SCARS: Healing the Broken What if I told you that you couldn’t live your life the way that you want to? --- If I told you that from the second you were created and begat that you were hated. eared. The color of your skin had a bit too much melanin in it. You couldn’t truly love anyone because who you are sexually is a bit too abrasive for our society’s liking. You couldn’t see the world the way society wanted you to. You can never be your true self because you do not fit in with our norms and as such you now must live your life through embellishments, through false hopes, bad faith, and the worst of all lies. Lies that will impact you and the people around you, your family, your friends, even strangers in the mist. It was all lies. It was …show more content…
What if I told you that you spent your entire life doing this? In a life before the existence of social media where you picked and edited the moments of your life to share with the public. Reality is too harsh and rather the true image of wishing that you had killed yourself when you had the chance years ago, wishing you had just taken one more pill or asphyxiated yourself for just one second more. Take in all of that and just edit it. Replace it with an image that had been picked, plucked, and groomed for …show more content…
I do not know what I stand for. How would I know who I am if I was raised to be worthless? I was raised… to be worthless. I was raised to believe that I couldn’t dream like the other kids. They had wanted to be astronauts, or dancers, or athletes. I couldn’t do that. I had to be reminded of what I can do. I remember my second-grade teacher telling me that I would make a great custodian. I remember my father telling a younger me how my sister was going to end up as a pediatrician when she grows up while I would end up working for McDonald’s “flipping burgers” he said. “You’ll be flipping burgers for the rest of your life” he said. This was my job outlook. This was my life. As a special education student I was bred this reality at a young age. My family was very poor. I came from a family of immigrants who did not have a cent to their names. They had believed in the “American Dream” where my parents believed that they could easily get rich quick in America and live the lives that they could not in Jamaica. Both my parents were poor throughout their lives and they had wanted to give their children better lives than the ones that they had when they were growing up. If you fast forward a bit, you now are in the year two thousand and two. My parents had to file for bankruptcy shortly after my mother had graduated from nursing school. Three years before my mother had tried to leave my abusive alcoholic father and four
Domestic violence is a way of violent and hostile behavior in a home usually a form of abuse towards the spouse. Domestic violence is not something that is new to us for many women and even men have suffered from this by their spouse. Can this living environment affect the children? Will they become abusers or maybe victims in the future due to watching their mother or father being abused or one of them abusing the other? In discussions of domestic violence, one controversial issue has been, can children living in a home where domestic violence is present be affected. Children living in a home where domestic violence is present can be very traumatic and can cause many mental, emotional and physical effects on them.
The task of identifying my social identity was easier said than done. I acknowledged the somewhat privilege I encounter along with the oppression I endure. In retrospect, my social identity unambiguously resembles a coin where on one side oppression lies with dirt rusting but on the flip side privilege stares right back at me, shining bright. I initially could not see the benefits since I’m a low income college student. I became too encompassed with one side of the coin. After we learned what the word, privilege, indeed meant, I realized the various facets of my life in which that word could apply. Self pity can greedily advance on you from out of nowhere thus averting you from flipping the coin. I familiarized with counting my struggles instead of my blessings. In accordance with my social identity I would say I’m privileged with the
Childhood Trauma is defined as “The experience of an event by a child that is emotionally painful or distressful, which often results in lasting mental and physical effects.” (The National Institute of Mental Health). Childhood trauma is an epidemic that seems to be running its way throughout the world. Childhood trauma is a worldwide problem that can affect anyone and everyone. People tend to just try and help the problems that occur due to the childhood trauma, but not the problem itself. Many of these issues will also follow the child into their adult years and will cause negative effects. This paper will discuss the negative outcomes for a child who suffers from childhood trauma, and the negative outcomes that can follow them into adulthood.
Imagine waking up everyday in a home where there is nobody you can call mom or dad. Foster care is a system in which a minor has been placed into a ward, group home, or private home of a state-certified caregiver referred to as a "foster parent". The placement of the child is usually arranged through the government or a social-service agency. The institution, group home or foster parent is compensated for expenses. The state will inform through the family court and child protection agency stand in loco parentis to the minor, making all legal decisions while the foster parent is responsible for the day-to-day care of the minor throughout the time the child is in the system.
