Many people question whether people who are addicted to drugs if they can really choose to stop as easily since they made the choice to take the drug in the first place. Coming into this world you are introduced to making choices good or bad. Everyone has the will to make their own decision. Why would anyone decide to start taking any type of drugs with some knowing the possibly it could lead to addiction and even worse death. In the video, Dopesick: Fentanyls Deadly Grip, there are two individuals that stood out that both had the option and chose to take the drugs which they did and both have the option to quit but why does one quit and the other doesn’t?…
I believe that the “psychiatric” approach to the play will hurt us more than help with our understanding of tragedy. If we look at all the other protagonists in other plays, we could all technically say that they all have a mental illness and stop looking for any other possible deeper meanings. This approach can help us understand why Willy talks to imaginary people, however this is a lazy approach to understanding about the story and other problems and characters in the story like Biff. Although I don’t think that a diagnosis will solve all the problems in the story, I think it will at least alleviate the issues.…
It left him with no choice but to change his life, even though he probably didn't want to at the time that was what was best for…
He finally sobered up and thought about his son that is still alive and got a job and started taking care of his living son. I think what he did by sobering up and deciding to take care of his son was a good decision made by…
1. One of the rules that author Kay Redfield Jamison lists “for the gracious acceptance of Lithium into your life” in Unquiet Mind is: “Accommodate to a certain lack of enthusiasm and bounce that you once had. Try not to think about all the wild nights you once had. Probably best not to have had those nights anyway” (p. 98).…
Unquiet mind by Kay Redfield Jamison is a memoir written about Jamison's struggle with manic depression, commonly known as bipolar disorder. Jamison is a professor of Psychiatry at John Hopkins School of Medicine giving her both the professional and personal views of bipolar disorder. The main theme of the memoir is persistence in the face of mental illness. The book serves to educate the reader about manic depression while also decreasing the stigma around mental illness at a time when this memoir could come with professional and personal risks. The book allows a glimpse into her life from being a child with no symptoms of bipolar disorder to being an adult who must take lithium and go to therapy to control her bipolar disorder.…
College. Whenever I hear that dreadful word I tense up and feel an impending sense of doom. The word college reminds me that soon I will become an adult. Soon I will move out and pay my own bills. Soon I will HAVE A JOB!…
They made him re-evaluate those thoughts. He reconsidered and chose to go another direction based on their…
Anybody can be trapped by addiction. Addiction is a habit of activity that targets and transforms people who have endured pain in their heart. There are a few factors that make some people more vulnerable to addiction than others. Moreover, Joseph Boyden depicts a certain character, Elijah, in the novel, Three Day Road, that is more vulnerable to addiction. Encountering bad experiences in one’s childhood, possessing a desire to fit in and a greed for power makes people more vulnerable to addiction.…
Not all treatments are expensive thus she had no excuse to not get herself treated. Since she received government aid, Section 8 (housing) and government disability check, she could had easily ask for help with her bipolar disorder. Her reckless choice shows that she was being irresponsible and fully liable to face full force of the law. In the past charges filed against her, she fail to mention that she suffer from bipolar disorder.…
During this session, the group members were introduced to the different stages of a relapse. Members were educated on the emotional, mental and physical stages of relapse. Group members were asked to provide examples of each relapse and what steps are being taken to prevent another relapse. The client was oriented x 3.…
This incident motivated him to start taking his medication again, all though he did not like the way that the medication made him…
Topic: Bipolar Depression Purpose Statement: To inform about what is the cause of bipolar depression, and how you can treat it. Thesis: The bipolar disorder is a cause of the depressive moods or lows of mental disorder. Introduction Attention Getter: Sometimes we all have bad days, and even good days, but these sudden changes in our mind and body is not just a simple change, it can be a sign of a very serious problem that is “bipolar depression”.…
A social problem that is present in our current society would be drug usage. Drug usage is a common social problem that affects a tremendous amount of people on a daily basis. It is considered to be a problem because it intervenes with the drug user’s life as well as anyone else around that person’s life. As a drug user, that person’s reality is now wrapped around the drug. A drug abuser’s life is now socially reconstructed around that drug, leading to his entire reality to change dramatically.…
His life really changed because he started to use drugs and until today he talks about how he ruined his life over a small decision. What I am saying is that people like this are everywhere in the world. If a person becomes addicted they can get treatment many peoples who has gotten therapy or treatment…