Suicide crisis

An impulsive act for affection caused me a foreign, agonizing pain. The feeling of suffering and abandonment was heartbreaking. I was alone. I was eight when I first understood the value of pushing myself, yet taking calculated risks. I attempted skiing with a group of experts when I was only a novice. Suddenly, the ground beneath me passed faster and faster. Before I knew it, the earth fell from my skis thrusting me into a perpetual free fall. As the wintry secretion covered my tired,…

Only rape victims can understand the horrors of being sexually assaulted. Melinda Sordino, the protagonist of the novel, Speak, narrates the story in which she is sexually assaulted at the beginning of ninth grade by a boy named Andy Evans. Melinda is lost, confused, and depressed trying to overcome her trauma, while her classmates bully her for calling the cops on a party. Additionally, her parents and teachers consider Melinda a disappointment because of her actions in school and inability to…

Being paralyzed does not always have to be physical, it could be an emotional paralysis. In “Do Not Disturb” a short story by A.M. Homes, the husband is paralyzed by his marriage. The husband and wife in this story do not have a great relationship and things are only made worse when the wife is diagnosed with ovarian cancer. The wife pushes her husband away and grows to be more and more self-centered. The husband is not sure what to do and is unable to leave the relationship. The husband,…

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…

Depression has been said to be to be a “common cold of mental health” (Lucknow, n.d.) and this is because of the alarmingly huge number of diagnosed patients that suffer from this mental disorder. It is quoted that more than 350 million people of all ages suffer from depression worldwide. However despite this, many cannot tell the difference between feeling sad or depressed and having clinical depression. This makes the current use of ‘depression’ in some cases pop-psych, that is psychological…

We have seen change and transformation are the impending principles of the existence. This is the outcome of the involution of the OM. When there is no possibility of continuing this in the exhibited form the Chit leaves it and it is pronounced dead. This may happen at two levels. The first one is slowly acquiring overweight after living for long with less Udanā; die with the experiences of the previous birth or births. The second is by a sudden gush of Udanā. In both the cases, the…

In 2014, assisted suicide became a controversial topic in the media after a terminally ill patient named Brittany Maynard advocated for the practice that would allow physicians to assist terminally ill patients in ending their own lives instead allowing whatever illness they have kill them. Maynard had a brain tumor that kept growing and caused her great distress; she would have "seizures so violent, they left her unable to speak for hours" (Lapook). Her decision to travel to Portland, Oregon to…

During the reading of The Virgin Suicides, the novel amalgamated the young and rebellious teens to 90’s society and how it impacted the Lisbon girls’ decision. The author expatiates on the rebelliousness of a particular sister who went against all consensus, “Lux’s brief unions were clandestine”…

With war comes many things such as shame, guilt, or embarrassment. Some soldiers are ashamed of themselves because they are weak and are unable to perform like others. Other soldiers carry the burden, a heavy load of guilt with them caused by the death of their comrades. In the chapter “ The Dentist “ from The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, uses negative diction and descriptive imagery to portray that even if a person can handle immeasurable pain, they struggle to handle the feeling of…

What do you normally think about when you hear the word ‘death’? The most common feelings and/or emotions that follow death’s path include a long list of words. A few of the words among this list include, but not limited to fear, anger, grief and depression. Is this really the way to reflect on someone’s life, though, after they have passed? In the book Zhuangzi, translated by Burton Watson, a man named Zhuangzi loses his wife and describes to the reader how someone’s death should be treated.…