...Criterion B and C task Bi Polar Disorder Bi polar disorder, also known as bipolar affective disorder and in the past as manic depressive illness is a disorder characterized by extreme swings in mood – varying from periods of elevated, overactive, excited behaviour – known as ‘mania’ or ‘hyponia – to periods of deep depression. However, in between these severe mood swings, there are stable periods. The amount of time during which you are stable varies depending on the severity of the disorder. The disorder is rather common, and one in every 100 adults are diagnosed with the condition at one point in their life. Although Bipolar disorders most often develop between the ages of 18 and 24, it is not restricted to that period of time, and can occur at any age. Individuals from all backgrounds are all equally likely to develop bipolar disorder. In the periods of Hypomania, Some people are prone to seeing or hearing things that others around them don't (visual or auditory hallucinations) or unusual, unshared, beliefs (known as delusions). During a period of mania a person suffering from this disorder feels or acts abnormally happy, energetic, or extremely irritable, they make ill-advised and poorly calculated decisions with little to no regards regard to the consequences. In addition, it sometimes causes them to be less aware of the bodies need, such as not feeling hunger, and the need for sleep is also reduced. During the ‘low’ periods of depression there may be crying...
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...Introduction The media can be a powerful tool in shaping society’s perspective. When used correctly the media can be a positive influence on people with disability. However, historically we know that people with disability have rarely been presented in a positive view, which has perpetuated stereotypes about people with disability. In this paper, I will be comparing two films, a documentary and feature film, about mental disability. The documentary that I will be using in this analysis is People Say I’m Crazy, a 1989 documentary film by California Mental Health and Silver Lining Playbook(2012) an Academy Award nominated feature film. The comparison will be as followed: a topics will be presented, next the findings in the documentary, and finally how mental illness is portrayed in the feature film. In this paper I will talk about medical treatment, family and community support, and media representation of people with mental illness. Before I jump into these topics, a summary of these two films are necessary to provide context. People Says I’m Crazy People Says I’m Crazy is a 56 minute documentary by the California Network of Mental Health Clients made in 1989. This documentary is based on the findings from the Well-Being Project, a survey conducted in 1987 to explore what factors promote or deter the well-being of persons commonly labeled as mental ill in California. The statistics from the Well-Being Project survey are included in the documentary to provide focus by the...
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...Mayo clinic states that “Although antidepressants may not cure depression, they can reduce your symptoms” (mayoclinic). With this being said, it is not possible for the antidepressants to cure people, however; the case of the matter is that when an individual has depression, or bi-polar disorder, the disorder is caused by a “chemical imbalance” (webmd.com). Antidepressants affect how the neurotransmitters work. Neurotransmitters are brain chemical that send out information. The chemicals may include “serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine” (webmd.com). Under the umbrella of antidepressants are Reuptake Inhibitors, which are SSRIs, SNRIs, and NDRIs. “The process in which neurotransmitters are naturally reabsorbed back into nerve cells in the brain after they are released to send messages between nerve cells” (webmd.com). Reuptake inhibitors are used to stop the messages that are being sent. The SSRIs are the most common antidepressants. The SNRIs “are among the newer types of antidepressant” (webmd.com). As the name implies...
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...failed to comply with directions. The majority of the inmates received medication many of which would never take these medicines when released. A great majority of these meds were for mental illness. The majority of those who received such medication were quite functional, and compliant to jail directives. These inmates were choosing to follow directives, which had nothing to do with the medication. I’ve seen these men follow jail directives only when it was beneficial to them personally. As a great deal of privileges are based on good behavior this prompts inmates to behave. However, if the inmate did not get what he wanted he would often threaten suicide. At times when an inmate would get into a fight with a deputy they would blame it on bi-polar disorder but had no incidents for...
