Symptoms And Treatment Of Psychiatric Illnesses

The shutdown of state mental hospitals and lack of available financial and institutional resources force mentally ill people to the United States Judicial System for mental health. Every year thousands of people are arrested for various crimes and they are sent to jail. Sixteen percent of these people have some type of mental health problem (Public Broadcasting System , 2001). When we consider that the United States has the largest incarcerated population in the world at 2.2 million, this number is staggering (Anasseril E. Daniel, 2007). This is about 1% of the entire population of the United States. There are many reasons as to why the situation has taken such a bad turn and when the history of the treatment of mental illness is examined one can see how the situation developed into the inhumane disaster it is today.

Medical technology is one change that has led to advanced treatment of mental illness since the early 1900s. Firstly, “images produced by positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resources imaging (MRI) technology have revealed that a lot of the mental

A.1- Suspicious, without just cause, of people wanting to betray, hurt or take advantage of them. (American Psychiatric Association [APA] 2013).

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that is affecting people’s lives every day. There isn’t a cure for this disorder and it is lifelong. Schizophrenia can affect a person’s thoughts, emotions, and actions. People with this disorder can have a hard time figuring out what is real and what isn’t real. A common side effect to schizophrenia is hallucinations and delusions. Another common side effect is social withdrawal, which means that they avoid social interaction. Patients with schizophrenia undergo lots of medications, therapies, and are taken to specialists to get help.

To better understand the evolution of diagnosis and treatment. The article by Picchioni & Murray, 2007 discusses who is at risk to develop schizophrenia along with its causes. The article will contribute to the involvement of genetics and who is at risk for the development of schizophrenia. The importance of knowing the causes is to help with the effects. If psychologist understand what causes schizophrenia they are then better able to prevent or treat schizophrenia. This paper will be further discussing the diagnoses of schizophrenia within the subcategories or paranoia, catatonia and disorganized. As well the treatment options for schizophrenia including the different therapy modules used along with the medications involved and the effects on a patient’s brain chemistry.

Schizophrenia has about six main developing factors. Once you are informed you’re a patient of this mental disease you will shorty experience symptoms that are considered both positive and negative. After watching Elyn’s Tale of Mental Illness you start to see some of the symptoms first hand. She has gradually has worked her way up the ladder beating this mental illness. She has come from being in a hospital and mental centers to becoming a professor.

A quick overview of schizophrenia that I learned in the class was that it is a chronic brain disorder that affects the way that person goes about life such as, the way they think, feel and behave isn’t normal. About one in one hundred Americans are diagnosed with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia affects men and women equally, usually occurs between the ages fifth- teen to thirty. People with schizophrenia withdrawal themselves from reality as in they tend to hear or see things that don’t exist and at times say things completely off the wall. Day to day life can be very challenging and difficult for them because it can be so severe; that they have to rely on other people because they have a hard time keeping a job or even caring for

This research paper takes a look at a case study in which the individual is suffering from delusional disorder. Because delusional disorder and schizophrenia share many of the same characteristics, it is easy to mistake one for the other; therefore, the psychology professional must look at all the present symptoms as well as the history of the individual to make a clear diagnosis. When using the pharmacological approach in treating delusional disorders, the psychology professional must consider the ways in which the medication will alter the brain chemistry and influence behavior in the patient.

Over the course of this paper, I will be going through the three main categories related to Schizophrenia; Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment.

Schizophrenia is a truly peculiar ailment, not only due to the nature of its symptoms, but

Since the beginning of time people have been trying to figure out how exactly the brain works. Over the years many theories have been developed to try and explain this. In ancient times it was believed that the brain was made of phlegm and in the Renaissance Era people thought that emotions came from animal spirits in the brain. New technologies have made it possible to study the brain and gain more accurate information about how it works. A recent discovery called brain imaging has helped scientists learn how the brain works. There are many different ways one can obtain images of the brain but the most remarkable was developed by neuroscientist and psychiatrist Karl Deisseroth. He came up with a way to replace light-scattering compounds in

The brain is singlehandedly the human organ that leaves developmental biologists dumbfounded at its constant timely adaptability. It has computer programmers and electrical engineers scratching their heads at its in-built circuitry and integrative firing. It amazes artists and philosophers by being the source of the world’s creativity and thought-provoking ideas. But most notably, it leaves the present-day neuroscientist edgy and impatient to discover more of the answers embedded deep within its neurons, synapses, ganglia, and nerves. However, it must be mentioned here that this incitement does not arise from simply the mere fascination to gain further knowledge regarding the fundamentals of the healthy brain. This fascination is mixed with fear. Current funding and lack of proper global integration, initiative, and broadened training schemes makes neuroscience progress unsustainable with regard to ambitious goals of discovering more about the fundamentals of the brain and developing technologically advanced treatments for current financially draining disorders.

Purpose: As has been quite well known to the field of psychiatry for some time, people who end up in trouble with the law often do so because of severe mental illness. Sometimes this mental illness can take the form of a personality disorder, which at present is considered incurable, or it can take the form of severe depression, for which there are currently many treatments. This paper aims to shed light as to how conditions beyond a person 's control, such as mental illnesses like depression or personality disorders can cause these individuals to get into trouble with the law.

The human brain is a mystery that has been studied for centuries in attempt to understand how it functions. Scientists first thought that the brain was a structure that functioned a whole. It was in the early 1600’s where the first ideas of localisation of function in the brain started. At this time Rene Descartes discovered a tiny structure called the pineal

The stability of the mind is uncertain in the medical field. Even though researches about how the mind works has helped us developed a better understanding about the human mind and its behavior, they have failed to give us a complete and knowledgeable concrete answer to all the questions of its deep studies. The human mind is still a very abroad subject to medicine. What makes a mind stable and what triggers mental illnesses is a question that will still be unknown to the medical field for more years to come. The understanding of the mind is a quest that has started since the beginning of human civilization and it has not stopped. The mind is an organ of its own, and it develops its own unique style of evolution through time. It is a very small organ that is responsible for the function of the human body. All our functions come from there, the way we speak, think and behave. As all other organs, it also has its own illnesses that for many centuries we have tried to understand. The illness of the mind still has no cure and what science has found only contributes to the temporary solution, but not the cure of the illness. One of the most severe forms of mental illness is Schizophrenia. This illness has tormented people since the beginning of history. Schizophrenia, the illness that is still very mysterious to medicine; the symptoms, the cause, diagnosis, types of schizophrenia and the medication are not the solutions for a lasting illness.