Mental Health Essays Page 20

Introduction Another name for Bipolar Disorder is that it is a Manic-Depressive Illness. This illness is a type of brain disorder that influences many abnormal changes and or switches that affect moods, any sorts of activity levels, energy, and any power to do everyday tasks. Manic episodes are short or long periods of unrestricted euphoria,…

Schizophrenia is known to be one of the most serious and frightening of all mental disease. It is a chronic and severe neurological brain disorder estimated to affect 23 million people worldwide. It is more common among males affecting 12million, than female 9 million. Schizophrenia also commonly affects men and starts at the earlier age…

Anxiety can feel like a tornado in your mind. But if you thought anxiety was like stress, you were wrong. We give you a low-down on what triggers anxiety and what an anxiety disorder can feel like. Anxiety took a spotlight in recent years where Bollywood celebrities like Deepika Padukone and Anushka Sharma have opened…

Sitting uncomfortably in a plastic chair, with the strong smell of harvested coffee beans around me, tears well in my eyes. I’m just thirteen years old; I’m out of my comfort zone on a medical mission trip in Nicaragua, shadowing one of the physician assistants, when a girl seeming to be my age approaches and…

As Meyer-Adams & Conner (2008) said, “Bullying is continued harassment though acts of domination towards another person, either through physical or emotional abuse.” Bullying events have been an everlasting problem with teenagers. With the many new developments, bullying can be done online and through social media. Bullying is an awful activity that occurs in many…

Introduction Schizophrenia is considered to be one of the most critical mental illnesses. We will be looking at the causes of schizophrenia whether it is nature or nurture, the symptoms- looking at the different types and sub-types of schizophrenia, the diagnosis and lastly how to treat this illness. Definition Schizophrenia is a syndrome that causes…

Surprisingly, after some research, I discovered that happiness can be measured, and I was one of those millions of people who thought that happiness cannot be measured. Psychology today magazine have stated that “professors, researchers, and the public never doubt that you can measure depression, anxiety, and stress. But many are reluctant to accept that…

Adolescent depression is a serious public health threat. The World Health Organization (2019), estimates that mental health problems affect 10-20% of the adolescent population worldwide. It is the number one cause of disability and illness. Adolescent depression is linked to suicide, the number 3 cause of adolescent death. There has been an under-diagnosis and treatment…

Resilience Theory Norman Garmenzy pioneered the Resilience Theory in the 1940s and 1950s. Resilience is a process that can create changes as new risks or strengths develop with different life circumstances. Resilience doesn’t mean unscathed or invulnerable but is proven by adaptive behaviors and life patterns. Resilience comes from the way teenagers interact with other…

In the United States, we are known to be the land of the free, the world’s strongest country that is known to make many dreams come true. We have a great sense of education and how it should be used in our daily lives. Even if we are known to be such a great country,…