1. You may have heard some variation of the saying “one person’s…

Question Answered step-by-step 1. You may have heard some variation of the saying “one person’s… 1. You may have heard some variation of the saying “one person’s normal is another person’s abnormal.” What are the four universal markers that may indicate that someone is indeed exhibiting abnormal behavior? 2. Watch this video. Video: Living with OCD (Links to an external site.) Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Why or why not? “A little bit of anxiety is not necessarily a bad thing. As long as it is not excessive, anxiety can work to your benefit by alerting you to danger or improving your performance.” (Hofer, 2010; Blanchard et al., 2008) 3. Watch this Video: confessions of a depressed comic What are your thoughts about the stigma towards mental health? How might we reduce the stigma so that people feel more comfortable asking for help?  4. Watch these videos. What are your thoughts? What positive and/or negative symptoms of schizophrenia were seen or discussed? Living with Schizophrenia (Links to an external site.)TED Talk: I am Not a Monster: Schizophrenia (Links to an external site.) 5. Visit StigmaFighters.com, where people with mental illness blog about their experiences. Find a post where the person has written about their experience with depression or bipolar disorder. a. Paste a link to the person’s post.  b. What is the person’s name and what do they do in life (short descriptions are typically at the end of each post)? c. What disorder(s) has the person been diagnosed with? d. Describe their milestone events, such as their first memory of symptoms, their first diagnosis. e. What’s it like for them to live with mental illness? f. From your textbook, identify the major symptoms of depression or bipolar disorder. Which of those symptoms does the blogger talk about? g. What reactions did you have as you read their story? Social Science Psychology PSYCH 100 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)