An Analysis Of The Salem Witch Trials

The voices are screaming, but there are no bodies that are manifested to produce it. One minute happiness flows the body; then, like a light switch, anger charges my thoughts. All emotions and state of mind vanish as water does once the sun comes out. Everything is a puzzle that cannot be pieced together. With one simple diagnostic, the voices are labeled schizophrenia and the changes of mood is bipolar disorder. The disorders, the names, the treatment, the “solutions”, seem to never. It is not a name with a needle welcoming the voices in, but a man with an ear and pen ready to silence or quiet them to be more bearable. The voices and mood swings are the patients and doctors secret, but the insanity is everyone’s show. The ability to be …show more content…
During the late 1600s, people started looking for witches. Anyone in today’s time would think going on a witch hunt was just a sarcastic saying, but in the past, it has been a reality. The Salem Witch trials are mostly heard about in history class. The trials happened because fear ruled over logic, and the most logical thing to them was to fall back on superstition. In this time period, it was completely normal to base everything on superstition. Today it would be completely insane to go around accusing people of being a witch and then killing …show more content…
People who have this mental disorder have been known to cut off there own body parts. They mostly claim the body part is not theirs and belongs to someone else. This is what results in them cutting off the body part. These people are not are not originally disabled. At one hospital a man was taken in because he attempted to cut off his foot and was bleeding out. He refused to sign anything to save his foot. He continued to claim the foot did not belong to him. This is just one example of how people behave with this disorder. The ability to inflict so much harm that you lose a body part is