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Many terms and concepts are commonly associated with mental illness. the topic of mental illness has many overlapping and subset definitions. Mental illness, a term that encompasses a wide range of mental disorders, contains subcategories of mental disorders distinguishable by effects on a person's behavior, thinking, and mood. Disorders are the most commonly referred to an aspect of mental illness; types of disorders are schizophrenia, anxiety, and depression. Syndromes, even more, specific than disorders, pertain to particular systems within subcategories of disorders and are identifiable by distinct symptoms, mental or physical markers expressed by a disease; examples of syndromes are an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and post-traumatic stress disorder

Currently, he identifies himself as “Teddy Daniels” a U.S Marshal (alter ego) on a missing person investigation while searching for his version of truth of his wife’s murder.

Explain how individuals experience discrimination due to misinformation, assumptions and stereotypes about mental ill health.

Psychologists place personality disorders into three clusters. There is Cluster A which share psychotic symptoms similar in Schizophrenia, these include: Paranoid, Schizoid and Schizotypal personality disorders. The second cluster focuses more on emotion, these include Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic and Narcissistic personality disorders. The final cluster includes Avoidant, Dependent and Obsessive-Compulsive personality disorders, which focus on factors similar in anxiety disorders. Each of these cluster require a minimum amount of symptoms shown the diagnostic charts, in order to be diagnosed with one of them. However it takes a trained professionally to truly diagnose a patient. This is because people who look in their life will see many of their family and friends with symptoms of a personality disorder.

Teddy and his new partner Chuck are going to Shutter Island, a mental institution for the criminally insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient named Rachael Solando who was sent there after drowning her three kids. Upon arrival, the staff gives them a brief tour of the island. When Teddy asks for access to the staff and patient files Dr. Cawley denies, saying that he will need to consult with the board of directors. Throughout the film, Teddy has several flashbacks about his wife and kids and from his time serving in World War II. Later that night, he meets again with the doctors who confirm that he will not have access to the staff files.

Psychological disorders are stated to be abnormalities of the mind, known as mental disorders (Klasco, 2011). Abnormalities of the mind cause persistent behaviors that affect an individual’s daily function and life (Klasco, 2011). The different types of psychological disorders include mood disorders, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, and eating disorders (Klasco, 2011). The causes of these disorders are unknown, but factors that contribute to these disorders include childhood experiences, chemical imbalances in the brain, illnesses, heredity, stress, and prenatal exposures (Klasco, 2011). Psychological disorders can be serious and can be life-threatening

The diagnostic process for personality disorders currently covers a broad scope of various tests and symptoms, causing a source of frustration for psychiatrists (Aldhous). The symptoms and side effects of several personality disorders can tend to blur together, making diagnosis challenging (Aldhous). Most psychiatric patients are diagnosed with several personality disorders at once, with twenty percent of people with personality disorders simply diagnosed with a “personality disorder not otherwise specified” (Aldhous). Using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders, commonly referred to as the DSM, psychiatrists attempt with great difficulty to categorize their patients into a specific disorder, only to diagnose

A psychological disorder, also known as a mental disorder, is a pattern of behavioral or psychological symptoms that impact multiple life areas and create distress for the person experiencing these symptoms. These symptoms are characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual 's cognitive, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental process underlying mental functioning. Mental disorders are usually associated with significant distress in social, occupational, or other important activities. Approximately 26 percent of American adults over the age of 18 suffer from some diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. (Cherry)

Major depression the other psychiatric disorder the common is according to DSM-5 persistent depressive disorder used to be call this Tanya anxiety disorder attention

Shutter Island portrays multiple mental illnesses in the main character as well as in supporting characters. One might call it an abnormal psychology “goldmine.” It takes place at a water-bound psychiatric facility, Shutter Island, housing the criminally insane. The plot is about a man who refers to himself as Teddy. He believes he and his partner are detectives, on the island, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. He is also in search of a patient named Andrew Laeddis, who Teddy believes murdered his wife. The detective becomes paranoid that the facility is treating the patients unfairly and performing experimental lobotomies. The delusion goes on for several months, Teddy never realizing he is actually a patient, until he is brought back to reality at the climax of the movie. His delusion ends. He realizes he’s a patient for a very short amount of time before he goes back to believing he’s a detective. The delusion starts all over again. Throughout most of the film, viewers see his delusion as a reality, until the twist at the end when it is revealed that he is actually a patient.

A multiple regression analysis was run to predict delusional ideation from pathology severity, perception, memory, speak vs. hear, and imagine vs. hear with forced entry. There was linearity as assessed by partial regression plots and a plot of studentized residuals against the predicted values. There was independence of residuals, as assessed by a Durbin-Watson statistic of 2.011. There was homoscedasticity, as assessed by visual inspection of a plot of studentized residuals versus unstandardized predicted values. There was evidence

The film Shutter Island directed by Martin Scorsese is about a patient called Andrew “Teddy Daniels”. The film takes place in a mental institution called AshCliffe. Teddy is a patient who had killed his wife. Teddy feels extremely guilty and tries to hide the truth by creating a fantasy of his own where his wife died in an apartment fire. Scorsese uses Teddy’s internal and external conflict to make the film successful by showing the idea that: It is human nature to suppress things we cannot face, Ignoring the truth can have consequences and Happiness in a state of ignorance is better than suffering while knowing the truth. The director uses Teddy’s situation to show the audience how human nature can create such fantasy to hide away the

In the story, 'The Day I Got Lost' by Isacc Bashevis Singer, the main character Professor Shlemiel is absent-minded, yet, still lovable and kind. Most absent-minded people are looked upon as annoying and get angry and themselves and others due to this, but, Professor Shlemiel has loads of friends who care about him deeply, which shows that he is neither angry or annoying. "Our friends surrounded me. 'Where have you been?' they cried. "We were so worried . We thought surely something had happened to you." (pg #3) This proves that his friends deeply care about their absent-minded friend and that they obviously don't find him annoying. We see that he is kind through his interactions with the lost dog. "At that moment I saw a big black dog. He

Shutter Island, directed by Martin Scorsese, contains an intense and intriguing plot line especially when viewed from a psychoanalytic perspective. Edward “Teddy” Daniels, a US Marshal and WWII veteran travels to an isolated island to investigate a case of a patient who has run away from Ashecliffe Hospital. Alongside Teddy is his partner Chuck; they both investigate the disappearance of Rachel Solando—a criminally insane patient who was admitted after drowning her three children. Before fleeing the mental institution,

Plot twists are creatively applied to Shutter Island. Presented at the start of the film, when Teddy Daniels arrives on Shutter Island, Teddy Daniels is a U.S Marshall. This conveys that he is solving the case of a missing patient who had escaped. Most importantly, he is searching for the killer of his wife, Andrew Laeddis, who is supposed to be a patient on the island. To start the paranoia, Chuck Aule says “What if while you were looking into them, they were looking into you?” Chuck identifies the paranoia to unconsciously throw the audience off guard and Teddy Daniels then seeks to discover the disturbing truths of the institution. As the truth is clarified, the plot of the film seems to be apparent. As the core plot of Shutter Island is to find out “Who is 67?” said by Chuck Aule, it is not until the end that everything is clarified. Teddy Daniels is in fact the missing “patient 67” who is Andrew Laeddis. He then is disturbed with the truth that