Self-Inflicted Diseases
Self-inflicted diseases are those in which a person's health is
damaged by their own decisions and behaviour. These can be such things
like smoking, alcohol, sunbathing, eating large quantities of fatty
food.
Also deliberate self-harm such as attempted suicide is classed as
self-inflicted as it can cause major damage to body organs.
Those who start smoking at a young age are highly likely to become
addicted to nicotine. Smoking leads to a risk of developing mental and
physical disease. This includes lung cancer, coronary heart disease
and death through a stroke. Smoking also increases the chances of
blood clotting. Nicotine also increases blood pressure and heart rate
and thus the body's demand for oxygen, but carbon monoxide reduces the
blood's ability to carry it.
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Obesity can be self-inflicted by the following:
· Eating too many calories
· Lack of physical exercise
· Environmental factors
· Cultural factors
· Metabolism factors
Obesity can cause heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes,
hernias, varicose veins and gallstones. Surgical operations are more
risky for a patient with obesity because the amount of fat
surrounding vital organs.
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Self-Inflicted
Sunbathing
Sunbathing can cause blistering of the skin and increases the risk of
developing skin cancer. This is self-inflicted if people do not take
the precaution of sun cream, when in a hot climate.
Heroin use
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Heroin abuse can result in collapsed veins, bacterial infections of
the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses, other soft-tissue
infections, and liver or kidney disease.
Heroin is a self-inflicted disease because it is impossible to judge
the purity of street heroin and death is caused through an overdose.
Suicide
Suicide is ranked the 10th most common form of death. There are around
40,000 suicides per year.
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Suicide is committed due to depressions, family or pet bereavement,
divorce, social isolation or psychiatric illnesses. Suicide is
self-inflicted because the person attempts to take his/her own life.
Being overweight or obese are risk factors for many chronic health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, and … cancers.”
Münchausen syndrome is a psychiatric disorder that is distinguished by the patient causing or faking physical or psychological ailments for the sole purpose of being admitted to the hospital. A psychiatric consult nurse sees about one or two Münchausen cases a month (Interview with John Hauber, RN). Out of the entire United States population, only half to two percent of people have the disorder (medicinenet.com), but the number is probably higher than that because the statistic shown only represents the number of people diagnosed, and not everybody that has Münchausen is properly identified as having the disorder. (Interview with John Hauber, RN). The numbers are higher in certain subpopulations, such as people who have been diagnosed as having psychosis or fever of unknown source (medicinenet.com). It is also extremely difficult to get accurate statistics due to dishonesty and the tendency of patients to hop from one healthcare facility to the other (my.clevelandclinic.org).
In the Unnatural Causes trailer, one of the speakers said “we carry our history in our bodies”. This statement means that the factors that we come across in daily life impact our health. The decisions one makes will affect his or her body in the future. For example, whether or not one avoids smoking or a poor diet will impact his or her health in the future. During an examination years down the road, it will be able to be determined whether or not that person was able to avoid smoke or junk food. In this way, our past is inscribed into our biology. The history carried in our bodies is not formed solely from conscious decisions-- much of our genetic past is molded by policies and social conditions (“Unnatural causes trailer”, 2008).
Nearly everyone in the modern world has heard of the term self-control, a seemingly non-important or uninteresting topic of interest. However, self-control has been related to having one of the most significant impacts on a person. Even some have gone as far to say that self-control is the “biggest predictor of a successful and satisfying life” (Pinker 1), which are bold words for a topic that many merely disregard. The idea of self-control is a concept coined in the Victorian era, and appears immensely throughout the novel, Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, written by R.F. Baumeister & J. Tierney. Essentially a self-help book, ‘Willpower’ provides explanations for why humans are doing the things that they do, and why people aren’t always as virtuous as they may be expected to be. Self-control affects many facets of a person’s life, and by looking at how it is presented in psychology, and in Baumeister and Tierney’s novel, Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, one will see the correlations and differences between modern research and historical perspectives on the idea of self-control, and ultimately decide if the idea of self-control is an inherent trait or a learned condition.
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee is an in-depth analysis of the history of cancer. The book discusses the beginning stages of cancer when it was merely a confusing phenomenon for doctors that occurred for over a century. For example, "Childhood leukemia had fascinated, confused, and frustrated doctors for more than a century. The disease had been analyzed, classified, sub-classified, and divided meticulously” (Mukherjee 12). Mukherjee is a passionate physician and displays this in his work as a cancer researcher. Mukherjee book consists of his professional experiences working at the Dana-Farber
My initial reaction to the film was it was so very interesting. The correlations between income, education and cortisol really caught my attention. The monkeys offered a great insight also. So, I went back to my A&P text and read up again on cortisol, myocardial infractions and stress/stress response. Then went back and reviewed some areas of the film again. What really struck me was the issue of control and lack of it that contributes to stress levels. Another thing I found interesting was the people working at the hospital, from the guy who mops the floors to the CEO. Let's look at the neighborhoods as say three different ones by types by income, low, middle and high, even though, there are different neighborhoods and situations. Each of these three would have somewhat different priorities and different strategies in implementing plans.
