Psychosis

“A Beautiful Mind” was the title of Sylvia Nasar’s biography (and eventual award-winning movie) of the famous mathematician John Nash. But despite his “Beautiful Mind” that eventually won him a Nobel Prize in 1994, Nash has been tormented by Schizophrenia since the late 1950’s. As one of the most famous people to be suffering from this disorder, Along with depression, Schizophrenia is one of two disorders that have been found across our planet, in every culture. Schizophrenia is characterized…

Summary of Simon Simon first discovered he was suffering from an illness at the age of seventeen. He discusses his psychosis as gradually slipping into a psychotic phase. During these psychotic episodes, Simon has known to behave inappropriately. These episodes he describes can last for weeks at a time, while never being in remission for more than ten months. He has lived with schizophrenia for a good portion of his life and understands what he can do to help him decrease the severity of the…

medicine such as, conventional antipsychotics (1st generation antipsychotics) and atypical antipsychotics (2nd generation antipsychotics). Haloperidol is a conventional antipsychotic which is used to treat schizophrenia and some other forms of psychosis. Haloperidol was developed in the late 1950s by company Janssen, and approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1967. (David A. Williams ) Haldol is original brand name of haloperidol, which now produced under multiple trade…

In Virginia’s Woolf Mrs. Dalloway, originally published in 1925, is the utmost example of modern literature today. Woolf’s depiction through her novel, Mrs. Dalloway, truly immerses into a single day event from morning to night, recollecting memories while she’s meeting people throughout her day. As this single day event is written, Woolf explains a character in the novel a man named Septimus, describing the struggles he is having with his insanity. As a balanced contrast to Septimus, the short…

there is a difference in size of cerebral ventricles among patients with schizophrenia; however, a theory was developed, which suggested schizophrenia could be a consequence of the brain’s high metabolism when energy problems arise; characterized by psychosis and cognitive impairments (1,2). Moreover, Scientists recently developed a way to test this theory, where it focuses on medicine and evolutionary genetics that compare gene expression and the concentration of metabolites in the brains of…

The Yellow Wallpaper is about a woman driven insane by post-partum depression and a dangerous treatment. This imaginary of a woman, which at first is just her shadow against the bars of the wallpaper pattern is her identity, she continues with the conflict she experiences and eventually leading to a mental breakdown of her identity. She was told that the resting cure would cure her and she should start feeling normal again. In the early 1900’s woman were not really allowed to under mind their…

“Mental illness refers to a wide range of mental health conditions — disorders that affect your mood, thinking and behavior.” (“Mental Illness." Mayo Clinic. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Mar. 2017.) For thousands of years yoga has been an effective form of meditation and relaxation, helping reduces stress and other symptoms in psychiatric patients throughout the world. “Yoga is a widely practiced form of meditation and relaxation, with ap- proximately 20 million regular yoga practitioners in the U.S. and…

Disorder in Black Swan Black Swan is a psychological movie that tells features the life of Nina Sayers who struggles in the life of a ballerina, who is played by Natalie Portman. The Black Swan’s repulsive hallucinations of claustrophobia and power are the film’s main themes. It taps inside our biggest fear of failure and carries out our most primitive desires to be better than others. It forces us to question how hard we work to be successful and makes us realize that if we lose sight of what…

The psychoanalytic theory “The divided self” by Rd Laing describes how everyone has multiple personalities that changes depending on the environment they are in. McMurphy from the novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is a prime example of someone with a divided self. He is placed in an environment that challenges and tests him as a person. As a result, he has created his own two personas each with their own goals and moral compass. Nurse Ratched, his main antagonist, knows about his personal…

Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder that can affect all aspects of a patient’s life and lead to suicide (APA, 2013). Because of this, psychiatrists often prescribe antipsychotic medications to treat symptoms (Chien, Mui, Gray, & Cheung, 2016). However, many patients do not adhere to the prescribed treatment, resulting in a multitude of problems including recurrence of symptoms and hospitalization (MacEwan et al., 2016). Adherence therapy is a form of psychotherapy in which patients discuss…