The Manic Episode Of Stephen

Stephen suffers at school, being bullied at lunchtime. But he is sustained by the fact that he ‘knows’ about Mrs Hayward

In this documentary of Stephen Fry, The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, actor and comedian Stephen Fry goes on a journey to deepen his understanding of his mental illness. Fry starts by looking into his own past, beginning when he was just a young boy in boarding school, and searches for any signs that may have been a precursor of his eventual diagnosis. Fry also spends a good portion of the documentary talking to others’ with his shared diagnosis and listens to each of their own unique experiences and stories. Then Fry takes a deeper look into medications and treatments that are commonly used to treat bipolar disorder including electroconvulsive therapy, ETC, cognitive-behavioral therapy, CBT, and a common bipolar drug called Lithium. While doing so, Fry talks to those who have already been through or administer these various treatments, considering if he should start due to the increasing severity of his own depressive and manic states. Fry explains that although the depressive states of this illness is tremendous, the manic states are ones that have contributed considerably to his career. Just like many people suffering from bipolar disorder, he wouldn’t trade his life now for one without this mental illness.

Like most of you guys mentioned, the most impressive idea that stayed with me is once you are diagnosed with mental illness, you are first a psychiatric, and no matter what you do, other people will interpret your action through a psychiatric lens. According to Pat’s story, mental health professionals perceive individuals with mental illness as a disease rather than a person. They simply treat patient’s disagreement as a further proof of their mental illness. All of those professionals’ words and actions can erode patient’s hope on recovery and their future. They may start to believe that they are really ‘badly ill’ and cannot go back to their normal life, which can have negative influence on personal recovery. Through this week’s readings

The documentary explored major disorders, including depression, schizophrenia, Bi-Polar disorder, Obsessive Compulsive disorder, and Eating disorders. However, I did not see any difference between the percipients who had mental health problems and have recovered and those that never have the illness. These are serious illnesses that have the power to devastate the lives of those affected by them. Yet, the participants performed all the task that were given to them very well and seemed to enjoy the tasks they were given, including the person with social anxiety. He performed well in the five minutes stand up session, which could have easily given him away.

Unit 1 of class covers how treatment works to make life easier for families with children with a diagnosis. When dealing with a child with a chronic medical or psychiatric disorder accessing, coordinating, and managing treatments is one of many stressors. Often children with a diagnosis need multiple systems of care in order to properly treat their condition. Having a child diagnosed with psychiatric or a chronic medical diseases is difficult. Coordinating the treatment needed proves to be complex.

The boy in “ Stolen Day” was struck with a disease but was given no medication for his symptom. “ It was then that my own legs began to hurt….’ You better go on home’ said Sara Sugget.” There was no medication

4. I think a key idea that the author is trying to convey is to look deeper. Don't use subjective information. Look at it objectively, so your data can help you find out what the issue is. Once you go down the path of objective insight, you can be more helpful to yourself, the child and his or her guardian(s). Otherwise, you won't solve the issue. That is pretty much what I got out of the story and the data in the article.

From his very boyhood, Stephen in vexed by an encumbrance of filial sentiment. He has no memory of the first name of the father priests but is always defensive about his own name. The great men in the history had names like that and no one made fun of them. An entry in his dairy crossing Stephen, that is ‘my green’ points to this anxiety of self-definition. His aversion to flirtation and addiction to contemplation, according to Cashman, prove that he is not ‘his father’s son’. Stephen himself feels alienated from his parents. He knows for certain that he stands to the family ‘in the mystical kingship of fosterage, foster child and foster brother’. Stephen is so allergic to parenthood that barring the occasion of confession, he never addresses

