Neurotic Disorder Characteristics

There are different types of mental disorders that are encountered by law enforcement officers. Officers must learn to recognize the signs and become aware of the mental ill characteristics, it is paramount. The three disorders mention earlier will be describe with in the discussing. Let us begin with the Personality disorders, people with passive-aggressive personality disorders are failing in jobs, school, and interpersonal relationships. The passive is unforceful, weak and timid; although the aggressive is strong, forceful and outspoken. They are stubborn, procrastinator, despite their aggressiveness they lack self-confidence. Most were spoiled children never had to do for themselves, always wanted things to go their way and when it didn’t …show more content…
Neurotic symptoms may be disturbing, they also can serve a positive purpose. (Freud, S. 1961) called these advantages secondary gain, referring to the benefits obtained from being sick, when others may pay attention and do things that they would not normally do if the person were well. I will briefly discuss the symptoms and characteristics of each neurotic behavior. An Anxiety neurosis disorder may display excessive anxiety and fear. This may include physical characteristics; for instead, palpitations, rapid heart rate, hyperventilation, muscle pain, headache and tingling. Depressive neurosis also known as dysthymic disorder this is a chronic disorder with chronic disturbance of mood or loss of interest in almost all usual activities. Depressive neurosis tends to a have loss of appetite, a loss of sleep, fluctuate in weight and have thoughts of suicide. In the beginning these people take bad news normal, then as time progress and notice that things are not getting better they fall into the depression …show more content…
The undifferentiated type, deterioration of drive, ambition, the ability to function; but, some major signs are thought disorder and coherence. The second is the paranoid type. It is a hallucination usually auditory an apparent perception of an external object, such as voices. Third is the residual type, these people generally demonstrate illogically thinking, loosening of associations, emotional blunting, social withdrawal and eccentric behavior. Fourthly is the catatonic, this type of schizophrenia is rare. These people are grimace, talkative and unpredictable emotional outbursts. Police officers responding to these types of calls has to response with caution. They can fly off into a rage of catatonic excitement, becoming extremely dangerous. Lastly is the disorganized type of schizophrenia, this disorder has no explanation; but, these people should be hospitalized quickly due to their offset and long-term history of chronic