Often time’s people envision horror stories as ones that portray murder, blood, and frightening images; however Joey had a different outlook on what a horror is to him. For this young man horror is his mom getting married, and being bullied. Joey’s mom got remarried, and this changed his entire prospective of things. His life was altered completely without the realization that it was going to better him. Joey being introduced to Mr. Johnson was a positive thing; Mr. Johnson taught him responsibility, and discipline. Often time’s young men who do not have a father figure lack the necessities for becoming a man. Joey was presented the opportunity to grow in a household where he was able to have a mother, and a father figure around more often …show more content…
Kids who are bullied usually route to violence. Also, when parents are remarried children feel neglected, because there is someone new around. Being bullied and feeling left out plays a part in people’s mental health. I was able to relate this to socialism, and being socially connected. During our class discussion, it was stated reciprocity is an important factor in remaining social. We discussed in class not having someone to talk to can cause depression in people. Joey feeling alone, and feeling as if he was letting everyone down could have impacted his immune system had he allowed this issue to continue, this issue could have affected Joey’s mental state, and possibly be detrimental. In chapter 8 we discussed self-esteem, and how it contributed to our perception of our self-worth, how we empower ourselves and the ones around us, which in all actuality this goes back to our mental health. Being mentally stable plays a part in how we respond to different situations, and who we decide to have around us in order to help us. Being in a positive mindset influences our outlook on life, and how we handle different
Self-esteem is confidence in one’s own worth or abilities or self-respect. Janie from Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston and Jefferson from A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines both struggle with establishing a positive self-esteem or a sense of self-worth. Both characters get so overwhelmed by the supremacy of someone or something around them that they doubt their own power, thus, creating a feeling of doubt for themselves and the voice that they have. In order to gain a sense of high self-esteem, a person must endure points of self-doubt.
In order to comprehend this article, one must have a concept of self-esteem. Self- esteem is the personal evaluation of one’s worth as a person. Most individuals subject self-esteem as the “feeling that one is ‘good enough.” Also, individuals believe those with high self- esteem tend to believe they are superior to others, which is not necessarily true. Another inaccurate assumption on self- esteem interprets that talents and abilities are influential on self-esteem. Also, self- esteem is not
In chapter seventeen Hendrick teaches us how to read telescopically. Hendrick introduce the his lecture with four methods that can help us improve our telescopically reading. The first method involves searching for connectives. Connectives are very crucial because they symbolize a change in context. Some of the most know connectives are, therefore, and, and but. Likewise, Hendrick also mentions that we should pay attention to context. Hendrick states that when examining a verse we should read the verse before and after the verse you're reading. Additionally, Hendricks third method is evaluating the book as a whole. It would be like standing on top of a mountain and looking down to observe all the land beneath it. By establishing this method into our reading Hendrick writes that it would help us grasp the big picture. Sometimes we get so involved in the small things that we often miss the main point. Lastly, we should analyze our reading through a historical lense. Hendrick say we should ask ourselves
The main concepts of mental wellbeing are about how an individual may think and feel on a daily, weekly, or even monthly basis. How they react and cope with these thoughts and feelings, can hugely impact on their mental state of wellbeing. Different factors can contribute to a person’s mental wellbeing such as their personal relationships with others, social connections, the environment around them and their physical health. An individual must be able to identify and be confident enough to adapt to changes occurring in their life to maintain a good state of mental wellbeing. (Mind, 2016).
Over the course of a lifetime, one experiences a multitude of thoughts and emotions. Collectively, these thoughts and emotions relate to one another as they affect one’s mental health and well-being. According to the Oxford University Summer School program, “mental health refers to the psychological and the emotional well-being of an individual” (Mental Health). When one does not have a positive mental health state they struggle in quite a few areas. These areas involve coping, positivity, personal connections, expressing emotions properly, and their personal belief towards their value in society. One can cause a rift in relationships they have with others and can further deteriorate their mental health and overall well-being when they do not
Erikson states, “A person’s assessment of the importance of certain content areas in relation to others influences the use of resources, the direction of certain decisions, and the kinds of experiences that may be perceived as most personally rewarding or threatening.” Therefore, during adolescence years, individuals are challenged in finding out who they are, what they are all about, and where they see themselves in the future. While, attempting to support his extremely dysfunctional family, Gilbert often finds it impossible to find his personal identity. Gilbert’s lack of any type of social life is because of the huge amounts of pressure he has to support his family, and watch over Arnie. Gilbert has been forced to play the role of ‘dad’ ever since his dad committed suicide in the family’s basement.
School shootings and suicides result from continuous bullying. As a result, after time some side effects of...
