Mental confusion

Back in the 1930’s people that were mentally ill were mistreated because they couldn’t do much, other than doing labor work. Lennie is an excellent example of showing how mentally ill people were treated back in the 1930’s. People didn’t care that the mentally ill needed help, they just treated them like they were stupid. In the book Of Mice and Men, Lennie was ranked lower than all of the other people working on the farm. He was ranked lower because he was incapable of doing more than labor…

The movie that we viewed in class was My Beautiful Broken Brain. This film was mainly about Lotje Sodderland, and how she had experienced an intracerebral brain hemorrhage or a stroke. The film allows us to see what it was like along the road of recovery with her and all the struggles she underwent. A stroke, also known as cerebrovascular accident, is one of the most frequent cause of brain damage (Gilliam & Marquardt, 2016). There are multiple types of strokes (Gilliam & Marquardt, 2016). The…

1. How has the portrayal of mental health influenced how we view it and the stigma around it? How should mental illnesses be treated? In his article "The Stigma of Mental Illness is Making Us Sicker," Michael Friedman discusses the negative attitudes that many people have of mental illnesses, which can lead to a negative stereotype and perception of those who have mental illnesses. This stigma and embarrassment may prevent people battling these illnesses to step forward and receive…

Habits That can’t be Controlled “Addiction isn’t about using drugs, it’s about what the drug does to your life “(Enock Maregesi, author of Kolonia Santila). The Power of Habit, written by Charles Duhigg explains two cases of habits that were out of control. Brain Thomas was a sleepwalker who killed his wife without knowing what he was doing, and Angie Bachmann was a housewife who gambled and lost everything. These cases showed something important about addiction and blame. Thomas and Bachmann…

In the first half of the classic Canadian novel Lullabies for Little Criminals, author Heather O’Neill first introduces the main character, twelve-year-old Baby. The story takes place in one of the poorer parts of downtown Montreal, Quebec, where Baby lives with her young, heroin-addicted father, Jules. Baby is without a mother and is constantly relocating to shabby apartments and hotels due to Jules having trouble with his friends, jobs, or his drug dealers. O’Neill addresses the strong…

In the reading, “The Social Construction of Disability”, different constructs of disability are made. One will realize that social construct and disability are hard to distinguish because combined they define what “disability” is. The social construct of disability can be used to create or prevent disabilities (Wendell). By this people who are tall have doors made for them, so they do not have to hunch over every time they enter a door, people in wheelchairs with accessible ramps, shorts people…

Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health tells the story of Mary Mallon and what she had to go through at the beginning of the twentieth century. Typhoid Mary has “become a metaphor for a dangerous person who should be reviled and avoided (Leavitt).” Judith Walzer Leavitt, the author, is a professor of the history of medicine and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and an author of several books (Judith). She uses Mary’s story to show the different perspectives of…

Chapter two of No Pity, written by Joseph P. Shapiro, focused on the Edward Roberts, a pioneering leader of the disability rights movements. The chapter starts with a look into Roberts’ life and how he struggled to find normalcy after becoming disabled. At the young age of fourteen Roberts fell ill with Polio and his life changed in a dramatic way. He went from being a star on his high school football team to being paralyzed from the neck down, unable to breath on his own. Because he was unable…

Attachment is an emotional tie that bonds one person to another. Attachment theory was brought along by John Bowlby during his psychiatry career. He considered the importance of social, emotional, and cognitive development in parent-child relationships after treating many emotionally disturbed children. This elicited the idea that children’s early experiences with their parents produces a lasting imprint on their lives. Bowlby proposed that attachment experiences influenced the development of…

Schizophrene, by Bhanu Kapil, focuses on the Partition of India and the widespread lasting effect it had over the mental health and physical safety of citizens. Kapil focuses on schizophrenia, writing about the speaker’s immigrant experience through that lens. In Schizophrene, Bhanu Kapil uses aspects such as color to symbolize emotion, a distant tone, and showcases psychological and physical displacement. By using these methods to signify the speaker’s feeling towards aspects of her experience,…