Where should I start when looking up mental disorders ?

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I have taken an interest in mental disorders. I like NPD, Psychopathy, Malignant narcissism, Sociopathy. In connection I am trying to learn about Eric Harris. I am struggling to understand arguments of people due to the use of medical terms. Where would be a good site that can help me learn basics of these disorders so I can build my way up. Books would be good too. thank you
http://psyweb.com/

Also look up the DSM IV - this is the handbook that all psychiatrists refer to.  (+ info)

malignant????

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I am 10 years old and today my doctor told me that my tumer is malignant and by the way he looked when he told it to me, I was too scared to ask what that means. My mom started crying right away and couldnt look at me in the eye. She said everything is going to be ok and said to ask my father what it is but he is away right now. Can anyone tell me what is going to happen to me?
This is something you need to ask your mom about. If you look on the internet, you may get even more afraid. There are alot of people in the world who have survived cancer and are just fine today. My dad is one of them. Just because the doctor said that and your mom cried doesn't mean that you should expect the worst. Please talk to your mom about this...and don't ask other people over the computer, because some people may say some really scary things just to frighten you. Talk to mom, she will help you through this.  (+ info)

What exactly is "malignant narcissism", and how does it differ from narcissistic personality disorder?

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I'm looking for some real-life examples here, and not just cut and paste from Wikipedia or the Mayo Clinic website.
Malignant narcissists I believe seek out and have an outright need to extract negative attention from others. There are two kinds of supply out there for a narcissist positive and negative supply and I think every narcissists have a balance of each that they seek. Some can seek out more of the positive 'look at me type of attention' to have their needs meets met although they can be terrorizer's from time to time. The MN is one who has to have that rush they get from their victims pain and suffering.
The MN I feel becomes not so much interested in the positive attention anymore the pain and suffering of others has far more kick for them. They don't want to just smoke a joint anymore (positive attention) they want to shoot up heroin and the pain and suffering of others is their heroin. They seek to destroy others, stamp them out and extinguish any goodness in them. Their illness takes a turn and terror is what they become to need and seek.
I really think it depends on what path the N's life takes among other things. If they can extract their attention, tell their lies, feel superior and have a partner and work environment who caters to it, then I think they can possibly never cross over into being a full MN (although still malignant to a point). But if they run into problems, let their bitterness build up, have people and partners who disown them, have their superiority sense dampened regularly the malignant side can build up steam until they are downright scary and destructive to themselves and others.
It probably also depends on the persons overall personality in general. If you take someone who would have been quite caring and pleasent to be around had they not been conditioned into a narcissist than they probably have a less a chance of becoming a full MN. If you take someone who would have been ego based, arrogant and attention needy without being a narcissist and conditioned them into a narcissist they might be much more likely to become fully MN. Behind every narcissist is a personality that was lost and never got a chance to emerge though it is there and does intertwine with their dysfunctional condition.
I do believe no one is born a narcissist, it is a mentally conditioned behavior that many can be susceptible to. The narcissist is raped of a normal life, its really sad if you think about it. The vulnerable are the sensitive, emotional, easily influenced, and have a fluctuating sense of self. Some kids of narcissistic parents never turn out like their parents some do but any strong combination of any of those items really sets them up to a robbed and unfortunate life (hard to defend yourself when you're a kid). Someone who becomes a target of a MN for too long also can turn narcissistic they are poisonous and choose their victims carefully. They rub off on their targets because they want to transfer their pain to you, some just have more pain to transfer and become the malignant type.   (+ info)

What is the difference between a benign tumor and a malignant tumor?

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A) Benign tumors arise by transformation; malignant tumors don't.
B) Benign tumors do not metastasize; malignant tumors do.
C) Benign tumors metastasize; malignant tumors don't.
E) Benign tumors do not arise by transformation; malignant tumors do.
I'm pretty sure it's B benign tumours are not cancerous where as malignant are and have the ability to "spread" (metastasize)  (+ info)

How can you tell the difference between a malignant tumor and a benighn tumor?

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Without A cat scan or MRI , What are the charecteristics of both do they feel different do they do different things like shrink or expand do all malignant tumors hurt?
One way of telling (but not a 100%) if the tumor is hard and won't move that is a sign that you need to see a Dr. ASAP. If the tumor is mushy and moves around then it is proble benighn but either way you need to a dr. This only works if the tumor is in a place where you can feel it. I am a nurse and this is what I have heard Dr.'s say repeatedly to their patients. I hope this helps.  (+ info)

What is the best option for a non malignant tumour on the spleen of a male 14 year Labrador?

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The lab also has a lump in his chest the size of a tennis ball which the Vet is reluctant to treat. His concern is more for the non malignant tumour on the spleen. He has advised surgery should the Lab become serious. The Lab also has small sized lumps over his body which are non threatening. Blood tests show there is no cancer. Otherwise he is happy, alert and his usual self.
'Reluctant to treat.' That's as far as I got. You need to get a new veterinarian!   (+ info)

How do doctors find out if a tumor is malignant?

