Essays on Mental Health

Chiappelli, Iribarren, Neagos, and Prolo described post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a mental disorder derived from an individual experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening occurrence (2005). However, the continued study of PTSD has redefined the definition to an individual involved in any type of trauma. Back,...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is just another affliction where people who have been in disastrous events or have been sexually abuse and physically abuse cannot forget about their past events. It is known that PTSD usually happens to the people that have lived the moment...

If you look around the room or even to the person sitting right next to you, chances are you will not assume right away that they have been through or have yet to go through a traumatic event in their given lifetime. Many are not...

Introduction Eating disorders are a subgroup of psychiatric disorders that have significant consequences on the body. Eating disorders are characterized by a psychopathology fixated on eating behaviour, weight, shape, and the individual’s efforts at controlling them. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are recognized as the...

In a city of strangers, appearance is the only characteristic feature available to assess by others. Such an epidemic where certain physical traits are categorized as perfect, cause young ones undergoing adolescence to question their self and starve for acceptance in today’s society. Dissatisfaction with...

As a teenager, every day was a struggle, every meal was a struggle, and every bite was a struggle. After every meal she would rush to the bathroom to quickly push her fingers down her throat and relieve herself of the food she had just...

As the fruits of love, babies are born every moment. Unfortunately, people die every second as well. However, the causes of death vary. In the United States, one person takes his or her own life in every fourteen point two minutes. Suicide is the third-ranking...

Teenage suicide is the number two cause of death for teens today. While the questions of why can never be answered for certain there are many risk factors that can go into what causes a teen to take their own life. I believe the main...

The tenth leading cause of death in teens around the world is not drugs or alcohol, or even illness; it is suicide. The suicide rate is so high because there are many factors that cause teens to think about, attempt, and follow through with suicide....

I never really thought about social media, or if it was good or bad. To me, it was just like a thing that was there, and everyone used it. The first really big social media site was myspace, but I wasn’t even born when it...

American Sniper is Hollywood’s portrayal of U.S. Navy Seal, Chris Kyle’s life in and out of war. Kyle’s mission is to protect his comrades at all costs, and infamously became one of the most lethal snipers in American history. Throughout the film, Kyle struggles to...

Blood pounded in his ears and his heart thudded loudly in his chest. His hands trembled. His vision marred, as if he were looking through the wrong prescription glasses. His face heated up and sweat pooled in his clammy hands. His roaring heartbeat drowned out...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health disorder that will impact roughly 8% of the U.S. adult population at some point in their lives. This statistic does not represent the millions of individuals who experience trauma every year, and do not go on to...

PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder, is a mental health disorder that affects a vast amount of people in the United States. PTSD likely goes back as far as humanity itself, given that it is a mental disorder that stems from any type of traumatic or...

‘Don’t judge the people by there ability, teach them how to learn. Every child is a special is a about the boy who has dyslexia. He is suffering from dyslexia that can’t read a letters or a numbers and can’t write. Darsheel Safary as Ishaan...

Conspiracy theories are a fascinating thing that can intrigue us when you hear their theories. To Wenner Moyer” a conspiracy theory can provide comfort by identifying a convenient scapegoat and thereby making the world seem more straightforward and controllable.” Conspiracy theories give a person hope...

Sleep Disorders Sleep is a necessary process we must carry out to sustain life. People spend one-third of their life on sleeping. It is the physical and mental resting state in which a person becomes unaware of the environment. And there is no substitution for...

For the purpose of this paper, a case study was done on a patient in recovery from alcoholism & other drug use addictions. The patient was interviewed using the Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and Epworth Sleepiness Scale to assess quality of sleep. The PSQI...

Abstract The aim of the research that was done in this paper is to find out if there is any two-direction connection between anxiousness (anxiety) and helplessness (depression) on one side while sleeplessness (insomnia) on the other side though out the time of three hundred...