The son of Andrew Undershaft, Stephen has a negative view of his father form the start. Andrew disinherited him from his company because he wants to follow in his family’s tradition of adopting a family member and giving them the company. Andrew says the company needs an uneducated and unrelated man, and these are two characteristics that Andrew does not have. Stephen possesses a very conservative and traditional set of views, and these constantly are seen when he is making a judgment about his estranged father. The mere situation of Andrew’s parents not being married when he was born sets him off, and he sees Andrew’s pure existence as an illegality. Additionally, he disagrees with his father’s sense of morality. Stephen believes that there is “one true morality and one true religion,” while Andrew says that each man’s morality is completely dependent on one’s beliefs (page 71; Act 1). On a completely opposite spectrum of her family members, Barbara Undershaft is willing to give her absent father a chance, seeing him as someone she can save. Yet, there is some sense that even Barbara, a devout Christian, thinks that there is something bad within Andrew

He collapsed on a fence and was “trembling with fear” when he saw mother nature “screaming and bleeding.” Like the woman from The Yellow Wallpaper and from Jacks McNamara, his unique world he sees makes him susceptible to experience emotions. These emotions, along with mental illness itself, will beautifully find its place within their

Another issue is that all of the people in the town are aware of the child’s suffering and his or her presence and circumstance. Some of them chose to leave the town due to conscience and yet, they did nothing to remedy the child’s suffering. The rest, however, chose to stay in the town and disregard the fact that one of them is suffering. They chose to ignore the situation while others, unfortunately, even look at the child with disgust and felt no remorse whatsoever. (Klinger, 2015)

When Mark Haddon wrote the story, he wrote it in a peculiar way; a series of the plot and the main character’s specific thoughts. This gives you a very unique view of how the main character is reacting to specific things in the story, and how his thoughts differ from someone that doesn’t have a disorder. It also seems very self-evident that the author had extensive knowledge of the disorder due to the diversity of the thoughts that Christopher has. Mark Haddon has done an excellent job at creating a novel that exhibits powerful emotions on its readers that many other stories are unable to do, and generates a sense of empathy for those who are disordered. The story expressed how difficult it is for someone with such a hindrance to live up to what they wanted to be in life, yet are held back from doing so and it is inevitable.

Mia grabbed Mr. Monkey looked up to see Lizzie’s dad pull the trigger and drop to the ground blood rushing from his head as neighbor’s screamed. The police and ambulance came too late. Mia soon ran back to her dad, breathing heavily as she soon burst into tears. Her heart beat fast. Neighbors were crying, screaming “Help!”. As the police and ambulance came everyone was in shock. Mia Was officially scarred for life. As Mia’s mom pulled up to see police tape around her neighbor's house, her jaw was wide open. Days passed as Mia wouldn’t talk. All she would do was climb onto the couch with her big blankie and Mr. Monkey, and watch cartoons all day. Mia did this for 3 days straight. The only time she would eat was when she was really hungry and desperate for food. Finally, her parents took her to see a therapist. Mia would come into the room and talk to Dr. Sandra about what happened for an hour or

Furthermore, Geoffrey reveals a diagnosis held on Stephen from a psychiatrist during his time in school, describing Stephen as having adolescent depression; characterized as a mild depressive illness rather than just sadness, a behaviour quiet infantile and it was suggested a possible brain damage.

Throughout the book Stephen’s relationship with his parents is described as complicated and complex. At the beginning of the story, Stephen starts to get frustrated with his parents after having to move multiple times due to not being able to pay the bills. During one of Stephen’s school changes, it is stated that “he had felt the slight changes in his house; and these changes in what he had deemed unchangeable were so many slight shocks to his boyish conception of the world” (74). This proves that these constant changes not only in houses, but also in schools, affected Stephen’s childhood. These instinaces made Stephen’s relationship with his parent’s complicated, as he was two young to fully understand what was going on. Since Stephen did not fully get along with his parents, it allowed him to use school as his way of escaping them. Being able to get away at school then allowed Stephen to develop his own beliefs and opinions about religion, politics, and the world. When Stephen returns home from school, his parents test him again, with his dad calling him a “lazy bitch” and his mom telling him he will “rue the day” (179). If Stephen would not have had a complicated and difficult relationship with his parents, then he would have never ventured out into the world, discovering his true love for