...Donya Zolfaghari Mrs. Tymoshenko ENG2D1-02 December 4, 2013 Thirteen Reasons Why Cesare Pavese, an incredible poet once said, “Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.” Suicide is becoming a very serious issue in our society, as it is becoming an extremely common and unfortunate event that occurs in the life of many teenagers. Often, teenagers resort to suicide as their solution to end the pain and struggles they are forced to endure. The powerful and thought provoking novel Thirteen Reasons Why written by Jay Asher, explores the themes of suicide and depression while teaching teenagers significant morals throughout it. This heartfelt book explains the life of a teenage girl by the name of Hannah Baker, who to everyone’s surprise, commits suicide. However, before taking her own life, she creates 13 tapes, each with a reason that caused her to end her life, and each targets one specific person, then sends them out to the people who contributed to her decision. It is told through the perspective of Clay Jenson, a former crush of Hannah’s, who is also the eighth person to receive the tapes, and must listen to her tapes to understand his role in her decision while he witnesses the pain and hardships Hannah went through. The exceptional examples of symbolism throughout the novel represent the everlasting results of other people’s decisions on Hannah’s life. In addition...
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...for me it was the most tragic. I became a victim of one’s selfish act. I still that beautiful night. Being barefoot, how the wet dew felt on my feet. I knew in my heart that something was wrong. I tried to peek from the outside in through the broken piece of blind that had been broken from my one year old daughter. I couldn’t see anything. Gradually I turned the door knob, to find it unlocked. The door opened, and there was a vision that will be branded in my mind forever. I found my fiancee’, best friend, father of my child dead. How? Too suicide. The natural cause of every human life is death. Some people, for reasons that have never been fully understood, choose to end their own lives. This is called suicide. The individual seemingly hopeless with the world around them decides to end his or her existence in what amounts to be the final assault against a life that can no longer be tolerated. In doing so, the person tries to obtain a final revenge on everything and everyone that has caused their feelings of depression. Attempts at suicide, and the suicidal thoughts of feelings are usually symptom indicating that a person isn’t coping, often as a result of some event or series that they personally find overwhelming traumatic or distressing. In many cases, the events will pass and the overwhelming nature of the problems will fade. Suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the killing his self. Suicide is rarely...
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...Psychotherapy Final Project Rafael Ruelas Sport Psychology Capella University Introduction to Theories of Psychotherapy PSY6310 Summer 2013 Dr. Mankoff September 12, 2013 Introduction According to Bateman, Brown and Pedder (2000), psychotherapy refers to the treatment of emotional or mental disorders and adjustment problems through applying psychotherapy techniques as opposed to chemical and biological interventions. Psychotherapy is dependent on verbal exchange between the therapist and the person seeking help-commonly referred to as psychoanalysis. Therapeutic relationships are characterized by mutual trust between the two players with the main objective of helping individuals to change unhealthy and/or destructive behaviors, emotions and thoughts. In this pursuit, therapists combine several techniques including psychodynamics, behavioral and cognitive approaches. Anorexia nervosa There are many and varied psychological disorders in this case, I will focus on anorexia nervosa and its treatment. Anorexia nervosa is a condition that is characterized by refusal to maintain a healthy body weight or intense fear of gaining weight. The patient feels inadequate when he senses he is fat. The condition mainly affects young women although other age groups can also be affected (Bateman & Holmes, 2005). When a patent has anorexia, the desire to lose weight becomes one’s most important preoccupation. The patient does not appreciate his/her condition and cannot see...
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...subjects when I lay in bed at night before falling asleep. My brain is beginning to shut down and my mind wanders to a place where philosophical musings and far-fetched hypotheses swirl around my subconscious. Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the universe and if so, why have they not contacted us yet? What is dark matter exactly? Where did religion first come from? If I become a vegetable, is there a way I can die legally? It was this last thought that I posed to my coworker one day after it had popped into my head repeatedly. He told me that the idea is called Physician-Assisted Suicide and it’s illegal. This sparked a long conversation between us, but my curiosity wasn’t fully appeased after we moved on...
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...tried to assure him every day that the FOB would get better and that it worse when we first got there so I took it upon myself to keep the young soldier up under my wing to assure that the deployment would go by fast and he would be home before he know it nut two days he committed suicide and it bothered me because I felt like I could have done more to save the young soldier. Then after that I went to a suicide prevention class and the speaker spoke on how people should relate to the suicide problem that we have in the military and the different resources that we have if we needed to talk to someone that made me better listener because of the guilt that I felt when the soldier committed suicide I felt like I could have listen more or told the young soldier to go to the chaplain instead of trying to take it upon myself to help the soldier out and the speaker made a lot key points for me to take the guilt away that I was feeling talking about the suicide and listening to the speaker help me get over the suicide and also made me a better listener when it comes down to people and what is going on around me because you never know what might on people’s minds and what they are trying to tell you so it is very important to listen and it also made me a very good speaker because I use to be nervous when I get up to talk to people but when I had to get up speak to the troops in the...
