Major Arcana

Mental health has been an ongoing issue that has been progressively advancing for years. It is because most people with problems in mental health suffers from stigma and discrimination. BUT what causes this stigma and discrimination? It is said that discrimination is an effect of a prejudiced behavior. This behavior roots from stereotyping in which we classify people we interact with, in groups. We stereotype and stigmatize people with mental illness in a group entirely different from us…

Chapter Twenty-Three Do You Fear Failure? Think for a moment, what are you afraid of? Are you afraid of failure? Are you afraid to aim for success? Are you afraid to chase your dreams? Now think, what would you do if you had no fear? What could you achieve? Who could you become? A friend of mine and I were having a conversation once in regards to fear and he said to me, “Have you ever stopped to think of how capable we all could be if we had confidence in our own ability? If we had…

Cognitive therapy was founded by Aaron Beck, and he based this therapeutic approach on two main ideas. The first idea is that individuals who are depressed have a negativity bias in their thinking, and the second idea is that the way individuals interpret the events around them contributes to the maintenance of their depression (Ball, n.d.). In a more refined sense by Ball (n.d.) it can be said that cognitive therapy is based on the premise that it is not the event itself that the individual…

Stress and grey hair – fact or fiction A popular belief is that stress may cause grey hair. But is that a fact or a fiction? Is it possible that hair turns gray overnight? Many would say it is possible and one of the examples is Marie Antoinette. Supposedly, right before she was guillotined, her hair turned white. While stress may cause certain issues, the questions is, can the stress really change the color of the hair? In certain age, hair starts to change its color, and in most cases,…

The setting The story takes place around 1940/1950 in a fishing-village on Cuba and on the sea around the island. You can tell the story takes place around that time because the old man and a boy talk about baseball and how “The great DiMaggio” is going to make the New York Yankees win, “he makes the difference”. DiMaggio was a famous baseball player who played for the New York Yankees between 1936 and 1951. You can also tell that the story takes place in that period because new technology like…

CARIBBEAN CIVILIZATION THINK PIECE The song “Chokra” is the 1996 ICC World Cup song for the Sri Lankan cricketers. “The Sri Lankans were the first host country to win the World Cup, the first country to win the World Cup batting second and it was also their first time ever winning the ICC World Cup” (espncricinfo.com). Though the song is not in English it could be seen or even gathered from the video that it was about national pride, gender and the unification of the masses. The images…

The case I will be studying is the case of a 20 year old university student who is struggling to function as a student and social areas of his life. He is going through the psychological phase of depression and feels helpless and in no control over it. One possible reason to the cause of James depression was how his friends and family reacted to his learning disability. His learning difficulties always made him feel like a failure to himself and to others. James always had learning difficulties…

happiness is difficult, myself and others close to me have shown that it possible to move past depression and fight it back once it rears its ugly head. Depression is considered to be under the mood disorder umbrella. There are two types of depression: Major Depressive…

Daniel Levinson’s “Seasons of Life” theory consists of seven stages. However, for this prompt, the focus will be on the fifth stage: mid-life transition. This usually happens between the ages of 40 to 45, and is sometimes classified as one of crisis. During this stage, a person, whether it be a man or woman, begins to evaluate or reevaluate their life. Levinson states, during this phase there is a lot of soul searching and reflection done throughout this stage (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team,…

For every suicide, there are twenty-five suicide attempts; of which ninety percent of all people who commit suicide are diagnosed with depression. One of those suicide attempts was a ten-year-old girl, and that ten-year-old was me. After I attempted suicide, it took a year for me to confess to my mother what I had done. Instantly, I was tested for depression; as an eleven-year old female diagnosed with depression, my life would take a massive turn. Some may say that this turn was good, while I…