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  • Deborah
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    I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Never Promised You a Rose Garden, by Joanne Greenberg, is a description of a sixteen-year-old girl's battle with schizophrenia, which lasts for three years. It is a semi-autobiographical account of the author's experiences in a mental hospital during her own bout with the illness. This novel is written to help fight the stigmatisms and prejudices held against mental illness. Joanne Greenberg was born in Brooklyn in 1932, and is a very respected and award-winnin...
  • Every Patient S Disease
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    Throughout history, mankind has been afflicted with disease and failing health. They have ranged from infections to broken bones to psychopathologies. How mankind treats his weaker brethren is a true reflection of the culture in which he or she resides. To treat the sick poorly denotes selfishness and egocentrism whereas to treat the ill humanely denotes gentleness and self-sacrifice. Sometimes, however, barbaric treatment of the ill, mental illness in particular, is a result of ignorance. The d...
  • Connection Of Spirituality And Mental Illness
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    Spirituality and Beliefs: Implications and Impact on Mental Illness and Psychiatric Disability Introduction I wish to begin this paper by playing a short piece of music composed by Richard Einhorn and inspired by the life and writings of Joan of Arc. At the age of 13 in 1425 this shepherd girl from the village of Dom remy in France began to hear voices. At sixteen these voices were telling her that she had been given a divine mission to reunite France. It is said that she heard the voice of God ...
  • Ill Prisoners
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    James Felner, author of "Mentally Retarded Don't Belong on Death Row", states that, "A person is considered mentally retarded if he or she has a significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning, which generally means recording an IQ score of lower than 70, and exhibiting deficits in adaptive behavior before the age of 18". According to the American Association on Mental Retardation, it has three components: 1. significantly sub-average intellectual function 2. accompanying impairments ...
  • Mentally Ill Teen Kip Kinkel
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    "Mental illness: The Cause of Violence"The first thing that hit me was I could smell blood. And looked, and quiet, but saw a lot of kids down, a lot of wounds, blood spurting out of legs ("The Killer")". This is what Don Stone, a football coach at Thurston High School, said as he approached the Cafeteria. Kip Kinkel, a fifteen-year-old student at the high school, had just murdered four people two students and wounded twenty-five, and both his parents. This big incident had happened in a small qu...
  • Rest Cure
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    The Yellow Wallpaper: In the 19th century, mental illness was an uncommon issue to be discussed. The public would treat the illness only by avoiding the matter and forcing the sick to feel helpless. At that time, the medical profession had not yet distinguished between diseases of the mind and diseases of the brain. Neurologists such as Dr. Silas Mitchell treated the problems that would now be treated by psychiatrists, such as depression. The most accepted cure was Mitchell's "Rest Cure", which ...
  • Person's Mental Illness
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    Mentally Ill People People who are mentally ill and have committed a crime should not be court ordered to take medications. One reason why they shouldn't is because of the side effects this medicine may cause. The second reason is because they might end up becoming addicted to this medicine. And the third reason is because taking the medication do not solve the reason why this person committed the crime it just sedates the person but the illness is still there. Nowadays over a 100 million people...
  • Certain Medications Impact The Individual
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    Impact of Mental Illness Mental illness has the potential to impact every faucet of an individual's life, as well as the lives of those close to them, including relationships (family and friends), vocational, financial, and behavioral tendencies. These effects differ between each individual due to the treatment approaches taken, the variety of diagnoses, and the intenseness of symptoms. At the age of seventeen Joe felt clueless when his usual good quality school and family life began to change d...
  • Outpatient Voluntary Treatment As Alternatives To Ioc
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    Part One In 1955, over 559,000 individuals resided in inpatient psychiatric hospitals. By 1995, however, the number had drastically diminished to 69,000, (National Health Policy Forum, 2000). This drastic reduction was largely due to the discovery of antipsychotic medications in the 1950's, and the deinstitutionalization movement of the 1960's, wherein several thousands of mentally ill individuals were released from psychiatric institutions to return to their communities for treatment. Mental he...
  • Child With A Mental Illness
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    Forgotten Kids are children that have disabilities that are barely visible. They have their arms and legs, can see and hear, run, play, etc., but most have never been invited to a birthday party or to a sleep over. They are the last to be chosen to play and the first to be blamed. Their illnesses aren't fatal, but a small part of their hearts and souls die with every rejection. Their behaviors seem odd or unpredictable to themselves as much as to society. They are misunderstood and overlooked, t...
  • Addiction For Their Problems Denial
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    Introduction So you don't think that you are an alcoholic. Chances are that you are not, but this is the thought that many who are unknowingly addicted to alcohol or other mind-altering agents. This denial barrier is the first of many hurdles to overcome when they are identified as having an addiction disorder. Although all denial isn't bad most of the time, addicts are often the last to recognize their disease, pursuing their addictions into mental illness, the degeneration of health, and ultim...
  • Article Presents Wendell Williamson
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    A Psychotic Killer Sues His Psychiatrist -Time Magazine Take that, you bastard! This quote from Wendell Williamson is presented in large, bold text at the bottom of this Time magazine article. Such is the portrayal of Williamson in an attempt to give us a glimpse into this psychotic killer's mind. Williamson, who suffered from a mental illness involving delusions, shot and killed two people in 1995. In this article, however, Williamson is misrepresented repeatedly. Williamson ceases to become a ...
  • King's Information
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    Critique of Why We Crave Horror Movies King stated "I think that we " re all mentally ill". To prove this he mentioned that we all talk to ourselves when no one is around. Furthermore, we all fear some things and stay away from them, or perhaps make a scene, or at least a face when we see those things. He continued the argument by stating that it doesn't matter if we are in a mental hospital; everyone is mentally ill in some way, shape or form. Some people just hide it better than others. I thin...
  • Form Of Mental Illness
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    INTRODUCTION - On the 22nd of August, a woman called Amanda Collins, a qualified psychiatrist from the A.R.A.F.M. I association gave a speech about mental illness and its affect on society, as well as the main age group it generally affects. She also talked about the different types of mental illness' there are and their likely-hood as well as how drugs such as speed and marijuana can have a great effect on certain types of mental illness' to the point of actually causing them. In regards to men...
  • Mental Illness Known As Schizophrenia
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    8/7/2003 Dear English Syllabus Committee It is hard to comprehend the fathomless terror of being psychotic, we who live in a world that has its road maps, recognizable to us all. We reach out for a glass and it is where we expect it to be. We do not hear voices telling us to kill ourselves. We do not believe that television is broadcasting our most secret thoughts. We look at our children, and their faces do not distort into that of wickedness. We do not believe that everyone in the world is plo...
  • Mental Illness Disease At The Time
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    The insanity defence was bought into action in 1843 to protect those suffering from a mental illness / disease at the time of committing a crime, however society's growing indignant attitude towards these offenders is both destructive and detrimental to the reputation of the Queensland Legal System. The insanity defence is misconstrued by the general public, and viewed as a weak argument-an easy way to get "off" criminal charges, this is not so. Section 27 of the Queensland Criminal Code 1899 (s...
  • Streetcar Named Desire Depression And Other Mental Illnesses
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    In the time that Tennessee Williams's streetcar Named Desire transpires, depression is not recognized as a valid mental illness. People that were depressed, or suffered from various other chemical imbalances were called crazy and carted off to insane asylums by friendly strangers. Depression is now recognized as a valid mental illness worldwide, for the most part in countries that are developed. While poor countries suffer from ill physical health, struggling with meningitis and malaria, people ...

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