Around 3% of the United States’ population is diagnosed with paranoid personality disorder. Another 1% suffer from a psychotic disorder. Let me elaborate; that’s more than 9 million constantly cautious people who literally can not put their trust in others, and another 3 million antisocial, emotionally-shallow people who can even turn violent in their depravity, simply not caring for others. The connection between the two is clear; psychotic individuals tend to have more paranoia. With psychosis and paranoia being so common, there is no true surprise that Ted, from, “The Diary”, suffers from both. His paranoia, along with the possibility of his murder, triggers his inner psychotic tendencies and causes him to lose his reason. Although he may have been poorly acting in self defense, he still reacted excessively by behaving outright paranoid and psychotic. …show more content…
He’s suspicious, reluctant, and quite doubtful. He’s so skeptical he can’t even trust his own marital partner. He constantly needs to be relied on and is unnaturally bothered when he sees “she had been very able to get along without me,”(6). Ted even agrees when he thinks, “maybe that was what really worried me,”(6). In addition, he often reads imaginary, contemptful remarks in Agnes’s simplest, honest gestures. He dwells about how her smile “wasn’t very friendly,”(16) or, “how quick her kiss had been,”(10). His paranoia is proven more so when he starts to become suspicious, but is too reluctant to confront her about it. Instead, he remains silent and consequently suffers. The cycle of paranoid suspicions along with his reluctance to solve the problem causes Ted to mentally deteriorate, and then resort to a much more impulsive, psychotic
Forcing someone to take medication or be hospitalized against their will seems contrary to an individual’s right to refuse medical treatment, however, the issue becomes complicated when it involves individuals suffering from a mental illness. What should be done when a person has lost their grasp on reality, or if they are at a risk of harming themselves or others? Would that justify denying individuals the right to refuse treatment and issuing involuntary treatment? Numerous books and articles have been written which debates this issue and presents the recommendations of assorted experts.
In “Schizophrenia” by Jim Stevens, The personification of the house adds an eerie feeling to the poem. It grabs you in from an unexpected angle and forces you to think about the poem more in depth. The repetition of “It was the house that suffered the most” at the beginning and end of the poem emphasizes on the damage done to the house; it makes you think about why the house suffered the most. The people within the house are characterized to be angry people, from the first line, “begun with slamming doors”, you can tell that the people within aren't happy. The way the speaker expresses how “the house divided against itself” tells the reader that the people didn’t get along and grew separate. When the speaker illustrates the condition of the
The first theory to explain some of Ted's behavior is that of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs which focuses on describing the stages of growth in humans using the terms physiological, safety, belongingness, self esteem, self actualization and self transcendence. Ted had the necessities of life and shelter, and was therefore satisfied in his physiologi...
... ahead of his men ever again, the letters he carried were only ten ounces but probably felt like a 1000 pounds. The morning after Ted was shot, Cross-burned his letters and even though he knew that he would always remember Martha, it meant a passage a lifting of the burden. No more wanting at night, no more wishing he was with her, no more letting his men die because of his love. He decided that he would become straighter, harder, a real leader even if his men didn’t like it. He would move on to the next village and after that the next until his tour was up and never again did he want to lose another man.
For instance, Ted Lavender was afraid of death. Jimmy cross dreams about the girl Martha and loses consciousness while marching and sitting. He also had some wild fantasies about her. He is a careless officer who doesn't pay attention, no matter how hard he tries. He felt guilty about the death of his coworker, Ted Lavender.
The first indication of fear transpires as Teddy suspects his paper world would likely be interpreted as inappropriate by his uncle, creating anxiety and unease within him of being criticized. While awaiting his uncle’s reaction regarding his activities in the attic, Teddy was pondering “if his uncle saw them, or even destroyed them”, revealing Teddy’s worries of being exposed, fearing his uncle may label him as immature upon discovering it. Furthermore, Teddy is fearful of his paper world being discovered due to the fear that his enthusiasm for the world would fade if it were to be revealed, as he bears a strong obsession with it, and considers it his second world. He yearns for his uncle to disregard his paper world, as “Theodoresburg had been growing for a year, and often it seemed more real than the town …. in which he lived in.” Teddy feared his uncle would ruin his fixation with his paper world, regarding his it as an equivalent to the real world, which is indicative of Teddy’s immaturity, cherishing a world that does not exist. Teddy’s fear of his paper world being exposed to his uncle is conspicuous, as he is petrified of his uncle discovering it, symbolizing society’s expectation of
Her tense mind is then further pushed towards insanity by her husband, John. As one of the few characters in the story, John plays a pivotal role in the regression of the narrator’s mind. Again, the narrator uses the wallpaper to convey her emotions. Just as the shapes in the wallpaper become clearer to the narrator, in her mind, she is having the epiphany that John is in control of her.
