Emotion, Well-being, & Happiness
When a person expresses their emotions, it could either feel good or bad. It plays an important role to people’s well-being and health. When an individual experiences a positive emotion, that individual will feel happy as to a negative emotion will result as a sad experience. Regardless, it allows individuals to understand what is right and wrong. In the YouTube video named: “The Emotional Life”, Robert Short, provides information between emotion, well-being and happiness. In the video, a variety families are interviewed with their struggle of their child’s illness and how they move forward with their life. Infants form a bond with their parents and becomes an attachment. When children grow-up siblings and develop an emotional support system from their parents and …show more content…
However, John and Jane McCormick’s story was different. John and Jane decided to adopt two children from Europe from an orphanage: a boy name Alex (two years old) and Nadia (nine months old). Alex and Nadia had two different personalities from each other. Nadia gave affection to her parents, did really well in school, and people enjoyed being around her presence. Alex had trouble controlling his temper as a child and always cried. He never showed any affection to his adopted parents as to Nadia was naturally happy therefore received more attention. After seeing a psychiatrist, Ray Kenny diagnose Alex with Reactive attachment disorder. According to Mayo Clinic (2014), “reactive attachment disorder is a rare but serious condition in which an infant or young child doesn’t establish healthy attachments with parents or caregivers. Reactive attachment disorder may develop if the child's basic needs for comfort, affection and nurturing aren't met and loving, caring, stable
When a person expresses their emotions, it could either feel good or bad. It plays an important role to people’s well-being and health. When an individual experiences a positive emotion, that individual will feel happy as to a negative emotion will result as a sad experience. Regardless, it allows individuals to understand what is right and wrong. In the YouTube video named: “The Emotional Life”, Robert Short, provides information between emotion, well-being and happiness. In the video, a variety families are interviewed with their struggle of their child’s illness and how they move forward with their life. Infants form a bond with their parents and becomes an attachment. When children grow-up siblings and develop an emotional support system from their parents and …show more content…
However, John and Jane McCormick’s story was different. John and Jane decided to adopt two children from Europe from an orphanage: a boy name Alex (two years old) and Nadia (nine months old). Alex and Nadia had two different personalities from each other. Nadia gave affection to her parents, did really well in school, and people enjoyed being around her presence. Alex had trouble controlling his temper as a child and always cried. He never showed any affection to his adopted parents as to Nadia was naturally happy therefore received more attention. After seeing a psychiatrist, Ray Kenny diagnose Alex with Reactive attachment disorder. According to Mayo Clinic (2014), “reactive attachment disorder is a rare but serious condition in which an infant or young child doesn’t establish healthy attachments with parents or caregivers. Reactive attachment disorder may develop if the child's basic needs for comfort, affection and nurturing aren't met and loving, caring, stable