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    I felt myself come undone. I had practiced before-how to deliver bad news to a patient-but didn’t expect to become a patient receiving it. “Give them a warning shot,” I heard echo in my mind right as my doctor began to say, “We have some bad news.” My leave of absence from medical school came from this bad news. I experienced complications with a pregnancy, requiring me to take time away from my education. I became personally familiar with how life can sometimes seem to deal you a hand that is…

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    to what is happening to their health. Obesity has been a massive issue from different countries, specifically the United States of America. It has caused children and adolescents to be at risk to experience depression, low self-esteem and eating disorders. Depression is a period where a person suffers from too much sadness. In fact, there are so many reasons why depression takes a toll on an individual’s mental state. Some of those reasons may be physical or emotional. In fact, one of the…

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    may be considered a symptom of mental disorder and has in the past been widely discussed. However that statement can be questioned in the sense that many of the population may have committed some form of crime in their lives; does this then suggest that a large quantity of the population has some form of mental disorder. Silver et al. (2008) (cited in criminology) states that earlier studies showed a lack of correlation between violent crimes and mental disorder. However more recent studies have…

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    Human- animal interaction has always been considered a healthy way for people who seem to be depressed or alone. Having someone to care for is always recommended for people who are alone with no kids or spouse, having a pet is a good way of keeping someone sane. The interaction between human and animals can be beneficial on both sides, for the animal it can help a lot of them in need that have suffered abuse and neglect. However for humans it’s a sense of comfort and care they don’t always…

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    The clubhouse model came about after the 1950’s deinstitutionalize movement. The deinstitutionalize movement consisted of many state mental hospitals closing, leaving many homeless and incarcerated. Thousands of people did not have access to medication as well as had no one to case manage their situations. The clubhouse model follows the model of the Fountain House in New York. The Fountain House is a place that became a type of safe haven to those whom were deinstitutionalized, giving them a…

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    traits. This test is a shorter version of the OMNI and is computer based, but it can also be administered with paper and pencil. The OMNI-IV assesses an individual by asking 375 questions with measures of 25 personality traits and 10 personality disorders, as well as 7 factor scales and 2 validity scales (Lanning, 2001). The items that are omitted from this test are the personality traits and factor scales. According to Lanning (2001), the questions are lines of self-description, and contains…

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    Mental Illness In Society

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    Introduction Mental illness is a disorder that causes a deregulation of thoughts and moods causing the patient to portray unorthodox behaviors. Essentially, mental illness and the stigma that is associated with the condition date back as early as the biblical times. Earlier than that, actually as evidenced in the Bible, mental illness was not viewed as a health issue but as an attack from demonic spirits. Earlier sources, for instance, the Ancient Greeks, saw mental disorder as a result of an…

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    their lives were disrupted by their eating disorder. In contrast, when the respondents were confronted about their eating disorder, most of them readily admitted that they were bulimic and that their means of weight loss was “abnormal.” They knew that it was wrong and unhealthy, but worth the physical risks. While the bulimics initially maintained that they 're purging was only a temporary weight-loss method, they eventually realized that their disorder represents a loss of…

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    This article focuses on the families ' experiences of mental illness rather than the individual. Boschman explains that having an external party that has seen everything first hand is beneficial in the diagnosis process (2007). LeFrancois and Diamond would note that this actually delegitimizes the individual 's experiences as the individual cannot make sense of their experience for themselves because family members ' accounts are taken as truth (2014). This could also be because 'mentally ill '…

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    are teased beyond general reason for their parents going through divorces or for being a little slower than the rest and therefore being taken out of class. Students are often bullied for being affected by any sort of disorder, though statistically those suffering with a mental disorder are far more likely to be bullied to the point of self-harm or suicide (NAMI,…

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