Hallucination

MDMA is the abbreviation of 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine. It is a powerful amphetamine class stimulant. MDMA is commonly used to make Ecstasy and also main ingredient of Ecstasy. In North America and Europe, it is commonly called Ecstasy, Mandy, Molly, etc. In China, ecstasy has a nickname: Yaotou pill. Yaotou is Mandarin and means shake one’s head. Because Ecstasy is initially popular in the nightclub. Ecstasy dependent user will shake his head lightly without music and feel sleepy…

Big, strong, intrusive, and psychotic, she had been hospitalized almost constantly since age 11. Her auditory hallucinations generally consisted of a critical voice commenting on her behavior. Her thinking was concrete but when relaxed she could be self-reflective. She was motivated to please and recurrently said her biggest goal was to “have my own room in my own house…

“Drug use may still represent a route to ‘unreality’ and a means to slip away from the constraints of routine, but today, in many more different ways for many more different people, drug use is actually a part of the ‘paramount reality’ of everyday life” (South 4). Drugs have been an escape route to relieve stress and to forget about the complications in one’s life. One 's body and mind will begin to hunger for the impression of getting away or overlooking one 's issue and begin to drive the…

Society defines what normal and abnormal behaviour is. Society’s perceptions of normal and abnormal behaviour is informed societies ideologies of what acceptable behaviour is and what is not. Notions around normal and abnormal behaviour are informed by people’s culture, religion, education and all other associations that people affiliate with. As people identify and have different believes and value systems, this might pose as a dilemma when trying to categorise and label certain behaviours as…

In this paper, I will explain the Justified True Belief (JTB) analysis of propositional knowledge and provide a counterexample to it. I will then verify that the Casual Theory (developed by Alvin Goldman) is to a certain extent the correct analysis of propositional knowledge. The motivation behind my thesis is to prove that JTB, first established by Plato completely fails to analyse propositional knowledge, and the essay will highlight the facts how it fails to do so when answering the question.…

John shows physical development because physically he is alright, but the way he talks doesn’t really attract people. John is socially not normal. When John was a child his dad could have been the man that talked to women really rudely which lead to him doing this now, like in the bar when the girl slaps him because he tells her the only reason he wants her. Also in the move is he throws a desk out the window which shows his physical strength. This could relate to his childhood because when he…

The symptoms include the following, which are all expressed by Mary Turner; delusions, hallucinations, impaired communication, negative emotional responses and inability to function normally(mayoclinic.org). Throughout the book, she constantly expresses negative emotional responses that are parallel to the traits of schizophrenia. She suffers…

Psychological Disorders Response DID, Dissociative Identity Disorder according to David Myers (2014) is “A massive dissociation of self from ordinary consciousness characterizes those with dissociative identity disorder (DID), in which two or more distinct identities are said to alternately control the person’s behavior.” (p. 638). Symptoms of this disorder are (1) Loss of memory for periods of time of events and people. (2) Thoughts of committing suicide and attempts made. (3) Feelings of…

Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental illness with variable expression and uncertain etiology. It is a mental disorder characterized by severe breakdowns in thought patterns, emotions, and perceptions. Only 1% of the population is diagnosed with this illness and it’s a condition difficult to treat and understand most of the type. Anyone would see a schizophrenic person and immediately perceive them as weird and not be able to carry out a normal conversation with them. A person will be at higher…

The lived Experience of Serious Mental Illness Personally, I believe that every person should be able to have a support system because not too many have the pleasure of having it. To show what a supportive system is having someone there to listen, motivate, inspire, and care of a person well being. When reading "The Lived Experience of Serious Mental Illness" it brought joy to me because she manages to marry someone who cared for her and has such a loving heart. This is what support is about…