Human Development Culminating Profile : Billy Milligan

Depression is something that is only temporary and something that most new mothers go through, but Andrea had a long history of depression and this is also something that runs in her family come to find out. Andrea was prescribed with Zoloft, but refused to take it because she had preferred to breast-feed her youngest. “The ailing mother was discharged and another psychiatrist switched her to Zyprexa, an antipsychotic drug for bipolar disorders and schizophrenia. Andrea flushed the pills down the toilet. Then she got worse. To this point, she'd experienced several

from his mother and losing himself. Making a vary powerful bond between a parent and the child one vary large thing

The alteration of lifelong behaviours is incredibly hard and when faced with challenging predicaments the father probably succumbs to negative actions which are deep-rooted into his unconscious.

Carol Gilligan was born to William E. Friedman and Mabel Friedman on November 28th, 1936. Gilligan’s mother was a teacher and her father was a lawyer. She grew up in New York City during the Holocaust era (Medea, 2009). For her undergraduate education, Gilligan attended Swarthmore College, graduating in 1958 with summa cum laude honors and a major in English literature. From there, she went to Radcliffe College for a master’s degree in clinical psychology in 1961 and Harvard for a doctorate in social psychology in 1964 (Carol, 2017). After finishing all of her post-secondary education, Carol left the psychology field, married James Gilligan, and moved to Chicago where she started her family. Gilligan began teaching, lecturing, and tutoring at the University of Chicago (Ball, 2010). Eventually, she decided to return to Harvard to further pursue psychology.

His childhood was very stale, not having a father was very difficult because a single mother and a child was not a easy job. The money was not very stable until his stepfather came into his life. Although stable his stepfather sexually and physically abused him and his stepfather being a violent alcoholic did not help his case.

In a study made by Gao et al. (2007), they found out that children of depressed mothers are three more times likely to develop behavioural problems.

This is obviously a sign of bad mental health, but there were several incidents that led up to this state of mind. An often occurrence were the fights between her and her husband. She didn’t agree with his ethics and motivations to grow human organs such as kidneys, brain tissue, and livers inside pigoons. “The goal of the pigoon project was to grow foolproof human-tissue organs in a transgenic knockout pig” (Atwood 22). This was an issue that may have caused Jimmy’s mother to be neglectful towards her son was her depression. Depression is a mental illness that affected her everyday life. She was so exhausted with the fights with her husband and the depression on top of that. This caused her to be uninterested in her son and it is also what caused her to run away with Jimmy’s pet. This shows that mental illness isn’t always caused by something, but rather someone is born with it. People with depression always have it, but it can be triggered to where it affects their everyday lives. Jimmy’s mother’s depression may have been triggered by stress about her husband’s job and constant arguing with her husband. Either way, whether it is ones chemical make-up or something that causes it, mental health really does affect the way people live their lives.

demasculation of his father by his mother, however his experience of people not listening to

The symptoms for this disorder include hopelessness, anxiety, loss of energy, changes in appetite, and even insomnia. Being that the narrator had recently given birth, these symptoms seem in line with postpartum depression. Therefore, if she was a real human today living in modern society, this is how she would be diagnosed. Her husband had removed her children from her life, which probably increased her anxiety and hopelessness. From the short story it seems the unnamed narrator didn’t put up much of a fight for her children and accepted her state.

The character portrays moments of anger, sadness, and nervous traits. “I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the ever-lastingness (Gilman 308)”. The character says in the story that she cannot be around the baby because it makes her too nervous. Later, in the story she is crying uncontrollably all the time and does not know why. These emotions compare to the signs and symptoms of postpartum depression. “Mood instability, Tearfulness, Marked confusion, suspiciousness and obsessive concern about the baby (Missouri Department of Health & Senior

Everyone but the doctors believed that he was a fine patient. Billy lives through horrible conditions during the war for example when people started dying on the box car and many soldiers in the war often had hallucinations, diagnosed with many problems because of all the traumatic images seen during that time, and must have lost any type of motivation for life and

reasons that the ghost of his father has such an effect on him, which is a

however, is a direct result that correlated with how society has taught him to be a father. In the

His father was moody and very irritable and wasn’t a strong figure in the household

A mother who struggles with depression post-partum is likely to expose her baby to more harmful effects. Gerhardt (2015) states that the baby of a depressed mother can find it difficult to cope with or get over stress, or they may be more fearful (p. 21). These babies also may respond to others with depression themselves, as their mother may be neglectful in their care (Gerhardt, 2015, p. 36). One of the reasons for this is because of their cortisol levels, which can fluctuate situationally. However, in infants this can affect their development (Gerhardt, 2015, p. 83) as well as their immune system (Gerhardt, 2015, p. 118), and is evidence that a mother with depression can have a significant impact on her child well beyond when the depression occurs. Additionally, Gerhardt (2015) notes that, “When they grow up, these babies of depressed mothers are highly at risk of succumbing to depression themselves.” (p.