Psychiatric medication

consent form and the paramedics restrain her onto a gurney. The strange thing about this is that Sally does not fight or resist them. She keeps on rambling on and on about everyone being a genius, light, and what light is about. As Sally is sent to a psychiatric hospital where she is given treatment that seems to make her a shell of her former self. This does not imply that everyone with a mental disorder is violent;…

2. Treatments during institutionalization were considered to be cruel and unusual methods compared to modern day psychiatric treatments. They included trephination, bloodletting and purging, isolation and asylums, insulin coma therapy, metrazol therapy, and lobotomy (Hussung, 2016). Bloodletting and purging were seen as useful for mental illnesses because it was thought to let out impurities in the body that caused imbalances in the ill person's system. Isolation and asylums became popular in…

that he was hearing voices in his head that told him to hurt people. Most of them are in the jail for just minor offences such as sleeping in abandoned buildings. These are people who have nowhere to go and they do not have the ability to get the medication they need. They end up staying in jail for a few days or weeks, but then statistically, they end up right back there. Mentally ill people should be getting the help they need. Locking them up in jail cells is not going to help…

On average, twenty percent of inmates in jails and fifteen percent of inmates in prisons have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness (Z. K. Torrey). In comparison, there are ten times less mentally ill individuals residing in psychiatric institutions than there are in prisons. The fact that the correctional system has become the primary treatment for the mentally ill should be deeply concerning to not only those affected by mental illness, but all of…

Holden Caulfield of J.D. Salinger’s, The Catcher in the Rye clearly suffered from a mental disorder known during his time, as psychosis. In this modern era, he could be classified more specifically as some who suffers from diseases like depression, schizophrenia, and potentially more. Why is there such a difference in diagnosis? The current definition of mental illness varies greatly from that of Holden’s time (the 1950’s) due to the advancements in societal views, knowledge of illnesses and…

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some kind of activities to stimulate their skills. Some mental hospital s do not have any kind of community support were they can get assistance regarding psychiatric issues. By us de institutlizing is giving opportunity for the patients to be able to cope in outside of the world. Letting them know that they don’t have to live in a psychiatric issues community, but be apart of the world. On PBS Jimmy Carter states”, “...the greatest degree of freedom, self- determination, autonomy, dignity,…

While there are disadvantages to programs there are always advantages as well. “The advantages of acute care psychiatric units in prisons include creating a therapeutic milieu consistent with the correctional mission; safe and proper implementation of specialized treatments, such as involuntary medication administration consistent with Washington v. Harper criteria for the gravely disabled offender who is noncompliant; and proper implementation of therapeutic restraints and seclusion” (Daniel,…

Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey and “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe. The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is written by Ken Kesey and is narrated by a man named Chief Bromden. Chief Bromden is a mentally ill patient at a psychiatric hospital that suffers from seeing things that aren’t actually there. While he is attending…

state funded mental institutions have changed their methods drastically throughout the years. The various types of abuse that the patients had to endure through were horrifying. Misdiagnosis such as deafness was considered retardation, and the psychiatric would sentence them into the institutions without considering a second option or opinion. The facilities would often intentionally over prescribe pills, and practically overdose their patients. The patients had no rights to refuse what was…