“HE’S GOT THE WORLD ON TWO STRINGS”(pg21). Steve Lopez and Nathaniel Ayers go through a lot since Steve met Nathaniel a homeless man whole plays the violin in downtown Los Angeles. Nathaniel is a homeless man who has paranoid schizophrenia travels downtown Los Angeles pushing his cart with his violin in it. Steve is a writer works for the Los Angeles Times and is always looking for a story for he can write for his column. Both Nathaniel and Steve create a friendship even though with all the challenges but in the book The Soloist it shows how they created a friendship. Even though in The Soloist they talk about how mental illness is a choice, force medication to treat the illness, and the way people treat you.
Mental illness can be a curse if it happens to you or anyone that you know and in The Soloist Nathaniel was one of the people to get a mental illness. Nathaniel Ayers is one of the many people to get a mental illness and it affected him in many way like being homeless and ruin his possible career in music. In The Soloist Steve Lopez said, “Mental illness doesn 't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like an unexpected storm, dropping an endless downpour on young
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One of my friends had a mental illness and people were treating him in a different ways that it was kinda of bad. The way people treated him was that they would not get near him because they fear that he was dangerous person. Also at time he did not understand why people did not want to talk to him or to become his friend. In The Soloist is said, “I think these children of God are going to be okay,”he says. “They’re going to sleep and dream, like humans beings do.”(pg 70).The significance of this quote is that it represent how that every single person are equal to one another and that they have to be seen the
For some, it can be a positive experience. In this excerpt from “The Ecology of a Cracker Childhood”, Ray’s father writes to her when she asked of him to speak about his experience as a person who dealt with his own mental illness. “Mental illness, or nervous breakdown as some call it, is nothing to be afraid of, or to put it in better perspective, nothing to live in fear of. In some ways, it is like death. Natural death comes in stages – stage one gets you ready for stage two and so on until the coma. Most of the time people with a mental dis-order don’t know it. Sometimes their friends can’t detect it. Close family members can, as well as those trained in the field. Thirty years ago I had what people call mental illness. I call it one of the greatest experiences of my life. I would not erase it from my past even if I could. I would sell it for a million dollars. Its value to me cannot be measured. I can only assume that God allowed it to happen and was with me all the way through it – one in the Church said mental illness is of the devil, which I do not agree with. It taught me: 1) greater love for people. 2) greater love for the earth, the trees, the hills, the valley, the streams, the soil, the animals. 3) the future is everything. 4) the wife is me. 5) to love my family. 6) the true value of my sanity, my health, my well-being. 7) to respect our creator. I will not list the minuses because everybody knows what it would be like to be called crazy. I have nothing but praise for the state of Georgia’s mental institution. From what I saw, top to bottom, it was good. In closing, I would like to remind you of what our Creator said many times. Fear not” (Ray 79).
“When Dad went crazy, we all had our own ways of shutting down and closing off…” (Walls 115).In Jeannette Walls memoir, The Glass Castle, Walls enlightens the reader on what it’s like to grow up with a parent who is dependent on alcohol, Rex Walls, Jeannette’s father, was an alcoholic. Psychologically, having a parent who abuses alcohol is the worst thing for a child. The psychological state of these children can get of poorer quality as they grow up. Leaving the child with psychiatric disorders in the future and or being an alcoholic as well.
Mental illness can be a mixture of different factors. You can get mental illness through genetics meaning that it is passed down within the family. That can only happen if the mental illness is heredity. Another factor of mental illness is psychological trauma. Psychological trauma like abuse, or loss can cause some mental illnesses. When mental illness is untreated it makes it difficult for the person to function in society and deal with everyday life. The different types of mental illnesses range from anxiety disorders to personality disorders. Other mental illnesses are mood disorders, eating disorders, psychotic disorders, and impulse control and addiction disorders. An example psychotic disorder schizophrenia. Examples of eating disorders are bulimia and anorexia. According to MedicineNet.com “Most mental illnesses are caused by a combination of factors and cannot be prevented”. Mental illness is something that should not be avoided. The biggest issue when it comes to mental illness that is noticeable is when someone who has a mental il...
Mental illness is a significant disease that plenty of people deal with today. The musical next to normal written by Brian Yorkey is about a family who manages a crisis trying to get their family the closest thing back to normal, if not normal. There are many themes present in the musical. Of those themes present, the theme that I found most interesting is mental illness. Mental illness is a broad range of conditions that affects the mood, thinking, and behavior of a person. Throughout the musical we experience the negative affects of what it is like for a family to live and deal with a parent and a wife that suffers from a mental illness. By looking through the lens of the characters in next to normal we can develop and understand why they
Mental illnesses can develop through the surroundings of others with a mental illness. The fictional novel, Bad Girls Club by Judy Gregerson, depicts the story of Destiny’s perspective on her mother with schizophrenia, a mental illness, and how it affects her whole family. For the well-being of the family, Destiny has to self sacrifice. She ends up holding her family together by focusing on them rather than her health, social life and individuality. Mental illness can not only be caused hereditary, but by environmental factors, such as family, neglect, and parentification.
