Post by the admin. on Apr 3, 2011 19:20:30 GMT -5
The Sins!
Gluttony
- Anorexia Nervosa - A distorted body image of being overweight and the refusal/inability to eat because of it. There is an obsessive fear about gaining weight. Often linked to needing control and perfection.
- Bulimia Nervosa - Compulsive over-eating; followed by compensatory behaviors such as using laxatives or exercising obsessively. This disorder has been linked to self-hatred. Common behavior is binging and purging.
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder - Clients perceive one or more parts of their body as having a defect. The defect may or may not exist, but there is excessive anxiety over this problem. It can become and obsession and be severely debilitating.
- Alcohol/Substance Dependence - Characterized by a maladaptive pattern of alcohol or substance use, leading to clinically significant impairment or distress, as manifested by 3 or more of the following, occurring at any time in the same 12-month period: (1) tolerance, a need for markedly increased amounts of the alcohol or substance to achieve intoxication or desired effect, (2) withdrawal symptoms when alcohol or substance use is discontinued, (3) the substance or alcohol is often taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than was intended, (4) there is a persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control use of alcohol or the substance, (5) a great deal of time is spent in activities necessary to obtain alcohol or the substance, using it, or recovering from its use, (6) important social, occupational, or recreational activities are given up or reduced because of the continued alcohol or substance use, (7) the substance or alcohol use is continued despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent physical or psychological problem that is likely to have been caused or exacerbated by the substance.
Lust
- Obsessive Love - This is an obsession with love; and the client develops dependency and a desire for their lover. This obsession may develop into a dangerous one. It is associated with rape, murder or kidnapping because obsessive love can end with those things.
- Sexual Sadism - The act of inflicting pain or humiliation on others to receive sexual arousal and pleasure. Also associated with rape and sexual harassment.
- Sexual Masochism - This condition is where the client sexually enjoy being in pain; whether inflicted by themselves or others. Some of these individuals may have been victims of sexual abuse in the past, but it is not a definitive cause.
- Hypersexuality - Extremely frequent or suddenly increased sexual urges or behaviors. Although hypersexuality can be caused by some medical conditions or medications, in most cases the cause is unknown. This can also be called Sex Addiction.
- Frotteurism - Over a period of at least 6 months, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving touching and rubbing against a nonconsenting person. The fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. The patient/client may be court ordered to be here due to a civil case proceeding.
- Voyeurism - Over a period of at least 6 months, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving the act of observing an unsuspecting person who is naked, in the process of disrobing, or engaging in sexual activity. The fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. The patient/client may be court ordered to be here due to a civil case proceeding.
- Exhibitionism - Over a period of at least 6 months, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving the exposure of one's genitals to an unsuspecting stranger. The fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. The patient/client may be court ordered to be here due to a civil case proceeding.
Greed
- Addictive Personality Disorder - The client has a set of personality traits that make them particularly prone to develop addictions. Addictions can be for sex, alcohol, gambling or other things.
- Pyromania - The impulse to start fires to relieve tension. This can put the client into some very dangerous situations.
- Kleptomania - An obsessive need to steal. The stolen objects range in price value, but that is irrelevant. The theft is almost a compulsion, so the items worth does not matter.
- Pathological Gambling - An urge to gamble, despite having had negative experiences in the past. The victim believes that the next time they place a bet, they will win, despite knowing statistics and odds of losing. They will wager anything and everything.
- Compulsive Hoarding - The excessive acquisition of possessions (and failure to use or discard them), even if the items are worthless, hazardous, or unsanitary. Compulsive hoarding impairs mobility and interferes with basic activities, including cooking, cleaning, showering, and sleeping.
Sloth
- Self-Defeating Personality Disorder - Also known as Masochistic Personality Disorder. The client avoids pleasurable experiences and is uninterested in people that treat them well. This puts the client in the position to be harmed in a relationship.
- Major Depressive Disorder - This is a mental disorder characterized by extremely low moods, low self-esteem and lack of interest in previously pleasurable activities. Its shorthand name is simply "depression".
- Bipolar Disorder - There are many different types of bipolar disorder. Client suffering from bipolar disorder have bouts of manic happiness and then severe depression.
