We diagnose Holden with Dysthemia, another form of depression and compulsive lying. Dysthemia is a less severe form of depression. It allows you to act normal some days and feel depressed others. The symptoms of Dysthemia that Holden has are loss of interest, sleep disturbances, apathy, irritability, aggressiveness, self loathing, concentration problems, moderate substance abuse. Holden's always talking about how he’s depressed, and has loss of interest because he doesn’t ever try in anything he does. Treatment options for Dysthemia are psycho-thereapy combined with antidepressant medication.
We also believe that Holden is a compulsive liar because he lies about everything and strays from the truth. The symptoms that Holden has are that he creates stories, has the same stories with different characters, signs of poor self esteem, covering up actions with lies, reality denial, gets a thrill out of lying to people. His treatment consist of seeking help from a counselor voluntarily because the patient is already in denial, behavior modification, cognative behavioral therapy.
www.buzzle.com/articles/compulsive-liar-symptoms.html
http://psychcentral.com/lib/2008/dysthymia-treatment/
I'm surprised you guys actually found a disease with all these symptoms.. especially the compulsive lying because that's obviously a big symptom.
ReplyDeleteHolden does have all these symptoms
ReplyDeleteIt's weird how Holden gets a "thrill" out of lying to people. this is just like the people who enjoy inflicting pain on themselves, but not to that extreme.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Maddi. We searched forever to find like three that covered all of these symptoms.
ReplyDeleteYou sort of have to feel kind of bad though, since he does have a mental illness. he has gone through what not a lot of people go through. But this is a very good diagnosis.
ReplyDeleteThis is the perfect diagnosis for Holden! He does show so many of these symptoms.
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