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Doctor Or Nurse Muscle Tension
1,033 words"SCHIZ-O-PHRE-NI-A, n. Any of a group of psychotic reactions characterized by withdrawal from reality with highly variable affective, behavioral and intellectual disturbances" (Long, web) Schizophrenia is the word for a group of mental illnesses marked by a multitude of symptoms. Literally, the term means "split mind" but, though many people think it, schizophrenia is not multiple personalities. It is generally thought of as the classic case of insanity. When most people think of someone as bein...
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1,589 wordsMany different drugs have different effects on the body. This paper focuses on the effects caused by three widely used drugs opium, cocaine, and cannabis. They have many common effects between them. Some characteristics of the effects of those drugs are those of stimulants and others are those of depressants. We will describe the chemical effects of each drug on the body. Opium is a drug produced from the capsules of the opium poppy. When fresh from the plant it is a gooey light brown mass ("Opi...
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Crime Scene Mental Disorders
1,565 words... t social scientists (e. g. James Q Wilson) has [sic] stressed the importance of 'socializing' people more effectively. " 'The Unabomber does not like socialization, technology, leftist political causes or conservative attitudes. Apart from his call for an (unspecified) revolution, his paper resembles something a very good graduate student might have written based on his own reading rather than the course assignments. If it is the work of a madman, the writings of many political philosophers ...
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Anti Psychotic Drugs People With Schizophrenia
1,079 wordsSchizophrenia is a serious, chronic mental disorder characterized by loss of contact with reality and disturbances of thought, mood, and perception. Schizophrenia is the most common and the most potentially sever and disabling of the psychosis, a term encompassing several severe mental disorders that result in the loss of contact with reality along with major personality derangements. Schizophrenia patients experience delusions, hallucinations and often lose thought process. Schizophrenia affect...
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Heart Rate And Blood Pressure Brain Cells
1,057 wordsHallucinogens mess with your brain they alter how the brain perceives time, reality, and your environment. They also affect your senses like hearing and seeing. This can make you think that you are seeing stuff and feeling things that dont even exist. Using Hallucinogens makes your heart rate and blood pressure increase. Hallucinogens may put you into a coma. They can also cause heart and lung failure. Hallucinogens can change the way that you feel emotionally. They may also make you feel suspic...
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Should Stimulants Be Prescribed For Adhd Children
739 wordsIn this day and age, drugs are being prescribed without hesitation. In fact, many of these drugs are being prescribed for children with various disorders. One of these disorders is called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). An estimated five to ten percent of children are diagnosed with this syndrome (Taylor 11). One of the methods to treat this disorder is to use stimulants, specifically Ritalin. This method is controversial because it has many side effects and its long-term effect...
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Psychoanalytic Theory Object Relations
1,623 words... to get emotionally intimate with the narcissist - he threatens the grandiose belief that no one but the narcissist can possess the good object (the narcissist himself). Only the narcissist can own himself, have access to himself, possess himself. This is the only way to avoid seething envy and certain self-annihilation. Perhaps it is clearer now why narcissists react as raving madmen to ANYTHING, however minute, however remote that seems to threaten their grandiose fantasies, the only protec...
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Year Old Boy Disorder Adhd
1,605 wordsAlthough American culture has changed over the years, parents today still want what is best for their children. Why then, are parents allowing their children to be put on medications that may have an adverse effect on their children? Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) have increasingly been diagnosed among young children today. Parents should become more informed about the over diagnosing, side effects, results of the medication and all other perti...
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Evaluate Evidence For A Psychological Intervention Schizophrenia
1,788 words... s the chance of replication beyond its own setting, which is vital in being able to justify the use of CBT as a viable intervention for Schizophrenia. In this case experienced psychiatric nurses trained in CBT successfully treated the patients this alone makes CBT a more viable option for intervention as it means more health care professionals fall within the scope of being able to provide treatment. Equally as promising is that therapy could be undertaken in the community as it is less dema...
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Mental Illness Thought Processes
1,042 wordsSchizophrenia- Severe disorders on which there are disturbances of thoughts, communications, and emotions, including delusions and hallucinations. (Psychology: An Introduction, Charles D. Morris with Albert A. Maisto) It's quite horrendous. First of all, you " ve got somebody that you love, a child that you " ve raised. And then suddenly, the child becomes a crazy person. Better drugs and new ways of treating schizophrenia are enabling more of the disease's victims to live in society instead of ...
