Schizophrenia: The Disease and Treatment Options
Leann was a beautiful 17-year- old with a great future ahead of her. She was the star of TV commercials, and sang in the high school choir. She was the envy of all the schoolgirls and the teachers' favorite. She lived in Crawford, Colorado and helped her family on the farm. She had high hopes of becoming a beautician and hairdresser and going on to college or technical school to develop her talent.
Now, at age 45 she lives in an apartment in an assisted living center in Grand Junction, where she has lived for the last 23 years of her life. She endures the multitude of medications. She sits in her room, writes songs and sends them to famous country singers, like Toby Keith, hoping to hear her song on the radio someday. She walks downtown to the swimming pool and goes for a swim every once in a while during the hot summer days. She tries to live as normally as she can.
About every night we get a call at our house around 6:00 every evening. On good nights she talks about her day and asks us how we are, and what we are going to do the next day. She talks about how she sent her song to some singer and sent something else to the White House. She tells me that I should go to Mesa State College and study to be a hairdresser. On bad nights, however, it is a totally different story.
During one of her bad night conversations, she talks about off the wall things that none of my family can understand. She talks about how she thinks my sister can "call events" (tell the future) and how somebody told her that it was true. We try to tell her that my sister can't tell the future, but she doesn't believe us. She talks about how people just come into her apartment and harass her. She thinks that everything she sees is connected with some big plan or conspiracy against her. Often, she will be talking about one thing, and then giggle and just jump to something totally different.
All the random changes in subjects and crazy ideas are typical to those who suffer from paranoid schizophrenia, a disorder that affects over 2 million Americans (Mayo Clinic, 1998). Often Leann hears voices and sees people who do not exist and that is how she gets all her ideas about her or others reading minds and telling the future.
She was raised by her father on a vineyard in California. After attending summer camp she goes and lives with her mother, Elizabeth James, who she has never truly met
Jenni endured a lot of struggles growing up in Long Beach. Jenni grew up in poverty even with both parents working one to three jobs at a time. She would help sell cassette tapes at flea markets with her parents to make money. She was a normal girl in Long Beach until she turned 15. At age 15 after dating for 2 months she became pregnant with her first kid. Traditionally she was kicked out of her house which caused even ...
I have only seen two anxiety attacks and a few incidents of her bi-polar symptoms, and at that time I did not understand her behavior, but I understood something was wrong. I thought to myself that she may be having a rough day, or that she is physically sick, but the idea of a mental sickness never occurred to me. Confusion and frustration took over me; accepting a mentally-ill loved one is extremely challenging, even as a friend. Sometimes, I thought that she may be faking it, or she just said she had these mental disorders for
In my lifetime, I have spent months with my Grandmother, Florence Ernstead, who is a diagnosed paranoid delusional schizophrenic. During this time I have realized that schizophrenics have difficulty realizing the seriousness of their disorders. This inability to acknowledge a problem is known by psychiatrists as lack of insight.
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In the early 1940’s Marie was born into a small tight knit family living in a small rural Kentucky town. Marie is now in her seventies and has led a very interesting life traveling the country, raising four children, and shaping her chosen profession. Our interview sessions were conducted over a period of time, as Marie is very active and has little “free time” to spare.
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... would suggest is sleeping medication because she has not slept for five days, so her sleep needs to be taken care of first. Family-focused therapy will be necessary to solve the environmental influences that shaped her while she was a child, particularly the rules imposed on her by her parents. It will improve her relationship and communication with her parents. However, it would be a better option to start with interpersonal and social rhythm first. That way, she would establish a schedule that could improve her sleep, cognition, and social relationships. Since this is not the first time this kind of behavior has occurred in her life, she needs to sort it out before starting family-focused therapy. She needs to have clear cognition and proper reasoning before solving the environmental issues her parents had created with their over-demanding and overprotective rules.
Delusion and hallucination in their different forms are the major symptom of psychotic disorders. There is a growing evidence however that these symptoms are not exclusively pathological in nature. The evidences show that both delusion and hallucination occur in a variety of forms in the general population. This paper presents and analyzes the relationship between the above major psychotic symptoms with normal anomalous experiences that resembles these symptoms in the normal population.
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For the purposes of this research, the focus will be on infertility among women of childbearing
Feminism, what is it and how did it developed? Feminism is a women's right movement and it’s goal may differ by era it is found but one continuity is to seek equality for women after a certain perceived. Thus it certainly did not developed overnight nor did it stayed the same throughout the ages. Feminism empowers women against oppressive sexism but what is the definition of the word “women”? Some define the word “women” by sex while others define ‘women” by gender. Sex and gender may seem similar yet they are different which can exclude some people if the only one of those definition is used. Sex is the physical and biological aspect that differentiate men and women by reproductive organ shape while gender is a social construction that assign feminine roles to women and masculine role to men. If you define women by sex you exclude male to female transgendered people and infertile women while if you used gender to define women you exclude “masculine” women. In reality the definition of women is most likely inclusive of both sex or gender as it includes those that are biologically women (but may not conform to the gender role) or gender (which includes those who self identify as female). For such a simple term it requires a bit of thinking and by answering who is a women we also get the answer of who benefits from feminism.
...ceive the right to vote, yet expanding their intentions soon after. They have achieved many things they have set out for and continue to fight to maintain them as well. Feminists have set it to where even men can be positively affected by these acts, whether it is for work, relationships, or any other things. It sets both genders on an equal scale to cooperate with one another. Some receive the wrong idea about feminists and their values but feminism is not about hating men. It is not about losing your femininity. It is about equality. Which is something that we still need (Peck, telegraph.co.uk). In short, Equal rights continues to be debated as disputes still occur regarding the topic but feminists have made it so if a major issue between genders occurs once more, women will have a louder voice, a more educated opinion, and valid sources to back themselves up.