Homework#3 In My Girl, Vada, the main character, lives with her father in a funeral parlor that he owns. Overtime, living in the funeral parlor, along with other factors, has caused Vada to begin to worry with the idea that she is dying. She comes up with several illness in which she believes she has. As a result, Vada makes several trips to see her doctor claiming to have symptoms of these many illnesses when in fact she might be suffering from illness anxiety disorder. Based on the observations of Vada’s behavior throughout the movie, one can conclude that she shows symptoms of illness anxiety disorder. Vada occupies her time with thoughts that she is contracting illnesses which she thinks she is dying of. She only seems to engage in this behavior when her father begins to work on another corpse. At this time, Vada will go see her doctor complaining that she shows symptoms similar to the symptoms that the person her father is preparing would have displayed. For example, when her father was working on his old high school teacher, Vada complained that she thought she had prostate cancer. She also went to her doctor after her friend Thomas J passed complaining that she could not breath and she was suffocating, a situation similar to …show more content…
One predominant factor is her living conditions. Vada lives with her father and grandmother in a funeral parlor where her dad works. At her age, Vada has yet to fully understand what death is and living in a funeral parlor might have added to her curiosity of it. Her lack of understanding death is shown when she storms into Thomas J's funeral complaining that they prepared his body incorrectly and that he did not look as he did when he was living. Also, early in the movie, she gets kids to pay her money to show them a corpse in its coffin. Instead, she pretends that the corpse moved itself and shows them her living
Whether or not she actually has this mental illness at the beginning is debatable. However, certain indications can be made that she is succumbing to hysteria throughout the story. Most apparent is the development of her excessive fascination with the yellow wallpaper in her bedroom. She uses a relatively normal choice of words to describe its repulsiveness: “The colour is a repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight,” (Gilman, 649). This preoccupation with the wallpaper became the primary focus of her writings and her thoughts during the story. The words the narrator uses to explain the wallpaper become much more obsessive, with the tiniest details, whether or not they are actually there, noticed by the narrator: “Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind [the pattern], and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast…” (Gilman, 654). This narration forces the reader to identify with this obsession with the wallpaper. It is very quickly what the story becomes to be about, even though it was originally only meant to be her journal during the Rest
“Girl,”written by Jamaica Kincaid, is a prose poem about the relationship between a mother and daughter. In reality, it reflects the actual living background in Kincaid's time by listing a series of important sentences; as read, it shows that her mother disciplined her for a certain lifestyle; moreover, now she wants the same living for her daughter. In this poem, the setting, tone, and characters engage and work together to create an acute description of a day-to-day conversation between mother and daughter.
When Sidda was young her mother Vivi had a mental breakdown and was gone from her house for months; however, they never told Sidda that this is what happened. So Sidda still believes that her mother left her. This made Sidda feel unloved as her mother never answered any of her letters or notes. She was lonely without her mother who she always loved and wanted to be like. This betrayal however changed
Reveals this recent illness, states that it is a pattern that she has had for some time. Does note some weakness, notes anxieties but not suicidal. Does notice the sore throat meaning
Having the proper documentation is a very integral component of a Josephine’s medical record because it will provide information about the care that she needs, her current status as well as communicating to others as to how well they may facilitate to her care. Each nutrition counseling session must have the correct documentation within Josephine’s medical record at all times, and must include:
When Thomas Jay suddenly and unexpectedly passes away from an allergic reaction to bee stings, Vada is torn apart by his untimely death due to the fact that Thomas and her were extremely close to one another. Vada then enters the stage of denial and grieving. She goes to visit the doctor that day in a panic complaining that she can’t breathe, that the pain from the bee stings are too much to handle. The book depicts to us that this sort of behavior being shown can be construed as externalizing the internal emotional pain she is feeling because she isn’t sure how to express herself in this certain situation. When Vada leaves the doctor’s office to return to the funeral of Thomas Jay, it is very obvious that she is not willing to accept the death of her best friend, as she still speaks to him as if he was still alive. The book tells us that both internalizing and externalizing behaviors are more likely in children who come from families with high levels of discord (Papalia, 2014, pg297). This reasoning helps explain why Vada is constantly expressing herself through internalizing and externalizing behaviors throughout the entire movie. This reasoning can also help us to understand why Vada exhibits hypochondriac behavior that causes her to believe that any disease is contagious and she inherits these diseases by being around the dead at the funeral
The mother in Girl expects a lot from her daughter, and she does not hesitate to let us readers know that. The fact that the entire two page story is essentially one sentence sends a powerful message. From the very beginning of the story, the mother orders her daughter to perform a multitude
She finds it difficult to control the worry. The anxiety and worry are associated with the following symptoms. Rosie is restless and feels keyed up and on edge. She is easily fatigued. She feels irritable and has muscle tension. She often wakes up during the night and is unable to go back to sleep. The anxiety, worry, and physical symptoms cause significant distress and impair her ability to care for her mother and children. This disturbance in not attributable to the physiological effect of a substance or other medical condition and the disturbance is not better explained by another mental
56-year-old woman in a chair her level of consciousness is responsive. The patient says she cannot breathe, airway open, noisy breathing heard breathing 30 breaths/min. Symmetrical rise and fall of the chest Circulation Carotid and radial pulses Skin color, temperature, and condition Pale, cool, and clammy. Lungs: Inspiratory and expiratory wheezes in the uppers; diminished in the bases, allergic to penicillin, medication that the patient been taking is Proventil inhaler, patient medical history is high blood pressure and asthma, last oral take was breakfast, and was sitting in a chair.
