Essays on Mental Illness

What are you thinking of right now? Got it? Okay, now imagine thinking of that thing for six months on end. Imagine that one issue getting to you so much it turns to a negative thought. It constantly is distracting you from living your life…

When the healthcare sector is facing challenges like antibiotic resistance and rise in complex medical conditions such as cancer and chronic illness, the issues like mental illness and addictions are still ignored. As a matter of fact, almost 20% of Canadians experiences problems of mental…

Sex offences are crimes that are often reported in the media and tend to cause a large public outcry. In the United States of America, two thirds of sex offenders in prisons committed crimes against children. As defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of…

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a serious and consuming mental illness that significantly affects a large portion of the population, and disables many adults throughout their lives. The DSM-5 defines MDD as the presence of five out of seven predetermined symptoms for at least two…

In the new DSM-5, illness anxiety is now added to what is known now as the “Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders” category, and according to DSM-5, illness anxiety disorder can be considered either in this section or as an anxiety disorder. Illness anxiety involves preoccupation…

The purpose of this analysis is to examine three different athletes from three different generations that are actively communicating and promoting mental health and depression awareness. By examining the mental health and depression awareness initiatives of these athletes, this analysis shows that depression and mental…

Mental illness has the potential to impact every aspect of an individual’s life, as well as the lives of those close to them. I have watched my mother suffer from mental illness since I was a child. At first I did not understand the crying…

Reason for Referral and Presenting Problem Nic Sheff, age 23, came to the Safe Passage Center for treatment to address drug and mental health issues. Client was encouraged to attend treatment by his parents. Client discloses that he has used a variety of drugs since…

Growing up in Nigeria, mental illness has always had such a massive taboo against it as the problem isn’t physical. However, I believe that the mind is just as important as the body and that both must be in good condition to live a full…

The modern perspectives were all formed over time. These perspectives were fully developed by some of the most renowned psychologist of the 20th century. Because of the eight modern perspectives, therefore, these should be used to accommodate to people with depression, since this mental disorder…