Menstrual psychosis

A Beautiful Mind is a beautiful and enlightening depiction of a terrible and mind boggling journey of a struggling schizophrenic genius. This movie, first aired in 2001, takes the viewer through the experience of John Nash, a mathematical genius whom developed schizophrenia in his early adulthood. Personally, I believed this movie was both terrifying and incredibly mind opening. To read about a schizophrenic patient is one thing, but to view how they cope with everyday situations, and how their…

Can the resentment a person has for another person affect them psychologically? Throughout the book As I Lay Dying, Faulkner portrays how the grief caused by Addie Bundren’s death impacted both Cash and Darl on their trip to Jackson. Throughout the book, Faulkner explores psychological topics such as post traumatic stress disorder, dissociation, and repression. Darl’s resentment towards Addie rose and left him in the state of a psychotic break at the end of the trip. On the other side Cash is…

The Yellow Wallpaper A Character Analysis Charlotte Perkins Intro A story of a young woman devolving into madness, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins, details the narrator’s initial normalcy turn towards hysterical and delusional thoughts. The main character starts out as Jane whose identity becomes more and more confused toward the end of the story. Her husband, John, is a physician and takes responsibility for Jane’s care with the help of his sister Jennie. John insists on keeping…

environment can come from living in poverty and having little to no information about pregnancy can either cause for the baby to have many problems in the future, or death. Bad home environments can also be caused by mothers who experience postpartum psychosis and…

Lady Macbeth Diagnosis Lady Macbeth in the story Macbeth has been suffering from variant physiological problems like Bipolar and paranoid schizophrenia. Lady Macbeth was showing signs of a physiological damages before Macbeth Became king . Lady Macbeth has suffered a lot throughout the story physiologically she shows signs of Bipolar due to her rapid change of speech with characters in the story, she also is showing paranoid schizophrenia with suicidal thoughts. Lady Macbeth suffers from…

medicine such as, conventional antipsychotics (1st generation antipsychotics) and atypical antipsychotics (2nd generation antipsychotics). Haloperidol is a conventional antipsychotic which is used to treat schizophrenia and some other forms of psychosis. Haloperidol was developed in the late 1950s by company Janssen, and approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1967. (David A. Williams ) Haldol is original brand name of haloperidol, which now produced under multiple trade…

Subsequently after reading Divided Minds, one can be positively sure that schizophrenia is not only a day-to-day battle for its vulnerable victims, but also for the loved ones and their families. This memoir is written by a pair of identical twins, one with an incorrigible mental illness who is also an award-winning poet and the other a doctor of psychiatry. Although the sisters alternate in the telling, it is clearly Pamela's story that captivates you. As identical twins, Carolyn and Pamela…

This book “Nightmares”, written by Patrick McNamara, is a detailed description on the science and solution of the frightening visions during sleep. The author McNamara, studied at the University of Massachusetts Boston and majored in Philosophy. After working at Boston’s drug and alcohol detox center, he became interested in disorders of the mind and brain. He then transferred to Boston University and changed his major to neuropsychology. He went on to get his Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience.…

Understanding Bipolar Bipolar disorder is a psychological disorder that effects at least 1% of people in each country throughout the world. This brain disorder is one of the most widely known psychological disorder. It effects around 1.1% of the population over 18.( (NIMH n.d.) Often times people suffering from bipolar disorder suffer from manic episodes along with sever depression. The first bipolar episode usually happens when a person is still in their adolescence stage. Bipolar disorder…

The Contribution of Nursing Research to The Treatment of Schizophrenia Erika L. Emkey South University NSG3001-01-Introduction to the Profession of Nursing Scholarly Paper #1 Dr. Elizabeth Fezio Scholarly Paper #1 25 April 2016 There are many challenges that are associated with Schizophrenia and how to properly care for a patient as a nurse. Hippocrates believed that those with mental illnesses had disturbances in their physiology, which caused his belief that these individuals were…