The American Psychological Association (APA) defines anxiety as ‘an emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts and physical changes like increased blood pressure.’ Being a teenager can be quite stressful, but imagine being a teenager who suffers from anxiety. Being a teenager can feel like a full-time job due to the fact that they […]
Understanding how the reader transforms a text is of utmost importance in reader response theory. Our identity as readers is what transforms the text; we apply our own mental processes to the work and therefore gain further understanding. A fixed, stable response to a text is an illusion. According to Norman Holland, our response to […]
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Get startedJustice to a criminal should not be a dragged out death by injection of drugs or an electric chair, but by a mental suffering of not knowing what will happen next. The death penalty isn’t worth the money put into it. Killing off a criminal for a capital murder doesn’t resolve anything, it causes more […]
In the United States, the number of cases of gun violence have increased tremendously. The reason why these numbers have been so high is because guns have been made easily accessible to the general public. The implications that gun violence has had on the country are so damaging that it is time that the American […]
Within the past few years school shootings, mass murders, and accidental occurrences have taken the lives of many young children and adults. Gun violence in America kills 30,000 and injures 70,000 individuals each year. This has affected most everyone from ages as young as five. The debate of whether or not to enforce more laws on […]
What is a Democracy exactly? Democracy is rooted from the Greek, literally meaning “rule of the people.” In today’s modern usage, democracy is a system of government in which the citizens exercise power directly or elect representatives from among themselves to form a governing body, such as a parliament. Democracy is a tender subject for […]
The subject of foster care has become an increasingly more popular topic of discussion in recent years. Youth who are placed into the foster care system are primarily victims of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and/or neglect. Recently, more studies have been conducted to understand the effects that being placed into the foster care system has […]
Not everyone has the opportunity to live in house filled with joy and laughter, nor are they able to live with a forever family. Countless of kids weren’t fortunate to be able to have parents to care for them, so they were forced to either find relatives or be put into Foster Care homes. These […]
It’s nearly impossible to live or visit a city and not be confronted with homelessness or impoverished people. Invisible factors such as mental illness, lack of education, abuse or neglect in the formative years of someone’s life all contribute to whether or not a person can hold down or even access a job. And yet, […]
Video game obsession has been the concern of parents, educators and health officials yet there has been no breakthrough in the diagnosis or treatment. Currently, this concern is discussed more with individual therapists and dependance centers resulting in delays of an official approach to ending online gaming addiction. (Van Rooij, 2017) Recognize the problem Video […]
‘Nearly one of every three of us experiences psychiatric symptoms each year.’ This could be a temporary sign of anxiety, stress, or sadness, or a long-term disabling form of any three of these symptoms and many more (Hicks 2). Mental health is an important part of people’s lives, so important in fact, that it can […]
This paper, although advocating for the responsibility of mentally ill patients to be transferred over to the states, recognizes that the current system that states use for treating the mentally ill is still broken. Not only should the feral government be reformed, but the states will need to reform their some of their current healthcare […]
Pathways/Resources for human development (RHD) organization provides service to patients with severe and persistent mental disorders. Like every disease, mental illnesses are also shaped to a great extent by physical, social and economic environments: born, grow, live, work and age. Patients with severe mental illnesses generally live 25 years fewer than the general population. Thus, […]
Studies show gun control laws do not impede crime; in fact, gun ownership impedes crime. A Nov. 26, 2013 study found between 1980 and 2009, “bans on assault weapons did not significantly affect murder rates at the state level” and states with restrictions on carrying concealed weapons had an increase in gun-related murders. During the […]
Although there are many reasons why people become homeless, this paper will only include several reason and leading cause which happening in the United States. Homeless poverty is best known as the states of being poor. When people lack income to meet all of their needs they are forced to choose between housing, utilities, transportation, […]
Imagine your younger days as a teenager around Christmas time. You are warm, gathered around a fire with your family, about to open that huge present you’ve been asking for. Now imagine being a teenager around Christmas time, cold, alone and with no place to stay. According to Jewel in her short story “Street Life […]
The one thing about the “Yellow Wall Paper” that caught my attention is how Charlotte symbols a woman who is trapped and oppressed by her husband. First, there is the fact that John is a doctor a man of authority which puts him as a man of high standards. Charlotte using the word dead paper […]
“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a gothic psychological short story and appears to be a normal day to day journal about a young woman’s life struggling with mental health in the 1800s. Throughout the story, her husband, whom is also her physician claims that there is nothing else wrong with her besides her being diagnosed with […]
The Yellow Wallpaper outlines a story about a young woman who is diagnosed with a “temporary nervous depression” which is described as a slight hysterical tendency. She is told this by her husband and her brother who are both highly regarded as physicians and were very closely connected with her. She is truly cared for […]
Alcoholism, dependence on drugs, and addiction, referred to as substance use disorder, are complicated problems. People living with these disorders at some point in life were thought to have defects in their character and moral weaknesses; to date, people still hold on to such thoughts. However, medical researchers and many scientists now regard dependence on […]
There are other offenders in jails and prisoners besides the ones many people may think of. Individual with special needs, a mental illness, and those suffering from substance abuse also make up part of the prison and jail population. These type of offenders affect the state and federal jail and prison systems on a state […]
I walk through the door after school, into the never-ending battle ground I call home, darkness engulfs my eyes. She’s sleeping again. Better than being awake | guess. I scavenge for food in the kitchen, I find a few crackers and some peanut butter, a month past its expiration date. I don’t care. I devour […]
Transference was a word first used by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud to label the way patients ‘transfer’ feelings from significant persons in their early lives, onto their therapist. Transference refers to redirection of a patient’s feelings for a significant person to the therapist. Transference is can be manifested as anger, mis-trust, hatred, dependence. Or even erotic […]
Introduction and Objectives of Policy This policy seeks to improve the process of mental health diagnoses in primary care. The main objective of the policy in development is to ensure that patients receive appropriate diagnoses and care in relation to mental health disorders. The goal is to have patients analyzed more qualitatively rather than quantitatively […]
David G. Meyers defines a psychological disorder in the textbook Exploring Phycology 9th edition as a disruption to an individual’s biological, psychological, and social-cultural influences. Not to be confused with sicknesses, a psychological disorder can be caused from early childhood traumas. Dissociative identity disorder is defined as a coping mechanism to an individual’s problematic lifestyle. […]
A Quick Summary The wildly popular 1999 film, Fight Club, is one who’s plot is the result of and driven by the mental illness of the unnamed protagonist/narrator. The film begins with the protagonist leading a decidedly average life, one he subconsciously finds unfulfilling and restrictive. His subliminal anguish leaves him with a debilitating case […]
In Octavia’s Brood, the social justice issue depicted in the story Hollow supports the idea that the material body and its health, vitality, and natural and social environments not only create and discipline the citizen-subject but also provide the conditions necessary for its recognition and political agency within biopolitical modes of governance, broadly constructed…to dive […]