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...(D) dipole (E) covalent network 2. Which of the following will display the most noticeable effects due to hydrogen bonding? (A) H20 (B) B2H6 (C) CH4 (D) HI (E) PH3 3. The scientist that proposed the "raisin bun" model of the atom was: (A) Thomson (B) Rutherford (C) Bohr (D) Chadwick (E) Einstein 4. The total maximum number of electrons possible in the fourth energy level is: (A) 8 (D) 18 (C) 36 (D) 50 (E) none of these 5. The correct electron configuration for the valence shell of tin is: (A) 5s25p2 (B) 5s25d2 (C) 5s25p25d10 (D) 5s24d105p2 (E) none of these 6. Which of the following best represents the most likely value for the bond angle for the H2CO molecule? (A) 180º (B) 120º (C) 118º (D) 109.5º (E) 104.5º 7. Which one of the following are groups of isoelectronic particles? (A) K+, Cl-, S2- (B) F-, Cl-, Br- (C) K-, Ca2+, S2- (D) K+, Ar, Cl+ (E) K, Ar, Cl 8. Rutherford’s famous gold-foil experiment led to the discovery of: (A) orbitals (B) alpha particles (C) the neutron (D) energy levels (E) the nucleus 9. Generally, the type of crystal solids that you expect to have the lowest melting points are: (A) Ionic (B) Polar Molecular (C) Non-polar Molecular (D) Covalent Network (E) Metallic 10. Which of the...
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...British Isles due to the climate it has. It is located between the Polar and Ferrell cell which means it is influenced by the jet stream, these regulate the nation’s climate. Its temperate climate comes about due to its oceanic and air born currents, but the main regulator of the BI is the North Atlantic drift. This comes from the Caribbean, and carries warm tropical air towards the BI and results in the South-Westerly prevailing winds. Although beneficial is some ways, this unstable air around the Caribbean area, due to warm temperatures causing air to rise rapidly and air replacing this at the earth’s surface, can also be transported up to the BI. These hurricanes and strong tropical storms will never fully impact the BI as it does further south due the air masses cool as it travels over the Atlantic, but depressions are likely to occur. Depressions form when a mix of hot light air and cold dense air come together. Instability over the Polar Front allows hot air to force its way into the colder air and a boundary forms called the warm front. Because the cold air is more dense it under cuts it and the cold front forms. This is faster and will eventually catch up with the warm front and lift away. The great storm of 1987 was a major storm event in the British Isles which caused international chaos and death. The depression formed over the Bay of Biscay on October the 15th 1987 and quickly began to impact the BI. As soon as the storm moved in, predicted wrongly by the Met Office...
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...Abnormal Psychology and Therapy Learning Team B PSY/300 November 17, 2011 Wanda Rush Abnormal Psychology and Therapy Society itself can play a role on an individual and have an effect on that person in many ways. Laws can be passed that can create severe punishments for antisocial behaviors which can have a strong desire for ethics and morals which comes through religious institutions. The primary reason why society can control behavior of some citizens is the natural need for growth and maturity. In this paper we will examine two mental disorders and two mental illnesses along with the similarities and differences from the perspective of psychology and school of thought for treating mental disorders. Normal psychology is described as a person appearing to be in good mental and physical health. He/she tends to be in compliance to societies expectations and would be generally considered a normal person by the general population. The patterns of behavior tend to be equivalent to those demonstrated by most of society. Society controls behavior by two different means. Tradition and Laws! First let us examine tradition. Traditions are simply rituals, which are as old as humanity and conducted so that everyone will behave in a socially acceptable way. For example, table manners are a universal claim, with variations existing in different cultures; they remain similar all around the world. Laws are established by society which...
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...Professor The Date COLD WAR Beginning in 1947 and lasting until 1991, the Cold War can be defined as the sustained state of military, as well as political, tensions that existed between western hemisphere countries and their NATO allies and the Eastern hemisphere that was dominated by countries in the Warsaw Pact dominated redundant by the USSR. Following the success of the wartime alliance formed temporarily against Hitler’s Nazi Germany, the only two superpowers in global affairs were the United States and the Soviet Union. However, these two countries had profound differences in their political and economic ideologies, and this led to the beginning of the Cold War. This is the thesis. The Second World War had a profound repetitive effect on global politics, with the early efforts of leaders in the US and the USSR attempting to shape the international system that was emerging after the war. Here you make the thesis more explicit but should have done so in a way that would introduce the points you´ll develop below. In my opinion, the beginning of the Cold War can be traced from encouragement of what? de by the Europeans, especially the British. Their encouragement of the United States to make their policy tougher towards the USSR was vital in the beginning. From my reading of the article, The Origins of Post War America, I believe that former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill reinforced this policy during his iron curtain speech. As Americans, we decided to pursue...