Mental illness is an increasing problem in America. Currently about 26.2% of Americans suffer from a mental disorder. A mental illness/disorder is a medical condition that disrupts a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, and ability to relate to others and daily functions. Mental illness can affect humans of any age, race, gender and socioeconomic status. However the care that is needed to effectively cure and help the people affected by the illness is not equal for everyone here in American, especially for African Americans.
“Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.”- Lysette Anthony. In the book The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, the governess is suffering from some form of mental illness to where she is hallucinating ghosts. She is very confident in her thoughts, so she thinks anything that she is seeing, everyone else is seeing. The governess makes up ghosts in her mind that are following the kids she is in charge of, and she ends up hurting both of them herself.
This documentary, Voices (Hara, Tsai, 2014), an award-winning documentary film that was published in regards to schizophrenia. The documentary focused on three individuals who suffered schizophrenia. The documentary shows the emotional journeys of these three individuals before and after the onset of their mental illness. The first individual, Sharon a Vietnamese female, who suffered from schizophrenia. She began to hear voices and show signs of paranoia and depression when she moved to California. Sharon had a good family support that stood with her in her struggle with schizophrenia. The second individual, Thomas originally from Ohio, who lived in the street of San Francisco for the past 15 years. Thomas lost contact with his family. Thomas
Most people gather what they know about mental illnesses from television and film. Unfortunately these media portrayals are inaccurate and create stigma. They depict people suffering from mental illnesses as different, dangerous and laughable. Characters are often addicted to drugs or alcohol, are violent, dangerous, or out of control. Horror film characters like Norman Bates in Psycho, Jack Torrance in the Shining, or Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs associate the typical 'psycho- killer' with people who suffer from a mental illness. But dramas and horror films are not the only film genres that create stigma. Comedies like What About Bob and many others not only stigmatize, they also make fun of mental illnesses and the people who suffer from them. This paper will discuss how the film Me, Myself & Irene is an inaccurate, offensive and stigmatizing portrayal of an individual suffering from schizophrenia. It also discusses what can be done to counteract the stigma created by these types of films.
Art is all around us; it’s in music, movies, paintings. It’s a way to communicate with the audience in a deeper level nonverbally. Art has evolved over the years and it encourages us to express ourselves individually. In the movie, Wasteland, by Vik Muniz, is about an artist who captured the lives of Rio de Janeiro. Psychiatric Tales, graphic novel, by Darryl Cunningham, is eleven stories about mental illness. Both of the authors disclose and engage the audience through their personal experience and interests.
This clinical case describes A 12 year old female was brought into the hospital two days, after being at a sleep over. She was brought in with classical symptoms of food poisoning. The patient had a temperature of 102.3 F, her potsassium level was 3.0 mmol/L, and her bicarbonate serum level was 20 mEq/L. Having reported eating a potato salad that was left out over night she began to experience symptoms such as mild fever, severe abdominal cramping, dehydration, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. No other diseases or special medical history was noted. Vaccine history was noted as up to date. After being having a physical examination, a blood test, stool culture, and other diagnostic tests done the doctor confirmed she had food poisoning. The patient was given a treatment plan that entailed rest, replacement of fluids, and a food diet of bland non fatty foods for the first days home.
Another disease we can see in Shakespeare’s work is insanity, Insanity, craziness or madness is a spectrum of behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity may manifest as violations of societal norms, including a person becoming a danger to themselves or others, though not all such acts are considered insanity. In modern usage, insanity is most commonly encountered as an informal unscientific term denoting mental instability, or in the narrow legal context of the insanity defense( WIKIPEDIA)
Black Swan is a psychological thriller featuring a ballerina called Nina Sayers. She is a young dancer working for a prestigious NYC ballet company. She has dreams of someday becoming prima donna. Although talented, yet she is very reserved and others regard her as a "shy, frigid little girl".
Anxiety is commonly known as a dreadful and unspeakable illness that unfortunately many people suffer from, but some might be able to use it to their advantage. Instead of letting their anxiety take over their mind and body, some release it into their creative needs. For a long time, people had no idea exactly what mental illnesses were. They would think that the person was crazy and throw them in a psych ward. But times have changed and millions of people around the world claim to have these mental disorders and continue to live normal lives anyway. How they learn to deal with these disorders has also changed too. Many find themselves turning to the creative field to express their anxiety that would be bubbling
A Beautiful mind was directed by Ron Howard. The main character John Nash enrolls as a graduate student at Princeton University and he suffers from schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a long-term mental disorder involving faulty hallucinations and a withdrawal from reality into a fantasy and delusion. He is assigned a dorm to himself but his roommate Charles later moves in. Charles is not a real person, he’s a character created by Nash’s illness. Nash confesses and is evident in the movie that he’s better with numbers than with people. He spends all of his attendance at Princeton basically isolated from other students, his only real friend was a figment of his imagination.