Mental Health Essays

Brandy is a nineteen-year old caucasian female. She is five foot, five inches tall and currently weighs one hundred and sixteen pounds. Brandy has survived by her mother and father. Brandy’s mother was a severely overweight female. The relationship between her parents was unhealthy. Brandy’s father was verbally abusive to …

The lack of sensitive biomarkers for both sarcopenia and cancer cachexia underscores the need for improvement in our understanding of the underlying mechanisms specific to each syndrome and necessitates a new approach to the current problem. Employing multi-omics investigative approach may identify clinically relevant biomarkers and delineate inflammatory and metabolic …

Eating disorders are very widely known but not fully comprehended the average person would right them off as an extreme diet or a “phase”, but they are indeed actual serious mental disorders. They have the highest rate of physiological disorders that have a direct death due to the disorder. The …

How can schools serve as a support system for gay and lesbian students? Are there any dangers in such an approach? Schools are a support system to gay and lesbian youth in that they are designed to educate youth. Not only teaching the basic subjects, but in tolerance and mutual …

“Music has healing power.  It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.”-Elton John.  Like the world renowned English singer Elton John and as a musician myself and others alike, we’ve relied on music during the stressful and dreadful days.  From the works of Bach …

Pain is common and sometimes difficult to control post operatively. Medications can help patients feel more comfortable has shown to have benefits but also addiction. There have been many studies done on the pharmacological side but there is still ongoing research being done on the non-pharmacological side. Although there is …

Detoxification involves clearing the body of opioids, or any drug for that matter. The process is often extremely mentally taxing and physically painful. Because of this, some people pair detoxification with medicine to help cope with the pain (Goodman, n.d.). Detoxification should not be confused with treatment, as it only …

My Service-Learning Project addresses the issue of the mental health crisis that high schoolers and college students cope with. Specifically, depression, anxiety, and suicide. Those that experience these issues are all around us and we don’t even know. This issue has a very personal effect on me for I, at …

The method I chose for this project is the Phenomenological Study because I want to understand people’s perceptions and perspectives relative to music. However, music for people is a meditation tool to rest or concentrate on homework, walking, and jogging. The purpose of this is that I love to listen …

Parkinson is a degenerative of the nervous system. When the disease begins to spend the substantia nigra of the brain starts losing control of the coordination of movement. Parkinson disease progress slow as we age. The way Parkinson affects the nervous system various due to the diversity of the disease …