Neurodegenerative disorders

Writing Assignment #1 What makes food addictive? When does food become a problem? Why in the did I ask did I ask you those questions? Maybe you have a psychological dependence, withdrawal symptoms; the high fat and sugar that is contained within the food that makes it addictive or just maybe you love eating food. We don’t know honestly, But when it is affecting your everyday life in a negative way then you should go get help or ease up a bit. The film “The Stuff” shows how everyone who eats…

“Psychologists called it ‘learned helplessness’ when a person believes, as I did during my youth, that the choices I made had no effect on the outcomes in my life,” (237). J.D. Vance’s memoir, Hillybilly Elegy, focuses on social development and issues pertaining to his family and the society in which he grew up in. His writing focuses on chronological events from his childhood up into adulthood, each life stage sharing a similar situation; an undependable mother, a guiding grandmother (Mamaw)…

In the article “A Suicide at Twelve: ‘Why, Steve?” of Richard E. Meyer, the author narrates a whole life of a young boy whose name is Steve Dailey. Through the article, we could see the whole life of Steve from the day he was born to the day he chose a rope and bough to end his life although nobody, who lived around him, understood the reason why he had to kill himself. Therefore, the author still keeps a question “Why, Steve?” for the article. “Steve Dailey was born on July 30, 1961, in the…

In the story “The lizard Who had the Habit of Dining on His Wives” by Eduardo Galeano, women's empowerment is manifested by the figurative destruction of a predator creature by a girl wearing glasses who is educated, strong and independent. Her empowerment was in large part due to her feminist attributes which, while contrary to the attributes of the other women he had been with, the lizard man found very alluring. On the other hand, in “The Mother” by Natalia Ginzburg, the protagonist was…

In his essay, “On Being Insane in Sane Places” D.L Rosenhan discusses a series of experiments that he participated in involving psychiatric institutions and the effects of misdiagnoses of psychological disorders on the patients admitted to the hospitals. He sought to find out the validity of diagnoses and if insanity is in patients themselves or is caused by the environment they are in. Rosenhan’s research proved that the labels associated with mental illness, particularly schizophrenia, have a…

The Post-War World II era saw the start of a transformation in the attitudes toward and the treatment of mental illness in the United States that was most significantly marked by the passing of the Community Mental Health Act of 1963 (CMHA: Public Law 88-164). The Community Mental Health Act––passed under President John F. Kennedy’s administration and notable innitiative––was revolutionary in proposing the implementation of two novel concepts that largely contributed to the…

Does the media cause eating disorders in the younger generation? “Hot Summer body” and “lose weight fast” were just a few of the bolded terms I’ve seen written on magazine covers throughout my childhood. The media surrounds young people everywhere and the pressure to be thin is always present. “There is no doubt that the ideal body size, as reflected in the style icons promoted in the media, is getting thinner” (The National Centre for Eating Disorders). Ideal images of what is…

substitute the person with the mental illness with the disease; in return those with a mental illness allow the label of the disease define them and begin to mold into societies perception of mental illness. By a person defining theirself with the disorder it reinforces societies opinion on mental illness. Those who break away from the label of the disease ,in many cases, they will disassociate themselves from the label of the disease to avoid stigmatization (Wahl 2012) For people who experience…

a huge misunderstanding of mental illnesses and how individuals experiencing symptoms are affected. Many people associate disorders with certain aspects, such as the ups and downs of bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, only due to mainstream media such as the news and television. These mental illnesses manifest themselves differently in each individual with the given disorder. Society needs to work on better understanding the true symptoms of an individual with these mental illnesses. As time…

A designer baby use to just be a futuristic idea like flying cars, but now it is becoming a reality. Science has got so advance we are on the revenge of knowing how to genetically modified an embryo and make is into what we want. Parents will soon be able to decide what they want their child to be like. They can make them tall, skinny, and smart if they wanted to. This is called prenatal engineering. By way of prenatal engineering parents can create the baby of their dreams. Thing about prenatal…