- Selective Mutism - This is a condition where the client refuses to speak, although they are physically and mentally capable of it. Not much is known about this rare condition. It is hypothesized that it is the result of a very traumatic experience.
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - The obsessive need to do a certain or many rituals repeatedly, until they are sure that it is 'perfect'. If this is not done, the client will become extremely nervous and may not be able to function in day-to-day life.
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - This is a result of psychological trauma, such as a threat of death to yourself or others. This may lead to flashbacks, panic attacks and nightmares. It is a common condition in military veterans, kidnap victims, rape victims, etc.
- Schizophrenia - Characterized by a broad range of unusual behaviors that cause profound disruption in the lives of the patients suffering from the condition and in the lives of the people around them. One of the most important kinds of impairment caused by schizophrenia involves the person's thought processes. The individual can lose much of the ability to rationally evaluate his surroundings and interactions with others. There can be hallucinations and delusions, which reflect distortions in the perception and interpretation of reality. The resulting behaviors may seem bizarre to the casual observer, even though they may be consistent with the schizophrenic's abnormal perceptions and beliefs. This disorder can range in severity.
- Depersonalization Disorder - Persistent or recurrent experiences of feeling detached from, and as if one is an outside observer of, one's mental processes or body (e.g., feeling like one is in a dream). he depersonalization causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
- Dissociative Identity Disorder - Also known as Multiple Personality Disorder. The presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states (each with its own relatively enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and self). At least two of these identities or personality states recurrently take control of the person's behavior.
- Dependent Personality Disorder - Dependent personality disorder is characterized by a long-standing need for the person to be taken care of and a fear of being abandoned or separated from important individuals in his or her life. This leads the person to engage in dependent and submissive behaviors that are designed to elicit care-giving behaviors in others. The dependent behavior may be see as being "clingy" or "clinging on" to others, because the person fears they can't live their lives without the help of others. Individuals with Dependent Personality Disorder are often characterized by pessimism and self-doubt, tend to belittle their abilities and assets, and may constantly refer to themselves as "stupid." They take criticism and disapproval as proof of their worthlessness and lose faith in themselves. They may seek overprotection and dominance from others.
- Phobias - Irrational, intense and persistent fear of certain situations, activities, things, animals, or people. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive and unreasonable desire to avoid the feared stimulus. When the fear is beyond one's control, and if the fear is interfering with daily life, then a diagnosis under one of the anxiety disorders can be made.
Wrath
- Intermittent Explosive Disorder - This is a disorder where the client experiences unstable and large amounts of rage that are disproportionate to the situation at hand. The client may or may not have a trigger that brings on this "explosion."
- Anti-Social Personality Disorder - This is also known as sociopathy, the complete absence of a conscience. It is a broad term and encompasses a variety of clients in varying degrees.
- Delusional Disorder - The client carries one or more delusions that are not caused by hallucinations. There are different types of delusions, and the client completely believes that they are real (e.g. it isn't attention-seeking).
- Sadistic Personality Disorder - The use of violence, threats and emotional manipulation to cause pain, fear or other negative feelings to others. They are amused by others pain, or takes pleasure from it. This differs from sexual sadism, because it is not purely for sexual arousal.
- Borderline Personality Disorder - The main feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image and emotions. People with borderline personality disorder are also usually very impulsive. Borderline personality disorder is more prevalent in females. Associated symptoms include: recurrent suicidal behavior, intense/inappropriate rage, frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment, chronic feelings of emptiness, stress-related paranoid thoughts.
- Conduct Disorder - The essential feature of Conduct Disorder is a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior by an individual in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms or rules are violated. These behaviors fall into four main groupings: aggressive conduct that causes or threatens physical harm to other people or animals, nonaggressive conduct that causes property loss or damage, deceitfulness or theft, and serious violations of rules time and time again.
