Genetics can sometimes run in families is one cause to the start of mental illnesses. Infections, brain defects or injury, prenatal damage, substance abuse, and other factors are the other five factors to mental illnesses. Yates battled depression for years; the cause of her actions for drowning her children were caused by postpartum psychosis triggered by the improper use of her meds, not listening to what her doctor had to say after her treatment, and lack of knowing any coping techniques. Postpartum depression can take up to a year after the child’s birth before the mother would even notice any signs of depression. If left untreated it can have dire consequences.
Before a woman begins to look extremely thin, damage has already began inside the body. Most young women stop having a menstrual cycle well before serious weight loss sets in. This can have a long term effect on their ability to have children. Bone loss can occur as soon as six months after anorexic behavior begins. Bone loss is the most irreversible attribute of Anorexia.
Failure to do so results in their immune system producing antibodies which attacks the lining of their bowel causing them to have abdominal pains, constipation/diarrhoea, bloating, difficulty in gaining weight in childhood or maintaining weight in adulthood and anaemia. Because it affects the way their body can absorb nutrients it can also lead to osteoporosis and increase their risk of bowel cancer. Some foods can be bought that are labelled ‘gluten free’ but tend to be more expensive. • Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is the term used to describe a condition when on inspection of the bowel everything seems normal, but the person suffers with symptoms like abdominal pain, flatulence, bloating and constipation/diarrhoea. The person may want to keep a food diary to help discover which foods make their condition worse and avoid them in the future.
Telling my parents was also a problem, much like Anna who took five years before admitting to her mother that she needed professional help. It gets really bad to a point that you can’t eat anymore, sleep is nearly impossible and crying becomes
About 85% of women suffer with some sort of mood disturbance after giving birth to a child. About 50 to 85% of women experience the blues. It generally starts 3 to 4 days after giving birth and lasts about two weeks occurring from the blues reports feelings of sadness, anxiety, irritability, mood liability, and tearfulness. Typically no specific treatment is needed for the blue, however there are special situations that involve women who have a history of depression. If the symptoms last longer than two weeks, the women maybe dealing with a more serious mood disorder and should be evaluated.
This weakens the immune system leaving the body vulnerable to infection and illness. Raised levels of cortisol suppresses the TH1 immune response. Kiecolt-Glaser et al conducted a natural experiment into acute stress, the aim was to see if the stress of exams had an effect on the immune system. Blood samples were taken from medical students before and during the exam period, T-Cell activity was measured in the blood samples. The findings showed that T-Cell activity was significantly higher before exams which suggests that acute stress caused reduced immune system functioning.
There is a high drop out rate in treatment centers. So if there is no prosecution in site then still what is there to keep these women in treatment and keep the children safe? There can be threat and follow through with removing custody rights but at that point the damage has been done to the fetus and the state has a new drug addicted baby with birth defects. Incarceration for drug abusing pregnant women 5
Do Children Living below the Poverty Level have adequate Health Insurance? Abstract This paper goes over children living in poverty and whether they have access to adequate health insurance. The paper compiles statistics on uninsured children; researches the Medicaid laws that congress has passed and covers the effects that lack of health insurance has on children. Over 40 million people are living below the poverty line, and many children are living without any health coverage. The unemployment level in our country has nearly doubled since 2007, and children can be some of the hardest hit it our economy.
Postpartum depression has affected woman many women after childbirth. Some are much more affected than other. This mental illness is caused by the drastic drop in estrogen and progesterone after giving birth to a child. Also, it can be brought on by the extreme change in lifestyle. As mothers, especially for the first time, our life are turned completely upside down.
Child abuse does not only include physical abuse. Dr. Frank Putnam of the National Institute of Mental Health and Dr. Martin Teicher of Harvard Medical School, “studied 170 girls, 6-15 years old. The girls who experienced corporal punishment had symptoms such as abnormally high stress hormones, which can kill neurons in brain areas crucial for thinking and memory, and high levels of an antibody that weakens the immune system” (Self-growth). Taylor’s mom states that her daughter, “[is] more humiliated and embarrassed than anything” (FOX NEWS). Taylor did not only endure phyisical injuries, she was also a victim of emotional distress.