Psychiatric medication

Tai Kezirian Mrs. Mims/Mr. Lewis Advanced Writing Nov. 6 2015 Mental Disorders: Schizophrenia Mental illness is a huge problem today that can’t always be solved by a special treatment. Amy Bloom uses the story “Silver Water” to show that mental illness can not always be fixed through special treatment. A woman expresses her older sister Rose’s mental decline, which caused her family to experience one of their loved ones suffer through one of the most harsh mental illnesses. Rose’s loved to…

The study guide describes Emily Mann, the playwright behind Mrs. Packard, as someone who provides a voice for the voiceless, and I’m excited about that. Theatre has the potential to shed light on important subjects, and it’s nice to see an artist using that potential to educate people. I have high hopes for the social context of this production; my horizon of expectations is definitely geared toward a feminist play. It’s so rare (in my experience, at least) to have a play written by a woman and…

Blanche’s Mental Health In the late 1940’s mental illness was a big thing. Some people didn’t know how to deal with it at the time, and some were just sent to mental hospitals for help. In Tennessee William 's, A Streetcar Named Desire, one of his main characters showed signs of a mental illness. Blanche Dubois is dealing with signs of a mental illness, that is from her traumatizing past. Blanche Dubois had a lot of things going on, this could be the reason why she acts like she does. After…

American literature both fiction and non-fiction are important to today’s modern student because they both offer lessons to teach the students. Fiction offers the student a more entertaining way to learn a lesson or about a specific time in history. Non-fiction offers the student a factual lesson in the form of a story. In the fictional novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, a young girl named Deborah is taken to a mental hospital for her schizophrenia by her parents. Deborah at the time is…

SUICIDE MONITORING AT WORCESTER RECOVERY CENTER & HOSPITAL Jason kiragu Mount Wachusett community college Worcester state recovery hospital (WRCH) is a psychiatric facility that focuses on care and treatment of individuals with mental illness. For my focused clinical based project, I explored the topic on suicide monitoring at the facility. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States (Santis, Myrick, Lamis, Pelic, 2015). In Santis et al.’s (2015) an article reviewing…

An estimated one in four of all adult Americans suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in any given year. These mental disorders can range anywhere from mild mood disorders to extreme, uncontrollable cases of schizophrenia. Criminals who have been found guilty of committing a crime may have difficulty with both serving the punishment and recovering from their mental disease because of the sentence given to them. Often times, this sentence is crippling for the mentally ill individuals, as a…

Upon his arrival at the asylum, McMurphy causes a rather large disturbance to the regular and mechanised schedule of Nurse Ratched’s ward. During his time there, McMurphy manages to change the scene in the ward so that the patients become more empowered. In Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, McMurphy evolves from a regular gambling con man to a hero to a saviour, characterised by his many selfless acts to protect and bolster the other patients. Although McMurphy seems to be just…

“Oh, I have been in this group for more than 12 years” shared by a gentleman from a gambling anonymous (GA) group that I attended as a homework assignment. My first impression for group psychotherapy is that group will help people to reduce stress level without knowing how, why or what group counseling actually is. With the limited knowledge regarding group counseling, I am surprised to learn how much impact a support group can have for each person who participates. During the first lecture,…

“I just want to kill myself!” said the annoyed college student. “Why are you so moody today, are you bipolar?” said the over-dramatic friend. “You need to smile more often or you won’t make any friends,” said the oblivious mother. Walking around a college campus one hears remarks that have become a normality to say, but are offensive to other people. When people joke about killing themselves or throw around terms such as bipolar or depressed they do not realize they are supporting the mental…

procedure whereby patients were committed to psychiatric hospitals on the order of two magistrates (subsequently Peace Commissioners) was repealed and the Mental Treatment Act 1945 set out the procedures for the admission of both voluntary patients and involuntary patients, other than mentally disordered persons charged with criminal offences and Wards of Court. The Mental Treatment Act 1945 specified two main classes of patients received in psychiatric care -- the voluntary and the…