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...taking over the family lending business when he returned from college married, and with the potential of job provided by his new wife’s father. George’s crises are also developmental in his giving up his youthful dreams of travelling the world and replacing it with marriage at the sage advice of his mother where she states” Mary has all the answers.” Crisis can culminate over time as they did for George. George is now facing a situational crisis that leads him towards suicide. George has always done right by everyone putting others needs before his own. When the slumlord/banker Potter steals $8000 from George’s business by stealing the deposit George’s mentally slow uncle was making. George turns to Potter begging him for a loan; Potter turns him down and calls the police on George. George takes the blame, faces jail time, becomes severely depressed, takes out his pain and frustration on his family, and then decides to commit suicide. Wright (2011) offers this insight: “25 percent of those who commit suicide do so after giving it quiet consideration and weighing the pros and cons of living and dying. They decide that death is the best option” (p. 302). 2. Identify the type of crisis (Situational, Developmental,...
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...have occurred and were ignored and how they were over looked by a higher authority. I will also include some ideas on how we can take further action into preventing tragedies from occurring if possible. Schools and court systems may say that they have a no tolerance level for bullying, but if you stop and think for a second, why do our children and adults still get bullied and it is often much easier for teachers and judicial systems to look the other way than to put a stop to it before it gets out of hand. Title: Bullying Can Occur At Any Age and Is Often Ignored When we hear the word “bully” we automatically think back to when we were school age children and have either been a victim of bullying or been a bully. The truth is that at one point or another we have all witnessed or experienced some form of bullying. Whether it have been committed at school, home, or in our communities, it is by far a pleasurable experience and can make a life changing impact on our lives. Today bullying is too often portrayed as an adolescent stage that children could grow out of, if it is stopped at a young age and they are shown the effects it has on others. The effects of bullying can lead to suicides and deaths if not handled appropriately by parents, teachers, and any other individual who are aware of any incident whether minor or major. Daily life in school is often where most bullying does occur. Bullying can...
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...who has committed suicide, and being in the military is no exception. Even those that are trained to save lives can as well fall and never stand again. This paper describes my first experience receiving the dreadful call, one of my Combat Medics whom I will call SGT Medic, had committed suicide. The Soldiers’ cry for help and those who heard but did not listen to the warning signs of suicide. A Combat Medics Cry for Help Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs) are the back bone of the United States (U.S.) military. We are responsible for the training and leadership instilled in our Soldiers. This NCO had developed into an effective Combat Medic where his duty was to provide emergency medical treatment until further assisted. He lived his life helping others on and off the battlefield. This paper will provide an overview of an NCO Combat Medic battling his own internal daemons from the Iraq war that took away all that training instilled and the ability to adapt. In addition, this paper will give an example on how no matter the amount of training received, the amount of videos seen, numerous times hearing a Chaplain brief on Suicide Prevention there will come a time the warning signs are evident, and you will not react. The Call August 30th, 2015 approximately 19: 30 my husband and I were watching television, and in between commercials reading my emails. My cellphone rang and I recognized the number, one of my NCOs . As I greeted him, his first words to me were “Command Sergeant...
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...knocking at the door, and often times many people end up struggling with the best way to cope with it. Dying usually happens because your murdered, you commit suicide, or naturally. We all should know that murder is a person taking another person’s life, suicide is the taking of your own life, and naturally is death by natural causes. Composing a paper as to why a 110 year old person dies would be really challenging for me, mainly because at 110 you are considered to be really old. However, recently there has been another form of death that has a lot of controversy surrounding it. Doctor assisted death also known as Euthanasia. Euthanasia currently does not fall into any of the three before mentioned categories; we put it somewhere in the middle between murder and suicide. Like many other words in our English language euthanasia is Greek rooted eu, it means good and then thanasia means death, combined they mean “good death”. Take a moment and consider you have an illness and the doctors have just informed you it is terminal and you have only four weeks to live. They then tell you that during those four weeks you are going to be in continual excruciating pain and unbearable agony, and that no matter what pain medication they gave you there was nothing that would give you even a moment of relief. What would you do? If you decided to take action would it be in the form of an injection, a handful of pills, or maybe jump of a building? Euthanasia would mean either choosing...
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...The last time I wrote in here I wrote about a murder that changed my life. This murder is the reason I’m writing this journal in the first place. It has kept me up for years now something that I can’t not forget. So if you are reading this and you don’t like being kept up night then quit reading now. I got a call around eight am, there had been a homicide in a rich suburban area just inside are jurisdiction. So I grabbed my coat off my desk and headed out. On my way there I stopped and got a coffee figuring that it was another typical robbery gone bad. How I was completely wrong. When I got there my partner Detective Smith was waiting on me. He came and said it was nothing like he had ever seen before. He went on saying how it’s the type...