...h make take their life. Bullying of any sort erodes one’s self-confidence and an individual may become depressed as a result. This depression may then affect their relationships and academics, furthering the problem as the demands of society weigh hard on children and teenagers. As a result, safe havens for at-risk children would be one of the best ways to rebuild their self-confidence and let them know that there are other people out there being bullied and understand what they are going through. The success with similar programs for youths who have been sexually abused, shows that there are group programs out there that have been able to help those who are most at-risk. Through the understanding of Merton’s strain theory, focusing the attention on the feelings of the children affected and by comforting them, the risk of youth suicide in North America will decrease.
Mental Health is a controversial topic among many ethnic and cultural groups all over the world. Some choose to ignore it altogether, leave it alone or consider it taboo, whereas others choose to make it important to focus on in their communities or families, since it is very important towards the growth of the body and self. It is up to the individual, regardless, to get help and assistance for any of their problems if they prevail and affect your everyday life. Self-esteem, anger, depression and stress are all very real things that we experience every day within our lives, or that we have all experienced ourselves at one point of time. To those who do not have any mental health problems or choose to ignore
Bullying is an issue that not only harms you physically but also mentally. “Bullied children are more likely than their non-bullied peers to report feelings of anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem.
2.3 Self-esteem: Rosenberg (1965) describes self-esteem that it is an overall consideration of one’s personal worth, importance, value. Sources of self-esteem comes from comparison of people with his or her own to the other people’s competencies. Main contributions to development of self-esteem is associated with social interactions and related efficient competency skills and anger management (Ausubel, 1950). Self-esteem may be shaped by a lot of events that occur in person’s life. For example, getting divorced, suffering from criminal event or losing job can have impact on loss of self-esteem.(Luciano,2014) The socialization process can influence self-esteem such as stressful life events and therefore personality character in our case self-esteem
However, school became much more difficult and not as enjoyable when Alex started bullying him. Although he was not physically bullied too much, he was still negatively affected because of Alex’s harmful words and actions. The biggest stresses in high school should be turning in homework, studying for tests, and planning for the upcoming dances and events. A student should not have to panic whenever walking down the hall. They should be greeted with “Hellos” and smiles rather than violent shoves into a locker and being called names. Because of bullies, the victims are left feeling worthless and scared. They may even fear coming to school every day. The long term effects are just as negative as the short term effects though. A child who has been bullied may suffer from a variety of mental and emotional problems later on such as depression, anxiety, and other self-esteem issues. Not to mention, some teens even take their own life due to the harassment of the bully. All this trauma takes place just because a bully felt the need to pick on a helpless classmate. These victims should be enjoying their high school years with their classmates and friends, not running away from them. What a bully does cannot be taken back, and the effects remain with the victim forever. Although it may not seem like bullying is a reoccurring issue in today’s society, it happens all
What are the reasons that lead people to depression? One of them is bullying. This is one of the main issues that happen frequently without being really recognized. Sometimes people think that children are playing with their friends while in fact they are bullying other people. When playing, they would only poke fun of others but bullies pick out other people. This is a serious problem in the world especially in school. Parents do not think about it regularly so it is now the time that they need to pay attention to this issue seriously. Bullying can ruin a person’s life and it could even lead to suicide. There was a 15 years old girl named Phoebe Prince committed suicide because she was bullied relentless (Marshall, 2010). The best solution to get rid of bullying is, first of all recognizing the causes.
A major effect of bullying is the way it can change the victim 's personality. It may cause someone who is regularly self-sufficient and full of joy to become anxious, and hesitant. Consequently, victims may even become depressed or suicidal. Their self-sufficientness could possibly flee, keeping them from experiencing
One feels bad when mistreated for no good reason in a school environment which is meant to be a learning institution. Depression is increased as mistreatment continues to be harsh and this greatly affects the performance of the victim. Some will have altered feeding and sleeping cycles. According to NICHD research “Those who bully others, those who are bullied, and those who bully and are bullied—are at increased risk for depression.” This proves that a victim or even the bully is at a great risk of being depressed. (“How Does Bullying Affect Health & Well-being?”). I vividly remember coming home from school almost every single day feeling depressed. I would not be able to anything all day other than cry and feel lonely. Everyday I went to school it become worse for me. I thought that high school would be a new start and I would do just fine but I was wrong. The students always wanted to start drama to look “cool” and with my luck they would always pick on me. I was again, called mean names but it didn 't stop there. Everyday I experienced something new I would be pushed around during lunch lines and I would always get dirty looks and when I walked to my class I would get called a “terrorist” just because of my religion. I started feeling sad and depressed and everyday it got worse. I started