Artificial Hysteria

In the short video of “The Case of Heather”, Heather displayed several signs and symptoms of schizophrenia. Within a little of five minutes of the footage, Heather appeared to be having various delusions, a touch of paranoia, disorganized speech and a distortion of her beliefs. Her delusions were mainly delusions of grandeur. Heather claimed she had a monopoly over the coffee industry because she was filled with kryptonite. She also expressed how she had a complex of a president, along with being a dictator, boss, and an “orderer”. Besides showing symptoms of delusions, Heather also shown a touch of paranoia, as she was asking if there was a complaint against her.

Mark Drolsbaugh presentation titled “Madness in the Mainstream” encompassed Deaf education and challenges Deaf children face with mainstream education. Drolsbaugh was born hearing and as he grew up, he had progressive hearing loss and became Deaf by college. Luckily for him, he was born into a Deaf family. Drolsbaugh went on to Graduate from Gallaudet and wrote for different deaf newspapers and publications and became a school counselor. He had written four books by 2014 pertaining to the Deaf community. Madness in the Mainstream was actually his fourth book and was the basis to this presentation.

Even though asylum classifications stayed moderately constant for a century, there was a development in the thinking about insanity. One of Pinel’s scholar proposed the idea that there could be a distinct mood faculty in a category of its own in the 1830’s. Jean-Dominique Etienne Esquirol, who explained a deep sadness, lypemanie as a distinct disorder. The fact that mania or insanity could create shifting manifestations had presented little difficulty, however, they had problems with the fact that two clinical states being so different could be caused by the same underlying disease state. In order to overcome these conceptual problems, Falret and Baillarger proposed a disorder that had changing cycles of mania and melancholia of certain length

Since the early-2010s, debate around the sexualisation of children has instigated much social alarm. A number of media articles (Cameron 2010; Critchley 2009; Doherty 2011; Kermond 2012, Jones & Cuneo 2009; Snow 2013; Tuohy 2012) have depicted the sexualisation of children as a prevailing social matter which accentuate concepts represented in moral panic discourse. In everyday practices of reporting public and social events, moral panic frequently becomes elicited by society’s mass mediated exaggeration of certain social events. What becomes apparent from Critcher’s work (2003), is how understandings of public incidents become portrayed as concerning through socially constructed and distorted notions of panic which become widely adopted views. As Cohen (1972) suggests, moral panic becomes a state of panic through the encouragement of important social agents which believe that an ideological perspective is threatened or endangered by a particular view. Thereby to accentuate these notions using moral panic discourse, this essay will investigate whether representations of sexualised children constitute a moral panic contrived by mediated distortions or is truly a concerning societal issue through an analysis of the processual and attributional model (Critcher 2003). Drawing on both discursive models of moral panic will allow a thorough investigation of the catalysts for moral panic involving the sexualisation of children. This paper will demonstrate how moral panic discourse

Imagine the terror of a mass hysteria hoax. During the sixteenth century, witch trials caused the deaths of thousands as chaos spread throughout Europe. Many European villages in history have witnessed witch executions and the imprisonment of suspected witches. The Crucible, along with the Salem Witch Trials and the European witch trials, have many similarities and differences that make them both memorable and important.

On July 12, in Anne Arundel County of Maryland, two Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were found at a natural gas company. This incident is considered to be unrelated to the other incidents, where unidentified suspects were involved in break-ins of electrical substations in Baltimore areas, and in Anne Arundel county of Maryland. Although this incident is suspected to be a possible terrorist act, there is no additional evidence to prove the company or any individual as a terrorist target.

The Red Scare was a time when people feared communism. Investigators were hired to find spies from the Soviet Union. Due to the power of fear and mass hysteria, many people were accused of being spies who actually had nothing to do with the Soviet Union or communism. Arthur Miller discusses in an essay why he wrote The Crucible when he did. The mass hysteria from the Red Scare was very similar to that of the Salem Witch Trials, “In those years, our thought processes were becoming so magical, so paranoid, that to imagine writing a play about this environment was like trying to pick one's teeth with a ball of wool: I lacked the tools to illuminate miasma. Yet I kept being drawn back to it” (Miller 3). In saying how the thought processes of the

Holden Caulfield is an insane person in a sane world. What is insanity? Insanity is when you’re in a state of mind that prevents normal perception, behavior or social interaction. This state is mental illness. Insanity is when you do things in deranged or outrageous ways that could frighten people, or make people feel uncomfortable when around you. It’s when you do things out of the ordinary; yet feel as if they are ordinary. Insanity could come about when you’re depressed, or after a traumatic event, and sometimes even by keeping all your feelings bottled up inside of yourself. Sane people are sensible, reliable, well-adjusted and practice sound judgment. It’s behavior that is expected in a society. By these

For sure, there is a lot of emphasis on the future now more than ever. The television alone scares the life out of us; moreso, because it rants on about politics and how americans may be powerful, but are soon to be toast. Our financial state as a country is something that should give almost everyone, who knows money, depression, which is scary. Technology screws us over just because all the things our delicate, opinionated egos rely on are expensive and things we will soon have to buy on our own. We as a community are scared that we won’t be able to hold ourselves financially because no one explains to us it’s okay to live middle class and what it takes to be there, or that an education is a real key to success if it’s applied properly. That you may have to be responsible, but that doesn’t mean you still can’t

Why can't we keep control over our minds when we're under pressure? Mass hysteria is a very contagious illness that comes off as paranoia, and the best medicine for it is the truth (The Economist 82). Mass hysteria has been documented since medieval times (The Economist 82), and is still just as prevalent today. This paranoia outbreak can be triggered from multiple things such as: anxiety, stress, peer-pressure, or a feeling of lack of attention. It is possible to stop mass hysteria from spreading by being able to have power over your mind, and by being able to control your thoughts.

The insanity that plagues modern society, and more specifically, the United States, is that the majority of us have little or no regard towards our Mother Earth. This sheer ignorance and ethnocentrism is damaging to our Earth, but rarely do people choose to acknowledge it. Slowly but surely, our world is dying, and it due to the combined insanity of the human race, and the complete disregard towards our home planet. Global warming, unequal wealth distribution, war, etc., are all detrimental to our natural world. These are things that we have caused, yet many people turn a blind eye when it comes to this fact. We live in a bubble; many people do not dare to venture out of our culture’s way of thinking. The fact is, we are the ones that need

The author goes on to explain how the decisions people are making are becoming more inconsequential due to lack of research and knowledge. The unseen of a major event or the low predictability with large impact happening changes how so many people think and react. When the unexpected happens, we need to look back at history to understand why and what caused the unexpected to happen.

Scientist have come up with an idea which is called the doomsday clock, and the scientists evaluate the changes in earth's climate, and the conflicts between countries. Personally I find that the doomsday clock is just an idea to keep scientists busy, because you are not able to predict when the world is going to end. The scientists say that the clock is at three minutes until midnight, but you can not really base the time left for earth by the change in climate. Global warming is a huge problem, but there is no reason for scientists to be worried about the end in my

Americans are often fascinated with the word apocalypse. When we hear the word apocalypse, we tend to habitually think of the various media portrayals that we see on a daily basis. Whether it’s on your television, in a video game or in your own hands as you read a recommended book. The individuals who are feeding us these falsehood portrayals of the coming apocalypse are just looking for a quick profit.

Perhaps it's giving you the opportunity to accept that nobody knows the future. No matter how much we think about it and worry about what could happen or what might happen, the truth is, nobody knows what WILL happen.