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...Evaluation My results told me basic information about how attractive Stratford is to tourists, but the information we collected was not as informative as I would have liked them to be. The results I got were fairly accurate, but not all of them because a lot of them were based on our opinions which meant that they were subjective. The effect of having incorrect results could effect on how I answer and analyse my main question. If I got the wrong amount of pedestrians for example then, my result for the average amount of people to visit Stratford would be incorrect. So to change how accurate my results were, if I was to do it again I would have more than one person doing the pedestrian and then getting an average from that then doing it two or three times more in the same spot then get another average or we could have compared it with another groups piece of work and get an average from that. Another thing wrong with the pedestrian count was you may miss or double count some of the people walking past us. When we counted people we probably counted people as workers or locals meaning we counted people who weren’t tourists, meaning that our results was correct for our hypothesis.. A way to improve the way we did this to more accurate results is if we went on a day (like a Saturday) then there would be more people there for us to count because then people wouldn’t be at work. We may have also used a digital method to get more accurate results. We could have also recorded which direction...
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...It is estimated that around 1 in 100 people will develop schizophrenia at some point in their lives, of which approximately 3 million live in the United States. Shockingly, 2.1% of African-Americans receive a diagnosis of schizophrenia, compared to 1.4% of whites. What accounts for this? Is it because African-Americans have a biological predisposition to schizophrenia? Is it because clinicians from majority groups either intentionally or unintentionally misdiagnose African-Americans due to their cultural differences? Or maybe it’s because of the fact that African-Americans have always been on average economically disadvantaged compared to whites. The reasons are most likely a combination of these factors, and others may exist. The idea of “racial schizophrenia” dates back to the 1960’s at the Ionia State Hospital for the criminally insane in Michigan, one of the nation’s most notorious insane asylums. During this time, the civil-rights movement was in full force. The author, Jonathan Metzl, researched the diagnosis of schizophrenia among many of the patients admitted to this hospital over the years. He also published a book about it called, The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease. He discovered in his findings that many African-Americans during this time were admitted for armed-robbery, and property destruction, and considered insane, ultimately leading to a diagnosis of schizophrenia. These short court sentences were eventually turned into a...
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...emotional damage than physical harm. There are a number of reasons why youth become violence. This essay will describe the cause and effects on youth violence in schools. Mental and Behavior Causes Students with disorders such as bi-polar disease or depression find it hard to see anything positive in their lives. When they become ridiculed or turned down by classmates they tend to obsess over their own faults. This can cause them to take their lives or others’ lives that have harmed them. According to Cullen (2012), this was partly the case for one of the Columbine killers, Dylan Klebold. Cullen discusses the other Columbine killer, Eric Harris, as a psychopath who raged in his journals about everything he hated in the world. Students with disorders such as opposite defiant disorder, demonstrate violence and rebellious acts in children and teenagers. These disorders show aggression and destructive behaviors towards authority. External Causes Violence on TV, music, movies and video games are known contributions in the rise of violence in the schools. School violence also comes from the homes of students. It is said that children learn most of their behavior from family members. If family members constantly use violence against a child, that child is more than likely going to use violence on someone else. Effects of School Violence School violence mainly affects those who have been bullied. Depression breeds the anger that leads to violent...
