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    Bipolar Disorder is a severe mental illness that causes shifts in mood swings by being overly excited or overly depressed, and can have suicidal thoughts. “All people with bipolar disorder have manic episodes- abnormally elevated or irritable moods that last a week and impair functioning.” (htpp://www.apa.org, 2015) Bipolar disorder is a long-term illness, can be controlled with prescription medication and psychotherapy sessions. Bipolar disorders are broken down into many parts including the various

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    Have you ever been told to “sleep on it” when confronted with a serious decision? The study done by Seeley, C. J., Beninger, R. J., & Smith, C. T. titled “Post Learning Sleep Improves Cognitive-Emotional Decision-Making: Evidence for a ‘Deck B Sleep Effect’ in the Iowa Gambling Task” sets out to answer if sleeping helps improve decision making. For this study, they used the “Iowa Gambling Task (IGT)” on participants. After the IGT, participants had 12 hours of being awake, 12 hours of sleep, or 12

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    Everywhere you turn in the United States people are sitting on the corners of streets asking for assistance or digging in trash cans for meals. The epidemic of homelessness in the United States has reached an all-time high since the 1990’s. Unfortunately, the adage of people chose to be homeless was not accounting for families that live paycheck to paycheck and lose their job and therefore their housing because it is unavoidable. Alternatively, many individuals that are homeless have some type of

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    One major community health issue that is prominent in society is homelessness. According to Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (2012), homelessness describes the situation of an individual or family who are unstable and cannot afford appropriate and permanent housing. They are unable to acquire suitable shelter due to possible reasons, such as financial issues, mental or physical challenges and discrimination. Most people do not choose to be homeless; however, when individuals are set to live unsheltered

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    book how people struggle with that thin line and how the battle of living that way usually never ends for most people. Because of that constant ring of being on and off of welfare parents are forced to live in UN ruling neighborhoods and use UN reliable child care. The effects of doing this have a drastic result of the children living in the situations that they have no control over. Gould and glad discuss the unreeling effects living this way has on children stating. “- Two of the five leading

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    Life is a daring adventure. Throughout the lifespan, one will encounter many rewarding and challenging experiences. For example, during one’s youth, balancing academics and maintaining healthy relationships with both family and friends is perplexing. Nevertheless, imagine adding another element on top of the boat load of responsibilities and expectations that growing up beckons- mental illness. In 72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell, the main character, Trina, truly defines how much of a rollercoaster

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    From the the psychological assessment, the defendant suffers from a mood disorder, specifically, Bipolar 2. Howard has experienced a hypomanic episode lasting for more than four days and a longer term depressive episode. This defendant did not have psychosis, which is a loss of contact with reality. The reason Howard did not have psychosis is because he was in touch with reality, he was just easily distracted but he was not in a different “world”. People had a hard time following him because he was

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    development of an individual. These conditions can be short term or can continue for the life span of the person. Mental disorders affect children from different ethnicity, races, and ages. The cause of most mental disorders is not known, but heredity, biology, psychological trauma, and environmental stress are all factors (www.webmd.com). Treatment for mental health disorders includes medication and behavior therapy. Early diagnosis and prevention is encouraged; the lack of such can lead to other

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    I participated in service learning at Fraser school in Richfield. Starting in September I helped out in a toddler age classroom every Thursday. Fraser school is a preschool setting for infants and toddlers. Besides getting the children kindergarten ready and offering a somewhat typical day of daycare/school, Fraser offers occupational, physical, and speech therapy. Some of the children have disabilities and some do not, Fraser is not discriminatory and they provide care for anyone. Some of the things

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    DSM Diagnosis: Include behaviors & symptoms consistent with diagnosis. Axis I: 295.90 Schizophrenia; Axis II: none; Axis III: deferred; Axis IV: primary and social Background information: John Smith is a Caucasian male in his mid-thirties who is living alone in Truman. He was at his VA appointment in Jonesboro when the therapist admitted him to the hospital for suicidal ideation. John Smith has an ongoing struggle with psychosis and suicidal ideation for the past couple of years. The patient reports

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