Mental Health Essays

College students across the globe display a constant complaint of sleep deprivation and alack of concentration. A 2010 ​Journal of Adolescent Health​ study reports that 60% of collegestudents lacked good-quality sleep, in accordance with the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and infact, consumed prescription drugs in order to assist in the …

Sleep is a recurring state of body and mind where biological systems enter an anabolic state. Anabolism helps to restore the nervous, skeletal, immune, and muscular systems. These systems in turn are vital in the maintenance of the body’s essential functions. Aristotle wrote that sleep was a “seizure of the …

‘College students are just older adolescents and are still dealing with adolescent physiology, such as a delayed sleep phase” (Carskadon et al. 2004; Gaultney 2010). According to the National Sleep Foundation, “59% of adults 18 to 29 years of age describe themselves as night-owls.” Being “night-owls” has led to a …

An eating disorder is a dangerous mental health condition where those affected experience extreme disturbances within their eating behaviors. These disturbances can manifest in ones emotions, thoughts, and physical eating habits. Someone diagnosed with an eating disorder may ruminate over the thought of food, body-image, and exercise to the point …

Anorexia is most commonly known as fear of food and fear of getting fat. Anorexia usually begins in women when they are young. Anorexia also is known to start forming when women are at a very young age, adolescents, or young adults. Some of the women mentioned in my essay …

Realistic Anorexic Characteristics Noelle T. Casagrain Laurie Halse Anderson perfectly captures the isolation and motivations of anorexia in her novel Wintergirls, making it a good resource to use in your classroom for students and caregivers. Anderson did her research of what it was like to be anorexic as well as …

Body dysmorphic disorder is generally presented by three separate symptoms which are preoccupation with physical appearance, similar to anorexia nervosa and bulimia, frequently looking in mirrors, and believing that others take special notice of one’s appearance in a negative way (use this sentence as your opening abstract and introduction statement; …

Nowadays a lot people have been diagnosed with an eating disorder. From all the age groups, adolescents have suffered the most. There can be many causes for an eating disorder, it can be because of heredity, peers or the media. In Piaget’s theory of “cognitive development in adolescence” explains how …

Anorexia Nervosa is a serious life-threatening illness that causes a person to see themselves as overweight. Those who suffer have a constant fear of gaining weight and therefore have an obsessive nature with food, and limit their food intake greatly. The restrictive caloric diet takes a toll on the body, …

Patient #1 comes to your office because of weight and appetite complaints. Two doctors argue. One says it’s Anorexia Nervosa. The other says it’s Major Depression. – What are 3 questions you would ask to the patient to verify which disorder is causing the issues; – Discuss the similarities and …