert. He thinks he knows better than the the best that are basically are
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Fredy Aviles: Our most prestigious disease and health expert Dr. Father. He thinks he knows better than him about the virus, he's fired people in the military. Fredy Aviles: Why, because they disagree with him. He thinks he knows better than all those people, if you don't agree with him your fire, you're out of here. If someone says something bad about him. He will say the most awful things he is narcissistic
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Fredy Aviles: He believes there is no one that's better than him. No one who is smarter, more capable, no one who's been a better president and you either agree with him or you get the hell out of his way. Fredy Aviles: That is Donald Trump. And you can see the problems that it causes and his administration, he disagrees even about the election he lost and he cannot admit it, because he saw narcissistic
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Fredy Aviles: Even with the Republicans that are on his side. He's disagreeing with him because it shows that he lost. He's even say that they're out to get him. Fredy Aviles: Trying to screw him over know he's delusional. He's narcissistic, you have to understand that Donald Trump has a mental illness. That's why he is so problematic. That's why he's not getting a second term, by the way.
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Fredy Aviles: He, is mentally ill and people know it. They're trying to protect him.
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Fredy Aviles: The people who are on his side. They won't speak out against him because he has so many people on his side, so many people who have voted for him that if they oppose him. Fredy Aviles: He will tell those people not to vote for them and then those people will be out of office, those people. It doesn't matter who they are. Okay.
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Fredy Aviles: There is no one in his opinion, that is smarter than him more capable, it doesn't matter that he's not a disease expert, but he's not some military expert. Fredy Aviles: He knows best. And you can see the problems that it causes and he's firing people left and right has been that way for four years. And by the way, I'm not just picking on Donald Trump. This is not a political thing. Okay. Yes, I'm very kind of
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Fredy Aviles: Excited about talking about this, but this is not a political thing. I've had this up here before he became president Fredy Aviles: It became very clear when he started when he started running for present before can present that he had this disorder and all of us a narcissistic personality disorder became a lot more popular in psychology
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Fredy Aviles: And we started talking about it more because we realized, oh my God, we have a perfect case perfect example of narcissistic personality disorder on our hands.
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Fredy Aviles: That's the problem with Donald Trump right there. That is why he has all those problems. Okay. He, is mentally ill and not saying that because I'm trying to make a political statement. Fredy Aviles: That is what the experts believe. Okay. But then again, he doesn't agree with the experts, because he knows better than all the experts and that's the problem. Okay.
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Fredy Aviles: Here's another one for you guys. There's also antisocial personality disorder or by the way narcissistic personality disorder lot more common in men than women. Fredy Aviles: And here's another one that is more common in men than women antisocial personality disorder. This is the type of personality disorder.
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Fredy Aviles: Where basically you disregard other people's rights you violate the laws and you basically do whatever the hell you want you deceive you lie you manipulate right you're irritable aggressive and here's a key thing these people lack remorse. They do not feel bad for their victims.
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Fredy Aviles: There is an image there of Richard mirrors. He was a serial killer. Okay, a serial killer killed a bunch of people Fredy Aviles: Before they finally caught and by the way they caught him around my neighborhood around where I live. Okay, came to East LA, and they kicked his ass right there and they captured him, but he killed a bunch of people Fredy Aviles: Okay. And if you've heard the interviews that you documentaries. The guy is basically cold blooded
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Fredy Aviles: He does not feel bad for anyone. He is fearless. He's not afraid of anyone
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Fredy Aviles: And he basically was just this serial killer. And by the way, antisocial personality disorder includes people who are psychopaths and social paths.
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Fredy Aviles: I don't know enough about Richard remembers his history to know if he was a Psychopath or sociopath, but a psychopath is someone who is born this way, who was born. Fredy Aviles: Incapable of feeling bad for others. And because of that, they are dangerous, they'll like the seed they manipulate they're irritable aggressive. They're not all in jail. By the way, some of them.
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Fredy Aviles: Are functioning in society. Okay, but it also includes social pets social posts are the ones that have a really rough life a lot of neglect and abuse and mistreatment and because of that day became horrible people that are now anti social
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Fredy Aviles: But they're not all in jail. They're not all serial killers. Okay. They're not all murderers and not all murders are this way. Some of them are just murder people for other reasons for money. Fredy Aviles: There are some who are functioning normally in society or functioning in society. It could be, you might have a boyfriend. That's like this.
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Fredy Aviles: These are the ones that you consider to be a serious to say the word a serious asshole who will do whatever the hell he wants when he wants doesn't give a damn what you think he doesn't feel bad that he mistreat your hurts you. Fredy Aviles: By the way, they will pretend to feel bad, but they don't. They'll pretend don't pretend to love you pretend to feel bad for you, and they do not
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Fredy Aviles: Okay.
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Fredy Aviles: It can be a congressman. It can be a senator, it can be a president
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Fredy Aviles: And I'll give you guys something to think about. There are psychological experts. There are experts out there who believe that Donald Trump also suffers from this, think about that read that and tell me if that sounds like Donald Trump. Fredy Aviles: Disregard for other people's rights disregard for the law deceiving line manipulating being irritable and aggressive lacking remorse.
