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Child And Adolescent Children And Adolescents
1,546 wordsAdolescent depression continues to be a growing American problem since its discovery in the 1970 s. How exactly to treat this problem, however, is not a clear issue. For years the psychiatric community felt that psychotherapy was the best way to treat this growing epidemic. However, with the development of antidepressants, most famously Prozac, many people feel the problem is nearing a solution. Many psychiatrists believe these pills can be a quick and effective way to treat suffering adolescent...
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1,180 wordsThe Yellow Wallpaper- A Descriptive Descent Into Madness in the Nineteenth Century Women in literature have often been portrayed as submissive to men. Literature of the nineteenth century often characterized women as oppressed by society, as well as by the male influences in their lives (Dock 52). Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story The Yellow Wallpaper presents a descriptive journalistic / clinical account of a womans gradual descent into madness at the hands of her domineering husband (Bak ...
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Difficulties In Diagnosing And Treating Comorbidity
805 wordsDifficulties in Diagnosing and Treating Comorbidity By: Joseph L. Lagos In order to understand the difficulties involved in treating dually diagnosed individuals, it is fundamentally important to recognize what this disease is, and how it has been approached by society. The term dual diagnosis, (also known as co-occurring disorders or comorbidity), commonly refers to patients with both mental illness and substance abuse disorders. It has been estimated by the U. S. Substance Abuse and Mental Hea...
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Late 1800 Woman In The Wallpaper
1,005 wordsThe Yellow Wallpaper", written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the late 1800 's, focuses on a distressed woman with no place to turn. The woman narrates the story to give the reader an inside look at what she feels and how she reacts to her surroundings. She initially turns to her husband, John, as a doctor and as her companion and he dismisses the notion of mental illness as a "slightly hysterical tendency." He isolates her by taking her to a secluded house with no human contact outside of his s...
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Touch With Reality Mental Illness
1,460 wordsIt is my intention in this paper to build on the idea put forward by Thomas Seas that mental illness is, in fact, a myth. Labelling theorists such as Goffman believe that the label "insane" to a person may represent an important stage in the process if becoming mentally ill. It is my opinion that as labels of madness are so much a part of our everyday language, their use has a big effect not only on the individuals perception of themselves, but on the cultural perception of mental illness. These...
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Principles Of Utilitarian And Logic
699 wordsPrinciples of Utilitarian and De ontological Logic The U. S government and private health care providers are currently trying to create a more systematic approach for States and local communities to extend health and mental health care to their uninsured residents, which correlates directly with the principles of utilitarian and de ontological logic. In the United States cultural and social factors contribute to the causation of mental illness, yet that contribution varies by disorder. Mental il...
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Second Degree Murder Insanity Defense
1,481 wordsInsanity Defense The insanity defense is primarily based on the concept of insanity, which shows the extent to which a person accused of a crime can avoid criminal responsibility due to mental disease. The terms for this type of defense can be found in special instructions given by the trial judge to the jury at the close of a certain case. These particular instructions can be potentially drawn from different rules and used in the determination of a degree of mental illness, which also influence...
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Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
3,264 wordsBrain Chemistry and Recent Advances The mysteries surrounding the complexity of the brain and how it works has led scientists in diverse fields to search for answers. Chemicals in the brain and the reactions that take place are being understood now more than ever due to continuing research in genetics, pharmacology, and mental illness. Study and research in genetics has helped identify some of the genes involved in producing, receiving, or sending certain chemical reactions, the way they work, a...
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Temporary Nervous Depression Mental Illness
2,551 wordsThe Yellow Wallpaper A Descent into Madness In the nineteenth century, women in literature were often portrayed as submissive to men. Literature of the period often characterized women as oppressed by society, as well as by the male influences in their lives. The Yellow Wallpaper presents the tragic story of a womans descent into depression and madness. Gilman once wrote Womens subordination will only end when women lead the struggle for their own autonomy, thereby freeing man as well as themsel...
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Reason Of Insanity Time And Money
1,925 wordsInsanity is defined as a mental disorder of such severity as to render its victim incapable of managing his affairs or conforming to social standards. (Insanity, pg. 1) It is used in court to state that the defendant was not aware of what he / she was doing at the time of the crime, due to mental illnesses. But insanity is a legal, not a medical, definition. There is a difference between mental illness and going insane. Many problems are raised by the existence of the insanity defense. For examp...
