Mental status examination

Solitary confinement should be removed from the U.S. prison system, due to the severe adverse mental and physical impacts it has on any person subjected to it. Prison is meant not only to keep away the dangerous people in society, but it is meant to reform and rehabilitate those people so they can actually function in society once they’re released. There are over 2.4 million people currently in prison in America, and statistically speaking over 50% of those people will become re-offenders after…

born to Suzanne Walters and William Candler III in on August 22, 1975. Her parents’ love story was not something so simple as meeting in a local grocery store. “My parents met in a halfway house, which is a rehabilitation center coming out of a mental hospital. My mother never told me why she was admitted into a…

Norman Bates and his mother. Audiences of Psycho from the 1960s all the way to today are captivated and disturbed by the character Norman Bates due to his likability, unpredictability, and his violent tendencies because of his mental illness. Due to Norman Bates having a mental illness the…

book Crazy by Pete Earley showcases the mental health crisis in America. Earley discovered the crisis when his college-aged son, Mike, suffered a breakdown. Earley quickly learned that options to help a mentally ill individual that didn’t recognize they were in need of help was nearly impossible. Crazy tells many stories that grip the reader and give them a good shake. Unethical encounters and research presented throughout the story paint a story of mental illness in America that is unfortunate…

There are plenty of policies and laws in place that provide mental health services to individuals in our society. However, these mental health services are not necessarily required. The only institutions that seem to require some consistent type of mental health evaluation or service are mental institutions and prisons. There are plenty of civilians that may need these services but may not realize that they need it, or simply won’t take advantage of them. The general public may not need these…

Humanity does not understand why some people seem to kill for no reason. Some serial killers have dealt with mental illness, some have dealt with abuse, and some have dealt with both. The vast majority of people suffering from either of these are not serial killers though. There is a correlation between psychopathy and serial killing, but that is it. There is no…

“93 to 94 percent of those committing suicide suffer from some identifiable mental disorder (Source G). To elaborate, people who have mental illnesses are likely to make distorted decisions and unlikely to register the implications of their decisions. Patients, who are considering assisted suicide should be checked for mental illnesses such as depression that may incline them to give up on their own life. Furthermore, mental illnesses such as depression are treatable, and the hopelessness that…

the complete rational fear of mental hospitals. The word “asylum” has gained a lot of negative connotation since its first conception. The connotation refers to horrid, vivid images of the mentally ill being strapped down to a table and experimented on. If almost any sane person were to go through the humiliating, straining, disgusting events a psychiatric patient goes through on a daily basis, they would feel as though they deserved to be classified as insane. Mental correctional facilities…

Honesty has a power that changes people. Furthermore, it would be a best remedy of mental illness just like it worked on Tom. In The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Tom reveals that life always needs to be honest in relationship with other and even with oneself. Wilson gives message to the readers by saying, when people fail to express their…

considered the definition presented in an article by Psychology Today. They say the definition was released by DSM-5 it states, “A mental disorder is a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbances in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental process underlying mental functioning”. According to class notes and discussions, abnormality, according to the consensus has not definition, but…