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Fredy Aviles: Being incapable of saying, I'm sorry I did something wrong or I was wrong. Think about that. Does that sound like him too. Fredy Aviles: There are plenty of people who believe that that's also Donald Trump. And I'm telling you this because I'm telling you that in my opinion there is somebody mentally ill, who is leading this country right now and I'm not saying this is a political statement.
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Fredy Aviles: This is psychology. This is why I'm telling you this is a very dangerous thing. He will not concede the election he will not agree. I admit that he lost and he's ready Fredy Aviles: To start a war to start chaos. If he has to stay in office because he's narcissistic, he will not follow the law. I wouldn't follow those he'll do whatever the hell he can to stay in power and if this was not the US.
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Fredy Aviles: If we didn't have checks and balances. If we didn't have the Senate and Congress and other governing bodies, here we would be in for some serious trouble.
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Fredy Aviles: We're lucky. This is not Russia.
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Fredy Aviles: Okay and I'm telling you this, and some of you may not like this, but I'm telling you this as a psychologist, it is dangerous to follow people who are mentally ill, and that is why I believe what we have. Okay, let's keep going. Okay. Because we're almost done.
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Fredy Aviles: Right, it should not just be about Donald Trump, but I think it bears, you know, repeating and to make that point very clear to you guys. Okay. It's a very dangerous time very dangerous situation we have right now and hopefully it'll all work out. And there'll be a peaceful transfer of power.
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Fredy Aviles: You know, but we'll see. Okay. He's not giving up on there are also childhood disorders. These you've heard about as well. Let's see how we're doing on time. Fredy Aviles: Yeah, I need to speed it up. We're almost done childhood disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. You've heard about it, ADHD, two key symptoms here in attention right there careless. They have difficulty listening difficulty concentrating. Okay.
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Fredy Aviles: short attention span. Okay, hyperactivity impulsivity fidgeting can't sit still, etc ADHD kids that drive their teachers crazy
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Fredy Aviles: You know they can't sit still. There'll be climbing trees, they'll be talking all the time and just Fredy Aviles: Losing things and they do tend to have problems in school, because they can't control their behavior can't pay attention for very long. That's ADHD. You've all heard about it. I can tell you more, but I spent too much time talking about Donald Trump. Okay.
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Fredy Aviles: Autistic disorder.
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Fredy Aviles: Autism. You've all heard about this to this has been in the news a lot lately three key symptoms of autism impaired social interaction and parent communication repetitive behavior.
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Fredy Aviles: Okay. The impaired social interaction is where they don't take an interest in other people, they won't look at other people, they won't develop normal friendships.
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Fredy Aviles: They seem to be in their own little world impaired communication lack of speech, they often will not talk to others if they can talk, they often will not talk a lot of them have trouble with speech and they have trouble pronouncing words.
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Fredy Aviles: Okay, and they just have a severe problems with speech repetitive behavior that rocking back and forth, gazing at the ceiling. Fredy Aviles: Or other things. My son is on the autism spectrum. And yes, it's harder to get his attention. He's mild though he's level one, there's like level one, two, and three. Fredy Aviles: Impaired communication. Yes, lack of speech. He doesn't he doesn't really talk to others so much. He doesn't say what he wants. You have to ask him.
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Fredy Aviles: You know doesn't really make friends at school right repetitive behavior. Fredy Aviles: The wanting to swing over and over again, right, his bike over and over again where green over and over again. You see this in children who are autistic and it's not. And by the way, now we'd call it autism spectrum disorder.
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Fredy Aviles: There's a whole range of this. There's different kinds. Okay. And my son is mild he is. He does have this. And yeah, he's going and getting treatment for it. Um, Fredy Aviles: Last one over here. There are also sexual disorders. Now, I can tell you a lot about sexual disorders. I have taught human sexuality.
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Fredy Aviles: But I'll just tell you a little bit about it just so you're aware that they do exist. There are sexual problems. And by the way, they're mostly due to anxiety and stress. Fredy Aviles: But in men. It takes the form of erectile dysfunction, where they can't get it up. There's also premature ejaculation cells usually do fear stress, anxiety,
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Fredy Aviles: Okay, and women. It comes in many forms sexual arousal disorder, they can't get sexually aroused orgasmic disorder. They can't have orgasms. Okay, sexual pain disorder, they experienced pain during sex. Why it's psychological they're afraid of sex.
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Fredy Aviles: There they are. So
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Fredy Aviles: Anxious about it that they tighten up and then sex hurts. Fredy Aviles: They can't have an orgasm. They can't get around it is a psychological problem. Here's the thing though, there's plenty of medication to treat this now in both men and women that can help you perform better sexually, although the problem is psychological
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Fredy Aviles: If you deal with your anxiety problems your stress problems, maybe you're in a bad relationship of bad marriage. And that's what's causing your problems and you need to be in a healthier relationship. And then you'll be able to, you know, perform better.
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Fredy Aviles: But that is it. You guys will stop there. I don't know. I know we only have a few minutes for discussion and I said some things that were provocative, but I'll stop recording
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