Disorganized schizophrenia

Raced thoughts, feeling of euphoria, unlimited energy, and lack of sleep. These are feelings that I experienced and am well familiar with. I was confused and scared in a mind that felt like an endless tunnel. My thoughts never stopped racing and I felt like I was on top of the world. I felt peace and quiet only after finding myself a patient in a psychiatric hospital. I graduated from Hoggard High School, class of 2012 in early June. That following August I was enrolled as a freshman at Cape…

are out of options. The bullying can also cause the beginning signs of depression in the teens like sadness or lack of interest. Students who have been bullied extensively also have an increased chance of developing psychotic symptoms such as schizophrenia.…

"Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?" -Dr.Rosen, A Beautiful Mind Schizophrenia is a disorder that is often represented in the media. Many novels, films, and television series have used schizophrenic characters as creepy, insane, and most often than not murders. By comparing these representations with scientific research, this…

All Actions Have a Reason: An Understanding of Postpartum Psychosis in The Book of Margery Kempe Studies have found that postpartum psychosis appears in about one in every five hundred childbearing women a few weeks after they deliver. Postpartum psychosis is much more sever and rare than postpartum depression, someone with this illness may develop hallucinations, delusional beliefs, manic episodes, paranoia, obscured thinking, and have a dramatic change of behavior. In Margery Kempe’s book,…

The structural stigma experienced by people who are diagnosed with mental disabilities has been a focus of the study. Patrick Corrigan explains how clinical diagnosis may exacerbate individual’s experience of psychiatric disabilities along with structural stigma. In this research about the stigmatizations of mental illness that are aggravated by clinical diagnosis, Corrigan indicates that the diagnostic classifications create homogeneity and labels. Corrigan strongly argues that diagnosis as a…

Setting Billy Dee was seen at the County Probation Department/Adult Services. Identifying Information Billy Dee is a 28-year-old Caucasian male. The reason for the referral Billy Dee was referred to the Country Probation Department to determine suitability for treatment and the development of a treatment plan to deal with identified problems discussed later on in this report. Behavioral Observations His speech was normal in terms of volume, rate and prosody. Throughout the assessment process,…

A rare type of Schizophrenia, Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia can be defined by psychotic symptoms that occur before the age twelve. Pathophysiologic features, functional changes that are seen in patients with Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia, are similar with later forms of the disorder. Studies of Phenomenology, patient 's consciousness and awareness, neuropsychology, brain and behavior relationship, and the patient 's biology have proven this fact. Looking at the similarities between adult…

There are wide variety factors that’s believed to contribute to the onset of depression. “Most likely, depression is caused by a combination of genetic, biological, environmental, and psychological factors.”- "Depression." NIMH RSS. Web. 28 Nov. 2015. The utmost importance factor certainly lies in the brain, which scientifically wheels emotions, despite the prevalent lore has it that emotions resides in the heart. Levels of brain chemicals, as well as the functioning of nerve cells, and nerve…

Hurry Down Sunshine The story of “Hurry Down Sunshine”, is one of the most refreshing stories that has been published in a long time because it does not give the cliché of melancholy description of the victim’s past life. Instead it shows the connection that a father has with his daughter whose life is crumbling down around her. The story begins with Greenburg’s daughter Sally, who, “is struck mad.” To any father, this would be devastating and the quick descent visibly takes Sally as she…

Implications for the public Suicide of a young person is a devastating and shocking moment in life. There should be much more attention given to is as it is a complex phenomenon and effects many young people in Canada. There are a few ways in which suicide can be prevented individual and communal level. If an individual level would only act as a band aid and help a few individuals communal level would help to lower the number of suicide in total. The difficulty lies in identifying clearly what…