Mental Health Act 1983

has shown that social media contributes to social anxiety in individuals by providing a way to avoid face-to-face interaction, allowing a faulty self-image to be created, and causing individuals to be more dependent on social media. Anxiety is a mental disorder associated with fear and feeling anxious that affects a person’s daily activities. Social anxiety is characterized…

No one wants to be tortured. Sitting in my padded chair facing my desk it is easy to say that. There are problems out in the world that will put pressure on others into doing things that will hurt others. The source of these problems could be religious, family, or threats, but again the world isn’t so nice as to leave out the people who will do these things just because they want to. I have mixed feelings about using torture but it could be a possible solution to life-threating issue and only a…

discuss in fear of offending someone or bringing tension to the table. As a daughter who has dealt with a family member who has a bipolar disorder, I know exactly how that may feel. In the society that is lived in today, it’s difficult to talk about mental illness without being told you’re overreacting or without someone else bringing their own problems into the mix. In my community, it is no different. People don’t necessarily believe that a bipolar disorder is a…

with the study of psychology and the involvement of various mental health experts largely the reason. This focus on psychology led to the development of multiple theories with the incorporation of various psychological principles; one of these theories is the ‘Diagnostic Evaluation’ or ‘Clinical Approach’, this approach was developed by clinical psychologists and psychiatrists and tends to assume that the offender has some form of mental illness and thus examines the crime scene from that…

must be addressed when examining the effects of enforced isolation on prison inmates. The first concern is the effect it has on mentally sound, healthy inmates and the second concern is the effect it has on inmates already dealing with some form of mental or physical illness. The manifestation of adverse reactions to isolation for a healthy inmate depend on factors such as the length of confinement, the individual, and the conditions of their confinement. Some of the reactions linked back to…

Everything is Okay with a Little Help "What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well." (Glenn Close) Mental illness affects persons of any age, religion, gender, etc. not only affecting the patient but also the whole family. The recovery is possible for some of them with the correct treatment and support. Unfortunately, not everyone has the opportunity to get treatment. NAMI El…

struck by a depressive episode, but it is not a simple matter of changing your attitude. Depression is not caused by a state of mind or a negative outlook. Rather, it results from an actual chemical change in your brain that causes a legitimate set of mental and physical symptoms. By understanding its causes, you can make the better decisions about your depression management. This article reviews some of the most common causes of depression. Depression and Family History or Genetics…

Coping is when a person attempts to solve something difficult in their life and that can be anything from stress to chronic illnesses. There are two types of coping which are problem-focused and emotion-focused (Lecture 8). Protective buffering is a relationship-focused coping that falls under the emotion-focused coping strategy (Lecture 8). Protective buffering is basically the concealment of one’s own worries to better protect the emotional state of their loved ones. (Lecture 8). However,…

One aspect of the reading that I found fascinating was the history of abnormality and development of the viewpoints to where they are today. Abnormality in the ancient times was viewed as a possession of evil spirits. Treatment for abnormality consisted of exorcism or trephination. Trephination is an operation, which involved removing part of the skull. This treatment was used for treating severe abnormal behavior by allowing a hole for the evil spirits to escape from. Later during the time of…

Analysis Sandra’s mental illness, bipolar affective disorder, also known as manic depression, is a common psychiatric disorder (Otto 2011). Bipolar disorder often includes natural periods of remission but commonly relapses if adherence treatment is poor (Grande et al 2016). As shown in Sandra’s case, bipolar affective disorder is characterised by both manic and depressive episodes that is severe enough to cause substantial personal distress, impairment to daily living, social functioning and…