Mental confusion

Mental health has been an ongoing issue that has been progressively advancing for years. It is because most people with problems in mental health suffers from stigma and discrimination. BUT what causes this stigma and discrimination? It is said that discrimination is an effect of a prejudiced behavior. This behavior roots from stereotyping in which we classify people we interact with, in groups. We stereotype and stigmatize people with mental illness in a group entirely different from us…

diagnosis a former soldier with PTSD. They discuss how bright, fluorescent lights bothers Erik, how he gets nervous in large crowds, his road rage, his spacey and light headed, dizzy feelings when talking on the phone. Stern notes that she shares similar mental sensations with Erik, like the annoyance of fluorescent lights and the inability to speak on the phone for too long. Through her conversations with Erik, Stern comes to understand that PTSD is not limited to just soldiers, and even the…

Pennsylvania focused solely on educating children with developmental disabilities. Whereas, the Mills v Board of Education for the District of Colombia expanded on PARC to include all school aged children who were denied an education due to supposed mental, behavioral, physical, or emotional disabilities. Both built their case on the grounds that due process was being violated. The Board of Education of the District of Colombia rebutted with the claim that lacked the funding to provide an…

emotional breakdown that increased the mental and physical illnesses. Kristen’s mother brought action on behalf of her daughter by filing a case against Rose, Principal Cohen, and Fairfax County School Board under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and intentional infliction of emotional distress under Virginia law. As I summarized the background of this case, we should know that depression is one of the most common yet under-identified mental health problems of childhood and…

system. The foster care system is no longer a passionate system for children, so many children in the system are treated like slaves and do not receive hardly any tender, love and care thus leading to children coming out of the system with serious mental health problems. About 63% of American children end up in the foster care system. Some of them go in because their family has passed, some go in because they are no longer wanted by family and then the last…

Most people after they read this would probably just assume she is a crazy woman in a mental hospital but he is just affected by her husband. For example, “john is a physician”. John believes the best things for the narrator to do is rest after postpartum depression and not have any stimulation. He then requires the narrator to stop all writing…

Through the lens of biopsychosocial approaches on gambling and whiplash The biopsychosocial approach carefully considers biological, psychological, and social factors and their difficult interactions in understanding illness, heath care, and health in general. When taking humanistic qualities into consideration, the application of the biopsychosocial approach is highly valued. Ultimately, the biopsychosocial approach can be used for many studies to determine the perspective of interactions…

Stress and grey hair – fact or fiction A popular belief is that stress may cause grey hair. But is that a fact or a fiction? Is it possible that hair turns gray overnight? Many would say it is possible and one of the examples is Marie Antoinette. Supposedly, right before she was guillotined, her hair turned white. While stress may cause certain issues, the questions is, can the stress really change the color of the hair? In certain age, hair starts to change its color, and in most cases,…

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a book describing the case histories of some patients of the author, Dr. Oliver Sacks. The book was first published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd in 1985. The electronic edition was published in 2010 by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan. The author, Dr. Oliver Sacks, is a British-American physician and a professor of neurology and psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine and a visiting professor at the University of Warwick.…

This is my story when I got attacked by a dog when I was five or six. In this story I’ll tell you of how I had to get six to seven stiches and where the tore the side of my face open at and finally I will tell you how I took showers and how I had to take care of myself. The story starts off in my old town of Lawrence Massachusetts. Lawrence was a very populated with gangs and just horrible people. It was not a place to raise a kid that was under four years old because of the kind of people in…