Mental retardation

My personal prejudice is drug addicts. The main reason is that my mother is a drug addict, whom i haven't spoken to in about 5 years. I will give you the background of why I despise drug addicts. My father passed away when i was five years old and no one could find my mother. They couldn't locate her for three days, due to the fact she was getting high with her dealer. My sisters and i remained at my neighbors house until my mother actually did come home from “work”. She was a nurse on call at a…

old taxi driver. He is living with wife and son in a public house unit. He worked as a bus driver for 23 years and was being dismissed 1 year ago after involving in a bus traffic accident. For the information collected from Mr. Wong’s, Mr. Wong had mental problems since 3 months ago and elicited paranoid ideas for several times that staffs of previous bus company had ganged up to victimize him in the traffic accident. Moreover, his wife stated that he had a poor sleep problem, self-muttering…

Post-traumatic stress disorder is a mental health condition that is triggered by a petrifying event that an individual has witnessed or experienced. The most common events that cause an individual to have post-traumatic stress disorder is combat, sexual assault, a natural disaster, and car accidents. In the brilliantly written novel, Snow Falling on Cedars, written by David Guterson, the main characters Kabuo Miyamoto and Ishmael Chambers are haunted by their unspeakable pasts. To briefly…

Cyberbullying v.s. Face-to Face Bullying: Which is Worse? Zoe Johnson, a young 13 year old girl from Wyoming, Michigan who was cyberbullied online constantly and had minor depression. In addition, she was also a member of the cheer team and had just finished seventh grade at her middle school. In early July, Zoe Johnson committed suicide and Zoe’s family was deeply affected. Zoe’s mother, Rebecca Abbott, believes that cyberbullying is what took her life. The evidence that she found was that a…

What is one mistake someone can never come back from? Suicide, it’s irreversible. The book I read is entitled Sad Perfect, a novel created by Stephanie Elliot. In this work of fiction, there is a very good lesson to be learned about suicide and mental illness. Wrote in second person point of view, one can actually feel like it is themselves experiencing the events. Sixteen-year-old Pea tries to act like a normal high school girl, but only very few people know about her eating disorder, which…

Conclusion: Depression is a mental illness that is affecting people of all ages, which is why it is important to stop it early on, so people can live their lives with as few depressive episodes as possible. In theory, the multimodal approach seems to be the best option because it allows…

Chapter 14: Blame Game “Make a list of people who ruined your life or did you wrong.” Was it your parents? Your teachers? Your best friend? Your third cousin? Your brother? Put it down on a list. If that does not satisfy you. Write a detailed story about everyone, as to how you were wronged in exact detail. There is no limitation of pages. Put it all down right now. I did a similar exercise as part of landmark forum, Mumbai. Let me tell you how it works. Once your entire story is on paper read…

Introduction The representation of disability in the above named films involves the portrayal of characters with various disabilities such as physical impairments, visual impairments and mental illness. Disability was not part of popular discourse, but the film makers merely used disability and disabled characters as props for their stories. The lives that disabled people lead are significantly different from those of “normal people” in the Indian social setup. Film makers chose the subject of…

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…