The Best Kept Secret On Campus Summary

In Rosie Anaya’s research paper of The Best Kept Secret on Campus, she developed a statement that any person who has psychological problems need to seek professional help to cure the disease. On the contrary, the author Michael Chabon states in his story XO9 that not all mental problems need to be cure and that some obsessions have their better use. In Anaya’s research, she highlights her opinion that anybody, especially college students as in her paper, who face mental illness, commonly depression and anxiety, must acquire assistance to cope with their issues. The issues may differ between students, some might be having mild depression or anxiety due to examinations or assignments, while some might suffer a more chronic bipolar disorder that

The reasons for this thoughts may be vary from person, for some might get depressed because of poor performance in the college and others may be affected by peer pressure and, in fact, there are countless possible reasons of why they people get depressed. Nonetheless, a suicide will definitely traumatize others-parents, life partners, siblings, the suicide eyewitnesses, friends and, if the victim received professional assistance, their psychiatrists. This situation is ‘unfair’ because one’s action of taking owns life create a dark memory of the incident, thus traumatizing others close to them. An article from Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior

He wrote the story of the life of his grandmother, father, son and himself having the OCD. In the final part of his story, he claims that the ‘disease’ helped him to cope with the life of a writer for it helped him not to give up on his writing and to keep on with his career. From Chabon’s perspective, he consider his OCD as a positive yet an irritating aspect in his life and from his point of view, it looks like he does not need a cure for his problem. Although, we can’t link the exasperating OCD with the chronic bipolar disorder. Chabon’s stand on his claim was due to the fact that the XO9 in his family was merely an idiosyncrasy in his family members. It, the OCD, does not threat any life but it does threaten the nerves of others in withstanding people with