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Running Head : DSM IV Diagnosis

DSM IV Diagnosis

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This aims to present relevant diss that are socially significant because they are present in all socioeconomic levels and has an alarming increasing prevalence worldwide . I chose to focus on eating and gender identity diss , creating a story about an adolescent male . This is so because I have several friends who have these diss . The purpose of the is to show how they evolve to their present selves

Mr . X is an 18

year old , Filipino , male , stowaway , who was brought to the emergency room by the police . He was taken into custody after a drug raid in Malate , Manila where he was taking marijuana . Mr . X is an extremely thin individual , pale , dressed simply in a t-shirt and jeans He has a pronounced feminine voice inflection . His feminine gestures were exaggerations of an effeminate , swishy gait and arm movements . He sits with his legs crossed very effeminately and his arms folded . The interview session that followed was marked by temporary unawareness of surroundings and visual hallucinations lasting for 2-3 hours . He was admitted and put on sedation

Next day Mr . X was much more approachable . He began to talk about his life . His role model was his maternal grandmother who used to dress him up and raise him as a girl ' died before his 5th birthday with alcoholism . His father , in his adolescent years also drank and dabbled in drugs and he died in a work accident . His mother , a very abusive woman , had four marriages in and Mr . X had 5 half-brothers and 2 half-sisters . After her 4th failed marriage , Mr . X 's mother stopped working and began drinking and smoking cannabis . At this time , he was 7 years old , and had to stop schooling to take care of his younger siblings . His only solace back then was his friends , who , like him , were very preoccupied with thoughts of boys ' and their weight . When he was 14 years old he started inducing vomiting and thereon , had up to 10 episodes of bingeing and vomiting weekly , and had a stable pattern of persistent food restriction . To lose more weight , he also experimented with cannabis (i .e , he swears that his mother never eats because of it and also started smoking

By the time he was 16 , he was using cannabis several times a day and smokes 2 packs of cigarettes /day . Sessions of inhalation might last a few seconds , or up to half an hour . They ended when the craving and euphoria ended . He had often tried to stop or cut down but ended with failure . At this time , he ran away from home

He stayed in a friend 's house and started working as a beautician . He tried to decrease his marijuana intake for a number of reasons : he wanted to take care of his younger brothers and sisters , and felt that he was at a point in his life where he...