Mental Illnesses According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), a mental illness is defined as “a medical condition that disrupts a person's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily functioning” (NAMI). Major mental illnesses include Depression, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and many others as well. Mental illnesses can cause negative feelings and expectations of possible incapabilities in the afflicted patients, attaching
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Research by Ray, Chung, Murray, Hall, & Stein (2009) examined the risk of sudden cardiac death in those who took atypical and typical antipsychotic drugs. The typical drugs examined were Haloperidol and Thioridazine and the atypical, newer drugs were clozapine, olanzapine, quetiapine, risperidone. The study was divided between two cohorts- those on Tennessee Medicaid who were on antipsychotic drugs and the other cohort consisted of qualified nonusers of antipsychotic drugs but held an identical psychiatric
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The horror of mental illness is something that I personally deal with every day. Although I do not suffer from schizophrenia like John Nash, I do suffer from anxiety. I do not have delusions, but I have intense thoughts, worries, and other emotions over unnecessary things. Anxiety is basically your body’s way of feeling like it is in danger when it really isn’t. Part of my brain perceives the feeling of anxiety while the other part knows that there is no real danger to me, that it is just anxiety
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Even though the exact extent of over-representation of the mentally ill in the Canadian criminal justice system is unknown, evidence clearly points to the fact that it is not only existent, but it is also significant. Although mental illness is invariably defined, the broadest definition which includes substance abuse and antisocial personality disorder leads to the conclusion that at least 90% of offenders in the Canadian criminal justice system in Canada have a history of mental illness. Antisocial
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Andrea Yates was born on July 2nd 1964 in Houston Texas. Yates was being treated for post partum depression and psychosis, but after giving birth to her fifth child she went into major depression. On the day of June 20th 2001, she drowned all five of her children in the bathtub and later found guilty to first degree murder and sentence to life in prison, later court of appeals founder her insane. Yates was being treated for these illnesses that actually ran in her family. After giving birth to
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not close to 100% therefore depression is not entirely genetic and there are other factors that can have an impact on a person to develop depression. This genetic explanation is quite limited as it does not consider environmental factors such as childhood experiences, traumatic events, etc. Recent research of twins from age 3 to 63 years supports that. According to that the importance of the environmental factors raises with the age and explains the decline of heritability in adults. That leads to
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Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that makes people unconsciously have mood swings periodically. “This disorder is also known as manic-depressive disorder, bipolar disorder is most commonly found in young adults, and in some cases, children as well.” Statistics show that the bipolar disorder affects about four million people in the United States, and is becoming one of the most common disabilities in the United States today. People with the bipolar disorder undergo two specific mood swings: depression
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Ronda Rousey didn’t live an easy childhood and faced many hardships growing up. She was born on February 1, 1987 in California. Raised in Riverside, her childhood was plagued with a series of misfortunes beginning with issues she endured from birth. When born to her parents AnnMaria De Mars and Ron Rousey, she experienced a brush with death as her umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck causing not enough oxygen to reach her brain. This led to a neurological disorder called apraxia, which affected
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King tutankhamun became a pharaoh at the age of 12. There were many conspiracy theories about how he died. Nobody knows exactly how king tutankhamun died but there are many different theories. In the Video it says there were three different ways that king tutankhamun could have died, one of the ways is from a war wound from battle or being speared, accident, sinister fashion. Although in the video he could have potentially died from fatal infection from the break in his left leg, in the article a
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One of the most common psychological disorders in the US is Anxiety Disorder. By definition, anxiety disorder is a lifelong condition characterized by excessive and continual emotions of anxiety and fear (“Anxiety Disorder”). Anxiety disorders can have an absolutely frightening and weakening impact on lives and as well as an impact on physical and mental health. People who suffer from this disorder become overwhelmed and are unable to find balance in their lives, so their ability to find inner peace
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