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...Introduction Throughout my life I have experienced many trials and tribulations, traveled to many states and countries, met great friends from all over and have been blessed to have a great family behind me. When my family decided to move to North Carolina following my eighth grade year, my life was soon to change. I was going to be immersed into a new southern culture which was completely unfamiliar but exciting to say the least. The thought of playing golf in the south, meeting new friends, and seeing what was forthcoming in fast approaching years was great. When I started school in Kinston, North Carolina in the fall of 2002 I began getting to know my classmates, the faculty and most importantly this new southern society I was immersed in. As the weeks and months went by there was something that caught my eye. It was evident at this extremely private prep school the norms and values everyone held dearest. The idea of going to college, being a “success” in life, getting married and eventually having kids was how we were structured. That was “normal.” When I started to notice how the “popular kids” treated the ones who weren’t as good looking or “got the girls” so to speak, I began to realize many things about our structured society. I began noticing what this alienation like behavior did to my fellow classmates both on the socialized level as well as their own self perception. It made them quiet, not in the “click”, lonely, and I assume ashamed about who they were...
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...on the couch and not moving around and being around people anymore? Have you ever had the thoughts? I can admit that I myself have had the thoughts when things seem to get so bad that I feel like the world is crashing down on me. The question then becomes am I depressed and if I am would I really think about ending it all and committing suicide. The question though is if you are that depressed how does the idea of committing suicide get introduced into your mind. And how long before the thoughts become actions. Suicide (risk) Assessment refers to the establishment of a clinical judgment of risk in very near future, based on the weighing of very large mass of available clinical detail. Risk assessment carried out in a systematic, disciplined way is more than a guess or intuition it is a reasoned, inductive process, and a necessary exercise in exercise in estimating probability over short periods. Looking into many different sources there are many different ways that psychologist look into the threat of suicide and determine if you are considered an “high risk” or just a “low risk” and if your personal depression is leading up to your thoughts of suicide. Questions that they may look into is: 1. Details, 2. How prepared you are, 3. How soon, 4. How (lethality of method, 5. chance of intervention. Depending upon how the questions are answered can determine how far at risk you may be. For example if you were to answer the questions as 1. Well thought out, 2. Has means in hand...
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...Assisted Suicide Assisted suicide is a form of self-inflicted death in which a person voluntarily brings about his or her own death with the help of another, usually a physician, relative, or friend. It is also a form of euthanasia in which a person wishes to commit suicide but feels unable to perform the act alone because of a physical disability or lack of knowledge about the most effective means (Medical Dictionary). Is Assisted Suicide ethical or unethical? Is it wrong to decide what we want to do with our own body or are we obligated to do what others say or tell us what to do? Who will suffer the most; will it be me, you, family or friends? We could say everyone will suffer in their own way but the real question is could we do what we want to do or do we need to think about others before taking action, who has more of the right to choose? We are born free, we are born to have our own opinions, and we are born to make choices for ourselves whether they were right or wrong for us at that time, at that moment or in our lives. We have the right to choose what we want done with ourselves not anybody else but us. There is no reason on why our freedom of choice is to be taken away just because someone wants to intervene. If we are the one who is suffering the most in pain and being miserable what happiness is there? Yes loved ones will be upset but the one who is hurting the most is the one who is suffering the most pain and being the most miserable. No happiness could...
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...Cory Cooper K. Soklow Comp. II 5/21/12 Why We Should Keep the Drinking Age at Twenty-one Imagine winning the State Basketball Championship. You get back to your house with a few friends and feel a party is in order, so you start drinking a few beers after your parents go to bed. Someone suggests that you drive somewhere to get rid of the empty cans. “Yes, that’s not a bad idea”, so you all pile into the car and take off. A few hours later, your parents receive a telephone call to come down to the station. There has been a terrible accident, and they must identify the body. This is the one phone call all parents dread. This true story is detailed in the Germantown, Tennessee high school newspaper. Stories like this compel me to believe that the legal drinking age should be kept at twenty-one. Almost every state set a legal drinking age of twenty-one, the legal voting age at the time, after prohibition was repealed. Between 1970 and 1975, twenty-nine states lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen, twenty-nine states also lowered their drinking age to eighteen or nineteen. During the late seventies, studies showed that traffic crashes had drastically increased after lowering the drinking age. Once this was announced publicly, many groups created a movement to increase the minimal drinking age, and sixteen states responded. The Uniform Drinking Act was passed in 1984. This strongly encouraged the remaining thirteen states to raise their drinking age...
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...discussion of euthanasia obliges a person to confront humanity’s greatest fear—death (Pozgar, 2010). There are numerous debates about the legality of assisted suicide, some people argue that physician assisted suicide is immoral, they have religious objections to assisted suicide, whilst others believe that they should be able to end their suffering in a manner and time which suits them and die with dignity. In this paper, I will discuss my thoughts and feelings about the subject, my opinion regarding its impact on “special populations”, as well as to briefly mention the laws governing euthanasia in the state of Ohio. I feel that I deserve the right to live, and by the same token, to die the same way I lived, with the ability to make my own choices, and to die with dignity. Other peoples need to believe in a higher power, however has stripped my right to die with dignity away from me. These religious fanatics believe that for me to have a physician assist me in dying that I am in turn “playing God”. If that is the case then what if a person is bleeding to death from an accidental cut, should we not just watch and let death occur? To intervene would challenge God's prerogative to determine the time and place of death, would it not? For some reason, however religious people do not believe that to be the case. Sounds to me like a case of contradiction, but that is for another discussion. We wisely do not allow people to do anything they want, even if the consequences will affect...
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