Delusional disorder

issues rather than just being a symptom towards a mental health problem. I believe the reason why the impact of loneliness on mental health is not researched much as an impact because more people tend to believe that if you have a certain mental disorder that loneliness is just a symptom. In the article the authors are trying to prove that being lonely or feeling lonely is not just a symptom however it can cause additional serious issues. Lim, Rodebaugh, Gleeson and Zyphur hypothesized that…

Have you ever felt something that is difficult to express such as wanting to utter something but you cannot find the right words to say? What is your current mood? Do you feel happy, sad, or angry right now? A Japanese man named Shigetaka Kurita created a program called “Emoji” which can express feelings through digital images that display objects, shapes, or even show facial expressions that can be sent using electronic devices. Did you know that the developers of this program gain millions of…

Raghu (a junior clerk in a private company, earning equivalent to INR. 11,000 per month since last seven years) and Parineeta (a housewife), are both Hindus, and married in the year 2009 according to the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (‘HMA’). Raghu has filed a petition in June 2014 under Section 13(1)(ia) of the HMA in the District Court of Fancyland seeking divorce from Parineeta on the ground that she has been committing cruelty on him since January 2013. Raghu adduced the following evidence in…

The stigmatization of mental illness and the pressure society puts on people to conform to often unattainable standards is an extremely pressing and damaging problem. Singer-songwriter Mary Lambert is unafraid to tackle these issues in a way that many artists shy away from. Mental illness, most notably depression, is a common theme throughout her works and her lyrics are a raw and open account of the difficulty pressure from society can bring to those who struggle to accept themselves. In her…

In his book The Sane Society, Erich Fromm points out that alienation has become an endemic disease of modern capitalism. Fromm defines alienated individual as somebody as “the person who can only experience the outer world photographically, but is out of touch with his inner world”. [Fromm, 1990, p. 207] The opposite of alienation is schizophrenia, that is, when the individual can not experience the outer world objectively, as most people do. For this psychoanalyst, the individual must be in…

Nationality is a concept which is subjective; it means different things to different people. It can be altered in a person's mind through experience. Emily Carr's Thunderbird (fig. 1) is an example of how people's perception of nation (whether by people outside of that nation, or people within it) can be shaped by a few influential individuals. Whether intentionally political or not, an artist's view of their country is often directly shown in the way they paint it. Similarly, a non-artist's…

My personal prejudice is drug addicts. The main reason is that my mother is a drug addict, whom i haven't spoken to in about 5 years. I will give you the background of why I despise drug addicts. My father passed away when i was five years old and no one could find my mother. They couldn't locate her for three days, due to the fact she was getting high with her dealer. My sisters and i remained at my neighbors house until my mother actually did come home from “work”. She was a nurse on call at a…

Cyberbullying v.s. Face-to Face Bullying: Which is Worse? Zoe Johnson, a young 13 year old girl from Wyoming, Michigan who was cyberbullied online constantly and had minor depression. In addition, she was also a member of the cheer team and had just finished seventh grade at her middle school. In early July, Zoe Johnson committed suicide and Zoe’s family was deeply affected. Zoe’s mother, Rebecca Abbott, believes that cyberbullying is what took her life. The evidence that she found was that a…

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. Her mother and father send her to therapy, thinking this will cure their not-so-normal daughter. However, when Pea meets the boy of her dreams, her life seems to almost fall completely apart.…

Introduction The representation of disability in the above named films involves the portrayal of characters with various disabilities such as physical impairments, visual impairments and mental illness. Disability was not part of popular discourse, but the film makers merely used disability and disabled characters as props for their stories. The lives that disabled people lead are significantly different from those of “normal people” in the Indian social setup. Film makers chose the subject of…