Mental Health Essays

Depression is a “clinical syndrome” that affects many people in our society today, and has been documented for influencing humanity for over two-thousand-years (Beck, 1967, p. 3). Various pursuits have been initiated in effort to understand, diagnose, and treat this prevailing disorder. Although numerous attempts have been executed and several …

Both poems, hour and to his coy mistress compare well with each other in the sense that they both have the same theme, making reference to how important love is and the value spending time with one another has and just thinking about the present, rather than thinking ahead. The …

Using the framework of concept analysis, the purpose of this paper is to examine role stress amongst nurses at the workplace. Concept analysis, an approach developed by Walker and Avant in 1986, clarifies the meaning of terms to develop understanding so that writers and readers share a common language. (McEwen …

“I had never meant Kent, but Jules got me so worked up about him” (4) “Everyone was living a sort of fictional existence” “The smoke in the dark looked like the dove that whispered the future to saints in paintings” (6) “There is always the sound of children roller skating …

Stress can destroy a human physically, emotionally, and mentally. The average high school student in this generation shows to have higher stress and anxiety levels, along with increased medical problems from this stress, than ever before. Many factors can contribute to this stress and the negative effects it can take …

Abstract Post-Traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects many different people in different ways. Along with post-traumatic stress disorder often comes a co-morbid aspect that patients see as coping mechanisms for the post-traumatic stress disorder that they know little about. Post-traumatic stress and alcohol/substance abuse addiction often find themselves closely related due …

Suicide is defined by the World Health Organization as the act of deliberately killing oneself. It affects individuals most frequently among those aged 15-44 years. Risk factors include undiagnosed and untreated depression, alcohol or substance abuse, family history, previous suicide attempt. Another major risk factor psychologists have recognised for some …

The main types of mental ill health according to the psychiatric (DSM/ICD) classification system e.g.: mood disorders, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, substance-related disorders, eating disorders, cognitive disorders, sexual and gender identity disorders. Key strengths and limitations of the psychiatric classification system e.g. Strengths – developed by experts, clarity for …

The generation of teenagers today are known to face challenges that are greatly different in comparison to those faced in the past. For example, Savannah Rivers, a girl who started using drugs and alcohol since she was 10, has been addicted since. As unusual and shocking this may seem, this …

1. Introduction 1.1 Background of the Study Endless problems of identifying what stimuli people find stressful another approach has been to understand the response that people have to stress. Thus if we know you are responding to stress we can also then try to identify the causes by Selye (2005). …