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    something means to get better or to heal. Recovery is easy to understand when you can see the person’s wombs heal and go away‚ but how can one tell when someone is in recovery when their wombs are invisible to the outside. Mental illness can be said to be one of those invisible womb. Mental illness is often it is an illness that goes not talked about in certain communities and cultures. Addicts abuse certain substance to avoid the reality they have a mental illness‚ but when they seek treatment for

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    Running head: CODEPENDENCY AND THE FAMILY ILLNESS CONCEPT OF ADDICTION 1 The Family Illness Concept Josie L. Fludd‚ CHD275 - Lesson 4 Advanced Theory and Techniques In the Treatment of the Chemical Dependent CODEPENDENCY AND THE FAMILY ILLNESS CONCEPT OF ADDICTION 2 After reading the assigned chapters‚ I learned that the relationship between alcohol/drug abuse and family dynamics is both extremely complex and poorly understood. A conservative

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    them. The sun‚ the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. A very good morning to one and all. Today I’m here to share my views with you on the topic “when we heal the earth‚ we heal ourselves.” I have come to believe that the physical destruction of the earth extends to us‚ too. If we live in an environment that’s wounded--where the water is polluted‚ the air is filled with soot and fumes‚ the food is contaminated with

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    Reflection Paper I haven’t had much personal experience with anyone that has a mental Illness diagnosis‚ nor have I been diagnosed with one. However‚ I work with a young female that we will call Jen. Jen has been diagnosed with Bipolar and Depression. I interviewed Jen and I will let her describe her diagnosis‚ her symptoms‚ how she has learned to cope with them‚ and the medications that she is taking to manage her symptoms. "My name is Jen and I am Bipolar. I also suffer from severe

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    prevalence of mental illness and substance abuse disorders among the Pacific Islanders‚ with specific reference to Fiji as the study population. INTRODUCTION: In order to discuss mental illness we first have to know what mental health is. Mental health is basically the well being of our cognitive functions as well as our emotional status including how we think‚ feel and behave. For some people mental health means the absence of mental infirmities. Mental health also

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    psychological treatment. To give your friend some perspective‚ describe how mental illness has been viewed historically‚ and what effect these views have had on the treatment of the mentally ill. Mental illness has not always been as widely accepted as it is today. It took some time for psychological and humane treatments to settle into the minds of those who were considered normal. Today there is hardly as much of a stigma attached to mental disorders as there used to be. Animism was a belief that everyone

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    Mental Illness and Physical Illness Physical and mental illness were thought to be combined until the late 1800’s. Starting in the Middle Ages‚ the mentally and physically ill were treated inhumane and were believed to be supernatural (Timeline: Treatments for Mental Illness). During the 1600’s‚ Europeans began to isolate the mentally and physically ill and frequently chained them to walls and put them into asylums.. When put in the asylums‚ they were with criminals and the less fortunate. They were

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    Societies’ Views on Mental Illness Societies have been dealing with social issues throughout history. Whether it has been social class‚ civil rights‚ tradition‚ or religious conflict‚ societies have been trying to either over come the issues or change them all together. One social issue‚ in particular‚ that societies of been trying to deal with is people having some sort of mental illness. Historians‚ researchers‚ and psychiatrists‚ such as Karl Menninger‚ can date cases of mental illness in India from

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    misunderstanding of mental illnesses and how individuals experiencing symptoms are affected. Specifically with the up and downs of bipolar disorder‚ schizophrenia and many individuals associate the disorders with certain aspects only due to mainstream media. These mental illnesses manifest themselves vastly different in each individual with the given disorder. Society needs to work on better understanding the true symptoms of an individual with these mental illnesses. As time progresses‚ mental illness has become

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    During the Antebellum period in the southern regions of the United States‚ medical knowledge was primitive. Physicians used methods of healing backed up by little to no scientific research or evidence of true effectiveness. Among these were bleeding and purging‚ techniques of severing a patient’s skin in order to let the disease escape the body (Fitzgerald 47). Many African Americans had already been diagnosed with a variety of blood disorders‚ including hemophilia‚ thus giving them better knowledge

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