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Personality Disorders (16 points) Juanita Delgado, a single, unemployed Hispanic woman, sought therapy at age 33 for treatment of depressed mood, chronic suicidal thoughts, social isolation, and poor personal hygiene. She had spent the prior 6 months isolated in her apartment, lying in bed, eating junk food, watching television, and doing more online shopping than she could afford. Multiple treatments had yielded little effect. Ms. Delgado was the middle of three children in an upper- middle-class immigrant family in which the father reportedly valued professional achievement over all else. She felt isolated throughout her school years and experienced recurrent periods of depressed mood. Within her family, she was known for angry outbursts. She had done well academically in high school but dropped out of college because of frustrations with a roommate and a professor. She attempted a series of internships and entry- level jobs with the expectation that she would return to college, but she kept quitting because "bosses are idiots. They come across as great and they all turn out to be twisted." These "traumas: always left her feeling terrible about herself ("I can't even succeed as a clerk?") and angry at her bosses ("I could run the place and probably will"). She had dated men when she was younger but never let them get close physically because she became too anxious when any intimacy began to develop Ms. Delgado's history included cutting herself superficially on a number of occasions, along with persistent thoughts that she would be better off dead. She said that she was generally "down and depressed" but that she had had dozens of 1-to 2-day "manias" in which she was energized and edgy and pulled all- nighters. She tended to "crash" the next day and sleep for 12 hours. She had been in psychiatric treatment since age 17 and had been psychiatrically hospitalized three times after overdoses. Treatments had consisted primarily of medication: mood stabilizers, low-dose neuroleptics, and antidepressants that had been prescribed in various combinations in the context of supportive psychotherapy.

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29) The client having lots ofsymptoms like anxiety disorders, eating disorders , chronic mentalities , psychatric problems, personality disorder etc..

30) Personality disorder functions in different areas like ; work , relationships, behaviour and impulse control etc... After knowing disorder doctor use various diagnostic tests like X-ray , blood tests etc.. If there is no physical reasons doctor advices him to psychatric, they do some tests with specially designed interviews and assessment tools.

31) Anxiety disoders, personality disoder in woek and behaviour and eating disorder.

34) The client have personality disorder and anxiety disorder.