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African Americans Collective Memory
981 wordsIn the second exhibit, Cookin with Aunt Ethel, Wolfe uses satire to describe what characteristics contribute to making an African American person. He uses familiar phrases that trigger emotion from the memory of African Americans. Such as, Now you beat it really work it (Owen, p. 37). He was referring to the vigorous mental and physical abuse that African Americans were exposed to. Discard and Disown... And in a few hundred years once its aged and fully grown... ya put in the oven till its Black...
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Hallucinogenic Drugs Neuro Transmission
1,695 words... Small quantities cause relaxation and slight changes in mood but larger quantities can cause stomach pain, nausea and vomiting, shivering, a numbing of the mouth and dizziness. People sometimes mistakenly take poisonous mushrooms for those containing psilocybin. Cannabis is a depressant drug that slows down the body's systems. Very strong cannabis preparations or larger quantities of cannabis can cause mild hallucinogenic effects. These can lead to anxiety or panic in the user (Australian Dr...
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Mysticism In A Room Of One Part 1
1,838 wordsMysticism in A Room of One's Own 1. Virginia Woolf will go down in history as one of the greatest female writers of twentieth century. The importance of her legacy cannot be underestimated, regardless of what our attitude towards her writings might be. Her name is strongly linked to what we refer now as womens emancipation movement and feminism, although in recent years the attempt has been made to look at her writings from different point of view. This revisionist approach is caused by the fact...
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Rose For Emily Funk 038 Wagnalls
866 wordsThe Psychosis Of Emily Grierson In William The Psychosis Of Emily Grierson In William Faulkner S A Rose For Emily Through the use of third person point of view and elaborate, repetitive foreshadowing, William Faulkner describes how numerous elements contributed to Miss Emily's deranged behavior in the short story, A Rose for Emily. Not only does Faulkner imply paternal oppression, but there is also a clear indication of insanity that is an inherent pattern in the Grierson family. The shocking co...
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One Of The Most Famous Lysergic Acid
1,234 wordsErgot and its disease ergotism have been a worldwide plague to humans ever since humans have started to harvest and cultivate grains in all their forms. Although outbreaks of ergotism still occur periodically they have all but become nonexistent in the modern era. Ergot has had beneficial effects as well. Ergot has produced medicines, which are vital to the medicine world. Ergot has produced in the worlds eyes an ugly stepsister to its medicines: LSD. D-lysergic acid diethyl amide known to the w...
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Manic Depressive Virginia Woolf
1,941 wordsOne of the greatest female authors of all time, Virginia Woolf, produced a body of writing respected worldwide. Driven by uncontrollable circumstances and internal conflict, her life was cut short by suicide. Her role in feminism, along with the personal relationships in her life, influenced her literary works. Virginias relationships throughout her life contributed, not only to her literature, but the quality of her life as well. Perhaps the greatest influence in Virginias life is her mother, J...
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Mentally Ill Thoughts
1,075 wordsDuring the 1950 s, mentally disordered people who were harmful to society and themselves could be treated with medications and were able to return safely to their communities. Unfortunately in the 1980 s, the cost of health care increased more than any other cost in our national economy. Strategic planning has been made to reduce costs, as a result, ? The political decision made to deinstitutionalize chronic mental patients started with the appearance of phenothiazine medications. Dramatically r...
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Central Nervous System Lysergic Acid
1,611 wordsLSD (for Chemistry Class) Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) LSD), a potent hallucinogenic drug, also called a psychedelic, first synthesized from lysergic acid in Switzerland in l 038. Lysergic acids a white odorless drug, a component of the mold of ERGOT. Ergot is a product of the fungus Claviceps purpurea. Th e bio-active ingredients of ergot are all derivatives of lysergic acid. LSD is a semi-synthetic derivative of lysergic acid. Thus LSD is an ergot like substance. The drug evokes dreamlike ...
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Doesn T Exist Auditory Hallucinations
1,837 wordsSchizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder that is characterized by a variety of symptoms and the disorganization of feeling and thought. It is an incurable disease whose causes are unknown, yet whose effects are mind and body crippling. (Young, 1988, p. 13 - 14) This topic was chosen because it is interesting to study a disorder that worldwide, is viewed as a classic example of madness and insanity. Another reason of interest is because unlike many illnesses, schizophrenia doesn t have a noticeabl...
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British Medical Association British Medical Journal
1,286 wordsSchizophrenia is a type of brain disorder that affects people of all races, age and economic standings. Schizophrenia causes personality disorders among social skills, and basic life skills. In the 1800 s a person named Emil Kraepelin had concluded after 1, 000 patients that a state of dementia was an onset after the illness started. Some doctors and even people may believe that schizophrenia can result from prenatal problems. Certain events during pregnancy may disrupt brain growth (Bower, B. P...
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