Psychiatric medication

would not know about. People nowadays are given multiple options for treating their illness, whereas many years ago, mental illness was frowned upon and was not given many or even sane approaches to treatment. Asylums, mental institutions, and psychiatric hospitals have all provided us with the history of how people were treated. I am hoping that after I finish this project, this will guide me to potentially learning as much as I possibly can about the psychology field and…

The Frontline video documentary, “The Released,” is a follow-up film of Frontline’s “The New Asylum” which is a documentary about how correctional facilities became a dumping ground for our society’s mentally ill criminals after state psychiatric hospitals closed down in the 1970’s. The movie, “The Released” however, focuses on what happens to people with chronic mental health issues after being released from prisons and jails. The film shows us that most of these mentally ill inmates end up…

Hospital, later the name was changed to Mathari Hospital in 1964, currently it is called Mathari Teaching and Referral Hospital. Mathari Hospital is Kenya’s sole National referral and teaching psychiatric Hospital Olwendo, W. M., (2015), it offer services to those suffering from a wide range of psychiatric disorders. In 1978, the maximum security unit was opened for law offenders with mental illness. In 2003, rehabilitation and centre for drugs and substance abuse disorder treatment was…

medical professionals on the accuracy of their diagnoses, pertaining to psychiatric disorders. Him and eight other friends faked their way into asylums set around the United States to see what would happen if they started displaying “sane” behavior once inside. This experiment caused much aggravation among psychiatric experts who felt that Rosenhan was trying to make a mockery of the science. It also helped improve the psychiatric evaluation process by creating more detailed criteria that must…

1960’s, thousands of severely mentally ill patients living in psychiatric hospitals were released, mostly to the streets, which is known as deinstitutionalization.…

Depression can be effectively treated in 90 percent of cases with a combination of medication and therapy. Unfortunately, only 1 in 3 people with depression will get help, which is why suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death among teenagers today. One of the most dominant themes in the comedy novel, It's Kind of a Funny Story, written by Ned Vizzini is depression. Craig Gilner, the protagonist of the novel like many of us, deals with many day to day problems that leaves him in a whirlwind of…

that he blames for causing the problems. This creates a two way appeal to logic. He shows an example for this effect. He states, “For example, despite criminally insane patients being remanded by the courts for psychiatric treatment, many states allow them to refuse both therapy and medication.” He explains the example beforehand to make sure the audience knows what he’s talking about. Through all of this, Stephen Seager does quite a remarkable job when he uses reasoning to convince his…

In 1963, President John F. Kennedy (JFK) signed into law the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963 (CMHCA). The law was intended to deinstitutionalize patients from mental health hospitals and demonstrate a compromise between public health and medical practice models (Cameron, 1989). The law offered States financial incentives to build community-based outpatient centers to replace hospitals (Cameron, 1989). Due to the complexity of public…

Girl, Interrupted Girl, Interrupted is a story that takes place in a psychiatric ward during the late 1960’s in Massachusetts. The main character is an eighteen-year-old girl Susana Kaysen, who suffers from borderline personality disorder. Borderline personality disorder is a debilitating high-risk disease associated with strong emotional suffering that impairs everyday functioning (Fertuck, Karan, & Stanley, 2016, p. 1). She is a troubled teenager who recently left high school and appears…

Innocent lives are being taken away every year due to a mentally ill offender. Mental illness is a severe condition that interrupts the way a person think, feel, and mood. Most of the time criminals that are diagnosed with this disorder commit crimes knowingly. In addition to them knowing right from wrong. Therefore, mentally ill law offenders should be held accountable for their actions through treatment and punishment, but not execution. “In some cases, a murderer who is in prison for life…