This memoir was written to bring awareness to the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) through one individual’s personal struggle to overcome and recover for the disorder. “Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a condition characterized by difficulties in regulating emotion. This difficulty leads to severe‚ unstable mood swings‚ impulsivity and instability‚ poor self-image and stormy personal relationships” (NAMI…). Along with unstable emotional investigations‚ the memoir addresses
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Can good‚ moral‚ and virtuous people be pushed to do bad things? This article seeks to compare an experiment done in 1971 to a real life military situation during wartime. The article also tries to link the experiment to another horrible act done by someone suffering from various mental illnesses with extremely mixed results. Is there a correlation between these three events as far as the mental states of the participants? The article starts off telling the story of Sergeant John M Russell taking
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A Distance Ourselves from Homelessness We see them almost everywhere! We can hear them around the corner‚ and we see their shadow from far away. We try to avoid looking directly into their eyes‚ and we pretend we did not hear them when they talk to us. We walk around the block to avoid them‚ and walk faster to leave them behind. These people that we consider to be invisible are actually homeless human beings. Homelessness in America remains an issue of deep concern in the 21st century. Without
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This case scenario focusses on Pabla a 20-year-old man of Cuban/Haiti national‚ who attends the project for food. Pabla lived in Peckham with his mum‚ dad and 17-year-old brother Pedro before becoming homeless 3 weeks ago as a result of him admitting his sexuality to his family as being gay. He studies History at the university and manages to attend lectures. He uses the university facilities to wash and stays in the library overnight for warmth. Pabla admitted to have been using drugs in particularly
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According to Portsmouth Police Detective Holley the following occurred in the city of Portsmouth “On January 14‚ 2016 at approximately 1010‚ Detective Holley came into contact with Taylor Baker (suspect) at 2801 Turnpike Rd (New Directions). Detective Holley was called to the office due to Taylor Baker’s defiant nature and failure to obey the commands of the Office Manager K. Diggs. Detective Holley observed Ms. Diggs ask Taylor to leave her office and even attempt to close the door to keep her
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Presenting Problem: Peter John‚ a 47-Year-Old-Latino male‚ was referred to the clinical social workers at Primary Care Northside by the clinic’s primary physician. Pater and his wife have been arguing about parenting issues and finances since Paul‚ their 17-year-old son‚ expressed interest in out-of-state universities. Peter wants to transfer their two children to a cheaper private school. Also‚ Peter’s mother (75-year-old) was recently diagnosed with liver cancer. A year ago‚ Peter’s father (65-year-old)
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Mr. Sullivan is a 62 year old male who presented to the ED via LEO under IVC from DayMark. According to IVC paperwork Mr. Sullivan reports suicidal ideation and homicidal ideation with a to stab himself in the heart or or run his car into a car into a telephone pole sometime this week. At the time of the assessment Mr. Sullivan denies suicidal ideation‚ homicidal ideation‚ and symptoms of psychosis. He states‚ "I don’t really want to do it‚ I told my doctor that ( referring to not wanting to harm
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Client S.D. is a 16 year old African American/ Puerto Rican female. She was adopted by her adoptive mother when she was six months old. She remains connected with her biological father. The client attends an alternative high school for students with low grade point averages or insufficient credit to proceed to the nest grade. The client has discussed her concerns of being diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and how it has affected her in school. She’s expressed that her marijuana
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In today’s population one out of every five individuals become homeless. Richard LeMieux was a successful businessman who went homeless after his company failed. He depicts the struggles of a homeless man; providing insights based on his own personal experience. He expresses how by passers walk on by without a second look in pity when he was in desperate need. Richard depicts how people‚ whether fortunate or unfortunate‚ encounter hardships in some point in their life. Richard finds himself
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Mary Ann Easterling said of her late husband‚ former NFL safety Ray Easterling‚ “It amazed me to think about what he dealt with every day inside his head”. Ray played with the Atlanta Falcons and helped the team set records that have yet to be broken. Remembered for giving his all on the field‚ Ray played through injuries and concussions until the threat of paralysis forced him to retire. Due to the repetitive trauma inflicted on Easterling’s brain he suffered from insomnia which led to depression
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