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    Although these different therapies focus on side effects of suicide, it can still be used as treatment to reduce the thoughts of teenagers. DBT treats people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) which is involved with suicidal thinking and actions massively. A recent study found that DBT decreased suicidal thinking and actions more than other treatments. CBT has two different forms of therapy included in one which is cognitive therapy…

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    I for one can relate to this topic, because I have dealt with depression for several years, and for him to come out with depression is truly inspiring. He gave specific examples of different treatments for depression, and how he absolutely appalls them (6:12). He mentions how costly they are, how ineffective they are, and how they have numerous side effects. One treatment that completely appalled me was the electroshock therapy. Before this Ted Talk, I did not know that electroshock…

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    suffering from anxiety and depression go a considerable amount of their lives undiagnosed. What triggers them to seek treatment is often not that they are having mental health problems, but physical health problems that have been brought on by their disorders. If the illness goes undiagnosed for too long it will generate an assortment of complications that can lead to the sufferer being buried under a myriad of medications. This spiraling effect can make the diagnoses feel out of control. Though…

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    In the case of Ellen, I believe she meets criteria for 296.89 F31.81 Bipolar II disorder with atypical features, current episode depressed, severe. Per the DSM-5, Bipolar II diagnosis is warranted when there has been at least one episode of hypomania but never has been a manic episode and the most predominant episodes are those of depression. In the case of Ellen, she has struggled with depressed moods described as being unhappy most of her life, weight gain and increased appetite, insomnia and…

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    Psychoanalysis Evaluation Joey Williams – 5th Hour January 12th, 2017 Kiana has been observed and has shown many symptoms of mental illness. From seeing things to hearing things to a very vivid imagination. I believe she shows some symptoms of persistent depressive disorder and schizoaffective disorder. She has become very depressed as she doesn’t find joy or the initiative to act in social activities or leave her room. Her emotions greatly change as she spends more time within her room and she…

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    Although there have been many different surveys conducted over time testing the connection between mental illness and creativity, it is still unclear if there is a distinct connection between the two. Many believe that mental illnesses, such as bipolar disorder and depression, aid in creativity. While there are certainly creative people who are not mentally ill, correlations can be drawn between mental illness and creativity; resulting in many famous artists who are mentally ill and many…

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    come back from? Suicide, it’s irreversible. The book I read is entitled Sad Perfect, a novel created by Stephanie Elliot. In this work of fiction, there is a very good lesson to be learned about suicide and mental illness. Wrote in second person point of view, one can actually feel like it is themselves experiencing the events. Sixteen-year-old Pea tries to act like a normal high school girl, but only very few people know about her eating disorder, which restrains her from eating certain foods.…

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    post-traumatic-stress-disorder, she has the ability to intentionally, and unintentionally, be an advocate for others as well as having the ability to feel empathy, love and compassion. For a majority of Stern’s life post-rape, she has suspected she has post-traumatic-stress-disorder and her thoughts are more or less confirmed through a series of interviews and encounters with…

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    the wallpaper constantly looking for an escape from the wallpaper which resembles the bars of a cage. This represents the narrator herself being trapped in the life of a typical housewife. When the narrator becomes increasingly interested in the woman I can conclude that the by her being so bored and hopelessly insane she imagines that there is a woman in the wallpaper. The woman is exactly like her trying to escape the hardships of being housewife and feeling trapped in her room like the woman…

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    THE SQUID AND THE WHALE The Squid and the Whale written and directed by Noah Baumbach in 2005 is a semi-autobiographical comedy-drama about his childhood in Brooklyn and the effect of his parents' divorce on the family set in the mid-1980s. It is a painful account of the break-up in 1986 of the marriage between middle-class writers Bernard (Jeff Daniels) and Joan Berkman (Laura Linney and its effect on their teenage sons Walt, 16 (Jesse Eisenberg) and Frank,10 (Owen Kline)…

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