4) I believe the behavior of this mother was the cognitive theory, because she was struggling with depression at the time. She wasn’t in her right state of mind she went through with killing her kids. 5) I think the neurotransmitters that played a role in Andrea Yates killing her kids was that of serotonin and nor epinephrine. Since she was suffering from postpartum depression as well as schizophrenia and bipolar with the combaniation of those really affected
Postpartum depression occurs in up to twenty percent of women who have children psychotic manifestations are much more rate, and thus much less understood. One in five hundred births result in the mother’s postpartum psychosis. Hormonal shifts can actually cause violent hallucination and thoughts, women can become incoherent, paranoid, irrational, and delusional. They are at risk of committing suicide or harming their child, particularly for the child’s own good, the woman will not recognize it as an illness. Andrea also was hospitalized for trying to kill herself with a knife in July of 1999, then in the spring of 2001 she was admitted twice to a treatment center for mental illness.
Jennifer Ricci June 18, 2013 Chap. 16 Exam Human G&D Bio In the movie Girl Interrupted Susanna is diagnosed as having borderline personality disorder. Throughout the movie we watch has different circumstances in her life unravel and her decisions as to how to cope with them. The risk Susanna has is suicide attempts; her inability to cope makes her unstable. As the movie progresses we also learn Susanna was hurt as a child will could lead her to hold that against her parents and be unable to become attached to them.
This is where you inherit a mental illness from your parents because it has been passed down through your genes which are similar to physical illnesses like diabetes or heart disease. However unlike the infection theory studies have been done with twins, if one has a mental illness the other twin has a 50% chance of developing one as well. However this is also unreliable because you cannot extrapolate that the illness has been passed down through genes it may just run in the family. The next aspect, neurochemicals suggests that a change in chemicals in the brain has caused a mental disorder. Abnormal functioning of the brain can be caused by abnormal levels of neurotransmitters and hormones.
In the book Crank by Ellen Hopkins the main character Kristina goes through the struggle of addiction with drugs, she goes all the way down to rock bottom in life, although she went through hell she ended up with a happy ending. The theme of this story is never to give into peer pressure, addiction is so powerful, you have to fight it everyday. Before Kristina starts her journey with the “monster” she visits her dad after years of her parents being divorced; The reason her parents were divorced was because of his drug use. But when she visits her dad she falls into depression and starts to fall with the wrong crowd and meets the “monster” aka meth. While she is in New Mexico she was introduced to partying and adam, the one she fell in
Though Kaysen is eighteen years-old, she has a choice, but due to her exhaustion from her depression she puts up little resistance and ends up signing herself into the facility. She questions her mental state throughout the novel which is when the major question arises: how does one tell insanity from sanity, and what does it mean to be normal. It was Kaysens previous attempted suicide that leads her to the position she is in, though the suicide was only half hearted because she only wanted to kill a part of herself, the part that has the desire to commit suicide. By taking fifty aspirins resulted in her being taken to the hospital which is why she had to go through a session with a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist makes a diagnosis by a simple observation: ‘“You have a pimple,” Said the doctor.
“The school psychiatrist…quickly diagnosed the oedipal relationship. When he was four [Goodenow’s] father died, and for eight years he slept with his mother.” The text goes on to describe Goodenow’s mother’s relationship with an engineer who she married. The stepfather had little time for Goodenow, refusing to undergo therapy for the sake of his stepson. Goodenow’s phobia intensified as did his dependence on his mother. Goodenow was “placed in a
The prolonged miscarriage caused blood poisoning, and although the doctors operated when the fetal heartbeat ceased, Savita’s heart, kidneys, and liver were already failing. She died seven days after first seeking (and being denied) medical care. With maternal mortality on the rise, restrictive abortion policies that disregard these facts do more than overlook inconvenient
After being sent home from the emergency room and I had to send her back not even two hours later because something was wrong. My mom got admitted into St. Luke’s Hospital for Serotonin Syndrome. Serotonin Syndrome is a life threatening drug reaction that is caused from too much of the same medicine (which also means the body having too much Serotonin). Serotonin Syndrome was caused by the Emergency Department, not paying attention to her everyday medicine and giving her something she was already on. My mom’s health was all over the place.
This part of the poem shows that women really do suffer the loss of a baby and that sometimes some women wish they could take back what they have done. The woman who wrote this poem expressed that she felt like she had created an empty hole by choosing to abort her innocent child. In March of 2002, a retired nurse who had witnessed two full term abortions participated in an interview given by Scott Johnston. The nurse was unsure of what she was in for; she just did as she was told which was to go to the delivery room. For both of the abortions that she had witnessed, her job was to hold the baby in order to keep it in the birth canal.