In our modern society, mental health has become a big subject for debate. The issues of mental health awareness has been ingrained in political and social movements that attempt to change the way society looks at mental health. Around the world dissociative disorder is well…
Essays on Psychiatry & Mental Health
Dissociative Identity Disorder is characterized by someone who has more than one distinct personality states which are present at different times. The person usually has no cognitive recollection of what occurs while the other personality was active. I personally have a fascinating relationship with close…
Dissociative identity disorder, also called multiple personality disorder, may be a very rare disorder, but by no means is it one that should be overlooked. It has a history of being doubted and it took several decades before the medical community accepted it as a…
Emotions are a negative or positive experience that associates itself with a particular pattern of physiological activity The thought of being in control of your emotions is different with everyone The extent of you being in control of your emotions is dependent on you and…
“Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will” -Martin Luther King, Jr. Usually, we try to avoid misunderstanding others or being misunderstood. However, misunderstanding happens between all people without them noticing. Without talking and expressing how…
Overthinking, it is something that we always do, not just me. I am sure that we have all been in bed trying to sleep, but instead, we lay there, overthinking every single thing about your life. Now I’m not saying it’s terrible because some of…
Mental health and illness have had a negative stigma on the African American community for decades. It is a conversation that has been ignored and looked over, but when are we going to face the real issue? Most people don’t understand the definition of mental…
Physician-assisted death (PAD), physician-assisted suicide, death with dignity, and voluntary euthanasia all refer to the practice where physicians provide potentially lethal medication to a terminally ill, suffering patient at his or her request that he or she can take at the time of his or…
The current culture of nursing has shifted its focus to maintaining quality, safe patient-centered care. This has caused nurse to face new challenges in the healthcare setting. Many nurses are faced with deciding between leaving the profession or trying to “stick it out” and ultimately…
Nurse burnout is an exceedingly growing and real problem in today’s modern nursing workforce. There are many factors that contribute to why a nurse can become so burnt out, and evidently it is due to unsafe nurse-to-patient ratios, stress, work environment dissatisfaction, and workplace violence….
The phrase “just pray on it” is a common saying in regards to mental health issues, disparities and emotions in the black community. Major mental disorders are often ignored due to lack of knowledge and understanding. There’s this stigma about psychological openness, and help-seeking, which…
Over 1,000 people are diagnosed with a terminal illness every day. After a diagnosis, they attend therapy with their family and receive prescription medication to help with their pain (Milan Stojanovic). However, as the illness progresses so does the pain, and the need for more…
In several legal systems, the criminal charge needs both an immoral act as well as a guilty state of mind since one of them is not sufficient to judge someone. For instance, an individual judged to be insane is not normally handled a similar way…
In this life span project I will be talking about a child that with dyslexia but his family will not accept that this child have dyslexia. In this life span project, I will be sharing the signs that this child is showing that is related…
Phobias are defined as ‘an overwhelming and debilitating fear of an object, place, situation, feeling or animal’. There have been many theories as to why phobias develop such as the cognitive, evolutionary and biological theories. One specific theory is the behavioural theory. This theory states…
