Mental Block

A mental illness is any type of condition that affects the mood, thinking or behavior of an individual according to the Mayo Clinic (Staff, 1). The article “ 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health”, states that over 45.1 million adults have been diagnosed with a mental illness in the past year, and out of those 45.1 million, 40% receive no treatment at all (1). Finding help for these individuals is becoming increasingly difficult each day with budget cuts, institution shut downs, and rising…

Swan Lake is a popular ballet in which a girl is cursed and turned into a white swan. To return back to a normal state, the girl must find her prince. The white swan found her prince, but a mirror image of the girl, the black swan, tricked the prince. The white swan, having saw this trickery, knows she will never be freed of the curse because of this sabotage and kills herself. This story is included within the movie, Black Swan, not only as a production within, but also as a full encompassing…

pg. 78). To understand an action is to understand the contents of the mental state that precedes the movement since they are separate and prior to our actions. As agents, we may have privileged access to our beliefs, desires, or intentions, which give us knowledge of our own actions. Our actions can serve to specify these mental states but an action may also fail to express an agent if it doesn’t reflect the internal mental states of the agent. Davidson is of the belief that non-causal…

the statistics in the article, stating that the male population in detention centres, suffering from mental health problems, suicidal ideation and self harm, contributes to 41 percent of the national average (Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 2004). Zwi & Chaney (2013) highlight the developmental delay that often occurs, as well as high rates of psychiatric disorders, due to many mental illness considerations, as well as the fact that many have to witness violent and disturbing…

Should assisted suicides be allowed in every state in the U.S.? 2 Legalization of physician assisted suicide (PAS) in the USA has been a controversial topic in recent years. In fact, most of states are still forbidding assisted suicide as it is illegal. There are only four states in this country allows PAS. They are Oregon, Montana, Washington, Vermont, and California. Despite being controversial, majority of people that choose to die…

phone screen in the protection of their own room. They have access to the internet virtually anywhere they go. This makes it even easier to harass someone just out of boredom. The person being bullied online obviously is not going to have the power to block them because human beings have the tendency to want to know what other people think of them, and also they want to know if people are accepting of them. Everyone seeks approval in this society from any person they can get it from.…

sufferes from the mental illness known as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). OCD is a disease that includes both obsessive and compulsive tendincies. It is a common disorder that effects individuals of all ages from child to adult. Defined by the National Institute of Mental Health, "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is a common, chronic and long lasting disorder in which a person has uncontrollable, reoccurring thoughts (obsessions) and behaviors (compulsions) that…

Voices Controlling Macbeth When dealing with a mental illness people encounter a mental block, difficulty to manage emotions, and have trouble making decisions for themselves. Schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are both similar and difficult to diagnose. While diagnosing schizophrenia is challenging, Macbeth seems to have all the symptoms that accompany this disease. Hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking is related to schizophrenia while PTSD includes…

Intervention Client: Are you going to give me three referrals to see the doctors at Teem Mental Health. Do I have to go to three different places are they on the same street, will you give me bus tickets why are you not helping me. I don’t want to go to three facilities. Social Worker: No, I’m going to give you two referrals. That’s ok with you. and one will be for Team Mental Health and the other is to see a medical doctor. Would it make you feel better if I give you two…

What is Schizophrenia? Schizophrenia is an unusual mental disorder that effects 0.3-1% of individuals. The term comes from the Greek, schizo meaning “splitting” and phrenia meaning “of the mind”. Therefore the disorder can be literally defined as a split mind. Schizophrenia is a “disabling psychological disorder that can include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and abnormal psychomotor behavior” (Light, Hull, Ballantyne 569). Unfortunately schizophrenia is usually a lifelong…