Introduction: Subject 1 is 26 year old female with mental and physical problems. Who lives with her sister, mother, and father in an apartment. Subject 2 is subject 1 mother. This subject is 57 years old and still takes care of her adult children as if they was children. Subject 3 is a 69 year old woman who lives with her husband and two dogs. All three subjects are my friends that I have known for over 5 years. I spent about 3 hours with subject 1 and 2, and I spent an hour and a half with subject 3. All three subjects were interviewed in their own homes in person.
Subject 1 (S1) Subject 2 (S2) Subject 3 (S3)
Questions: 1: Is it more fun being an adult or a child?
S1: adult, no curfew.
S2: Being an adult is difficult when you have kids, but she wouldn’t change it. Being a kid was fun. But having kids is advantageous because you get to take them places and you get to be there for the milestones.
S3: adult, you can always have a juvenile side, but kids don’t have adults through.
Question 2: Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
S1: marry, have a job, living in a big house with 5 kids. And 2 dogs and a parrot
S2: Hopeful still doing what I am doing now, taking care of children. And helping them out with the difficulties of life.
S3: as making a full circle with her life. Looking forward to the next life to come and waiting for heaven.
Question 3: What has been the most important days in your life so far?
S1: losing her grandfather
S2: getting married and having her 2 children. Both of these things made her life worth living
S3: graduation from high school, marriage, having her children, expecting Jesus as her savior and seeing me get my licenses.
Interview 1 and 2: Both of these subjects were interviewed together in a group ...
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...eliance. She will consider it as if she fell.
Subject 3 I am putting her in stage 8, late adulthood. Where the crisis is integrity or despair. I am putting her in the integrity part because every question was a happy memory and no questions arise where her question herself or her decision. Her decisions are for the greater good of everyone close to her.
Conclusion: I have learned that mental illness can cause major setbacks in how people think and behave. After talking to subject 2 about her daughter subject 1. After the interview I learned that the doctors has put subject 1 mind set as a 10-12 year old. Subject 2 said that because all of subject 1 problems, the doctors couldn’t say for sure how old they thought she was or if she would ever be able to fully be able to change her mindset. After learning this information, it confirmed my idea of where she was in life.
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