Mental illness

The topics covered in these few weeks were “what is madness?”, “psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches towards madness” and the “biomedical perspectives on mental illness”. One of the lectures that I found very interesting is the lecture on psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches towards madness. In that lecture, we also learnt about defense mechanisms towards distress or unhappy events in life. They are categorized into “primitive”, “less primitive” and “mature” defense mechanisms. Undoubtedly

The majority of people that have a severe mental illness are object to challenges in double measure. From one point of view, they wrestle with the symptoms and disablement that result from the illness. From another point, they are tested by the stereotypes and preconceived ideas that stem from the misunderstandings about mental illness. As a culmination of both, people with a mental illness are stripped of the chances that define a quality life such as a good job, safe housing, adequate health care

Take a step back and imagine if our society blamed humans for having diabetes, cancer, or even Alzheimer’s? That sounds terrible and seems like nothing someone should be blamed for, but yet it seems to be acceptable to blame someone for having a mental illness. Growing up I lived in the small town of Hot Springs, Arkansas and then I found myself re-locating to Conway, Arkansas before the start of my freshman year in college. I always remember people telling me “these will be the best years of your life

between mental health and mental illness? Although the terms are often used interchangeably, mental health and mental illness are not the same thing. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 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 is able to make a contribution to his or her community. However, mental illness is a recognized, medically diagnosable illness that results

two-thirds of a prison population have mental health problems, and an inreach team can work with limited number so an enormous number of prisoners are being denied the treatment they need. In most prisons, severely mentally ill prisoners are unlikely to benefit from sufficient numbers of specially trained prison nursing and medical staff. Although, wing staff do their best to work with mentally ill prisoners, they often lack basic knowledge about mental illness and cannot provide the appropriate care

three requirements: the mental illness causes the patients to have a high risk of hurt themselves or others, the patients are rendered incompetent in judging decisions based on their best interests due to psychopathy, and only if there is a method to cure the mental illness. Consider a male taxi driver, Tom, afflicted with depression and he is determined to end his life. Can we say for certain that Tom’s suicidal thought is formulated when he had full control of his mental faculties? Can we respect

Stress Disorder. This is what Tsotsi is diagnosed with. Tsotsi I believe that Tsotsi has this disorder and cannot be held responsible for his crimes. He shouldn’t because he isn’t functioning right, has a troubled past, and needs to go to a mental institute for mental health treatment. Tsotsi is mentally ill and isn’t functioning right. There are many symptoms for PTSD. One of them is called the “Avoidance Symptom”. The Avoidance Symptom is when you stay away from certain places,

attach a stigma to mental illness, a person may feel isolated and fear others finding out. Therefore, a person is warrant in their fear of losing their jobs or being treated differently, if they reveal their illness to others. Amy Marturana noted, “Many people fear that being honest about their struggles with mental health will make people see them differently” (The Huffington Post, 2017). I grow up in community and observe how others view or treat a person with mental illness. Adults and children

Alice’s character is developed in a way so accurate to the process of mental illness that I find it hard to believe this character isn’t real. As a person who suffers from mental illness, I can relate to Alice in an astounding way. The author never needs to state Alice’s position. The reader comes to realize it as surely as it seems Alice eventually did. She was doomed from the beginning. Her relationship with Ned Currie was on the verge of abuse. Ned was controlling and Alice became unreasonably

The number of inmates in the department of corrections that have a mental illness is steadily rising. In 2006 there was estimated to be 705,600 mentally ill inmates in state prisons, 78,000 in federal prisons and 47,900 in local jails (NIC). Most inmates suffer from social anxiety disorders or depression. There are three times more people in prisons with mental health problems than in actual hospitals (News). However, this is a problem for various reasons, two being that prisons cannot afford the