Psychosis

Stress and grey hair – fact or fiction A popular belief is that stress may cause grey hair. But is that a fact or a fiction? Is it possible that hair turns gray overnight? Many would say it is possible and one of the examples is Marie Antoinette. Supposedly, right before she was guillotined, her hair turned white. While stress may cause certain issues, the questions is, can the stress really change the color of the hair? In certain age, hair starts to change its color, and in most cases,…

The movie used in the analysis of mise en scene for this assignment would be based on the movie Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1996). The selected scene would be Mark Renton’s dream sequel, starting from the point where his parents locked him up in his room up till the point where the baby drops from the ceiling towards Renton. From this scene, we can see various withdrawal symptoms faced by drug addicts, in this case, Mark Renton. In the beginning of the scene, we can see Mark’s parents locking…

Schizophrene, by Bhanu Kapil, focuses on the Partition of India and the widespread lasting effect it had over the mental health and physical safety of citizens. Kapil focuses on schizophrenia, writing about the speaker’s immigrant experience through that lens. In Schizophrene, Bhanu Kapil uses aspects such as color to symbolize emotion, a distant tone, and showcases psychological and physical displacement. By using these methods to signify the speaker’s feeling towards aspects of her experience,…

Multiple personality disorder was first thought that demons possessed people. It was not until later that some doctors realized that people could have different functioning personalities. A woman in a film from the 1920’s had a personality of a man who did not was to wear women’s clothes as well as a child who always had temper tantrums. The patient in the film is a woman named Gretchen. She has had psychiatric problems her whole life and wasn’t diagnosed with multiple personality disorder…

In his essay, “On Being Insane in Sane Places” D.L Rosenhan discusses a series of experiments that he participated in involving psychiatric institutions and the effects of misdiagnoses of psychological disorders on the patients admitted to the hospitals. He sought to find out the validity of diagnoses and if insanity is in patients themselves or is caused by the environment they are in. Rosenhan’s research proved that the labels associated with mental illness, particularly schizophrenia, have a…

Nearly everyone around the world makes mistakes. Some are minor mistakes, while many cause a ripple effect. At times, making mistakes that involve the close people around us can create a feeling of loss or defeat. This universal theme is brought to text in “All Summer in a Day”, by Ray Bradbury, and “Happier”, by Ed Sheeran. In “All Summer in a Day”, Margot’s classmates put Margot down by bullying her and robbing her of her chance to see the sun, although they soon become aware of how unpleasant…

Discuss the portrayal of Macbeth’s state of mind in the extract Act 5.3.19-54 and in the rest of the Macbeth play. Throughout the play, Macbeth’s state of mind swings in a pendulum motion, with the two highest point showing a direct opposite between his emotions and personality; decisive and fickle minded, loyal and treacherous, confidently and cowardly. The fluctuation of his state of mind occurs after his meeting with the trio of witches but was further aggravated due to his own guilty…

Author Zhou Weihui once said “Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn’t understood”. Occasionally, people with strange thoughts or ideas are viewed as insane, because their notions are abnormal to society. Their intelligence isn’t understood for the simple fact that society have an expectation and those who deviates from those expectancy is considered mad; but what if the people who are consider crazy are in fact the ones that are sane? The…

Macbeth Essay Imagine the President of the United States suffering from insanity. The thought of anyone in authority being mentally unstable may rattle some, but this scenario plays out in William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth. The play describes how the title character uses violence to maintain power but gradually plummets into the abyss of mental illness. In Macbeth, Shakespeare asserts how power drives people to a descent into madness, as demonstrated by the title character and his wife…

The story takes off as John Nash, a Ph.D. Student at Princeton University, arrives as the co-recipient of the Carnegie Scholarship bent on finding a fresh equation that would stupefy the masses and fulfill his purpose of accomplishment. It is on his first arrival when his first Hallucinations begins to make himself apparent. Charles Herman, who in Johns' head is his roommate constantly reminds him of his basic needs for food, beer, society, and fun ultimately giving him companionship when he is…