Seasonal affective disorder

Dorothea Dix was at a young age relatively in charge of keeping house and taking care of her younger siblings due to her mother’s crippling depression and likely other mental illnesses and her father’s abusive achollisim. While her mother likely being her first and most formative experience with mental illness, she was in no way her last. Having always had a fascination with the mentally ill Dorothea took a teaching position at the East Cambridge Women’s prison where she was shocked to see the…

Mass shootings have been the subject of many conversations and debates over the years. It seems a shooting happens every fews months, which is all to often, and is in the news almost every day. Not long ago, in 2007, a shooter with a troubled history of mental health killed 32 people at Virginia Tech and injured many other students and faculty members (Seung 1). One of the most well known shootings was on April 20th, 1999. The event was known as Columbine. 13 high school students were killed,…

While the causes of youth violence are multifactorial and include such variables as poverty, family psychopathology, child abuse, exposure to domestic and community violence, substance abuse and other psychiatric disorders, the research literature is quite compelling that children 's exposure to media violence plays an important role in the etiology of violent behavior (aacap.org). In most music today especially rap and heavy metal most of the lyrics contain references…

For the first few years in high school, Caroline had trouble speaking to her teachers for help, had issues expressing her thoughts and feelings to her friends, and didn’t like large crowds in the school’s hallway because of how much it affected her anxiety. During her senior year her school introduced a new class that promoted the need of learning about one’s mental health and, because of this, Caroline took that class in hopes it would help her recognize and learn how to deal with her mental…

Genetic Engineering Genetic Engineering is the modification of something’s genetic makeup by using artificial means. There are many benefits of which this could be used. Many of these are not necessary which is why there should be limits. The people should be allowed to use genetic engineering but the government should limit the use to only be allowed for serious medical reasons. The reasons why genetic engineering should not be allowed for anything but medical purposes is that the rich would…

Eating Disorder Dilemmas Imagine looking in the mirror every morning and viewing a heavy and unsightly reflection. Every second of everyday is spent thinking about what is consumed and how it will affect the body. All free time is spent obsessing over calories and exercising vigorously. That is the realization of living with an eating disorder. An eating disorder is a physiological disorder that is persistent in strange eating behaviors that negatively affect a person’s health and other areas of…

Mental Illness and How it Should be Treated “These ‘harmless’ antidepressants have recently been linked to violent behavior, loss of impulse control, and suicidal thoughts” (Eakman). One thing that is real important is the over-prescribing of patients. That also leads into doctors not caring what they do to their patients, just observe them, diagnose them, and give them unneeded prescriptions for no reason inset for the money the doctors are making. People may think mental illness is somebody…

For countless ages, people suffering from mental illness have been cast aside and shamefully looked upon. The first buildings made to house said people were used to ostracize them for they were thought to be a detriment to society. Society only began to view mental illnesses as an “illness” during the 19th century. Even then, those affected were looked down upon and separated from society. Jump to the modern day and age, where people can take medication to sedate their psychotic tendencies;…

abused by powers around the world. Tension between countries has grown, government secrets are being exposed, there are political scandals, people being hacked, horrific videos being streamed, an increase in teen suicides, and an increase in mental disorders amongst the general population. The big question would be is money really worth all of the negatives that come with it? How far is the world willing to go in order to make extra cash flow for themselves and their selfish wants? Finally, are…

America has long had a gun control problem. Every week now it seems like there’s another school shooting or another person on a shooting rampage. Then after it is over the same debate comes up every time. The debate on controlling guns and making sure they do not get into the wrong hands. Once, after a few weeks go by and what happened is out of people’s minds, momentum for controlling guns gets lost as time goes on. It dies down and people are not thinking about it until the next one occurs.…