forms of mental ill health 1.1 describe the main types of mental ill health according to the psychiatric (DSM/ICD) classification system: mood disorders‚ personality disorders‚ anxiety disorders‚ psychotic disorders‚ substance-related disorders‚ eating disorders‚ cognitive disorders | There are many different conditions/symptoms that are recognised by the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM) or the international classification of disease (ICD) as mental ill health.MOOD DISORDERS:-the
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culture‚ and knowledge can influence the stigmas about the mentally ill especially when it is negative and not positively informative. This can cause an individual to not want to seek help or disclose to family that they need care and this limits their access to care. Discriminatory practices are common in the work environment that can cause a person to not be hired for a job as the company believes the stigma-myth that a mentally ill individual is unreliable and unpredictable‚ and may pose a threat
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A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind Matthew A. Killingsworth* and Daniel T. Gilbert nlike other animals‚ human beings spend a lot of time thinking about what is not going on around them‚ contemplating events that happened in the past‚ might happen in the future‚ or will never happen at all. Indeed‚ “stimulus-independent thought” or “mind wandering” appears to be the brain’s default mode of operation (1–3). Although this ability is a remarkable evolutionary achievement that allows people to learn
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Why is Smoking Bad For You ? You know that smoking is one of the worst things kids or adults can do to their bodies.Then‚ why do you smoke? I think‚ you have not really become conscious about all the effects’ smoking.Whereas‚ there are a lot of harm of smoking.Some of them are that smoking affects your healt‚you spend a lot of Money‚you make some rude behaviours people around you. The first reason “Why is smoking bad for you?” is that‚ smoking is responsible for several
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Was Hitler mentally ill? There is a great deal of debate on whether Adolf Hitler might have been mentally ill. Several books were written on this issue and one of them‚ The Medical Casebook of Adolf Hitler by Leonard L. Heston‚ MD‚ and Renate Heston‚ RN‚ suggested that Hitler did not suffer from bipolar‚ schizophrenic‚ paranoid schizophrenic or Parkinson’s disease. He was diagnosed as a chronic addict to amphetamine and barbiturate. The authors offered numerous clues to this addiction. Hilter
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social ills. What isyour opinion? Support youranswer with examples. Youshould write at least 350 words. [60 marks] 3. Definition • digital products‚ communication device/ application/ service ICT • radio‚ TV‚ mobile phone‚ satellite system‚ Internet‚ computer‚ software • causing troubles or suffering to the society and relations betweensocial ills people • truancy‚ violence‚ erosion of culture‚ drug abuse‚ cyber-relationship 4. OUTLINE agree : ICT is the cause of today’s many social ills addiction
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According to Nagaraja D‚ 2008 an individual suffering from mental illness is entitled with the same dignity and respectable behaviour as any other human being. Just because a person is mentally ill does not make him worthless. A mentally ill persons rights flow from the basic right to life as in Article 21 of the constitution which includes right to living accomodation ‚ food water medical treatment education‚ acceptable livelihood‚ income and compatible life‚ right to privacy‚ speedy trial‚ information
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The article I chose to read on the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill was entitled: “Victimization of the Mentally Ill: An Unintended Consequence of Deinstitutionalization”. According to this article‚ one issue the deinstitutionalization brought about that affected communities was the increased number of displaced‚ homeless‚ mentally ill patients. Because so many of these patients are left untreated‚ they are unable to cope in a normal society‚ often causing these deinstitutionalized patients
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A A Better Life For The Mentally Ill John Henry Ruffin II Devry University A Better Life for the Mentally Ill Mentally ill individuals in America are forced to endure numerous forms of abuse and do not receive the proper care they require and deserve. In the past‚ the “insane” members of society have been treated horribly by the people that live within their communities. Today‚ There are many different treatment options available to the mentally ill individuals that require help to live
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that executing the insane is unconstitutional. However‚ if an inmate’s mental competency has been restored‚ he or she can then be executed. Inmates who are intellectually disabled (mentally retarded) also cannot be executed. Inmates who are mentally ill‚ but not insane‚ have no such exemption. Being in the mental health field for
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