Mental state

of people all over the world suffer daily from depression and suicidal tendencies. As well as in the real world, characters in the literary world struggle with these issues too. Many great literary works revolve around characters with a significant mental condition. It helps to keep the story interesting and forces you to look deeper into the character’s minds to find out what they are really thinking. In the Shakespearean play “Hamlet”, Prince Hamlet is observed to be quite messed up in the…

levels as well (2013). These imbalances are likely a considerable factor in why individuals go insane, as many tend to become competent after taking medications that balance out those chemicals, such as in the case of Kelsey Patterson. He would go into mental facilities often and while he was there, taking the medications, he would be competent, but when he was off of it, he resumed his insane behaviors. Andrea Yates, who will be mentioned in greater detail later, also stopped taking her…

Mental illness has been a hot topic in recent news. From Sandy Hook to the Aurora movie theatre shooting, effects of mental illness has sparked fierce debate and a negative stigma surrounding the issue. However, only 59.6% of individuals with a mental illness report receiving treatment, as often those with mental disorders are seen as “dangerous, unpredictable, responsible for their illness, or incompetent” (Corrigan, Druss, and Perlick). With so much riding on the issue, a question needs to be…

all the symptoms of hysterical somnambulism. Somnambulism is not sleep, but a special mental state arising out of sleep through a definite mechanism. The sleep-walking scene is a perfectly logical outcome of the previous mental state. From the very mechanism of this mental state, such a development was inevitable. She is not the victim of a blind fate or destiny or punished by a moral law, but affected by a mental disease. It is evident from the first words uttered by the Doctor in the…

people with “abnormal” behavior such as mental retardation, mental illness, or people with physical deformities were all consider and treated the same. People used to believe that mental disorders were cause by evil possession of the individual’s body, and believed that the only way on saving the individual from the evil possession was through exorcising the demons. In addition, people practiced many different ways to attempt to save the individual from the mental disorders, ranging from…

to improve her mental illness. The narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” was described as having a mental illness that was being treated by her husband, John, who was a physician. Throughout the story, her mental illness becomes drastically worse due to the mistreatment from her husband. During this time, there was not a lot of information known about mental illnesses and physicians did not really have an idea of how to treat them. The author, Charlotte Gilman, actually had a mental…

people have a severe mental illness as well, which adds to, if not initiates, their hardships (Homeless Mentally Ill par. 1). I once encountered one of these people at a soup kitchen. The man was very open about his mental illness and his positive experience in a mental hospital. Unfortunately, the mental hospital was shut down, and he was forced onto the streets, relying on soup kitchens to survive. His case is not rare by any means; in an act known as deinstitutionalization, mental hospitals…

eligible for death row because of his mental state. The court ignored the argument and passed it off, saying that they were using his illness as an excuse to “get out of” maximum punishment. As demonstrated in this case, mental illness is not given the attention it deserves when determining a sentence. Cases such as these have aroused concern how fair the criminal court is towards the mentally ill. It seems as if the justice system ignores the severity of mental health issues and only focuses…

Prisoners with mental illnesses should not be in facilities with the standard contemporary criminal. Research has shown us why mentally ill patients exist is prison and some of the factors that are known to be linked to mental illness are psychological, biological, and environmental conditions. However the exact reason of most mental illnesses is not known but have been linked to abnormal functioning of nerves cells circuits that connect to particular brain regions. Which means the cells in the…

Going to prison can be a horrifying stressful and hard event for people that are in good health. People that go to prison with mental illnesses or serious health conditions face increased stress when they are thrown into the prison system. At times these patients/inmates can be a danger to themselves and other inmates if they are not treated properly. Being able to treat people with special needs in prison can be somewhat of a problem. Making sure the inmates that are able to be, be included in…