Awareness about Mental illness

been created to try to explain and explore the lives of these people. One such film, Witness, a short biographical film directed by independent filmmaker Michael Buckley, investigates the themes of mental illness, documenting the key protagonist John Harrowell during his forced residence within a mental intuition. By using a wide range of filmic techniques, Buckley is able to create viewer sympathy and successfully engage his audience. Symbolism and motifs are techniques that are used by…

Dorothea Dix was at a young age relatively in charge of keeping house and taking care of her younger siblings due to her mother’s crippling depression and likely other mental illnesses and her father’s abusive achollisim. While her mother likely being her first and most formative experience with mental illness, she was in no way her last. Having always had a fascination with the mentally ill Dorothea took a teaching position at the East Cambridge Women’s prison where she was shocked to see the…

having anxiety, whether it be minor or severe. To select the participants, I created a survey that listed information such as demographics and the opinions of their mental health issue. The survey consisted of 15 questions, the first 5 being information such as their race and age. The last 10 questions consisted of their opinions of the mental disorder, and how their daily life has been affected by it. First, I gathered participants who were between the ages of 18 and 30. I chose this age…

better effort at noticing the signs of suicide and helping to prevent it. “The stability of American university and college students’ mental health should be taken just as serious as the threat of suicide” (Pope 1). For decades it has been the third leading cause of death in young adults and it is time to take action. According to Pope, the stability of the mental health of college students should be just as important as the threat of suicide and she provides heavy use of tone, stream of…

weight? Is Meghan Trainor’s song, “All About That Bass,” a new forefront in body positivity? Are people unhealthily wrapped up in health? Many people wouldn’t think so, but lately eating habits, excessive exercise, and even yoga, have been popularized into big fads, and not actual solutions. Society focuses on how your body looks and judges you based on it; nobody thinks to ask about the state of your mental health. Over twenty percent of people worldwide have mental illnesses, and many don’t…

What does it mean to be a Counselor? When people come across individuals in the profession of mental health they typically think of “crazy”, “bad”, or “it takes a special person”. A true counselor’s job responsibilities go well beyond what people imagine. Counselor’s help individuals deal with difficult emotions, mental health disorders, and trauma related experiences. A person who holds this title provides therapy and guidance to clients that help manage stress, redirect emotions, evoke change,…

Mentalism is a huge prejudicial theme throughout the course of the story and I noticed it many times while people were talking about Lennie or talking to Lennie. Other ways were how Steinbeck portrayed Lennie throughout the course of the story. How he portrayed Lennie is the first example of mentalism I will talk about. Steinbeck never comes out and says that Lennie has a mental disorder or is mentally challenged.…

Getting better man! We really do need to make time to sit town and go over these. I hope this helps. I also attached the word document. People who are going to be processed into a jail or prison need to mentally prepare themselves for what they are about to face. This means turning their mind into survival mood and be ready to fight at any given second. As they say in jail, “Stab or be stabbed.” It’s better to be caught with a shank than be caught dead without one. When the correctional…

true nature of Hamlet’s mental state and how it contributes to his actions and failures to act. It is possible that Hamlet’s behavior could be attributed to him being bipolar. He could be completely mentally sound and using his “madness” as a disguise to appear harmless in order to get close to Claudius and kill him for revenge. Hamlet could be mentally imbalanced and his self-awareness of that imbalance is what is affecting when and how he acts. Most likely, Hamlet’s true mental state is…

Rationale for Seeking Specialization in a Clinical Counseling Program After reading the overview of Capella University’s Master of Mental Health Counseling program and speaking with one of your advisors, I understand that this particular program will help me get right to where I would like to be in my profession, which is a Licensed Professional Counselor. There honestly isn’t any population of people that I’m not interested in working with, after taking different courses in my undergraduate…