U.S.+Presidents

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POWERPOINT STARTED: 2. (History Students) Summarize the significant events, comments and policies of the presidents. (Psych Students) Explain the disorders, etc. experienced by the presidents. Include symptoms, causes, possible treatments (at the time, and current treatments)** //Warren Harding// experienced Somatoform Disorder, which is a disorder of physical symptoms for a disease in which there is no physical cause for. The symptoms cause the patients great anxiety, and the causes for it can be family stress, parental modeling, cultural influences, and biological factors. For President Harding, treatments are medications, a strong relationship with a doctor or psychiatrist, or psychotherapy. (Allison) He was President very soon after World War I and Warren cut taxes on higher income famillies and raised tariff rates, gaining disatisfaction from the country. He also gave government positions to his personal political supporters, which in the long run hurt him because these people used the offices for their own personal gain. An example was the massive Teapot Dome Scandal, where he got in huge trouble for allowing his Cabinet officials to exploit Wyoming oil-rich lands for personal profit. (Jessamy)
 * Presidents and Psychological Disorders/Stress**
 * 1. Choose three presidents with disorders/stress (consider Taft, Nixon to start?) Warren Harding, Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon.

//Abraham Lincoln// experienced Clinical Depression with psychotic features. The symptoms of the disorder are change in appetite, change in sleeping patterns, loss of interest, fatigue, hopelessness, guilt, indecisiveness, melancholia, and repeated thoughts on suicide. The symptoms of Psychotic features in Depression are anxiety, agitation, hypochondria, insomnia, and cognitive impairment. The causes of Depression can be family history, trauma and stress, pessimistic personality, physical conditions, and other psychological disorders. The main treatment options for Depression are anitdepressant medication and therapy. (Allison) http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200510/lincolns-clinical-depression Lincoln was the President during the Civil War, and managed to keep the country from completely falling apart while still following his beliefs. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation, that freed all slaves, and signed the 13th amendment that abolished slavery. He also created the first federal income tax, which helped to pay for the war. After the Civil War, he began the process of Reconstruction with a lenient plan to help the southern states get back into the union, until he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. (Jessamy)

//Richard Nixon// struggled with alcohol abuse. Alcohol abuse refers to any condition in which alcohol is consumed constantly despite negative consequenses. Symptoms of Alcoholism are; continuing to drink even after health issues have occurred, inefficiency with handling one's money, driving while under the influence, putting oneself or others in danger, missing work/school because of alcohol, and drinking along/in secret. Some causes of Alcoholism are social factors, genetic factors, emotional state, and psychological factors. Possible treatments remain the same now as they for during Nixon's presidency. Some possible treatments include therapy, rehabilitation, treatment programs, medication to reduce Withdrawal, and detoxification. (Allison) http://alcoholism.about.com/od/meds/Medical_Treatments.htm Richard Nixon was elected president in 1968. He served as the president from 1969-1974. Nixon was a strong anti-communism president, during the vietnam war nixon proposed the Nixon Doctorine a strategy of replacing American troops with the Vietnamese troops, also called "Vietnamization." in 1972 president nixon went to China following their split from the Soviet Union, in the Sino-Soviet Split. Richard Nixon's presidency came to an end after the watergate scandel. Richard Nixon was impeached but resigned before he was thrown out of office.(James Sprouse) Evidence from eyewitnesses and from Taft himself strongly suggests that he had severe [|obstructive sleep apnea] during his presidency, resulting from his obesity. Within a year of leaving the presidency, Taft lost approximately 80 pounds (32 kg). His somnolence resolved and, less obviously, his systolic [|blood pressure] dropped 40–50 mmHg (from 210 mmHg). Undoubtedly, this weight loss extended his life.[|[13]] Beginning in 1920, Taft used a cane; his was a gift from Professor of Geology W.S. Foster, made of 250,000-year-old wood.[|[14]] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Howard_Taft&oldid=213861067 Sleep apnea is defined as a sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and consequent momentary reawakinings. In other words, people with sleep apnea, have off and on sessions of breathing. The word "apnea" happens to mean "with no breath." Because of this lack of breathing, blood oxygen levels decrease which in turn arouses the sleeper and causes him/her to snort in air for a few seconds. This process can happen occer over 400 times a night. Because of the repitious awakeinings, people with sleep apnea are deprived of slow-wave sleep, which is essential for a healthy sleep cylce. This, in turn leaves people with sleep apnea to suffer from irritavility and complaints of sleepliness. Many people confuse the loud snorting noise associated with sleep apnea as really loud snoring. For this reason, many people aren't aware that they have a disorder.

yo This is James from 3rd period history. Let's have Nixon be our third president instead of roosevelt that would be more simple. Who commented earlier so you get credit.

Well...yoyoyoyo:) This is Minnie from 2nd period psycology. Which three presidents are we working with? We hit sleep disorders and depression pretty hard in class, it'd be easier for me to explain this. What do you think?

who all is in this group? James and Jessamy are the history partners with you. I think if the psych students do History parts of Nixon, Harding, and Lincoln...not in that order. Jessamy I will start with Nixon and sleep apnea and such...what do we have on sleep deprevation Jessamy how about you do somotaform and then let's see where we are on Tuesday

we have four presidents above...we only have to have three don't we? also, try and put your name on the top right corner of your slide so we can distinguish who did which slides

yes, we only need three. and the only info about Taft is the disoder so i dont think we need to do him....

Hi, this is Minnie. yeah, I agree...no Taft. So lets change slide 2. And i added some more to the slide show. Tell me if you think it's okay. and email me at minnie@triad.rr.com if you want. Or just post something on here I guess.

alright this is james..i finshed my slides. i think we're supposed to have a picture on every slide.

we're pretty much done! i put the presidents behind their disorder so it was organized like that, make sure to put your citations at the end