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What procedure is done to see if a tumor is malignant? Is a simple MRI enough to make that conclusion?
When you have a MRI or CT scan, a radiologist can be fairly confident that a mass/tumor is either malignant or benign, in certain cases. For example, a lymph node has classic characteristics which cannot be confused with a cancer. A simple kidney cyst (which appears as a mass) can be diagnosed by ultrasound, MRI and CT scanning. It is hard to confuse a simple kidney cyst with anything that is malignant. When we do a CT or MRI scan, and a mass does not enhance with a contrast media (dye) injection, we can be fairly confident that the mass is benign. Malignant masses almost always enhance....but some benign masses also enhance.
There are many instances when a tumor does not fall into a clear cut category, and a tissue sample is needed to make a diagnosis. For example, on a mammogram, a mass might be found, and we can be very certain it is a malignant mass, but we do not know what type of breast cancer, until there is a biopsy and tissue sample.

My boyfriend had a grand mal seizure in June, and a CT scan found a fist sized brain tumor. The neurosurgeon and radiologist were both very confident it was a meningioma (benign), but it had to be removed due to its size. I still held my breath until the pathology report came back and reported it was indeed a meningioma.  (+ info)

What is the connection between malignant neoplasms and crabs?

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The more common term for malignant neoplasms, cancer, is Latin for crab, and the word "carcinogen," meaning a cancer-causing agent, comes from the Greek word for crab, "karkinos." What is the connection between these two seemingly unrelated things?
Cancer, both the disease and the astronomical constellation, derive from the Latin cancer or cancrum, meaning crab. The astrological sign, of course, is said to resemble a crab and the disease was so named by the ancient Greek physician Galen (129-200 A.D.) who noted the similarity between a certain type of tumor with a crab as well—the swollen veins around the tumor resembling the legs of a crab.

Old English adopted cancer directly from Latin and used it for a variety of spreading sores and ulcers. This early sense survives in the modern word canker. From c.1000 in a manuscript called Læce Boc (Leech Book), collected in Oswald Cockayne’s Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England, Vol. II, 1865:

Gemeng wið þam dustum, clæm on ðone cancer.
(Mix with the dust, smear on the cancer.)

And from Wyclif’s 2 Timothy, 1382:

The word of hem crepith as a kankir

The word was being applied specifically to the disease we today call cancer by the beginning of the 17th century. From Philemon Holland’s translation of Pliny’s Historie of the World:

Cancer is a swelling or sore comming of melancholy bloud, about which the veins appeare of a blacke or swert colour, spread in manner of a Creifish clees.

The astronomical sense of cancer is from the Latin name for the constellation of the crab. The name was known to the Anglo-Saxons, but only as a Latin name and was not assimilated into English until the Middle English period. It appears in Ælfric’s De Temporibus Anni, written c.993, in a list of the constellations of the Zodiac:

Feorða • Cancer • þæt is Crabba
(Fourth, Cancer, that is the crab.)

The Anglicized name appears c.1391 in Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe:

In this heved of cancer is the grettist declinacioun northward of the sonne...this signe of cancre is clepid the tropik of Somer.
(At this first point (head) of cancer is the greatest declination northward of the sun…this sign of cancer is named the tropic of summer.)

(Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition)  (+ info)

Is it possible to fight a malignant cancer tumor in the spine?

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Well a friend of mine has a malignant cancer tumor in his spine near something in the spine that connects to the brain. This is very important question thank you.
YES. My lung cancer had spread to the spine and that is where it was first diagnosed. It was successfully (so far) treated with radiation therapy. I still have cancer in both lungs and that is being treated with chemo. Actually it isn't being treated in the sense that we expect a cure. The chemo treatments are for maintenance to (hopefully) keep the cancer from growing and/or spreading. I hope your friend is successfully treated for his/her cancer.  (+ info)

How long does melanoma (after a mole becomes malignant) take to spread and cause a person to die?

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Does it take years after malignancy of a mole or does melanoma spread within a few weeks as with other cancers? For example if someone has a mole (dysplastic nevi) for more than 2 years, could it be that this mole has been malignant for two years or longer?
Difficult to say as each person is an individual. Some cancers grow slower than others and some take off like wildfire and spread within a few weeks. Cancer means the uncontrollable growth of cells . . so the fact that they may grow quickly should never come as a surprise to anyone.

Death from malignancy is also an individual thing since much will depend on the overall health of the individual, age, and their response to treatment.

As for your question about how long it takes a mole to become malignant .. again it depends on the person. Some cancers can stay dormant for undetermined amount of time and than suddenly begin growing rapidly. No one knows why or we would be able to stop cancer.
That is why it is best to treat cancer when it is small and manageable because you never know when it is going to have a 'growth spurt' and spread like wildfire.  (+ info)

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