Psychological Disorders And Psychological Disorder

Memento is an odd but successful film, and it is also an outstanding and influential cultural work. As an unusual crime film, it uses unconventional non-linear narrative structure to tell a story that a man with a unique type of amnesia investigate his wife’s murder. However, if we watch carefully, we would find Memento involves the real social cultural background.

“Memento” is about a person with short attention span who had difficult times to retrieval and store both non-significant and significant memories. This movie is related to the memory that I learned in class. The character from “Memento” has short-term memory loss, which is called Anterograde memory loss. It can be happened if hippocampus, which is a part of the forebrain, is damaged. It can be caused by severe traumas or surgical removal. This kind disorder is rare, and a person with short attention span is able to remember his/her memories from the past before the incident that causes damage to hippocampus. Short-term memory holds memories for a few seconds to minutes; it is the most important part in the brain, memories and information from short-term memory usually flows the information into the long-term memory.

A psychological disorder is a pattern of abnormal behavior that is associated with states of significant emotional distress, such as anxiety or depression, or with impaired behavior or ability to function, such as difficulty holding a job or even distinguishing reality form fantasy. (Abnormal Psychology; 3)

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.

Action speaks louder than words. These actions are shown in both in Memento (film) by Christopher Nolan and Memento Mori (short story) by Jonathan Nolan. The short story is turned into a movie, but it will never be as good. A book has a storyline, base descriptions are given, and our mind gets to create it with every turn of the page. A movie is someone else vision and very directed with certain details. The story starts off with Earl who has amnesia due to a traumatic event that his wife got rape and murder due to this he is unable to create new memories. Earl uses specific strategies to remember what he has already done and will be doing by he uses pictures, letters and transfers important notes onto his body. However, both brothers were able to create a point about Earl mental illness condition who is the main character of Memento Mori in different ways. One of the most important techniques that were both shown in the Memento Mori is time, thus, the film had a better justice of showing the audience/reader the power of past, present, and future.

Psychosocial factors have been correlated with the development and maintenance of mood disorders. Psychosocial theories focus on

The term Psychological disorder, known more as mental disorders or psychotic disorders. Mental disorders are patterns of behavioral or psychological symptoms that impact multiple areas of life. There are lots of different psychological disorders such as; major depressive disorder, anxiety, schizophrenia, PTSD, OCD, substance use and addictive disorder. These disorders can create distress for the individual experiencing these symptoms. Psychological disorders affect most peoples daily lives some worse than others. Some people are born with psychological disorders, others may have suffered a traumatic event that opened a door in the brain that caused the disorder. There are millions of people that suffer mental or behavioral

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

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)

The medical model is a reliable view of psychological disorders. It first came about as an alternative to superstitions. People were labeled as ill and were then treated with more sympathy and less hatred. Patients got the treatment and care that they needed. The stigma that they were somehow at fault for their illness was gone. Helpful medical terms are used to better communicate with patients and the rest of the population. In the medical model symptoms point out abnormalities, symptoms and signs can then lead to a diagnosis. The proper diagnoses is very important to the medical model. With the correct diagnosis it can point out the prognosis, the course of the illness, which can direct doctors to the proper treatments. If you know what the

In most cases movies serve solely for entertainment purposes, but sometimes you get a film that surprisingly can be accurate and entertaining at the same time. Along with a plot line that attempts to have the audience understand and experience the emotions of a person with anterograde amnesia, the film Memento shows some challenges that people face when out in the world. Anterograde amnesia is the loss in ability to create new semantic and episodic memories after the event that caused the amnesia. It can be caused by damage to the hippocampus because it serves as a way for new memories to get stored as permanent long-term memories but access to old memories is possible since they have already been stored.

War, the incarnation of hate and ignorance that plagues both the human name and mind. It is evident that throughout history, “ war is one of the constants,” and “in the last 3,421 years of recorded history, only 268 have seen no war” (Purwar). For the longest time, the only obvious negative outcome of war is being on the losing side. As of the First World War, the term “PTSD” had not been developed, however the term “shell shock” had been created as a precursor to an unknown condition. As the field of medical examinations advances, psychological disorders such as PTSD became noticed and identified; however, these terms went only as far as to label disorders in the involved combatants, not the affected bystanders. The psychological impact of

Psychological disorders are behavior patterns that lead to inability to function properly in life. There are quite a number of mental disorders but I will only focus on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder because it is the most studied mental disorder and the most frequently diagnosed disorder especially in children. This disorder causes inability to pay attention, difficulty in controlling one’s behaviors or causes one to be excessively active. A lot of misleading information about this disorder is everywhere in the communities and even the society. Some do not even believe it is real and therefore it is important to understand what this disorder is. Patients with these disorders will mostly act without thinking and therefore impacting on their families and loved ones.

The visualisation of memory processes in films have reflected on and been informed by scientific and cultural understandings of these processes. The Western understanding of memory builds on two metaphors: the inscription and the storage of memory. Christopher Nolan’s film Memento (2000) and Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) both sustain these metaphors within their diegeses, but, by restricting or complicating their protagonist’s experiences of these metaphors, create a more nuanced insight into how memory processes are understood by Western audiences. Memento follows the difficulty of Leonard’s (Guy Peirce) search for the murderer of his wife. Leonard suffers from anterograde amnesia due to the head trauma he received