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...LATESHIA MCDONALD AIU ONLINE BUSN105-1405B-267 Abstract This paper is to bring awareness of mental illness in today’s society and that there are trusted products that can help a person that has a severe mental illness seek the medical treatment in order to get on a path to recovery if that is possible and live a functioning life. With many product treatments on the market a few work that have minimum side effects to the person taking them and the products are covered through medical insurance with little or no co pay. The product Wellbutrin is one of many anti-depressants on the market today that is safe and effective. Wellbutrin I chose this product because I have a 15 year old son who suffers from Bi Polar disorder and this product has been introduced to us to help my son live a normal productive life. Wellbutrin (bupropion) is an antidepressant medication used to treat seasonal affective disorders and major depressive disorders. Mental illness is a medical condition that disrupts a person’s way of thinking, feeling, moods, and the ability to relate to the other people and daily activities. Serious mental illnesses such as major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder), panic disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PSTD) and borderline personality disorder. Mental illnesses can occur in a person at any age, race, religion, or income. Mental illnesses are not a result of someone being weak or come from a poor upbringing...
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...national power when dealing with competitors, adversaries, and up incoming regional powers. At the conclusion of World War II the Soviet Union became one of two dominate superpowers. The Soviets had the ability to influence its immediate neighbors and offered countries a communist ideology that discredited capitalism and blamed it for starting the Great Patriotic War. The Soviets used propaganda on devastated European populations by demanding acclaim for being the principal reason why Hitler’s Germany was defeated. They maintained an occupation army stationed in Eastern-European countries under the pretense of liberators, but in reality, the Soviet soldiers were enforcers over buffer satellite states. The Soviets were one-half of a bi-polar world and principal antagonist of the western world until the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1991. The United States came out of the World War II largely untouched, a tremendous global military, and an economic powerhouse. Due to the peace dividend, American politicians decided to demobilize the military that was fourteenth in combat power before global hostilities began to being number one at war’s end. It was...
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...II. Defendant # 1 Manny Ramirez Age: 21 * Criminal History * Disordering Conduct, Sentenced to 30 days in jail, one year probation (1) * Possession of Marijuana, Sentenced to 60 days in jail, 2 years probation (2) * Theft by shoplifting, Sentenced to 60 days in jail, one year probation (2) * Total Criminal History (7) * Current Offense (Base Offense Level and Total Offense Level) * Manny Ramirez was taken into custody with possession with intent to distribute more than 1, but less than 3, kilograms of marijuana. The undercover officer who made the arrest reported Ramirez having a loaded 9mm handgun on his person. * According to the §2D1.1 Guidelines Manual, at least 1 KG but less than 2.5 KG of Marijuana , results in a Base Offense Level (10) * Possession of a dangerous weapon increases this by 2 levels * Total Offense Level (12) * Guideline Range of Imprisonment 21-27 months Defendant #2 Martha Stewart Age: 42 * Criminal History * Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated, sentenced to 30 days in jail, 2 years probation. (1) * Prostitution, all jail time suspended, placed on probation for one year. (0) * Total Criminal History (3) * Current Offense (Base Offense Level and Total Offense Level) * Martha Stewart was arrested for the distribution of more than 10, but less than 15 grams of cocaine base crack...
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...Unit 4222-619 Understand mental health problems (CMH 302) Outcome 1. Know the main forms of mental ill health 1 The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM) is published by the American Psychiatric Association. It is a classification of mental disorders which offers a common language and classification of mental disorders. It is used by the medical profession, researchers, pharmaceutical companies and health insurers. The fifth edition was published in 2013. DSM 4 divided each psychiatric diagnosis into five dimensions or axes, each one relating to different aspects of disorder or disability. AXIS I: Clinical Disorders (all mental disorders except Personality Disorders and Mental Retardation) Axis II: Personality Disorders and Mental Retardation Axis III: General Medical Conditions (must be connected to a Mental Disorder) Axis IV: Psychosocial and Environmental Problems (for example limited social support network) Axis V: Global Assessment of Functioning (Psychological, social and job-related functions are evaluated on a continuum between mental health and extreme mental disorder) The fifth edition has simplified this classification into three sections rather than the multiaxial system, but there has been much criticism of the new edition with doubts been thrown as to its impartiality, resulting in a petition calling for an outside review of DSM 5. In Europe there is a tendency to favour the I.C.D. as a means of classifying mental illnesses. The...
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