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    0 and daily = 6. If emotional exhaustion levels and depersonalization scores are collectively high, while personal accomplishment scores are low, a high level of burnout is indicated (Sabbah, et al., 2012, p. 645) (Maslach & Jackson, 2016). The Nursing Stress Scale (NSS) is used to examine stress for nurses working in a hospital. This 34-item questionnaire focuses on seven areas of “potentially stressful scenarios, including Death and Dying Patients (7 items), Conflict with Physicians (5 items)

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    Mental Illness Correlation with Crime Mental Illness has been a big concern for this country and countries around the world, and still is today. I will be investigating how mental Illness Correlates with crime, and how it not only affects that one individual, but everyone around that individual as well. I will also be researching programs that help people with mental illnesses and how effective it is. Is it cutting the crime rate the way we want? We need to know if these programs are effective

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    Death of a Salesman, published his play only two years after Williams had published A Streetcar Named Desire. Both plays were written during a time when mental illness emerged as a medical ailment and related to one’s health. The 1940s also featured an influx in institutionalization of civilians. This influx in mental institutions and knowledge on mental illness as well as societal standards of familial responsibility contributed to the plots of both A Streetcar Named Desire and The Death of a Salesman

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    When people hear the word mental disorder most times their minds are turned towards people who are different or they automatically think of somebody pretending something is wrong. The term social anxiety is overlooked and seen as just severe shyness. The people that view it this way are heartless people who view mental health illnesses as diseases that are made up and shouldn’t even exist. However mental illnesses do exist and they should not be overlooked. Similar to diabetes, Social Anxiety Disorder

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    Holden’s Outcome in The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger is one of the famous American classics. The Catcher in the Rye has been the subject of many analyses from scholars, authors, and students because of the several interconnected themes involved. The novel is about an American teenager named Holden Caulfield, who, from the facility of a recovery home, writes about his recent life story and the events which led to him getting “run-down” (Salinger 3). Holden writes about

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    gives them the right to bear arms, which is correct but we have entered muddy waters on this subject with recent cases. I propose that we have better background check and really dig deep into a person’s facts. As well as have better knowledge of mental health problems, before we let anyone bear a firearm that way we can prevent a gun from getting into the wrong hands. If you look at the news or any sort of social media you will see all the headlines of the most recent shooting, the Las Vegas massacre

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    or experience a bad day, people suffering from depression go through these feelings constantly and much more harshly. Adolescents especially have become more prone to problems concerning mental health. Deciphering the difference between actual depression and feeling down continues to be a challenge to mental health services. Signs of depression in adolescents can be interpreted in two ways. As a more common sign, being perpetual sleep and lack of appetite, this way concerns the lower self-esteemed

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    the incident, the hundreds of published articles discussed the underlying mental health problems that Fryberg apparently had, and blamed them for his act. However, little evidence links the two, since ninety six percent of gun violence have no connection to someone mentally ill. When gun violence occurs, mental illness should not serve as the main reason behind it. The public has programmed many to perceive those with mental illnesses as more dangerous. According to the New Yorker, a study done in

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    Charlotte Gilman's story “The Yellow Wallpaper” is crucial to the reader's understanding of one woman’s plight from depression to her descent into complete and total madness. Gilman mixes her personal life with fiction in efforts to better the mental health treatment. The story takes place in the late 1800’s where women are submissive and oppressed by men. This setting coupled with the narrator’s throes of depression only worsens her situation. Her identity stays anonymous, thus taking on the role

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    concern. Others believes that depression is no more than a sad feeling that is ignorable, only revealed to people for the sake of attention and the care that comes from pity and sympathy. Personally, I believe that depression is a scientifically proven mental illness, and as it dramatically alters one’s self and has become prevalent in society, it should be discussed with the gravity and urgency deserved to such a pressing topic. The severity of depression has been supported through scientific evidence

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