Relapse

“I kept telling you that he’s in Relapse.” “You’re lying, a Relapse can’t last that long—it should be less than an hour at most. But starting from the time I visited here, he was still in that state.” “What’s this Relapse?” Karkus asked. “It’s the rarest disease in Omneira,” she said. “When you are inflicted with that, scholars say that your mind and body separates from each…

progresses in a person, much like diabetes, and then reaches a breaking point in which there is no returning. A person desiring recovery then must maintain their recovery through understanding addiction and the symptoms or triggers than can lead to relapse. As helpful as it would be, there is no easy fix to addiction, recovery is a process that lasts lifelong and must be managed lifelong. The progression of addiction is broken down into three stages: Early, Middle, and Chronic (Gorski and…

Antipsychotics are a rather complex method of treatment in treating schizophrenia. They come with many pros but also many cons You have to consider the emotional and physical effect the antipsychotics may have on an individual’s life. You also have to consider the drug and what it is supposed to treat. In this case it ultimately aids in the treatment of schizophrenia, but not everyone sees it as so. Some drugs can render more of the cons than the pros. Ultimately, with schizophrenia and…

The challenge with depression is to make sure relapses is not on the horizon for the individual. There are a few clinical uncertainties that should be studied and also rationalizing the need for their investigation. The research in Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression (MBCTD) expresses…

signs of recurrent tumor, called relapsed follicular lymphoma. What causes patients to enter either of these categories is as yet unknown, but older people above the age of 60 years at the age of diagnosis are known to have a much higher risk of relapse and transformation. Other possible factors include advanced stage at…

To break society’s possible stereotype of seeing addicts as an inhumane population of people, both anthropologies allowed the readers to see past addiction and into loving, compassionate, and feminist life of a women called Tina. Her story impacted this reader due to her childhood experiences of sexual abuse, failed detox treatment, defiant femininity, unapologetic seductive sexuality, mother’s compassion, yet childless. Tina’s childhood is not one that resembles that of a fairy tale. At a young…

the specifics of the failed drug test. For example, is this the first drug test since being placed in the program and failure resulted from usage beforehand? Conversely, had the client passed a previous drug test and the failure is a result of a relapse? Neither reason demands an immediate expulsion from the program result, however, an adaptation of the conditions of the program are necessary to address the issue. First, if the initial drug test administered after starting the program failed,…

who voluntarily attends an outpatient psychotherapy clinic for assistance in reducing her drinking habits. While trying her best to stay sober at all times, Jill often runs into a number of high-risk situations which puts her at risk for lapses or relapses to occur. One high-risk situation is Jill recently getting divorced for a second time. Experiencing feelings of irritability and fatigue stemming from the loss of her job which is also a high-risk situation. Another high-risk situation that…

The first things that come to mind when one thinks of imprisonment are often bars, shackles and chains. However, this is not always how imprisonment manifests itself. A person can feel trapped within their own mind, trapped by familial obligation or by the choices they’ve made, without ever laying eyes on a cell. Charles Dickens demonstrates this type of non physical imprisonment in A Tale of Two Cities. Throughout the novel, Dickens builds on the idea of non physical imprisonment, specifically…

Sexual assault is an epidemic that affects a tremendous number of people in the United States. According to a 2010 survey conducted by the Center for Disease Control, 18.3% of women and 1.4% of men report experiencing rape at some point in their lives (Black et al., 2011). If convicted, the perpetrators of these crimes will often be mandated to undergo treatment as a means to lower their chance of re-offending. However, current models of sex offender treatment are not particularly effective,…