Penetrating trauma

the world. One of the leading causes for the development of mental illnesses is trauma. Trauma plays a significant role in the development of borderline personality disorder. McLean and Gallop (2003) express that the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder was quite higher in patients that suffered from trauma in their childhood, than the patients that experienced trauma in their adult life. This portrays that trauma can cause a harmful effect on an individual’s mental health. Borderline…

The life of people should be built around a strong and healthy support system. At the beginning of life, were under our mothers (swaddling or being breastfed), staying connected and close to loved ones is important. The social support should start from the beginning of life into adulthood. A healthy social support is a must, not having that close feeling of love and support can impact a person negatively. A person can develop depression if they do not have that support system. Everyone has had…

Dr. Sonnenberg’s lecture explores how a doctor’s environment affects medical practice. He produced a well thought out argument that incites discussion of the topic he presents, and provided a few examples that supply insight into his ideas. Specifically, the Dora case, the social construct of gender, the social construct of a doctor’s superiority, and religion are examples of a doctor’s medical practice being shaped by the environment that surrounds it. Dr. Sonnenberg’s statements about Freud’s…

Victor himself. It all goes back to the motive behind the madness, the defining moment in Victor’s life that changed the way he viewed human existence, his mother’s death. When death stole his mother, Victor slowly became tormented and twisted. The trauma in his life was the driving force in his attempt to put an end to death altogether, by gaining the ability to create life. Had Victor not attempted to bypass the natural restrictions of mankind by trying to manufacture life, then he would’ve…

functioning (Kanel, 2015). In order to be a knowledgeable and skilled in crisis intervention, crisis interventionists should familiarize themselves with the nature and causes of trauma in general, learn how to cope with trauma…

War is an armed conflict influenced by opposing states, parties, or nations. And as a result of these events, many people are involved directly in the war and many perish during the struggle to end the war. Though the loss of life is always a terrible result, it is not the only one as a consequence of war. There are those who survived these wars but came back, sometimes sent back, home with not physical injuries but with emotional and mental ones. These psychological injuries were called many…

Light, Cameras, Murder: The Ugly Truth About Violent Movies It’s time for us to make a confess. Most of us have watched a violent movie at some point in our life. This generation of youth has bought, or watched some movie with shooting, murder, and violence. The graphic movie scenes of people’s pain and agony stay in our mind for a long while; we probably still hold the chilling images in our heads after just a few years. In reality, the gory movies we watch affect some of the minds of…

From a young age, Evan Treborn suffered from blackouts and he couldn’t recall what happened during those moments. His grade school teachers raised his mother’s attention to this issue after he drew a horrific picture of himself standing over dead bodies. His mother hoped that Evan didn’t have the same illness as his father, who was living in an institution. Evan Treborn begins to blackout many traumatic experiences and when he “wakes up”, he can’t remember what had happened, or where he is. His…

called Piggy” (Golding 202). What Ralph and the rest of the boys had witness and endured on the island will surely leave some post-traumatic stress on them as they had to go through a lot of trauma when surviving. How Ralph began to think at the end of the Golding’s Lord of the Flies novel can show how much trauma and stress the last few ending days was for him before he and the group of boys were rescued. “‘I was asleep when the twisty things were fighting and when they went away I was awake,…

Many people argue that our world today is more destructive than in the past. It appears more evident through Internet, social media, and news stations. Destruction today thrives on the evils in society and the increased sense of anxiety about the world. The demolition of landmarks purposely, hostility in politics, and the genocide of various ethnic groups are all occurrences that appear in society. The many wars all over the world, the current refugee crisis, terrorist attacks caused by ISIS,…