- Paranoid Personality Disorder - People with paranoid personality disorder are generally characterized by having a long-standing pattern of pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others. A person with paranoid personality disorder will nearly always believe that other people's motives are suspect or even malevolent. Individuals with this disorder assume that other people will exploit, harm, or deceive them, even if no evidence exists to support this expectation. Individuals with Paranoid Personality Disorder are generally difficult to get along with and often have problems with close relationships. Their excessive suspiciousness and hostility may be expressed in overt argumentativeness, in recurrent complaining, or by quiet, apparently hostile aloofness. Because they are hypervigilant for potential threats, they may act in a guarded, secretive, or devious manner and appear to be "cold" and lacking in tender feelings. Although they may appear to be objective, rational, and unemotional, they more often display a labile range of affect, with hostile, stubborn, and sarcastic expressions predominating. Their combative and suspicious nature may elicit a hostile response in others, which then serves to confirm their original expectations. Because individuals with Paranoid Personality Disorder lack trust in others, they have an excessive need to be self-sufficient and a strong sense of autonomy. They also need to have a high degree of control over those around them. They are often rigid, critical of others, and unable to collaborate, and they have great difficulty accepting criticism.
Pride
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder - This is shown through a lack of empathy for others. The client genuinely believes that they are better than others and are deserving of praise.
- Hypochondriasis - This is excessive fear or worry about having various medical conditions. These clients are referred to as Hypochondriacs.
- Histrionic Personality Disorder - Histrionic personality disorder is characterized by a long-standing pattern of attention seeking behavior and extreme emotionality. Someone with histrionic personality disorder wants to be the center of attention in any group of people, and feel uncomfortable when they are not. While often lively, interesting and sometimes dramatic, they have difficulty when people aren't focused exclusively on them. People with this disorder may be perceived as being shallow, and may engage in sexually seductive or provocating behavior to draw attention to themselves. Individuals with Histrionic Personality Disorder may have difficulty achieving emotional intimacy in romantic or sexual relationships. Without being aware of it, they often act out a role (e.g., "victim" or "princess") in their relationships to others. They may seek to control their partner through emotional manipulation or seductiveness on one level, whereas displaying a marked dependency on them at another level.
- Münchhausen Syndrome - A need to get attention by feigning an illness. This differs from hypochondrisasis in that the victims do not believe they have an illness.
- Self-Harm or Mutilation - Often classified as attention seeking behavior. The intentional, direct injuring of body tissue without suicidal intent.
- Stockholm Syndrome - A paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein hostages express adulation and have positive feelings towards their captors. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors as an act of kindness.
Gluttony
- Anorexia Nervosa - A distorted body image of being overweight and the refusal/inability to eat because of it. There is an obsessive fear about gaining weight. Often linked to needing control and perfection.
- Bulimia Nervosa - Compulsive over-eating; followed by compensatory behaviors such as using laxatives or exercising obsessively. This disorder has been linked to self-hatred. Common behavior is binging and purging.
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder - Clients perceive one or more parts of their body as having a defect. The defect may or may not exist, but there is excessive anxiety over this problem. It can become and obsession and be severely debilitating.
- Alcohol/Substance Dependence - Characterized by a maladaptive pattern of alcohol or substance use, leading to clinically significant impairment or distress, as manifested by 3 or more of the following, occurring at any time in the same 12-month period: (1) tolerance, a need for markedly increased amounts of the alcohol or substance to achieve intoxication or desired effect, (2) withdrawal symptoms when alcohol or substance use is discontinued, (3) the substance or alcohol is often taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than was intended, (4) there is a persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control use of alcohol or the substance, (5) a great deal of time is spent in activities necessary to obtain alcohol or the substance, using it, or recovering from its use, (6) important social, occupational, or recreational activities are given up or reduced because of the continued alcohol or substance use, (7) the substance or alcohol use is continued despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent physical or psychological problem that is likely to have been caused or exacerbated by the substance.
Lust
- Obsessive Love - This is an obsession with love; and the client develops dependency and a desire for their lover. This obsession may develop into a dangerous one. It is associated with rape, murder or kidnapping because obsessive love can end with those things.
- Sexual Sadism - The act of inflicting pain or humiliation on others to receive sexual arousal and pleasure. Also associated with rape and sexual harassment.
- Sexual Masochism - This condition is where the client sexually enjoy being in pain; whether inflicted by themselves or others. Some of these individuals may have been victims of sexual abuse in the past, but it is not a definitive cause.
- Hypersexuality - Extremely frequent or suddenly increased sexual urges or behaviors. Although hypersexuality can be caused by some medical conditions or medications, in most cases the cause is unknown. This can also be called Sex Addiction.