Nonsuicidal self-injury, or NSSI, and suicide are differentiated by intention, frequency, and lethality of behavior. Some researchers have shown that these two types of self-injurious behavior often co-occur. Research is still somewhat scarce regarding the link between the two behaviors. It has been suggested that NSSI is a risk factor for suicidal behavior.
Oftentimes, people reach a point in their lives when they realize that they need to think for themselves and take responsibility for becoming who they are cut out to be. Whether or not they actually become that person is questionable. In Sickness Unto Death, Soren Kierkegaard argues that to become the "self" we must avoid despair and the influence of the world, and we must become what God wants us to be. In his essay, Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson promotes the idea of individualism and how we must rely upon only ourselves and God to establish and support ourselves. I will first explain Kierkegaard’s idea of what it is to become a “self” then I will show the many parallels between Sickness unto Death and Self-Reliance.
Let us look into basic and generalized knowledge of self injury. Self injury (self harm or S.I.) is the act of harming yourself as a way of coping with emotional pain, frustration, and anger. Some view it as a suicide attempt or a precursor to a suicide attempt, but it is not a suicide attempt at all. Rather, it is a serious cry for help. When an individual turns to self injury, they look for an emotional release which gives them momentary calmness. “While self-injury may bring a momentary sense of calm and a release of tension, it's usually followed by guilt and shame and the return of painful emotions” (Self Injury 1). Self injury can also result in serious or even fatal injuries (1).
An individual's internal values have the capacity to persuade them into doing what they otherwise wouldn’t be inclined to do. These sacrifices are made in the name of the "Greater Good", when a person's ideals lead them to visualize only what they want to protect, rather than themselves. Often humans are perceived as a selfish species, but as other species do, we also have protective instincts, and when those instincts kick in, we have the capacity to be remarkably self-abnegating. Self-abnegation is a quality that all of us obtain for something, but that something depends entirely on our person's values. Our values are the motivator for sacrificing ourselves. This selfless quality reveals itself when the circumstances
America's on-going drug abuse epidemic continues into this millenium, and there are many social problems linked to drug use, including suicide. The disparity of daily life in suburbs or the inner cities are why many people have fallen into their reliance on drugs, including alcohol. Patros and Shamoo (1989) describe the abuse of drugs and alcohol as a 'slow form of suicide.' But many drug abusers choose to end their life before drugs have time to claim it by way of an overdose.
Suicide is when someone takes their own life. There are various reasons why someone might end their own life. Most of the time depression has a significant impact towards suicide. For the 2020 measurement, the value we are working toward is to reduce the rate of suicidal deaths. The baseline measurement is 11.3 suicides per 100,000 population occurred in 2007. The target is to bring suicide rates to 10.2 suicides per 100,000 population. The target- setting method is a 10 percent improvement on suicidal deaths. The data that is measured is measured by the numerator representing the number of deaths due to suicide and the denominator representing the number of people per
Suicide is a much bigger problem than society will admit; the causes, methods, and prevention need to be discussed more openly. Committing suicide probably sounds like a foreign idea to most people, but to the people who think about it, they deal with it every day. More importantly, the question is what leads people to kill themselves? In general, most people do not want to actually kill themselves, even though many people joke about it on a daily basis. Being human, we all have a certain amount of will to live.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, scientific evidence has shown that almost all people who take their own lives have a diagnosable mental or substance abuse disorder, and the majority have more than one disorder. In other words, the feelings that often lead to suicide are highly treatable. That’s why it is imperative that we better understand the symptoms of the disorders and the behaviors that often accompany thoughts of suicide. With more knowledge, we can often prevent the devastation of losing a loved one.
Suicide can be defined as an attempt to end one’s own life via inflicting oneself with some sort of injury which can lead to adverse health condition and eventually death of the patient. Various method that are employed at different occasions are Self-hanging, poisoning, gun fire, jumping from height etc. The occurrence of suicide is higher among certain cohort of population such as adolescents, elderlies, professionals, and people suffering from mental disorders. We attempt to cover various mental illnesses that can be associated with increased occurrences of suicide.