Mental Illnesses And Personality Disorders

Many students suffer from anxiety, stress, overworking, etc.… but those students are labeled incorrectly. The students are listed as having mental health problems when actually they should be referred to as having a mental illness. Mental health is “a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community” (Mental health basics). Mental health is something a normal, healthy functioning human being has when everything in their head is in order. A mental illness is the opposite of mental health. It is defined as “collectively all diagnosable mental disorders” or “health conditions that are characterized by alterations in thinking, mood, or behavior (or some combination thereof) associated with distress and/or impaired functioning.” (Mental health basics). Many negative effects can happen to students if they are diagnosed with a mental health disorder. This includes inside and outside of schools. Kids who are between the ages of six to eighteen are more prone to develop a mental illness because it’s a transitional period in their life that most are not too aware of. During this time a child 's mind and psyche are changing and when there 's change, there 's a lot of room for error. A child 's mind can easily be impacted and anyone can leave a good or bad permanent impression. Also, because the kids are all going

“Mental health is defined as a state of wellbeing in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community” (Mayoclinic, 2012)

A mental disorder is a disease that can cause mild to severe disturbances or impairments in behavior or mental wellbeing. These effects may result in the inability of the individual to effectively cope with the demands and pressures of everyday life. There are more than 200 types of different mental illnesses, such as bipolar disorder, dementia, and schizophrenia, among many others. However, in this paper the main focus will be placed on depression and anxiety.

“The sword cuts both ways,” Joan Crawford says while at the board meeting after her husband died. Joan Crawford, in the movie Mommie Dearest, shows her confident and no-funny-business type of personality that she is so well respected for, along with her acting career (Koontz & O’Neill, 1981). Also, she displays some good and bad aspects of her many personality disorders. Four of which are particularly prevalent in this movie: obsessive compulsive, borderline, bipolar, and narcissistic.

Mental illnesses are generally characterized by changes in mood, thought, or behavior. They can make daily activities difficult and impair a person’s ability to work, interact with family, and fulfill other major life functions (SAMHSA, 2015). Contemplated early on in history, treatments for mental illness looked to cure the reflections of the anger of gods, demonic possession, sorcery, the evil eye, or an angry deity, responded with equally mystical, and brutal treatments (Nash, 2007). Attempts to treat mental illness date back as early as 5000 BCE as verified by the discovery of trephined skulls in regions of ancient world cultures (Porter, 2002, p. 10). Only a few realized that individuals with mental illness should be treated humanely rather than exorcised, punished, or banished. Psychiatry has come a long way since the days patients were shunned from society and shackled in asylums. Experiments and techniques for treating mental illness from ancient times to the turn of the 20th century have paved the way for the treatment plans used today.

     Sometimes people undergo traumatic experiences in their lives that are either physical or mental and maybe even a combination of both. If the experience was so intense, and so horrible, that the mind didn’t want to remember it, or possibly didn’t know how to deal or cope with it, then that one experience has the power to split a person’s mind into “another personality”. If this happens, the other personality or personalities come out when a person who has MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) is put in a situation that he/she doesn’t know how to handle or feels that the other personality can handle it better. People suffering from MPD also have the risk of developing some

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

Mental illness has been the most overlooked issue in society today let alone within prisons. Researcher Lurigio (2001) explored studies from the 1970’s through to the 2000’s on the deinstitutionalization and restructuring of mental health laws that basically channeled the mentally ill into the corrections system. Often mentally ill offenders are released into community care. Lurigio emphasized that community based care “compartmentalizes” mentally ill offenders and creates limitations on whom they treat. This creates yet another gap within the corrections system for offenders to fall into. Those who require treatment may not get what they need because community care can only treat so much. These “missed” offenders are often the most serious and chronic.

Stereotypes are made about groups of people in every class, country and race. The mentally ill are no exception to this fact. Mental illness has no bounds and can affect anyone, whether rich or poor, American or Canadian, black or white, it does not matter. People with a mental illness or disorder are looked at as dysfunctional, violent, unsuccessful, and even foul-smelling individuals. People with extreme cases of mental illness, such as schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder, are often called crazy, insane, and mad when in actuality they are acting in a radical way because of something that these individuals cannot control or express in ways that is understandable to people without these disorders. Throughout history people with mental illness have been misunderstood. Insane asylums were used to imprison people with a mental illness when all they really needed was medical attention. In order to combat this stigma an understanding of symptoms and treatments for the mentally ill is necessary. Once their problems are understood people will find it easier to walk in their shoes and will probably be kinder to those with a mental illness. When this happens the stigma will dissolve and eventually disappear entirely and people with mental illness will finally be treated the way they deserve, with respect. Understanding mental illness is the first step to defeating an ignorant society and ending a terrible stigma.

The very definition of personality is “the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual’s distinctive character.” But what does that mean for those who don’t have any distinctive character, or those who can’t separate their individual qualities from the qualities of others? It could mean they are just experiencing normal fluctuations in their perceived personality, common to everyone because people are constantly changing. It could also be the presence of a psychiatric disorder, depending on the length one experiences these fluctuations, which would be referred to as “symptoms.” Psychiatric disorders are a class of mental disorders that have maladaptive behaviors, poor cognition, and poor inner

Depression is more common in Women than in men. When my grandmother died—my mom’s mother— my mother went in to severe depression. I know that losing a parent can never be easy. People grief differently. My mom suffers from high blood pressure and so when she heard the news that my grandmother had died we immediately had to take her to the hospital. There, they had to regulate her blood pressure because she was really bad and would not stop crying. It was hard to see. After she was released from the hospital and we went through the whole burial service she became extremely depressed. She would go to work but was always tired. She just wanted to be in bed. She was always sad. When we would sit at the dinner

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)

Involuntary psychiatric commitment has been like a pendulum, sometimes in favor as a government policy to treat mental illness, and other times not. Mental illness treatment has been evolving throughout history. Society once believed that mental illness was due to a reversed to an animalistic level of consciousness, possession of demons, a sinful soul, or a chemical imbalance. The medical journal Nature and Genetics, recently reported that, a defect in chromosome number six which has been identified for schizophrenia could also be responsible1. As doctors, counselors, courts seem to understand mental illness better, the question presents itself, does the government have the right or obligation to confine and treat an individual without their consent.

Mass murders are easy to apprehend because they rarely leave the scene of their crime, either because they commit suicide after the killings or because they stay long enough to be detected.

In the world we live in there are many things that we can 't explain, such as the change in humans emotion, diseases, and more. Which many people want to make those unknowns into stories, novels, films and inform others to find a way to solve the unknown. Many films that would make people to think and use their minds would be related to psychological, because it makes people want to understand the plot and meaning of the film. Films that related to psychological disorder are a really interesting tool for many psychology students. Even is not really informative, but it still can provide students a new learning experience. Many people are not fully understand what psychological is about, which there some films include psychological disorder can help people to understand more about the psychological disorder.