Essays on Mental Disorder

A wide range of conditions that affect mood, thinking and behaviour.Examples of mental health disorders include depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, eating disorders and addictive behaviors. Binge Eating Disorders Binge eating disorder (BED) is a severe, life-altering, and treatable eating disorder portrayed by recurrent incidents where patients eats large quantities of food (very quickly and to…

How can kids stop from thinking about harming themselves? Some schools need this because they aren’t getting the support they need to get through school without thinking no one likes them. Students should receive mental health education and support in school because some people don’t know how to notice or to deal with mental health….

In literature, there often seems to be a mysterious, hidden aspect. Often, a writer intentionally crafts his story to include a deeper meaning, but, sometimes, a writer’s sub-conscious is at play. In Katherine Mansfield’s “Miss Brill” (1920), I would strongly argue that the motivations behind Miss Brill’s actions are caused by the mental illness, schizophrenia….

Although Teresa is eating three meals a day she is not getting the recommended daily amount of nutrients from her diet. During her 24-hour diet recall, she only had 4 1/2 oz of grains and 4 oz of protein. She did not have any dairy, fruits, or vegetables. Teresa’s total caloric intake was almost 1400…

SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT Herbert William Mullin was born on April 18, 1947, in Salinas California (Newton, 2000). Dr. Lunde and Morgan describe Salinas as a farming community in Monterey County South of Santa Cruz (1980). Herbert is the younger of two children his sister Patricia being the elder, born to Jean and Martin William Mullin. Jean,…

Capote shows Perry Smith’s self appraisal when expressing his thought of myself being very intelligent and artistic through Perry’s personal notebook. The notebook was Smith’s personal “dictionary We can see Smith had the tendency to be verbally facile, that had tons of odd words and facts, displaying an obvious sign of (PAD). The progression of…

This journal article is about the case study of a teenager who started having schizophrenic symptoms. He was normal with good grades and an outgoing personality, until all of a sudden he was acting entirely different. He stopped caring about his appearance, his hygiene and he practically stopped eating. The most important part is that…

Seymour (2002) did a remarkable thing when she made a decision to try and describe herself in her essay entitled ‘Call Me Crazy, But I Have to Be Myself’.  At first, she describes herself as ‘mentally ill’.  At the first paragraph she mentions lines, such as “So-and-so is driving me crazy” (Seymour, 2002, p.), or…

Depression is one of the most commonly known and diagnosed disorders, the feeling of depression is a reflex that individuals may encounter when an undesired event has taken place, or a discontented emotion is felt as a result of an experience. Analysing mental health is something that has been studied by Psychologists for hundreds of…

Psychodynamic theorists posit that substance abuse may arise from childhood dependency issues, wherein a child’s unmet caregiving needs lead to reliance on others for support and comfort. If these individuals encounter drugs or alcohol while seeking nurturing, their need for care can evolve into a dependence on substances. Psychodynamic theorists argue that personality traits associated…