Bipolar I disorder

For thousands of years, humans have sought out explanations for the inexplicable. Combined with revered creativity and imagination, wild myths, legends, and conspiracies have been born. Among many of which center around our daily lives, specifically around political and pop culture figures such as Marilyn Monroe. A beauty icon for the ages, Marilyn captured the attention of Americans everywhere, including the president himself. Many theories have arisen about the mysterious circumstances of her…

Chicago gun violence is getting so bad that is causing mental health issues for people's affected by it. a woman named Kimberly Greer who has been unable to get a good night of rest for the last four years after two of her children were victims of gun violence. Her son Ricky and her nephew Jordan died but her daughter Ryan lived after a shot to the Head and works super hard to regain her motor skills. Greer is only one of thousands of people that live in the west and south sides of Chicago who…

In Case Study 16 (Herlihy & Corey, 2015), a 17 year old male named Frank reveal to his counselor that he had the desire to commit suicide. His parents referred him to the counselor when they realized that things he once valued, he no longer cared about and his behavioral change concerned his parents. In Frank’s initial counseling session, he expressed his suicidal thoughts of: killing himself, giving up and planned to drive his car into an intersection of incoming traffic. His counselor provided…

Ellen DeGeneres is very inspirational, she is always happy and always strong, and she never lets anything or anyone bring her down. Ellen DeGeneres was born in Metairie, Louisiana on January 26, 1958. (Watson 1) She graduated high school from Atlanta High School in 1976. She started college at the University of New Orleans. (Watson 1) Ellen only went to college for one semester, as she dropped out she was deciding what she should do with her life. She had many jobs like a clerk, house painter,…

Night.” Van Gogh painted this painting to reflect back on to what he felt, but he never stated exactly what it was. Sexton interpreted it into her own words to reflect back onto this beautiful poem. We know from the first line that she includes “Shall I say the word-religion.” (1)And “The old unseen serpent” (10) that they both have a prestigious meaning of the word religion. Sexton just had a more dark meaning, while Van Gogh might have had a more heavenly meaning behind it. Sexton really takes…

the accident. He said that the insurance company refused to cover her treatment because they claimed that she was intoxicated during the incident. "They rang Lisa at 11.30pm at night and said 'we're not going to cover it because she was intoxicated.' I asked them for it in writing and they didn't respond," Baldwin said. Mr Baldwin explained that her daughter was hit by a car while crossing the road early morning after a night out with her friends. What's even worse, someone stole her bag…

had also stated that he felt like he was "shackled to his own corpse" which meant that he felt like he could not move or breath. He felt as if something had taken over his body leaving him mentally paralyzed. This has happened to me once. I had become so scared I could not move or let out a scream. One of the claims that was made was "The whole cave of my chest and thorax seemed to have been hollowed out and then refilled with slow-drying cement." With lung and heart issues this would be a…

Juvenile delinquency in the United States has had an overwhelming number of adolescences in trouble with law enforcement. Major sources of data have been collected by researchers to measure the magnitude of the delinquent actions, some of these data collection organizations include but are not limited to Juvenile Court Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting program (UCR), Cohort Studies, victimization surveys, and self-reporting. With this information we will look into how prevalent delinquency is…

It’s not unusual for an investigator to be up late working, but tonight was different. Detective Gordon Lane looked at the calendar on his wall: June 15, 1937. It has been four months since the death of his wife, Rose Lane, and that was unacceptable. It wasn’t unacceptable that was wife was dead, that was unavoidable. What was unacceptable was the fact that the person who killed her was still out there. That was just flat out wrong. At this point in the night, Gordon was reviewing his case…

Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a disorder that causes an amino acid called phenylalanine to build up in a person’s body. PKU is caused by a defect in the gene, the PAH gene, that helps to create the enzyme hydroxlase that is responsible for breaking down phenylalanine. Without this important enzyme, a person will build up a dangerously high level of phenylalanine when they eat foods that are high in protein. Babies in the United States are screened for PKU soon after birth. Newborns with PKU…