Oppositional defiant disorder

of mental trauma through memory in this ridiculously incoherent but incredibly interesting essay. The development of the ideas of a traumatic memory comes from surgical sources from the late 1800s to Young’s own essay about post-traumatic stress disorder in 1995. This wide range of documents hides the fact that they are mostly researchers situated in the West, not to mention the obvious possibility of Eurocentric thought combined with andocentrism. Young also hints that his essay is focused on…

Power can mean many different things to many different people. Some people use the power they have in positive ways and some people use it in negative ways. In an article regarding power by van Vugt, he discusses five ways having power can be negative (van Vught, 2013). Those five ways are power makes you selfish, it makes a person lack empathy, makes a person overconfident, other people do not like a person when they have power, and power could make a person die young (van Vught, 2013). However…

The documentary titled “Pleasure Unwoven: A Personal Journey About Addiction” was an interesting look at the theories behind addiction that classify addiction as a disease and the previous theories that discredited addiction as a disease. One part of the documentary that I learned the most from was the part that discussed the “choice argument” for addiction. Another part of the documentary that I learned a lot from was their discussion of the biological aspect of addiction and addictions effect…

director of the eating disorder centre states “The research, does seem to suggest that mothers who are food- and weight-preoccupied tend to have daughters who are the same.” The media seems to be increasing their attention on this matter, as the advertisements seem to be multiplying at an astounding rate. Social media advertising. Milne confirms this in her article referencing a statistic from the National Eating Disorder Centre in Toronto, stating that “The eating disorder centre says that…

The Adoration of Jenna Fox begins with two weeks after 17-year-old Jenna Fox wakes up from a year and a half long coma. She was in a coma because she was in a major car accident. She does not remember anything and her family has tapes for her to watch about her life to see if her memories will come back. She watches her tape called “Year Three/Jenna”. In this tape she learns that she used to live somewhere else besides her current residency in northern California. She then watches the tape of…

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…