- Frotteurism - Over a period of at least 6 months, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving touching and rubbing against a nonconsenting person. The fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. The patient/client may be court ordered to be here due to a civil case proceeding.
- Voyeurism - Over a period of at least 6 months, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving the act of observing an unsuspecting person who is naked, in the process of disrobing, or engaging in sexual activity. The fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. The patient/client may be court ordered to be here due to a civil case proceeding.
- Exhibitionism - Over a period of at least 6 months, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving the exposure of one's genitals to an unsuspecting stranger. The fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. The patient/client may be court ordered to be here due to a civil case proceeding.
Greed
- Addictive Personality Disorder - The client has a set of personality traits that make them particularly prone to develop addictions. Addictions can be for sex, alcohol, gambling or other things.
- Pyromania - The impulse to start fires to relieve tension. This can put the client into some very dangerous situations.
- Kleptomania - An obsessive need to steal. The stolen objects range in price value, but that is irrelevant. The theft is almost a compulsion, so the items worth does not matter.
- Pathological Gambling - An urge to gamble, despite having had negative experiences in the past. The victim believes that the next time they place a bet, they will win, despite knowing statistics and odds of losing. They will wager anything and everything.
- Compulsive Hoarding - The excessive acquisition of possessions (and failure to use or discard them), even if the items are worthless, hazardous, or unsanitary. Compulsive hoarding impairs mobility and interferes with basic activities, including cooking, cleaning, showering, and sleeping.
Sloth
- Self-Defeating Personality Disorder - Also known as Masochistic Personality Disorder. The client avoids pleasurable experiences and is uninterested in people that treat them well. This puts the client in the position to be harmed in a relationship.
- Major Depressive Disorder - This is a mental disorder characterized by extremely low moods, low self-esteem and lack of interest in previously pleasurable activities. Its shorthand name is simply "depression".
- Bipolar Disorder - There are many different types of bipolar disorder. Client suffering from bipolar disorder have bouts of manic happiness and then severe depression.
- Selective Mutism - This is a condition where the client refuses to speak, although they are physically and mentally capable of it. Not much is known about this rare condition. It is hypothesized that it is the result of a very traumatic experience.
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - The obsessive need to do a certain or many rituals repeatedly, until they are sure that it is 'perfect'. If this is not done, the client will become extremely nervous and may not be able to function in day-to-day life.
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - This is a result of psychological trauma, such as a threat of death to yourself or others. This may lead to flashbacks, panic attacks and nightmares. It is a common condition in military veterans, kidnap victims, rape victims, etc.
- Schizophrenia - Characterized by a broad range of unusual behaviors that cause profound disruption in the lives of the patients suffering from the condition and in the lives of the people around them. One of the most important kinds of impairment caused by schizophrenia involves the person's thought processes. The individual can lose much of the ability to rationally evaluate his surroundings and interactions with others. There can be hallucinations and delusions, which reflect distortions in the perception and interpretation of reality. The resulting behaviors may seem bizarre to the casual observer, even though they may be consistent with the schizophrenic's abnormal perceptions and beliefs. This disorder can range in severity.
- Depersonalization Disorder - Persistent or recurrent experiences of feeling detached from, and as if one is an outside observer of, one's mental processes or body (e.g., feeling like one is in a dream). he depersonalization causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
- Dissociative Identity Disorder - Also known as Multiple Personality Disorder. The presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states (each with its own relatively enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and self). At least two of these identities or personality states recurrently take control of the person's behavior.
- Dependent Personality Disorder - Dependent personality disorder is characterized by a long-standing need for the person to be taken care of and a fear of being abandoned or separated from important individuals in his or her life. This leads the person to engage in dependent and submissive behaviors that are designed to elicit care-giving behaviors in others. The dependent behavior may be see as being "clingy" or "clinging on" to others, because the person fears they can't live their lives without the help of others. Individuals with Dependent Personality Disorder are often characterized by pessimism and self-doubt, tend to belittle their abilities and assets, and may constantly refer to themselves as "stupid." They take criticism and disapproval as proof of their worthlessness and lose faith in themselves. They may seek overprotection and dominance from others.
