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Antipsychotics are a rather complex method of treatment in treating schizophrenia. They come with many pros but also many cons You have to consider the emotional and physical effect the antipsychotics may have on an individual’s life. You also have to consider the drug and what it is supposed to treat. In this case it ultimately aids in the treatment of schizophrenia, but not everyone sees it as so. Some drugs can render more of the cons than the pros. Ultimately, with schizophrenia and…

On December 16th, 2010, deputies responded to a reported disturbance in St. Augustine, Florida. A woman had called and reported that she had gotten into an argument with her roommate Lawrence Dean O’Bryan, who she described as intoxicated. The woman told the dispatcher she had locked herself into her room and started receiving text messages from O’Bryan asking her to come out. She then reported that she thought she heard O 'Bryan loading one of his many firearms. As the deputies attempted…

Schizophrenia is described as severe disorder that changes the behavior, thoughts and feelings of the person inflicted. Approximately 1% of the population will suffer with schizophrenia at some point in their lives. Schizophrenia is said to have positive and negative symptoms which can both be extreme in nature. I have had exposure to a close family member who suffered from schizophrenia. He struggled with many positive and negative symptoms of the disorder throughout his life. Once a vibrant…

“Music is the mediator between the life of senses and the life of the spirit.” (Beethoven) The story in the book The Soloist by Steve Lopez is a well-presented plot through which we can learn a lot. While the story of the book can be said to be covering a variety of themes; music, homelessness, mental illness, and friendships, I am of the opinion that the themes of mental illness and music are the base of the story. Nathaniel Ayers suffers from schizophrenia, a mental illness that affects his…

Unquiet mind by Kay Redfield Jamison is a memoir written about Jamison's struggle with manic depression, commonly known as bipolar disorder. Jamison is a professor of Psychiatry at John Hopkins School of Medicine giving her both the professional and personal views of bipolar disorder. The main theme of the memoir is persistence in the face of mental illness. The book serves to educate the reader about manic depression while also decreasing the stigma around mental illness at a time when this…

The psychologist is Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis), who is shot one night in his home by an intruder, a man who had been his patient years earlier and believes he was wrongly treated. The man then turns the gun on himself. "The next fall," as the subtitles tell us, we see Crowe mended in body but perhaps not in spirit, as he takes on a new case, a boy named Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) who exhibits some of the same problems as the patient who shot at him. Maybe this time he can get it right. The…

Postpartum depression has paranoia, hallucination and sleep troubles, as a few of the symptoms. However, back when the “The Yellow Wallpaper” was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, in the late nineteenth century, the mental disorder had a different name. Tying this into the story,“The Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator has all of these symptoms. At points in the story, she sees a woman in the wallpaper and starts to think someone is on the other side. The hallucinations could be referencing when…

Many people suffer from mental illnesses, one of the more serious ones being schizophrenia, as it affects the way that someone “acts, thinks, and sees the world”. Although one may not know someone with this it is a fairly prominent mental disorder. People with schizophrenia tend to have a disconnection from reality. Schizophrenic people with the disease often fear others and have a difficult time doing daily activities (“Schizophrenia” 1). In fact many authors utilize this as a central plot…

Mental Health in Nursing Practice Evidence-Based Practice Brief Do mental health patients, who are subjected to the Unpleasant Voices Scale and the Harm Command Safety Protocol versus patients who are not subjected to these tools prior to command hallucinations to harm self or others, have better outcomes? Kymberly Moehring Methodist College N342 Mental Health Debra Murphy Mental Health in Nursing Practice Evidence-Based Practice Brief For this assignment, the student was asked to write…

My body shuddered in agony, as I desperately gasped for air. My mother awoke, as she noticed pus-filled, blood sacs on my abdomen. She shrieked, as it appeared the life was being pulled out of me. Immediately, my mother sprinted to the town doctor, who had recently flown in within minutes. The physician injected me with a clear substance, as my body became relaxed. The darkness continued to swallow the town, as I became conscious. The insect that injected me with its poison still remains…