Menstrual psychosis

When you hear the word language people think of a different form of way to speak. The definition of language is the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. When people hear of psychopaths they think of crazy people. The definition of psychopath is a person suffering from chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behavior. When you combine psychopath and language together you get psychopath…

Annotated Bibliography Thesis: Article 1: Pec, O., Bob, P., & Lysaker, P. H. (2015). TRAUMA, DISSOCIATION AND SYNTHETIC METACOGNITION IN SCHIZOPHRENIA. Activitas Nervosa Superior, 57(2), 59-70. The authors are linking childhood trauma and dissociation with Schizophrenia. With Synthetic metacognition in Schizophrenia patients describes their thoughts, feelings, and connection between events. Insufficiency of the synthetic metacognition in someone is measureable by sampling their metacognitive…

A Beautiful Mind successfully portrays John Nash’s story of living with schizophrenia while still being a brilliant mathematician, husband, and father. The effectiveness of the film comes from it’s ability to lead the audience into John’s mind without realizing he was experiencing delusions and hallucinations. Charles, Marcee, and Parcher and the events and conversations associated with these characters appear so real that it is a genuine shock to the audience to discover that they exist only in…

There are various theories exist regarding the mechanisms of origin of migraine headache. One of such theories is the vascular theory which proposes that the intracranial vasoconstriction causes ischemia, which results in the aura preceding the migraine. The subsequent rebound vasodilation causes the migraine headache. The theory was based on the observation that during a migraine attack the extracranial vessels become pulsatile and distended. However, this theory was disputed as it couldn’t…

Savant Syndrome- Savant Skills Locked Within Us? Savant syndrome is a form of rare neurological condition where individuals with such extraordinary anomaly, while having problems in proper mental function, are able to express certain prodigious abilities such as memorizing and lightning calculation (Treffert, 2009). The term “savant” originated from the word “savoir” which means “to know” in French (Treffert, 2009). The word “idiot savant” was first introduced by Dr. J. Langdon Down in his…

Overview The television show I will be discussing in this paper is Perception. The main character in this television show is a professor at the Chicago Lake Michigan University. The professor is an expert consultant and uses his mental illness to assist the FBI on some of their most complex cases. His mental illness enables the professor to pick up on subtle clues in solving these crimes. The FBI Agent that the main character consults for on these cases is a former student of the professors.…

Schizophrenia is a mental illness that affects the way a person thinks, behaves and views the world. A Schizophrenic may experience delusions, auditory and visual hallucinations, disorganized speech and actions, and negative symptoms such as lack of interest or emotions. In today’s society many people claim to know about schizophrenia because they once watched movie or T.V series and they picked up the characteristics of the character that was “schizophrenic”. Which is wrong, many of us are…

Individuals in a normal state of awareness are usually able to make their own decisions and also know what is best for them. However, J.S., a twenty-four-year-old male schizophrenic mentioned in Cases in Bioethics from The Hastings Center Report edited by Carl Levine and Robert Veatch, was not able to make these kinds of decisions in his state even while taking Prolixin, the medication to suppress his schizophrenia. This was due to the iatrogenic effect called tardive dyskinesia, a result of…

The main character in the movie Crime and Punishment, Rodya Romanovich Raskolnikov, is a normal-looking person. What grabbed my attention, is that his normalcy does not last long. After his hideous crime, Rodya undergoes many changes in his behavior, thoughts, and his physical appearance. Someone might wonder if he may become mentally ill, because mental illness does refer to alterations in someone’s mood, thinking and behavior, as a result of a range of mental health conditions or disorders.…

1. Constricted [Generalized Anxiety Disorder] (2015) Pencil, charcoal, and ink on cardstock (size) Generalized anxiety disorder occurs when a person worries excessively over a large variety of different topics such as health, safety, relationships, and finance. The disorder has to be evident for 6 months and show evidence of triggers, which would require a record of anxiety (diary, therapist, etc.). Sometimes, the person may have anxiety from mood disorders like post-traumatic stress disorder…