Psychosis

Zara examines the phrase “all great art comes from great pain.” This book looks many artists and their lives. He studies their lives until he finds what drove them to the brink of anguish that inspires their greatest works. Zara searches for their troubles whether it be a tragedy from their childhood, a mental illness, or everyday suffering. He considers all types of artists including but not limited to the following: Amy Winehouse, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and Jane Austen. Simonton’s “Are…

Psychological behavior in arsonists Arson is a crime that occurs worldwide, it has an immense impact on the victims and the community the arson takes place in. Arson leads to major financial damage, serious injury, or even death. In many cases in attempting to link psychiatric abnormalities to the arsonists have been focused on sexual motivation for firesetting. This psychiatric flaw has been linked to urination, homosexuality and cruelty to animals in the childhoods of firesetters have all…

Description and Classification “What is schizophrenia? The America Psychiatric Association defines schizophrenia in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV(DSM-IV) as a disorder with active symptoms for at least 1 month, consisting of delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized/bizarre behavior, and/or a lack of organized speech, activity, or emotions. Usually at least two of these sets of symptoms are present. The illness, with a prodromal stage…

Michael exhibited poor impulse control, but he was redirectable. His thought process was tangential, disorganized, and he had a flight of ideas, rambling and making nonsensical comments at certain points about his life. He seems to be experiencing psychosis, and was very delusional. His thought content was paranoid, and his concentration was poor. Michael’s perception consisted of hallucinations both auditory and visual; he even expressed tactile hallucinations, stating, "I feel like bugs are…

The patient is a 27 year old male who presented to the ED with acute psychosis. Per documentation patient states he has been out of his Haldol/Lithium for 2 weeks and Ativan for 1 day. Per documentation after receiving one dose of medications patient requested to leave. During the time of assessment the patient was a sleep, however woke up after his name was called. The patient reports he has took his medications too fast because of how he has been feeling. Patient expresses that he just stay…

The multiple Oscar winning biographical movie A Beautiful Mind tells the story based on the life of the famous Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. The movie start with John Forbes Nash in graduate school at Princeton University. At Princeton, he meets a group of graduate students and his roommate Charles Herman. John Forbes Nash was one of the two admired Carnegie Scholarship for mathematics winner at Princeton. At Princeton University, John Forbes Nash was one of the two…

Schizophrenia has a great impact on families by distressing and disrupting the lives of family. Families endure increasing stress and confusion when conditions worsens on their love ones. When someone is diagnosis with schizophrenia, family members coping with the symptoms can be especially difficult because of remembering what the person was like before the individual become ill and how much the disease have cause them to changed. The impact of the diseases upon families is compounded by the…

Recently, there is an increasing interest in psychotic-like experiences (PLEs), such as delusional ideation, hallucinatory experiences in general population within the scientific community. Psychotic symptoms, especially in the context of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders are traditionally viewed as categorical phenomena which may either be present or not in an individual. However, through previous literature it is found that PLEs are present in general population, even in childhood which makes…

Schizophrenia is a life-threatening disease that affects one's thinking, perception, personality, and behavior. Schizophrenia develops from neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine, which affect the brain. This disorder is diagnosed by CT scans and MRI’s that may show the brain and why patient’s symptoms are caused. Some patients with schizophrenia develop symptoms like sleep apnea, hallucinations, delusions, problems with emotions, making decisions, and more. Symptoms are divided into…

the change in medications. It is interesting to note that antipsychotic pharmaceuticals are not universally supported. Whittaker (2010) makes a strong case that antipsychotics should be used only minimally, instead of in nearly every episode of psychosis. He favors their use with psychosocial tools, which he believes lead to more recoveries than purely antipsychotic treatments. j) Legal and ethical…