Menstrual psychosis

These include poverty, crime, and poor education. The downward drift goes a step further in speculating that once caught in this negative cycle, the psychosis sufferer will ‘drift downward’ into these lower socioeconomic circumstances as a direct result of their disorder. The social-selection theory is a further example of how an individual with psychosis is expected to behave- it dictates that regardless of starting point, the individual will end up at the bottom of the social order due to…

The purpose of this reports is to look at the causes, effects on the individual, effects on the family, theories, solutions and the definition of schizophrenia.Schizophrenia is a lifelong illness that affects not only the individual suffering from the illness but their family members and friends as well. The Oxford Dictionary would define schizophrenia as a mental illness in which a person becomes unable to link emotions, emotion and thought, which will lead to possible withdrawal from reality…

Schizophrenia John Nash was known as a patient of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder characterized by major disturbances in thought, emotion and behavior: disordered thinking in which ideas are not logically related, faulty perception and attention, flat or inappropriate affect, and bizarre disturbances in motor activity (Flett, Kocovski, & Blankstein, 2017). Schizophrenia is one of the most common and severe mental illness all over the world (Willison & Buss, 2008). One of the…

The biography "Daniel Johnston and the Devil" spoke of a young man, at the time, which lived a chaotic life due to his head, this is because Daniel suffered from multiple mental illnesses. I will take this time to look at a traditional psychiatric diagnosis and an emotional/spiritual understanding of the life, struggles and mind of Daniel Johnston. Daniel Johnston started life seemingly average to most, though after some drug experimentation with a psychoactive drug, known as LSD (Lysergic acid…

According to The Kim Foundation, about one in every four adults currently has a mental illness. Furthermore, 5.7 million Americans suffer from bipolar disorder specifically. Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness in which one experiences extreme changes in emotion, often feeling both elated and depressed at times. In Shakespeare’s famous play Macbeth, the Scottish general Macbeth’s varied emotions can be considered comparable to individuals currently living with bipolar disorder, even…

The film whose main character I decided to diagnose is Brad Anderson’s The Machinist. The Machinist tells the story of a factory machine operator named Trevor Reznik (played by Christian Bale). Reznik is an insomniac whose mind throughout the film shows a more serious problem. He is avoiding the repercussions of a hit and run he had committed. After watching the film, I came to a conclusive diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder. Schizoaffective disorder has the psychotic symptoms accompanied by…

An estimated 2.2 million people in the United States have schizophrenia at any given time. Schizophrenia often times emerges in early adulthood. During this time of early adulthood individuals face educational, social, and occupational milestones. Those with the disorder are less likely to achieve high education levels, marry or stay married, and have issues with occupational performance. It was found that only fourteen to twenty percent of schizophrenias hold competitive employment. The peak…

The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn Saks is a tremendous novel that entails the life and progression of Mrs. Saks’ disease of schizophrenia. She lived in the City of Miami, Florida during the 1950’s and early 1960’s. She was the oldest child, and was in constant competition with her oldest brother, Warren. From her recollection, there is nothing odd or extra-ordinary in regards to her life during her childhood. She had the regular quirks or abnormalities that come with children, such as being…

A Beautiful Mind The film, A Beautiful Mind, opens with a professor speaking to an incoming class of graduate students at Princeton University in 1947 (Grazer & Howard, 2001). The professor tells the group of students about the impact mathematicians have had on the United States, particularly in regards to the war against the Soviet Union. He inspired the students by challenging them to create and publish something new in the world of mathematics, in hopes of impacting the world as other…

mentalities, in the hope of a catalyst in the change of their narrow perceptions on undisclosed experiences. Ron Howard’s 2001 Roman A Clef film A Beautiful Mind, resonates with the viewer as it is a rare opportunity to experience firsthand the psychosis, debilitation and eventual redemption associated with living with schizophrenia. The three act structure is ironically symbolic of this illness where initially we see from the sufferer’s perspective as to enhance our empathy through his…