The narrator reduces to act like a petulant child, who is unable to stand up for herself without seeming disobedient or unreasonable. The narrator cannot speak out against her physician, husband, John, because he is extremely practical and of high standing. She states: “What is one to do?” (Gilman p.2), which highlights that woman during that era must give unquestioningly to male authority. This is the reason that the narrator’s health deteriorates. She retreats into her obsessive fantasy about the yellow wallpaper in her room, the only place she can keep some power and control and exercise the power of her mind. Her condition is gradually worsening and not becoming better because she is imagining that something is behind the wallpaper, a formless figure at first, which she later defines as a trapped woman. Her husband, however, believes that she will recover and get well soon if she abides by his scheduled prescription and routine and not listening to her own ‘fancies”. His oblivious behavior towards her shows that he disguises his way of helping her, which is a form of
Emily Dickinson's Obsession with Death. Emily Dickinson became legendary for her preoccupation with death. All her poems contain stanzas focusing on loss or loneliness, but the most striking ones talk particularly about death, specifically her own death and her own afterlife. Her fascination with the morose gives her poems a rare quality, and gives us insight into a mind we know very little about. What we do know is that Dickinson’s father left her a small amount of money when she was young.
Bacterial Vaginosis is a common condition. It is the most frequent vaginal complaint in women and young girls age 14 to 44. My research shows that approximately 29% of women in the US are disturbed by, bacterial vaginosis.It is found in about 25% of pregnant women in the US and approximately 60% of women who have an STD. Bacterial vagnios produces a discharge, from an overgrowth of unusual bacteria in the vagina. In the past, the condition was called gardneralla vaginitis, after the bacteria that was thought to cause the infection. Now it is called bacterial vaginosis, reflecting the fact that there are a number of bacteria that naturally live in the vaginal area and may grow out of control. The gardnerella organism is not the only villain causing the diagnostics. When these different species of bacteria become unstable, a woman can have a vaginal secretion with a vile odor. Bacterial vaginosis is
The definition of depression is an illness that causes feelings of sadness and loss of interest that last for many days. In a study from 2014 the National Institute of Mental Health found that about 15.7 million us adults over the age of 18 suffered depression at least once in the past year. The study also showed that there were more women who suffered from depression than men. No one knows the exact cause of depression, but some possible causes are stressful events, childhood trauma, and biological changes. It appears that some depression is even hereditary. The symptoms of depression include a sad or depressed mood or a marked lack of interest and pleasure in almost all activities for most of the day, nearly every day for at least two weeks. Some other symptoms of depression include loss of appetite, fatigue, difficulty sleeping, feelings of guilt or worthlessness, lack of concentration, thoughts of death, often including suicidal thoughts, plans, or a suicide attempt, headaches, stomach aches, or pains anywhere in the body (Depression). Like many other Americans Jane Kenyon suffered from depression. In a letter I received from Kenyon’s husband he said “Jane did have a good psychiatrist who prescribed medicines and helped her. Mostly she was able to work. There were times when she could do nothing but lie in
This video makes me think of my grandmother. This is the case because, as a kid I always seen my grandmother with some type of sickness. And she constantly
...dition, so the doctor thought that this weakness was the reason she died.What really killed her was being put back into the role that was forced and expected of her. When her husband walked in, all of her feminine freedom vanished.