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wallow in self-pity. This image clearly represents the feelings society wants us to suppress. Unaffected individuals tend to undermine the fact that depression victims do indeed suffer from physical symptoms. Some symptoms include: appetite loss, fatigue, joint pain, and insomnia. While these are a few commonly experienced symptoms, the potential symptoms are not limited to the ones listed above. To support this image with personal experience, my cousin Ben suffered from depression but nobody…

An Overview of Sociology 131 PART I (SUMMARY) Intersectionality: Intersectionality, is “we are not just men or women. We are a white, middleclass, married woman-once catholic, now Evangelical Christian- with a two year old…”(Wade & Ferree, 2015,84). My favorite thing about this is the idea of belonging to multiple groups. The reason is because I can now have many shared experiences. For example I know the struggles of being a woman and the struggles of being non-white. I know the culture…

Tongue cancer is a very common cancer that plagues people daily. It is a form of oral cancer that forms in the front two-thirds of the mouth. It usually develops in the squamous cells of the mouth. Around forty- three- thousand people in the U.S alone are affected by this type of cancer just this year. It kills roughly one person per hour, which is twenty-four in one day alone. This cancer causes a lot of deaths and a little more than half of the people with this cancer will die in the next five…

Initial Diagnostic Case – For Practice Edgar is a 25-year-old married man who is being hospitalized after a suicide attempt that resulted in a car crash into a lake. He has been having a depressive episode for the past six months. This is the first episode he has experienced and it has several characteristics including feelings of depression, loss of interest, weight loss, hypersomnia, poor concentration and thoughts of suicide. His casual daily drinking of 1 or 2 beers per day has increased…

“Myalgia” is the medical term for muscle pain. It is often a symptom of another disease present in the body. It isn't a disease itself. So patients who report having this condition to their doctor have to undergo further testing to determine what the other underlying factors are. The severity and location of the pain both help in the diagnosis too. Once the doctor has all the information that he or she needs, they can make a determination of the specific type of muscle pain that someone has, so…

The symptoms are remarkably similar to that of baby blues and this is why a majority of moms go undiagnosed either by just not knowing they have this disorder or by feelings of shame by the new mom for feeling this way. A new mom assumes she should not be so selfish and be ecstatic about the new-born. A surprising statistic is that approximately 10 percent of moms go undiagnosed with this disorder and the effects can be devastating for an entire family (Miller, 2006). Postpartum depression,…

Gabriela M. Santiago Michael Vaughan English 1020 30 October 2016 The Story of an Hour When reading about “The Story of an Hour” we can agree that there are multiple positions regarding Mrs. Mallard’s reaction to her husband’s death. Mrs. Mallard, a woman suffering from a heart condition is notified about her husband’s death in a car accident. Positions, such as a woman being repressed, or being in a male-dominant society, could be possible positions for the expectations during that century.…

Chief Complaint Joseph Alabs, is a new patient who self-referred himself to the Behavioral Health Provider (BHP) a week ago. Joseph Ala is a retired 74-year-old man diagnosed with anxiety, hypertension and rheumatoid Arthritis. Joseph is married and has seven adult children who are independent and live away from home. Joseph is a care giver for his wife who is diagnosed with bi-polar, depression, diabetes and arthritis. Joseph hired a housekeeper to help him once a week with cleaning the…

1) Explain in your own words the signs and symptoms of depression. There are many symptoms of depression, some psychological and some physical. Quite often people feel very sad and they don’t feel like going out or socialising with anyone. During school or work they have poor concentration and cannot comprehend what they are reading, which can often lead to misunderstood information and can affect ones quality of work. Due to someone not going outside and socialising it can result in obesity and…

Even though there is no cure for this condition there are a variety of treatment plans and ways to live with this condition. Understanding Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia (FM) is characterized by a widespread musculoskeletal pain accompanied by fatigue, sleep, memory and mood issues (). It is sometimes referred to as “the invisible disease”. There are currently at least 10 million cases of Fibromyalgia reported. Fibromyalgia effects women and men and sometimes children, but it is more prevalent…