Essays on Mental Illness

The following essay compares the effectiveness of similar techniques used by Iain Banks in ‘The Wasp Factory’ and Dennis Lehane in ‘Shutter Island’ in order to make the reader feel fearful, exploring mental illness as a major theme. Both novels can be characterised as fictional…

Elyn Sasks is a highly respected professor at USC and Yale-alumni, who is also diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia. In this ted talk, Mrs. Saks presents to the viewers and audience her personal experiences and views towards schizophrenia. In this talk, Elyn also discussed with the…

Magda’s Depression Depression is a very serious issue and left untreated it can even prove to be fatal. However, not all cultures openly accept depression as a mental condition that needs to be treated by medicine. This week’s prompt asked us to consider a woman…

This essay will discuss what stigma is and in which ways it affects not only people with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) but also their families. It will analyse the definition of stigma and the different types of stigma as well as the impact of it on…

With regard to the hypotheses, our investigation demonstrates that there was considerable association between all variables (mental distress and mindfulness) and hallucination proneness, also this study shows that mindfulness can predict proneness of hallucination by mediating of mental distress. The results are supported by some…

This project is researched and conducted to explore the relationship between suicidal ideas and depression. The analysis revealed that depression has the most contribution in predicting suicidal thoughts and behaviors whereas depression has a strongly positive relationship with suicidal ideations. Depression, suicidal thoughts and mental…