The concept of the delusional disorder has both a very short history, formally, but a very long history when one integrates reports and observations over the last 150 years. The term of delusional disorder was only coined in 1977. Manschreck (2000) used this term to describe an illness with persistent delusions and stable course, separate though from delusions that occur in other medical and psychiatric conditions. However, the concept of paranoia has been used for centuries. Originally, the word paranoia comes from Greek para, meaning along side, and nous, meaning mind intelligence (Munro, 1999). The Greeks used this term to describe any mental abnormalities similar to how we use the word insanity. In the modern world, the term reappeared ...
According the fourth edition diagnostic manual of mental disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 2000), the category psychotic disorders (Psychosis) include Schizophrenia, paranoid (Delusional), disorganized, catatonic, undifferentiated, residual type. Other clinical types include Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Affective Disorder/Manic depression, mania, Psychotic depression, delusional (paranoid) disorders. These are mental disorders in which the thoughts, affective response or ability to recognize reality, and ability to communicate and relate to others are sufficiently impaired to interfere grossly with the capacity to deal with reality; the classical and general characteristics of psychosis are impaired reality testing, hallucinations, delusions, and illusions. Mostly, these are used as defining features of psychosis even if there are other psychotic symptoms that characterise these disorders (L. Bortolotti, 2009).
The most desirable way to describe Ted Lavender was scared. They were all scared. Scared of dying. The most suitable way for Lavender to deal with this scared feeling was to carry tranquilizers and about 6 ounces of marijuana. He also carried more than the required amount of ammunition.
Another theory that could provide insight into understanding Bundy’s serial killer tendencies is called the Organized/Disorganized Theory. This theory hypothesizes that serial killers are either organized or disorganized offenders and a careful examination of a crime scene and available forensic evidence will indicate their personality and behavioral characteristics (Vronsky 2013). Ted Bundy would be classified as an organized defender under this theory because he had above average intelligence, was socially competent and lived what looked to be an average life. The crime scene of an organized offender suggests the killer planned his attack, bringing a weapon with him as well as taking it with him when he leaves. Bundy’s carefully planned out use of a sling on his arm to entrap his victim in his car or other confined space and his subsequent use of a weapon to bludgeon the confined victims fits the criminal profile of an organized serial
Ted’s breakup with his girlfriend was a huge deal to him. It seemed that his problems really came to surface after this point. He became quite dysfunctional at the time. The breakup could be marked under Axis III (Comer, 2011). This is a general medical condition that Ted suffers from as an adult.
In the late 1970’s Hans Eysenck modified his two dimensional model of personality to allow for a third trait known as Psychoticism. This trait, now a part of Eysenck’s Psychoticism-Extraversion-Neuroticism model of psychology, is a pattern located in personality that Eysenck found and defined as the aggressive part of personality. It is from psychoticism that Eysenck believed all hostility in humans derived from. From Eysenck’s studies in the development of psychosis he began to form a theory that there was a correlation between high levels of this particular trait and the development of mental problems such as schizophrenia. He also believed that psychoticism was grounded into genetic biology. He studied whether directly related individuals shared high levels of psychoticism and, if this formed a true correlation, that he could then find the element of the genetic structure of human beings that housed psychoticism. Over time Eysenck began to see similarities to other factor models of personality such as the three-factor model developed by Auke Tellegen. This was seen by Eysenck in the fact that psychoticism can be further broken down into smaller traits such as impulsiveness through the use of factor analysis. From this point impulsiveness may be dismantled even further by dividing it into pieces such as rick-taking for example. It is from this point that Eysenck’s critics have found that they believe the trait by itself is too broad to be defined as a single trait. Most critics of Eysenck’s theory of psychoticism as a facet of personality agree that the large amount of correlation to other, further defined models means that psychoticism requires more factor analysis to adequately describe personalit...
Ted is deeply in love with his wife Elsie, and the reader sees this through his thoughts and actions throughout the story. Ted feels sexual lust every time his wife walks in front of him. The reader sees this at the beginning of the story: