Manic-depressive illness commonly known as bipolar disorder is a condition affecting a person’s ability to function by altering mood and energy levels. Bipolar disorder is one of the most severe forms of mental illness affecting an average of 5.7 million adults or 2.6 percent of the population over the age of 18 in any given year. (NIMH 2008) If left untreated it can have a profound impact on its victim’s lives‚ ultimately resulting in a 15% suicide rate of people between the ages of 15-24. (Long
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scientific and technological advancements have fueled debates among theologists and the scientific community; Entwistle explores these conflicts as well as how they have fed into the views and debates of current time with regard to psychology and Christianity in his book Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity. Through this text he seeks enlightenment‚ and answers to the doubts that the two disciplines can both exist‚ in concert‚ without the view that if one is correct the other must
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Unit 4222-264 The principles of infection prevention and control Outcome 1 Understand roles and responsibilities in the preventiont and control of infections 1.1. Explain employee’s roles and responsibilities in relation to the prevention and control of infection. Infection is a major cause of human suffering. Even relatively minor infections can become more serious‚ leading to major infection and can‚ in some cases‚ lead to patient death. In addition to patient suffering‚ infection causes
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occurs to people in any situation; some being dealt with positively while others in an hyperbolic way. In “The Fall of the House of Usher‚” Edgar Allan Poe creates a metaphor of the codependence of one’s mind and body through the use of the Usher twins. First‚ the twins are bond together in an excessive mean that the two are as of one psychologically unfit person. The relation of the two Usher siblings is not alluded to until later in the
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the effective dose is measured in micrograms (ug) -- however‚ the lethal dose is literally thousands of times that‚ making the drug essentially non-toxic. LSD is non-addictive‚ and there have been only a few cases of possible overdose where people ingested extremely large amounts of the drug (Alan et al.‚ 1978; Griggs et al‚. 1977). LSD can be administered a number of ways‚ the most common : orally though paper‚ sugar cubes‚ on a piece of gelatin‚ or by pill ; intravenously or intramu
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Mental Illness Paper Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is real illness that can be treated with medicine and therapy. When have OCD‚ you have recurring‚ upsetting thoughts (called obsessions). You repeat doing the same thing‚ over and over again (called compulsions) to make the thoughts go away. And‚ you feel like you cannot control or stop these thoughts or actions. The obsessions‚ or upsetting thoughts‚ can include things like a fear of germs‚ a fear of begin hurt‚ a fear of hurting others
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D1: Evaluate the regulation of care provision for looked after children and young people. The organisation that support carers and who regulates them include: The General Social Care Council (GSCC) is responsible for the registration of all people who work in social services in England and for regulating their education and training. This includes those working with adults and with children. Local Authority Children’s Services: Ofsted are responsible for the inspection of local authority arrangements
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Lyme Disease Lyme Disease An emerging public health concern in the New River Valley is the increase in reported cases of Lyme disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)‚ “Lyme disease is the most commonly reported vectorborne illness in the United States‚” although it is concentrated primarily in only thirteen states. The New River Valley reported a record number of cases in 2012‚ and is considered endemic to Lyme disease per the Virginia Department of Health
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A mental illness‚ according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (2014)‚ is “a condition that impacts a person’s thinking‚ feeling or mood and may affect his or her ability to relate to others and function on a daily basis” (para. 1) There are many different illnesses and each has its own side effects. Each persons experience could also be different‚ although the same disease may be present. What stays the same‚ however‚ is the impact that mood disorders have on the family. Left untreated‚
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why this was happening‚ or what to do‚ she instinctively got him out of the car and screamed for help. “Angels sent by God” is how she describes the citizens that came to assist her in this time of need. Ironically these angels were exactly the people she needed to aid her in this crisis: A parent who has had experience with a child with seizures of her own‚ an off duty EMT‚ and a concerned gas station attendant who ran to keep her calm and prayed with her. They all stayed with her until the ambulance
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