Have you ever felt stuck? Wherever you are, it’s the absolute last place you want to be. In the book Into the Wild, Chris McCandless feels stuck just like the average everyday person may feel. Chris finds his escape plan to the situation and feels he will free himself by going off to the wild. I agree with the author that Chris McCandless wasn’t a crazy person, a sociopath, or an outcast because he got along with many people very well, but he did seem somewhat incompetent, even though he survived for quite some time.
Getting an education is essential to becoming a good social worker. Social workers need cultural competency in working with every type of population including people of different ethnicities, race, gender, sexually identity, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status. We also need enough education in order to advocate and be comfortable advocating for our clients. Our LGBT clients go through obstacles that straight people will never have to go to such as fighting for the right to marry, getting picked on in school and trying to prove to people that their sexual orientation is a real thing. The following paragraphs include how articles about the lack of social work education have affected my views about my education and my career.
Physical therapy is always full of surprises, from new advancements in technology to new and improved therapeutic techniques. Although there are fun games and new technology that physical therapists can do with patients, the main struggle for physical therapists is to motivate their patients to complete their therapy exercises both in the clinic and in the outside world. This problem is very frustrating because the doctors who work at the clinic constantly push patients to complete their therapy so that they can heal; however, when patients are stubborn and reluctant to their treatment, yet constantly complain of pain, doctors must spend more time convincing them to do the therapy rather than completing the therapy itself.
Self-care often goes over looked. However, it could be one of the most important things a healthcare professional can do for themselves and the patients. Working in healthcare often consists of long hours and lots of brain power. Your mind is always on and you are always on high alert. That can be taxing on our minds, bodies, and souls. This is where self-care comes into play. Decompression can look like many things. I some play golf. Others take bi-monthly trips to the massage parlor. Some people seek solace in prayer and meditation. It is important to understand that self-care is not limited to people who hold huge responsibilities. These are techniques everyone should utilize as much as possible.
Although homelessness is widespread and almost next to the catastrophic global hunger problems, it can be brought under control and its effect reduced to a greater percentage. By simply tracking the root causes of low wages and the lack of affordable housing as well as improving other support systems like housing vouchers and health care, homelessness can be solved.
What makes a good person good? According to WikiHow, "We should learn to define our own morals ourselves. One of the simplest ways to do so is to love others, and treat them as you would like to be treated. Try to think of others before yourself. Even doing small things daily will greatly enrich and improve your life, and the lives of others around you." This quote shows us what we need to do in order to be what society thinks as, “good". In order to be a good person, you have to do good and moral things in your society consistently. However people might think that by doing one good thing once in a while will automatically make you a “good person”, but in reality it doesn’t.
Is it an argument or something more? This has been a long time debate on a sensitive topic. Domestic violence is an ongoing epidemic and there is no right or wrong but multiple opinions clashing together.
Domestic violence is about intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior as part of a systematic pattern of power. Children who witness domestic violence can mean seeing actual incidents of physical/and or sexual abuse. That can simply mean hearing threats or hear fighting noises from the other room. Children that witness the aftermath like bruises and blood can also be affected in a traumatic way. How can children that witness and experience domestic violence develop socially?
Child abuse refers to lack of care or any type of emotional, physical or sexual mistreatment that results in emotional damage or physical injury to a child or a youth. In most countries, children are considered to be anyone below 18 years of age. Child abuse can occur directly by harming a child or indirectly by failing to prevent the child from any form of harm or injury. Child abuse can occur either in the family set up, in the community set up or in an institution such as a school. Also, children can be abused by adults or by other children or by people who know them or people who are complete strangers to them.
Mental Illness is one of the growing illness in United States. According to National Alliance of Mental Illness”1 in 5 adults experiences a mental health condition every year. 1 in 20 lives with a serious mental illness such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.” If the person has a five family member, one of them could be diagnosed with mental illness. If there is 40 students in class room at least two of them could be living with serious mental illness. Although mental illness is something that familiar to us, there is still misunderstood and stigma towards mental illness. Then why many people still have a wrong knowledge and attitude toward mental illness?
It is deeply alarming that ignoring mental health is systematically ignored as an important part of health promotion. This is shocking because, in theory, mental health is recognized as an important component of health, the close link between physical and mental health is recognized, and it is generally known that physical and mental health share many of the same social, environmental and economic components. We know that facilities dedicated to those with mental health problems are more vulnerable to the resources of physical diseases in many parts of the world, and it is essential that mental health promotion should not be equally affected