To begin with, a wisdom or knowledge that one gains when he or she struggles, is the ability to deal and cope with negative emotions. In the story of Fahrenheit 45, Montag tried to have a conversation about Mildred’s suicide attempt last night, but she just ignored it like it never happened. “ ‘Last night’, Montag said again. Mildred watched his lips casually. ‘What about last night?’ ‘Don’t you remember?’ “(Montag 16). In this conversation, it demonstrates Mildred’s internal conflict inside…
Devastation and suffering occurs frequently in, “Sonny’s Blues.” It is told through an unnamed narrator that comes to realize that his younger brother Sonny, who he has not been in contact with for some time, has been arrested for using and selling Heroin. After a tragic event for the narrator, the brothers begin to communicate once again. When released, the narrator allows Sonny to stay with him at his apartment, where he begins to have flashbacks, the narrator recounts his mother telling him…
A Very Starry Night Vincent Van Gogh created Starry Night in an asylum looking out his window. This is the way that Van Gogh depicted nature. The painting was the most famous of all the paintings he did. It was the only painting he sold. Van Gogh painted two pictures of Starry Night but they did not come out the way he wanted them to. The idea of Starry Night was over a “land scape and not a town.” (Soth) He wrote to his brother Theo about his vision of what he thought about what he saw outside…
that dogs have a large effect in anti-stress. ii. Children and adults with physical or mental health problems, simply encountering a dog can improve mood and behavior. iii. Studies have shown that people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders showed better intra-emotional balance after a single dog therapy session. B. According to The Guardian, “A recent academic study found that pet owners had higher levels of self-esteem and conscientiousness that non pet…
In this article, the authors: Terrance V. McCann, Dan I. Lubman wanted to achieve the goal of this study, by evaluating young people with depression and their satisfaction with the quality of care they receive from a primary care youth mental health service: a qualitive study. Understanding this study is important because it will help with the appropriate primary care and early intervention for young people who suffers from depression and other mental health issues. The results will not only…
Schizophrenic patients relapse more frequently than individuals with other mental illness (Csernansky & Schuchart, 2002). About 70% of newly diagnosed schizophrenic patients relapse the first year and 90% the second year (Silverstein & Bellack, 2008). One reason schizophrenic patients relapse because of the insufficient outpatient healthcare model for the severely mentally ill. Outpatient care’s purpose is to decrease confinement in a healthcare setting by giving patients more independence…
Summary: In the book, 13 Reasons Why, you hear about the life of Hannah Baker and why it ended how it did and while she was still a young girl. Before Hannah decides to take her life, she records a series of tapes and passes them around to people who are the reasons why she took her life. As each person receives the tapes that Hannah recorded and realize that they are the reasons why she killed herself, there all seems to be problems between them. Some of the people recorded on the tapes don’t…
Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a novel which tells the story about how one man turns a power structured psychiatric hospital upside down with his anti-conformist ways. Kesey explores the dangers of conformity through his use of characterization. Aspects of characterisation are used to reflect the author’s views on social norms and how conformity can leave damaging effects on individuals. Kesey explores the effects repression and reflects his ideas on the natural world by…
In his book, Medicine in Seventeenth Century England (1974), Allen G. Debus, presents three definitions of quack from Dr. Johnson’s great dictionary: 1. A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. 2. A vain boastful pretender to physick; one who proclaims his own medical abilities in publick places. 3. An artful tricking practitioner in physick. (313) In other words, quack is corrupt and dishonest fraud, which is often found in the Victorian health care field. Charles Dickens…
Paul Bernardo (figure 1) was born on August 27th, 1964 at the Scarborough General Hospital in Ontario, Canada (Williams, 1999). Bernardo, along with his siblings, David and Debbie Bernardo, were raised in an unsafe environment (Williams, 1999). They witnessed domestic abuse between their mother, Marilyn Bernardo and their father, Kenneth Bernardo (Williams, 1999). In his early teenage years, he found out that his mother had had an affair with a former boyfriend meaning that Kenneth Bernardo was…