Psychosis

Voices Controlling Macbeth When dealing with a mental illness people encounter a mental block, difficulty to manage emotions, and have trouble making decisions for themselves. Schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are both similar and difficult to diagnose. While diagnosing schizophrenia is challenging, Macbeth seems to have all the symptoms that accompany this disease. Hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking is related to schizophrenia while PTSD includes…

Karly is a 32 years old female who has been married for seven years. She suddenly began hear voices and people calling her from the apartments down-stairs. She was also unable to almost everything because because she thinks everything tasted horrible. She liked staying the dark and avoids being around people. She has a part time a job a grocery store which she ended up quitting because she no longer can get along with her co-workers. Karly lost interest of all her hobbies and she stayed home…

Color Blindness is defined as the inability or decreased ability to see color, or perceive color differences, under normal lighting conditions. Color blindness is also referred to as color vision deficiency. In the United States alone there are about three million cases noted per year for color blindness. This disorder seems to affect men more than it does women. It is estimated that around eight percent of males and a little less than one percent of females are diagnosed in the United…

Hamlet’s Madness In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, he leads people to question if Hamlet’s madness was real or fake. Shakespeare brought about the madness of two characters, Hamlet and Ophelia, in which, Hamlet was the cause of Ophelia’s. Hamlet was the protagonist of the play and everybody was focused on him. Shakespeare also offers clear evidence to Hamlet’s insanity, while the madness of others was uncertain. In the beginning of the play, Hamlet has lost his father, who was King, and watched his…

The Use of Medication People with a mental illness or a disorganized way of thinking usually end up taking medications to treat their disorder. These people can’t tend to function in the real life than people with no disorders at all. People with mental disabilities most of the time take medications. Should people take medications for the rest of their lives? And have to manage and function in their daily lives for a better one? There's a lot of different mental illnesses in the…

1) “Schizophrenia” is the psychological disorder illustrated in this film about a person named, John Forbes Nash. The film, a Beautiful Mind, is about a real life mathematician, Nash, who suffered from a severe disease. He had paranoid Schizophrenia, a mental illness that is unknown to him. His mind was filled with hallucinations, he had some disorganized speech or behavior. Indeed, he met the criteria for ‘abnormal’. 2) Nash imagined a person, named Parcher, who used to stalk him asking for…

Linus Pauling Linus Pauling was born on February 28,1901 in Portland, Oregon. He started his early education in Oregon. When he graduated from the Oregon Agricultural college in Corvallis (Now is called Oregon State University) in 1922, he had a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. For his postgraduate study Linus went to the California Institute of Technology(A.K.A. Caltech). There, he got his Ph.D in chemistry and mathematical physics in 1925. Once he joined the Caltech faculty in 1927,…

Psychopathology Case Study #1: Lyonel Noopur Shah The Chicago School of Professional Psychology Psychopathology Case Study #1: Lyonel Introduction of Client Lyonel had low social functioning as a child. He has two brothers a sister but was always in isolation. Adults and his siblings would criticize him as being peculiar and “nervous.” As a teenager he learned about witchcraft and casting spells. When he got older he decided to become a minister and would isolate himself…

In the beginning of the book J.D. Salinger writes through the text of Holden 's actions with details that Holden’s confusion secludes himself from everyone and everything and shows that when he talks to Mr. Spencer and Mrs. Morrow. After Mr. Spencer was done reading Holden’s History exam and read the note at the bottom of the paper Holden put it on top of the Atlantic Monthly, “...you could see he felt pretty lousy about flunking me. So I shot the bull for a while. I told him I was a moron and…

Personality Case Study of Pat from Silver Linings Playbook Alanna Sampson Yorkville University Abstract The purpose of this research paper is to analyze a character named Pat Solitano from the movie Silver Linings Playbook. A synopsis of Silver Linings Playbook will be provided in the introduction. Further, Pat will be discussed from psychoanalytic perspective. Finally, strengths and weaknesses of the psychoanalytic perspective will be discussed in relation to the study of Pat’s…