- Phobias - Irrational, intense and persistent fear of certain situations, activities, things, animals, or people. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive and unreasonable desire to avoid the feared stimulus. When the fear is beyond one's control, and if the fear is interfering with daily life, then a diagnosis under one of the anxiety disorders can be made.
Wrath
- Intermittent Explosive Disorder - This is a disorder where the client experiences unstable and large amounts of rage that are disproportionate to the situation at hand. The client may or may not have a trigger that brings on this "explosion."
- Anti-Social Personality Disorder - This is also known as sociopathy, the complete absence of a conscience. It is a broad term and encompasses a variety of clients in varying degrees.
- Delusional Disorder - The client carries one or more delusions that are not caused by hallucinations. There are different types of delusions, and the client completely believes that they are real (e.g. it isn't attention-seeking).
- Sadistic Personality Disorder - The use of violence, threats and emotional manipulation to cause pain, fear or other negative feelings to others. They are amused by others pain, or takes pleasure from it. This differs from sexual sadism, because it is not purely for sexual arousal.
- Borderline Personality Disorder - The main feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image and emotions. People with borderline personality disorder are also usually very impulsive. Borderline personality disorder is more prevalent in females. Associated symptoms include: recurrent suicidal behavior, intense/inappropriate rage, frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment, chronic feelings of emptiness, stress-related paranoid thoughts.
- Conduct Disorder - The essential feature of Conduct Disorder is a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior by an individual in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms or rules are violated. These behaviors fall into four main groupings: aggressive conduct that causes or threatens physical harm to other people or animals, nonaggressive conduct that causes property loss or damage, deceitfulness or theft, and serious violations of rules time and time again.
- Paranoid Personality Disorder - People with paranoid personality disorder are generally characterized by having a long-standing pattern of pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others. A person with paranoid personality disorder will nearly always believe that other people's motives are suspect or even malevolent. Individuals with this disorder assume that other people will exploit, harm, or deceive them, even if no evidence exists to support this expectation. Individuals with Paranoid Personality Disorder are generally difficult to get along with and often have problems with close relationships. Their excessive suspiciousness and hostility may be expressed in overt argumentativeness, in recurrent complaining, or by quiet, apparently hostile aloofness. Because they are hypervigilant for potential threats, they may act in a guarded, secretive, or devious manner and appear to be "cold" and lacking in tender feelings. Although they may appear to be objective, rational, and unemotional, they more often display a labile range of affect, with hostile, stubborn, and sarcastic expressions predominating. Their combative and suspicious nature may elicit a hostile response in others, which then serves to confirm their original expectations. Because individuals with Paranoid Personality Disorder lack trust in others, they have an excessive need to be self-sufficient and a strong sense of autonomy. They also need to have a high degree of control over those around them. They are often rigid, critical of others, and unable to collaborate, and they have great difficulty accepting criticism.
Pride
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder - This is shown through a lack of empathy for others. The client genuinely believes that they are better than others and are deserving of praise.
- Hypochondriasis - This is excessive fear or worry about having various medical conditions. These clients are referred to as Hypochondriacs.
- Histrionic Personality Disorder - Histrionic personality disorder is characterized by a long-standing pattern of attention seeking behavior and extreme emotionality. Someone with histrionic personality disorder wants to be the center of attention in any group of people, and feel uncomfortable when they are not. While often lively, interesting and sometimes dramatic, they have difficulty when people aren't focused exclusively on them. People with this disorder may be perceived as being shallow, and may engage in sexually seductive or provocating behavior to draw attention to themselves. Individuals with Histrionic Personality Disorder may have difficulty achieving emotional intimacy in romantic or sexual relationships. Without being aware of it, they often act out a role (e.g., "victim" or "princess") in their relationships to others. They may seek to control their partner through emotional manipulation or seductiveness on one level, whereas displaying a marked dependency on them at another level.
- Münchhausen Syndrome - A need to get attention by feigning an illness. This differs from hypochondrisasis in that the victims do not believe they have an illness.
- Self-Harm or Mutilation - Often classified as attention seeking behavior. The intentional, direct injuring of body tissue without suicidal intent.
- Stockholm Syndrome - A paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein hostages express adulation and have positive feelings towards their captors. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors as an act of kindness.