Tom Easton Case Study

Dictionary.com states that mental disorder includes a wide variety of symptoms that affect thinking, mood, and behavior. Mental illnesses come in many different forms. Many different symptoms come along with mental sickness including aggression. The patient may not become aggressive from what they are feeling, but from other symptoms like hallucination. Not all mental ill patients become aggressive however, their are many cases where they do not know how to control their anger or know the difference between reality and their imagination. Aggression is a very common side effect to many different mental illnesses. The person struggling with the mental illness may or may not be putting others at harm. In the case that involved Tom Easton and Barrington Mckenzie an innocent citizen had his life taken from him. Tom Easton was a hard working man with parents, brothers, sisters, and a girlfriend like any other citizen. However, something that change the life of his close friends and family will never be forgotten. Tom woke up one morning doing his normal routine, little did he know he would be attacked and murdered by a paranoid schizophrenic the same day. Barrington Mckenzie had a very severe case of schizophrenia. He was on medications prescribed from the doctor he was visiting but chose not to take them and start smoking Marijuana instead. Mckenzie’s decision of laying off the medication affected his life and others forever. Mckenzie had been smoking Marijuana and …show more content…
A mentally ill/mentally changed person can be affected by cartoons and the atmosphere around them. Tom and Jerry is an aggressive cartoon which affects the patients with the mental disorders. Positive cartoons such as Lassie’s Rescue Rangers affect the children in a good way by causing them to be nonaggressive.(Joyce Sprafkin) The chart below shows the statistics of the way the mentally ill are affect by atmosphere around them. (Joyce