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Mentally Ill Mental Illness
2,465 wordsInsanity the Idea and its Consequences by SzaszWell, I highly recommend Szaszs book Insanity: the Idea and its Consequences. I cant say for sure on this, but apparently there an overwhelming tendency among real doctors to define disease terms of objectively verifiable cell damage (perhaps parallel to TV-repairmen's definition of broken in terms of not turning on? ). Ive had the chance to ask one or two doctors about this, and they said that that is true, for whatever its worth. Apparently, patho...
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Mental Illness Safe Place
457 wordsMental Illness Mental illness is a disorder that is characterized by disturbances in a person s thought, emotions, or behavior. Mental illness refers to a wide variety of disorders, ranging from those that cause mild distress to those that impair a person s ability to function in daily life. Many have tried to figure out the reasons for mental illnesses. All of these reasons have been looked at and thought of for thousands of years. The biological perspective views mental illness as a bodily pro...
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Mentally Ill Mental Illnesses
1,184 wordsThere is a wide range of problems considered psychological disorders. Each is very different, and very complex in its own rite. Over 20 million Americans suffer from some sort of mental disorder, such as depression, anxiety disorders, OCD, and schizophrenia (Roleff 50). Most people understand that these disorders are quite difficult to live with, and indeed mis fortunate. However, there simply is not enough known about mental illnesses to make the public acutely aware of how serious these disord...
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5,336 wordsObsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (henceforth OCD) is an anxiety related disorders and is a potentially disabling condition that can persist throughout a person s life. The key features of OCD are obsessions and compulsions. Obsessions can be defined as persistent ideas, thoughts impulses or images that are experienced as inappropriate and intrusive. This then causes the person high levels of anxiety and distress. Compulsion on the other hand, Are repetitive behav...
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1,285 wordsAbnormal Psychology One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest This movie demonstrates much of what I despise about my fellow feeble-minded Americans. In this movie, I saw stereotypes galore, and almost every cliche in the book. For example, one voluntary patient is seeking therapy for his marital problems. It seems that he and his wife were having sexual problems. This ultimately leads everyone, patients and viewers alike, to believe that this man must be gay. As if this werent enough, we have to have the ...
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Deaf And Dumb Nurse Ratched
1,281 wordsThis movie demonstrates much of what I despise about my fellow feeble-minded Americans. In this movie, I saw stereotypes galore, and almost every cliche in the book. For example, one voluntary patient is seeking therapy for his marital problems. It seems that he and his wife were having " sexual" problems. This ultimately leads everyone, patients and viewers alike, to believe that this man must be gay. As if this werent enough, we have to have the " blind-deaf-and-dumb-guy" ,...
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Mentally Ill Mental Illness
820 wordsA Psychotic Killer Sues His Psychiatrist Time Magazine Take that, you bastard! This quote from Wendell Williamson is presented in large, bold text at the bottom of this Time magazine article. Such is the portrayal of Williamson in an attempt to give us a glimpse into this psychotic killer s mind. Williamson, who suffered from a mental illness involving delusions, shot and killed two people in 1995. In this article, however, Williamson is misrepresented repeatedly. Williamson ceases to become a v...
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Mental Illness Severe Mental
620 wordsThe Snake Pi Abstract Virginia Cunningham, thirty-ish, white female, married and suffering from schizophrenia was placed in a psychiatric hospital after an ongoing battle with mental illness. While in the psychiatric hospital Virginia received shock treatment, which was to no avail in achieving a cure, however her psychotherapy with Dr. Kik eventually rendered a cure. The Snake Pi The Snake Pit Severe mental illness almost always alters a persons life dramatically. People with severe mental illn...
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Adolescent Suicide Attempt Suicide
2,280 wordsSuicide is a significant cause of death in many western countries. Attempts at suicide, and suicidal thoughts or feelings are usually a sign indicating that a person is not coping, often as a result of some event or series of events that they personally find prostrating traumatic or distressing. Most people who attempt suicide are confused about whether or not they want to die. They usually are desperate to find a way to remove or stop emotional pain. A suicide attempt is often a cry for help th...
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