Menstrual psychosis

The Use of Medication People with a mental illness or a disorganized way of thinking usually end up taking medications to treat their disorder. These people can’t tend to function in the real life than people with no disorders at all. People with mental disabilities most of the time take medications. Should people take medications for the rest of their lives? And have to manage and function in their daily lives for a better one? There's a lot of different mental illnesses in the…

1) “Schizophrenia” is the psychological disorder illustrated in this film about a person named, John Forbes Nash. The film, a Beautiful Mind, is about a real life mathematician, Nash, who suffered from a severe disease. He had paranoid Schizophrenia, a mental illness that is unknown to him. His mind was filled with hallucinations, he had some disorganized speech or behavior. Indeed, he met the criteria for ‘abnormal’. 2) Nash imagined a person, named Parcher, who used to stalk him asking for…

Linus Pauling Linus Pauling was born on February 28,1901 in Portland, Oregon. He started his early education in Oregon. When he graduated from the Oregon Agricultural college in Corvallis (Now is called Oregon State University) in 1922, he had a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. For his postgraduate study Linus went to the California Institute of Technology(A.K.A. Caltech). There, he got his Ph.D in chemistry and mathematical physics in 1925. Once he joined the Caltech faculty in 1927,…

The brain is an essential organ in the body, and preforms key tasks to aid humanities survival. The brain controls everything a person does and if it is compromised, then it could have devastating consequences to the person. Schizophrenia is a disease that affects the brain in tremendous ways. This disease impacts the way the brain receives information, decodes that information, and eventually acts upon that information. Schizophrenia is thought to be the result of genetics and the environment…

Schizophrenia has a great impact on families by distressing and disrupting the lives of family. Families endure increasing stress and confusion when conditions worsens on their love ones. When someone is diagnosis with schizophrenia, family members coping with the symptoms can be especially difficult because of remembering what the person was like before the individual become ill and how much the disease have cause them to changed. The impact of the diseases upon families is compounded by the…

The psychoanalytic theory “The divided self” by Rd Laing describes how everyone has multiple personalities that changes depending on the environment they are in. McMurphy from the novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is a prime example of someone with a divided self. He is placed in an environment that challenges and tests him as a person. As a result, he has created his own two personas each with their own goals and moral compass. Nurse Ratched, his main antagonist, knows about his personal…

Psychopathology Case Study #1: Lyonel Noopur Shah The Chicago School of Professional Psychology Psychopathology Case Study #1: Lyonel Introduction of Client Lyonel had low social functioning as a child. He has two brothers a sister but was always in isolation. Adults and his siblings would criticize him as being peculiar and “nervous.” As a teenager he learned about witchcraft and casting spells. When he got older he decided to become a minister and would isolate himself…

In the beginning of the book J.D. Salinger writes through the text of Holden 's actions with details that Holden’s confusion secludes himself from everyone and everything and shows that when he talks to Mr. Spencer and Mrs. Morrow. After Mr. Spencer was done reading Holden’s History exam and read the note at the bottom of the paper Holden put it on top of the Atlantic Monthly, “...you could see he felt pretty lousy about flunking me. So I shot the bull for a while. I told him I was a moron and…

Personality Case Study of Pat from Silver Linings Playbook Alanna Sampson Yorkville University Abstract The purpose of this research paper is to analyze a character named Pat Solitano from the movie Silver Linings Playbook. A synopsis of Silver Linings Playbook will be provided in the introduction. Further, Pat will be discussed from psychoanalytic perspective. Finally, strengths and weaknesses of the psychoanalytic perspective will be discussed in relation to the study of Pat’s…

Lady Macbeth Illness In William Shakespeare’s tragic play Macbeth foretold the events of a man named Macbeth and his loyal wife, Lady Macbeth and their bloody path to take the throne. After defeating the traitors of their country Macbeth was rewarded the title of “Thane of Cawdor” but he wanted more, he wanted to be king so he sent a letter to his wife about the situation. Knowing what must be done Lady Macbeth started walking down a dark path with her husband to obtain their wanted titles,…