Classification of mental disorders

Mental illness is a condition that impacts many Americans today. It affects an individuals thinking, feelings, or behaviors and it may also affect his or her ability to relate to others and function on a daily basis. The treatment for mental illness is drug therapy according to diagnosis and mental health counseling. In my mental health clinical I assess my patient using therapeutic communication to get a health history, personal history, mental status, the reason they are there, mood, speech…

Girl, Interrupted is a memoir written by Susanna Kaysen in 1993. In her memoir, Kaysen recalls her time spent at a psychiatric hospital after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Her story is told through a collection of nonlinear vignettes as she chronicles her two years spent at psychiatric hospitall and her life after her time there. Kaysen recalls that in April of 1967, as an eighteen-year-old, she was admitted to McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts after attempting…

maintenance thereof. The Oxford Dictionary defines “wellness” as: “The state of being free of physical or psychological disease, illness or malfunction.” It is important to observe that the definition refers to both mental and physical wellbeing. We often underestimate the impact that our mental health has on our lives. People often take good health for granted. Richard Evans of the Work Foundation at the Lancaster University writes in an article about health and wellbeing in the workplace…

Throughout human history, people with mental illness have received a different forms of care than patients with medical conditions. After all, injuries and physical diseases have visible symptoms, while symptoms associated with mental illness are typically behavioral. For millennia, those with mental illness were perceived by society as suffering from some sort of crisis of the soul. They were stricken with madness by the gods or possessed by a demon. The treatment for such supernatural…

Mental Health and Criminals Imagine having a child with a mental illness and not knowing what will happen next. One minute they are happy and enjoying life, with the world in their hands, then suddenly, the child gets angry and violent. People get frazzled and confused, never knowing if there is a way to help or stop those violent children before it 's too late. Too late for them to make the worst mistake of their life: hurting someone dearly or going to prison for the rest of their life. An…

The treatment of mental illness has evolved over the years as more insight has been discovered and the negative stigma has been reduced. Early treatments and interventions for individuals struggling with mental illness often included things such as bleeding, vomiting, purging, exorcisms, and other methods to address physical or supernatural causes. For many years, patients with mental illnesses received inhumane and relatively ineffective, even harmful, treatments and were essentially treated as…

would like to start this letter by addressing the fact that I admire your work and dedication of running a mental institution. I know it must be a difficult task, and you seem to be doing the best that you can. However, it has come to my attention that one of your nurses, Nurse Ratched, has been treating not only the patients poorly, but your employees poorly as well. As a monitor of local Mental Health Hospitals, it is my top priority to ensure the safety and wellbeing of those staying in each…

Personally, depression is a mystery. I have learned the symptoms and the treatment options but I truly know nothing about this disorder. This internal barrier that those with depression experience is so foreign to me because of my lack of experience.I feel that only those who have struggled with depression know about this frightening struggle; however putting these feelings into…

things. My best friend was my eating disorder. Eating Disorders are, any of several psychological disorders characterized by serious disturbances of eating behavior according to Merriam Webster’s Dictionary. Purpose: See, today I am in here because I need, not want, but need to talk about eating disorders. They are horribly misunderstood illnesses which up to 10 million Americans suffer from. Preview: First, we will discuss the problems of eating disorders, then second, explore and identify…

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…