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    Journal of India, Volume 93, Issue 11, pages 253-254 and was published in 2002. The article gives descriptive terms and phrases about different aspects of Parkinison’s disease. Starting with a definition of the disease as being a neuro-psychiatric disorder that causes issues with movement in all sorts of different aspects with the body, the article then goes into some statistics about the disease. Some statistics include that both men and women are affected equally and that this disease occurs…

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    physical health to also be impacted. The main person who provides the most care and support is known as the “key carer” (Gutiérrez-Maldonado et al., 2005). This person is usually the one to develop the most health issues, whether physical or mental. The mental weight that comes with caring for and being a relative of a person with schizophrenia has been…

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    Factitious Disorders: Portrayed on Film The media portrays characters with psychological illness differently than a psychiatrist or psychologist. Movies are made to be sold and thus, characters with mental illness have a negative stereotype or more negative. They are not depicted, correctly. Almost having identical tittles, The Good Mother and The Glass House: The Good Mother are separate movies. The characters are portrayed having Factitious Disorder. The diagnostic and Statistical of Manual…

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    may be consistent with: Schizoaffective Disorder (295.70), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (309.81), Major Depressive Disorder (296.32), Schizophrenia (295.90), and Delusional Disorder (297.1). 295.70 Schizoaffective Disorder, Depressive type, with multiple episodes, currently in acute episode: Ms. Lewis experiences symptoms concurrent with Major Depressive Disorder and Schizophrenia. Her symptoms were consistent with Persecutory type Delusional Disorder as evidenced by her belief that her…

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    a type of mental disorder characterized by a preference for or obsession with unusual sexual practices, as pedophilia, sadomasochism, or exhibitionism” (de Silva, 2004). paraphilia are disorders of sexual behavior in the compulsive element which strongly limits the sexual repertoire of a person so that the excitement and satisfaction become dependent on what some people consider abnormal forms or deviant fantasy or interaction. The vast majority are treated exclusively male disorders. Yakeley &…

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    to improve her mental illness. The narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” was described as having a mental illness that was being treated by her husband, John, who was a physician. Throughout the story, her mental illness becomes drastically worse due to the mistreatment from her husband. During this time, there was not a lot of information known about mental illnesses and physicians did not really have an idea of how to treat them. The author, Charlotte Gilman, actually had a mental…

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    Growing up in a family that has dealt with mental illness first hand, it is apparent that people who suffer from mental disorders are treated differently than people suffering from other illnesses. However, I became more aware of this issue when the criminal justice system and society mistreated my uncle. My uncle Patrick was diagnosed with sever bipolar disorder and showed some symptoms of schizophrenia when he was 30 years old. He found taking his pills difficult and would occasionally not…

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    Kilbourne, by lacking social experience, children and young adults are more vulnerable to advertisements. One does not become an experienced consumer overnight. Young adults have not fully developed their own concepts of the media and how it affects their mental status. And even if they understand consumerism, he or she may not understand that the companies are trying to sell more than physical products. Kilbourne states that advertisers are selling “values, images, and concepts of success and…

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    Mental illness is a reality for millions of people around the world. Mental illness has many different shapes, forms and classifications. The way we have explored the different facets of mental illness has evolved from even fifty years ago. However, not all individuals recognize the existence of mental illness. Some believe that mental illness is an imagined illness and does not truly affect people on a daily basis. In reality, mental illness is not only real but truly affects and shapes the…

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    According to the Washington Post Investigation, nationwide about 125 people with mental illness have died in the hands of a police officer in the U.S. Another interpretation of what Harrison was going through at the moment the police encounter him could’ve been symptoms such as hallucinations and disorganized behaviors. Hallucinations…

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