Mental Health Essays and Term Papers

and Natural Selection: It Is We As Human Beings Who Will Determine The Survival and Future Evolution of All Forms of Life On Earth. Thought Contagion: 1. A self-spreading thought, idea, attitude, belief, or other brain-stored item of learned…

world around them. People are happy when they achieve something or saddened when they fail a test or lose something. When they are sad, some people say they are 'depressed', but the clinical depressions that are seen by doctors differ from the low…

commonly mistaken for schizophrenic personality disorders. Schizophrenia, a psychosis, is when a person is has an image of a world and its transpiring events, and he/she is 'living' it. Paranoid Personality Disorder, however, is a neurosis where an…

or who considers himself or herself as belonging to the opposite sex. It is also defined as a person with a psychological urge to belong to the opposite sex, which may be carried to the point of undergoing surgery to modify the sex organs to…

on the chromosome 21 pair, giving the person a total of 47 chromosomes rather than the normal 46. This disorder results in mild to severe learning disabilities and physical symptoms including a small skull, extra folds of skin under the eyes,…

is a vital element in our everyday life to help us all cope with the many responsibilities (that cause stress) many of us have. I have read and heard many ways of coping with stress and managing it. I came up with eight useful ways to over come…

         ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER         Approximately 3-5% of all American children have an Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). ADD is a leading cause of school failure and under-achievement. ADD characteristics often arise…

being able to see ourselves "from the outside"; the picture we gain of how other see us. This picture affects the way in which we take care of ourselves physically, emotionally, and in the way we treat others. People who have a low self-concept may…

disease, is usually interpreted by those not familiar with it as Multiple Personality Disorder, but this is not so. While a person afflicted with schizophrenia may also suffer from multiple personality disorder, it is not the rule of thumb. Unfortunately…

SCHIZOPHRENIA Child schizophrenia, like other psychopathologies has many documented, and several uncertain causes. Some scientists have evidence that pregnant mothers have experienced an immune reaction that present dangers to the unborn child.…