Classification of mental disorders

shootings have been the subject of many conversations and debates over the years. It seems a shooting happens every fews months, which is all to often, and is in the news almost every day. Not long ago, in 2007, a shooter with a troubled history of mental health killed 32 people at Virginia Tech and injured many other students and faculty members (Seung 1). One of the most well known shootings was on April 20th, 1999. The event was known as Columbine. 13 high school students were killed, and 20…

learning about one’s mental health and, because of this, Caroline took that class in hopes it would help her recognize and learn how to deal with her mental struggles and how to manage her thoughts and feelings. After high school, Caroline was able to take on the real world starting with a confident step into college. Schools should allow classes about mental health because students need to know that mental…

causing witnesses to have physical and/ or mental disorders, along with a feeling of helplessness and loss of faith in government. The novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is an example of the impact war can have on soldiers. It is about Paul Baumer, a soldier in the war, and the reader follows him through his tragic endeavors fighting in the war on the side of…

Behavioral medication is a field of science that applies biomedical science knowledge to prevent, diagnose, and treat disorders that affect the development, behavior, and psychological mindsets of diagnosed individuals in order to improve mental health and reduce major symptoms. This includes anxiety, depression, asthma, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, and substance abuse (Behavioral Medicine). However, treatments are expensive and prescribed medications do not work for everyone. In fact, a study in…

Eating Disorder Dilemmas Imagine looking in the mirror every morning and viewing a heavy and unsightly reflection. Every second of everyday is spent thinking about what is consumed and how it will affect the body. All free time is spent obsessing over calories and exercising vigorously. That is the realization of living with an eating disorder. An eating disorder is a physiological disorder that is persistent in strange eating behaviors that negatively affect a person’s health and other areas of…

Mental Illness and How it Should be Treated “These ‘harmless’ antidepressants have recently been linked to violent behavior, loss of impulse control, and suicidal thoughts” (Eakman). One thing that is real important is the over-prescribing of patients. That also leads into doctors not caring what they do to their patients, just observe them, diagnose them, and give them unneeded prescriptions for no reason inset for the money the doctors are making. People may think mental illness is somebody…

suffering from mental illness have been cast aside and shamefully looked upon. The first buildings made to house said people were used to ostracize them for they were thought to be a detriment to society. Society only began to view mental illnesses as an “illness” during the 19th century. Even then, those affected were looked down upon and separated from society. Jump to the modern day and age, where people can take medication to sedate their psychotic tendencies; however, the stigma of mental…

become an increasingly present issue in today’s society. Cyberbullying can cause teens to fall into depression. This can even lead to something as horrific as suicide. For example, according to the Center for Disease Control, National Institute of Mental Health, the annual rate of teen suicide is around 4,600 people between the ages 10 and 24 who die from suicide. Suicide is the third leading cause of death in the United States. Once a person falls into depression all they can think…

control to actually work, mental illnesses need to be better identified and handled then how they are now. Assumptions come up after acts of violence with guns and one of them is that just gun control will not do it. Mental health needs to be better highlighted and changed on how it is treated and the people getting guns who have mental heal issues. This needs to be done in order to curb gun violence and effectively control who gets guns and the manner they get them in. In, “Mental Illness, Mass…

patients with mental illness via a shift from statewide institutions to more community-based treatment services. Deinstitutionalization first began in the 1950s with the closing and downsizing of multiple asylums, which was initiated by President John E. Kennedy in the United States. These asylums were labeled as “lunatic asylums” and were either shut down or altered. The society held a negative…