Musculoskeletal disorders

Anxiety in today's world is not uncommon; it is more common that people are diagnosed with it now than ever before.Anxiety can make a person overthink every single thing, makes you leave the things you love behind, becoming freaked out over something for no reason, etc. Anxiety for me feels like I am locked away in a cell that won’t let me experience adventures that I might enjoy; that I know I will enjoy. Instead of enjoying though, I generate a continuous list of all the wrongs that could…

Sore Throat in Early Pregnancy What must a woman do if she gets a sore throat, early pregnancy? This period is difficult enough, especially in women who experience morning sickness and other symptoms of pregnancy. But a sore throat can make things even worse. Deciding whether to take medications or just wait till it gets better on its own can be a dilemma, but if your symptoms are mild, home remedies might do. If you do not get better, it is best to visit your doctor to have your throat examined…

the ability to create and choose a better future. Typically, clients seek to discover what they really want and how they are currently choosing to behave in order to achieve these goals. According to Glasser, the social component of psychological disorders has been highly overlooked in the rush to label the population as sick or mentally ill. Reality Therapy attempts to separate the client from the behaviour. Just because someone is experiencing distress resulting from a social problem does not…

Issues regarding Mental Institutions and Asylums People who are mentally ill are stigmatized as being dangerous, unpredictable and crazy. However, this is only a misconception. Once the mentally ill receive proper care and treatment for their illnesses, the road to recovery is not as difficult as it seems. Sylvia Plath, the award winning author of The Bell Jar, has been personally affected by mental illness, specifically suicidal depression. This illness has sadly caused Plath to take her own…

Genetic modification is the elimination of a certain gene containing undesirable trait and adding another gene containing the desired trait. The process includes getting the desirable material from a donor and not from the parents. Parents now can get all the characteristics they desire in their babies. They can also eliminate certain health problems the child might inherit from his/her parents. Genetic modification and manipulation has become a controversial topic since it has ethical and…

A child is born with certain instincts. So, for example, the child might experience a certain kind of discomfort, in response to which the child instinctively cries. If this cry (a "gesture", in Mead's terminology) is followed by food from her mother and thus satisfaction (the "response"), the meaning we eventually attribute to this interplay of gestures and responses is hunger. The meanings of things, therefore, are constructed. Meaning is not something that is inherent in our daily lives - it…

Can a Newborn Sleep in a Crib? Most new parents have this question that whether their baby will start sleeping in a bassinet or a crib? Newborns spend maximum time in sleeping, and they need their sleeping quarters to be warm and cosy. It is truly a personal preference whether the new parents want their baby to sleep in a bassinet or a crib. Because the next question they face is when to stop using a bassinet? Can a New-born Sleep in a Crib? There are no set rules on where to sleep your newborn.…

Better known as Sybil Dorsett, Shirley Ardell Mason is famous for being the ‘standards’ for Dissociative Identity Disorder, DID, during the 1970’s, when DID had not been popular and many people didn’t know it existed. Although the controversies that follow this story make it harder to believe, Sybil was believed to have 16 different personalities, some were even male. With that, Dorsett had fractured into these varying personas because of the physical and sexual abuse that she had received from…

Homelessness has become a widespread problem, with people being affected globally. In the United States alone, an estimated 3.5 million people experience being homeless each year (Overview of Homelessness). Being homeless is often defined as “having no home or permanent place of residence (Homeless).” So the question is, how can so many people end up without a house to live in? Many different factors help contribute to growing rates of homelessness in America, however homelessness in the United…

It has been oftentimes stated that prison is a damaging institution, which impairs or further aggravates psychological conditions of its patients; in the same way, scholars in this field have come forward with the idea that education could provide a framework wherein the effects of imprisonment can be reduced. To effectively accomplish this task however, it is important to disclose the characteristics of the prison setting as well as to acknowledge the sufferings it brings about (Behan, 2008).…