Schizoaffective disorder

In the reading, “The Social Construction of Disability”, different constructs of disability are made. One will realize that social construct and disability are hard to distinguish because combined they define what “disability” is. The social construct of disability can be used to create or prevent disabilities (Wendell). By this people who are tall have doors made for them, so they do not have to hunch over every time they enter a door, people in wheelchairs with accessible ramps, shorts people…

Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health tells the story of Mary Mallon and what she had to go through at the beginning of the twentieth century. Typhoid Mary has “become a metaphor for a dangerous person who should be reviled and avoided (Leavitt).” Judith Walzer Leavitt, the author, is a professor of the history of medicine and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and an author of several books (Judith). She uses Mary’s story to show the different perspectives of…

Chapter two of No Pity, written by Joseph P. Shapiro, focused on the Edward Roberts, a pioneering leader of the disability rights movements. The chapter starts with a look into Roberts’ life and how he struggled to find normalcy after becoming disabled. At the young age of fourteen Roberts fell ill with Polio and his life changed in a dramatic way. He went from being a star on his high school football team to being paralyzed from the neck down, unable to breath on his own. Because he was unable…

Attachment is an emotional tie that bonds one person to another. Attachment theory was brought along by John Bowlby during his psychiatry career. He considered the importance of social, emotional, and cognitive development in parent-child relationships after treating many emotionally disturbed children. This elicited the idea that children’s early experiences with their parents produces a lasting imprint on their lives. Bowlby proposed that attachment experiences influenced the development of…

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,…

I Believe in Honesty Fear. Fear of getting in trouble. Fear of not knowing where he was. Fearful is the only word to describe the scenario. My mind is racing faster than my heart, I couldn't stay focused on one thought. All though there was one thought that continued to haunt my mind, the thought of “what is going on.” It was a standard night for a huge rival football game. After the lose of 31-35. I hung out with friends, as if it was any other friday night then go hangout with friends…

How Howe and Macfarlane Describe the Undescribable In her heart wrenching poem, “How Some of It Happened”, Marie Howe tackles the effect that illness had on her arguably hypochondriac brother. He struggled with his health even before he had health issues to struggle with, and faced an ever present fear of harm. However, upon realizing he was sick and undergoing less-than-pleasant procedures to treat it, he learned to “lean into it”. As a counterpoint, Elaine Macfarlane also addresses the…

When a person is struggling with their mental instability, society is often quick to just deem them as “mad” but then refuse to look beneath the surface of their problems. For people who struggle with mental instability, pinpointing the root cause and finding the proper “cure” is integral, so that the instability will not worsen and branch out into other problems. In the book Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, the character Emo suffers from the prolonged effects of war-induced trauma, which causes…

Outline: Learning to be Depressed Martin Seligman is a behavioral psychologist who hypothesized that the way people view power and control is learned from previous experiences. He proposed that those who fail at controlling their own life stop attempting to exercise any control of their own altogether. After repeated attempts of control and repeated failures, people start to attribute these failures to a lack of control and generalize lack of control to all situations, even if those situations…

People with disabilities are attached with stigmas, such as being less intelligent or incapable in certain facets of life. Stereotypes are present in society, but it may be difficult to discuss and to further change or overcome them. However, humor can be used as a device to allow a serious topic to be more approachable by relying on preposterous situations. Through the use of dark humor in Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot, John Callahan breaks these stigmas and illustrates an outrageous…