Factitious disorders

“Emotional Wellness is the ability to understand ourselves and cope with the challenges life can bring. The ability to acknowledge and share feelings of anger, fear, sadness or stress; hope, love, joy and happiness in a productive manner contributes to our Emotional Wellness.” (“Wellness:Seven Dimensions of Wellness.” University of California Riverside, wellness.ucr.edu/seven_dimensions.html.) 2. Emotional wellness is essentially the state of mind someone is in. A person with good emotional…

baby. There are two types of advanced reproductive technology that are allowed on humans the first one is (I.V.F) in vitro fertilisation .Using in vitro fertilisation it allows doctors to reduce the risk that the baby will be born with a genetic disorder. I.V.F allows doctors to fertilise an egg and sperm outside the body in a lab. They are also able to isolate a sperm cell to determine the gender and gene of the baby. The second is pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (P.G.D) from this we can…

mood and thoughts. Statistics have shown there is a progressive increase in the number of in-patient discharges and death in Hospital Authority hospitals for mental and behavioral disorders from 2008 to 2012. Of all age groups, there is…

“Mental illness refers to a wide range of mental health conditions - disorders that affect your mood, thinking and behavior” according institute of Mental Health. Mental illness can prevent you from doing your regular activities such as driving, talking and even interacting with other people. We should treat people with mental illness with a little more compassion and try to understand what they are going through before judging. I’ve heard multiple cases in which people with problems get treated…

Treat people the way you want to be treated. Some people say that helping the underprivileged is not our responsibility to take on because they choose that lifestyle, but in reality everyone’s life story is different. Being defined as less fortunate can mean a various amount of things, such as being financially unstable or mentally or physically disabled. Coming hand in hand to meet the needs of the less fortunate really can make a difference in that person's life. If you have the capability of…

Why Proctor and Gamble Should be Prosecuted for the “Tide Pod Challenge” A beautiful dark haired, blue-eyed young woman of the age of fifteen sits down to film herself engaging in the “Tide Pod Challenge.” As she bites down on the small, highly concentrated package of detergent, the great tension on the tight plastic packaging bursts, exploding the contents of the pod into her mouth. She frantically coughs in between gags as minuscule amounts of laundry soap creep down her throat. Swallowing the…

This model is ascribed to former US President Eisenhower and was further developed by Steven Covey, the writer of the book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. It includes two axes: importance axis and urgency axis. You have got four quadrants total that each suggests the right attitude to the task. Now, let me explain and exemplify each one of the 4 quadrants on how it relates to your life. Quadrant 4: Not Important and Not Urgent Those missions and activities are neither important nor urgent.…

Today, blindness can be scientifically defined in many different conditions from partial blindness to complete blindness (nlm.nih.gov). Despite the fact blindness is medically defined, society continues to enforce creative and limitless metaphors with the condition in forms of stereotypes that goes beyond the medical knowledge. In the novel illness as Metaphor, the American author Susan Sontag critiqued how speaking of a disease like blindness metaphorically has many consequences to people’s…

King George’s mental illness was very misunderstood by the doctors at that time. He was treated with the typical treatments at the time. They did not help him and if anything they made him much worse from being able to suffer through it. Most people agree that the King’s illness was diagnosed as Porphyria. Porphyria can be caused by an excessive amount of rich wine or an exposure prolonged exposure to arsenic. It is mostly thought in King George’s case though to be genetic and passed down to him…

Many studies show what personality traits can affect schizophrenia. John Forbes Nash Jr. showed an interesting personality trait that amplified his schizophrenic disorder. According to Capps (2004), his narcissism not only intensified his schizophrenia, but it helped in his recovery or repression of his schizophrenia. The movie, A Beautiful Mind, attempts to convey the life of Nash in a way that is understandable to all. The movie begins while he is in graduate school at Princeton University and…