In the same fashion of how having a role model and being surrounded by joyous people in a merry environment can help comfort a mentally ill individual, being able to reduce stress can be of help too. Stress can be detrimental because it can improve the connectivity between different parts of the brain and eventually causes the response to fear to be even more dramatic and this can be seen in patients suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Having a greater response to fear would cause a person to have panic disorders and this can be linked to mental illness by the assumptions of natural and harmless stimuli to be a threat by the patients. It can also be linked to mental disorders by the depression, such as anxiety, that panic disorders causes when it occurs in public places and when it would eventually lead to the obstruction of the flow of thoughts in the individual. …show more content…
So, actions must be taken to reduce the stress levels in patients suffering from insanity. Managing stress levels can be done in a multitude of ways, such as taking a walk, sleeping, and talking to a friend. The film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is an exemplar on reducing stress in patients suffering from mental disorders. For example, Martini, a patient in the mental institution, decided to reduce stress by playing cards with his friends Billy Bibbit and Charlie Cheswick, despite gambling with cigarettes. To Martini, playing games with his friends was a means to get better because he could feel relieved from all the stress he was experiencing that was caused by the wicked Nurse Ratched. In the end, Martini became more sane and started to care more about logical things and started to defy Nurse Ratched because his condition improved, and this was something that he would not ever do in the