Menstrual psychosis

Bipolar disorder affects over 5.7 million adults around the world. In the story ¨The Tell-Tale Heart¨ written by the American writer, editor, and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe implies a madman´s journey to kill a man. Evidence from this story proves the narrator of ¨The Tell-Tale Heart¨ is diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but others may believe that his illness is schizophrenia. The narrator has symptoms that prove he suffers from bipolar disease. Bipolar disease has many symptoms such as…

The slender man stabbing is a violent crime committed as a result of an internet myth. The slender man was a fictitious character made ‘real’ by numerous details published in online communities. The character, sometimes referred to as Slender, is a faceless, lean and tall personality with child abduction behavior. He has a suit and tentacles growing upon his back. He is also able to read people’s minds and teleport to various places a quality that makes him available anywhere at any given time.…

The book crazy has been one of the best reads I’ve done in several years, being able to include a social problem along with personal experience in the right proportions made this book very interesting. Upon reading the book Crazy one of the common themes I saw Earley argue about was how he felt the mental health programs within our country have always been about money and making sure people’s pockets were filled. Along with the book there were also three films we watch to further understand…

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance a loosly-autobiographical story of a man and his son, Chris, who go on a motorcycling trip accompanied by two fellow bikers. On a journey from Minnesota to California, they take the back roads and sleep overnight in motels or just set up and camp. The man talks about what it is like to hear the wind rustling the grasses around him, to see birds flying in, out and around the marshes next to the road, to ride through a shelter-worthy storm, and to breathe…

Key Perspectives This assignment will look at three different key perspectives in Psychology and evaluate their importance to the field. The three perspectives that I will look at will be Biological, Cognitive and Behaviourism. Discussed herein will be the fundamentals of each perspective followed by a key study that will help further elaborate on that specific field before analysis. Biological Psychologists from the biological approach infer that human behaviour and experiences are caused by…

when it comes to clinical psychology, most of the signs are hidden are in the mind. Most of the disorders in this field, deal with the mind and how it tricks its self into doing the wrong things, this would mostly associate with schizophrenia, psychosis, obsessive compulsive disorder, or bipolar disorders. All these illnesses have one major thing in common, which is that hey all start in the mind and the brain itself, dealing with all the chemical…

Schizophrenia is an illness is best described as one of the most diabolical by most people, but yet it is one of the most misunderstood illnesses making a mystery. The mystery part of this illness is that the illness has its own various emanations through the mind causing the scientists difficulties of trying to accurately describe on what of the brain is affected from this illness. However, scientists found evidences that schizophrenia is a common mental disorder that causes problems in telling…

The Art of the Insane lays down the history and progression of diagnosis process of the mentally ill and the creations of artists with mental illnesses or delays. Three viewpoints will be exhibited in Art of the Insane, which are are how people viewed mental illness, how a mentally delayed and ill person views the world, and lastly, how the mentally ill portray their personal experience with the illness. By viewing this exhibit, viewers will grow their understanding and empathy towards mental…

I have learned that there are positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Positive symptoms of schizophrenia include exaggeration of normal behavior which then makes the behavior abnormal (Townsend, 2014). For example, delusions are indicators of a false belief such as a higher power trying to control a person’s mind. I think of someone believing that a person is speaking directly to them over the radio in their car. Another example is having a hallucination such as hearing voices in your…

When the term epilepsy comes about I associate it with seizures, although there’s a difference between the two. Epilepsy can be defined as a neurological condition that is described by recurrent seizures. Epilepsy is a condition in which is not fully understood, yet there’s a significant amount of research. People that are diagnosed with epilepsy tend to have different type of seizures. Therefore, the occurrence, symptoms, and the type of seizure can differ with every person diagnosed with…