Diana Cooper Module 6 Planning a Persuasive Essay May 31, 13 Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify and understand the cause and effects of cyber bullying. Cyber bullying is a new form of bullying that has harmful psychological side effects on youth such as depression and anxiety. Although I am no longer in high school a friend of mines cousin has recently committed suicide because she was maliciously bullied online. Her story is one of many and the number of teens committing suicide
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many factors that affect the decision of people to end their lives and I will talk about the most common reasons on why people are committing suicide. People commit suicide because of too much depression, stressful life events, and psychological disorders. My first point is depression. I think that this is one of the most common reasons for suicide and statistics shows that 15% of clinically depressed people die by killing themselves. Now why do people kill themselves because of depression? This
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Parkinson’s disease, high blood pressure, chronic lung disease, arthritis, stroke, cancer and many more. (WebMD, 2014). For a majority of cases, depression is accompanied with anxiety. There are many different forms of treatments available but the three major treatments are: cognitive treatments, pharmacological treatments, and alternative therapy treatments. Cognitive Therapy With cognitive therapy, most of the attention is given to a person’s thoughts. As human beings, we are always surrounded by multiple
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Now a days teens are always going on and on about how hard their life is and casually tell others that they cut themselves every day and bleed 3 pints on the carpet and then go to bed. Obviously this shows how tough they are to everyone around them and they get comments like “OMG Jimmy you are so deep and hardcore that’s so hot”. This comes from a girl by the way or maybe some guys depending on their “orientation”, and the music that moves teens to do these things as well is rather impressive. I
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More than 9 million people in England drink more than the recommended daily limit. Alcohol is the tenth of the UK burden of disease and death, making alcohol one of the three biggest lifestyle risk factors for disease and death in the UK, after smoking and obesity. In the UK, between 2012-2013, 1,008,850 people were admitted to hospital due to alcohol related incidents. Alcohol now costs the NHS £3.5bn per year; equal to £120 for every tax payer. Males are known to drink more than women, with 18%
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Unit 29: Assignment Explain the contribution of complementary psychological theories to the understanding of two specific behaviours Case study -Addiction Ben is a 22 year old and works as a photographer. He drinks a lot and goes to parties every single weekend with his friends. Ben has also started using heroin and became addicted to it while trying it out because of his friends. He grew up with his mum and had tough childhood as his mum is a single mum and also was addicted to alcohol
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Given the complexity of depressive disorders, various theories are an attempt to explain the etiology of the depressive moods. In nowadays we tend to point out the chemical imbalance in the brain. Reduction of certain neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine are proved to be responsible for the symptom criteria of depression referring to monoamine theory (Preston et al., 2013, p. 86). Thus, the treatment target this dysregulation of mood using antidepressant medication. Most
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Joe R.’s current substance abuse and mental perpetuates the presenting problem. The substance abuse interferes with his ability to do day to day activities such as going to school, making connection and developing into a healthy person. Substance abuse is known to inhibit the brain therefore stunting normal development in social and emotional areas. When he has a “hang over” he struggles with getting out of bed to go to school because he feels quite unwell. Joe’s depression furthermore affects areas
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experience long term periods of sadness, those lasting anywhere from two weeks or longer. It prevents them from being able to complete daily activities due to a lack of desire or motivation (Depression, University of Maryland). Depression is a common disorder that affects 21% of women and 12% of men (Depression, Depressiontoolkit.org). Depression can be treated depending on the severity of the illness, an alternative medicine used to treat depression is St. Johns Wart. St. Johns Wart efficacy seemed
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The Centers for Disease Control Prevention, focuses on strengthening the response capabilities. It remains in touch with public health, in the efforts to prevent and control infectious and chronic diseases and environmental health threats. The Center for Disease Control Prevention works everyday to insure we live a disease free life, its mission is to ensure health protection through promotion, prevention, and preparedness. ADHD has no cure. This is the most important concept. However, there are
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