This argument relies on the belief that our physical and mental states are sufficiently comprehensive,” therefore allowing one to conceive of disembodied pain and thus making disembodied pain possible. An analogy that is used within the paper is the comparison between water and not knowing that it is identical to H2O therefore having water be insufficiently comprehensible. The difference in water equaling H2O and pain equaling C-fiber firing is that H2O is the hidden essence of water. In order to indefinitely determine whether or not something is water we must look at its molecular chemistry to determine that it is H2O. This is not the case with pain, once does not need to have a scan to check and see if their C-fibers were firing to make sure that they are actually in pain, instead they just know that they are in…
As noted before, patient Afib has complained of fatigue while performing tasks he was previously able to do with ease. The patient also noted that at times he feels dizzy when he overexerts…
Unraveling the mystery of how the body works pulls at the puzzle-solver in me and leaves me yearning to learn more. For this reason, I am drawn to the field of medicine and the opportunity to form connections and disentangle…
Why We Hurt: The Natural History of Pain is written by neurosurgeon, Dr. Frank Vertosick, who transforms the vast subject of pain into an exciting and enlightening discussion that is highly engaging. Dr. Vertosick examines many types of pain including migraines, phantom limb pain, tic douloureux, ruptured discs, rheumatoid arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, angina pains, and cancer. Each chapter presents a clinical case, the different ways in which cultures viewed the disorder and the biology related to the disorder. The clinical cases of each patient give a personal touch and depicts just how these disorders can affect patients not only physically, but emotionally and spiritually as well. Dr. Vertosick introduces his response to pain by challenging C.S. Lewis’ statements involving the inseparability of religion and pain and how God intended for the pain of individuals as to create a way in which he was worshiped and looked upon to end suffering.…
The author believes that these methods are affective for dealing with phantom pains. The strongest feature of this argument is the use of the two experiment examples, the tactile illusion and visual mistakes. The tactile illusion consists of ten participants who receive electrodes at three different places on their arm between the wrist and elbow. The participants laid in an fMRI machine while the researchers distributed pulses to the electrodes and they stated whether they felt the imaginary and actual sensations at the same strength.…
Heart beats fast, palms sweat, oxygen is being stolen from my lungs; not again. Oh yes, an anxiety attack. These come in weekly visits. relaxing is a prosses with ease the only Ataraxia is touch. Touch is small, but it is so beautiful.…
According to the Center of Disease Control, also known as the CDC, depression is the most common type of mental illness, affecting more than 26% of the U.S. adult population (CDC, 2011). Many famous figures, such as Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, Manley Hopkins, Van Gogh, Beethoven, and Bach, struggled alongside William Styron with severe depression and overwhelming irrationality. William Styron, author of Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, suffered from suicidal depression and madness and was eventually hospitalized for his condition. Styron’s text gives the audience a look into his life of serious mental illness, working through treatment, and recovery.…
There is a lot of controversy surrounding sensory processing disorder, even within the Occupational Therapy Profession. Sensory processing disorder is a theory developed and implemented by A. Jean Ayres in the 1960’s and subjective. Sensory processing is define as a neurological disorder that prevents or limits the brain’s ability to process, interpret, organize, or integrate information received by our five senses.…
Of course, the client has noted that he experiences other associated symptoms and features of GAD that were mentioned previously. Indeed, the client did note other somatic symptoms (e.g., sweaty hands) and symptoms of autonomic hyperarousal (e.g., dizziness), which are associated features that…
Alan Sheridan. London: Hogarth P and Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1977. Print. Lavater, J.C. Essays on Physiognomy. London: Johnson, 1789.…
Imagine going through an extremely stressful event, psychologically or physically, and then waking up the next morning and discovering you are blind. There are no physical signs showing that are causing your blindness, but you definitely cannot see. This is what conversion disorder can be like. Conversion disorder is a somatoform disorder – a condition where a person experiences physical symptoms due to psychological causes – that causes a person to experience physical symptoms after extremely stressful events. Individuals that experience this disorder have no anatomical evidence that can say what is causing their symptoms.…
This is closer to the sociological perspectives rather than that of biomedicine, since in lay concepts, people explain their bodies and matters of health and illness in unscientific and inaccurate language, which can be rectified only by awareness, as in community or social awareness of disease conditions. In lay perspective, ideas of illness include more than just the immediate cause of a condition, unlike the ideas in biomedicine. Apart from gauging the severity of the disease and the appropriate treatment, lay conceptualization about the meaning of illness is also important. When people fall ill, they need to find an answer to the "why" of the illness as well as to the "how" of the illness (Trollope-Kumar et al. 2002). Lay concepts of illness are classified according to their origin, mainly to cite, as from within the individual, as from the natural world, as from the social world, as from the supernatural world etc.…
Case Study: Valerie Gaspard and Anorexia Nervosa (AN) Case Study The case study will discuss a 20-year-old single black female client, Valerie Gaspard, who is suffering restricting type of Anorexia Nervosa (AN). In this paper, this author will discuss this case and analyze Valerie’s symptoms and diagnosis. In addition, this author will demonstrate evidence-based treatments and talk about potential challenges in therapy. Symptoms and Diagnosis…
The phenomenal experience of pain is not fully accounted for when we try to understand the concept of pain with physicalist and functionalist theories alone. 1: Key…
It also explains the intricate association between body and mind; thus, helps one to understand further the part emotions play in medical illness and health. Of course, this theory is hard to gauge and difficult to evaluate;…