In the story “I never promised you a Rose Garden” written by Joanne Greenberg, the main character Deborah Blau suffers from a mental illness called schizophrenia at the of age sixteen. “Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe brain disorder that causes certain characteristics, abnormal experiences and behaviors” (National Institutes of Mental Health (2006). In the beginning of the story we learned that Deborah’s mother was very concerned about her after she was hospitalized for slitting her wrists and was not sure what was going on with Deborah, but realized that there was something not quite right about her. Esther and Jacob, Deborah’s parents, decided to take Deborah to a mental hospital for treatment after her failed suicide attempt. A famous therapist (Dr. Clara Fried) agrees to work with Deborah to help her sort out her problems.
The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story about a woman who is suffering from what is modernly known as post partrum depression. This story however takes place in the early 1900’s. After a little research, I found out that this short story is actually an exaggerated remake of the author’s own personal experiences. In 1887, shortly after the birth of her daughter, Gilman began to suffer from serious depression and fatigue. She was referred to Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell who was leading specialist in women’s nervous disorders in the nineteenth century.
Assignment 301 Principles of communication in adult social care settings Task A Short answer questions You are a social care worker and a service user, Hannah, tells you that she is unhappy taking her new medication. She thinks she does not need it and so she is throwing it away. You know from her care plan Hannah does need to take her medication requarly and gets confused. Hannah begs you to keep this confidential and not tell anyone especially her daughter, who she sees requarly, as her daughter will be very angry. Bi) How would you explain the term ‘confidentiality’ to Hannah?
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.
After reading A Break with Charity by Ann Rinaldi, the reader gains knowledge of the Salem Witch Trials through a young woman who experienced the commotion first hand. The book describes the accusers, the accused and why they were accused, while giving the reader insight on the emotion that spread through Salem as the trials unfolded. The Salem Witch Trials began among a group of eight girls aged 11 to 20. Abigail Williams and Ann Putnam were the “ringleaders” of the group and were the first to fall into illness. Under this “illness” they moaned and shrieked for no reason, groveled and writhed and began to act as animals.
Asiel Jaimes 06/13/13 Diane Whitley Bogard Synonym 30243 "How Far She Went” The story of "How Far She Went" by Mary Hood is a story about a disobedient girl who goes to live with her grandmother after her dad sends her there. The girl is the usual loud, mad at the world, do and does what every teen does type of girl. While her grandma however, is the common no flightiness, old school, yes mam, or no mam type of grandmother. These differences brings a lot of problems between the two ladies. Mary Hood’s central idea is that selfish and ignorant attitudes can lead to a lot of problems.
Miss Ratchet is the main antagonist in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. She is a power hungry tyrant that cold-heartedly runs the mental ward at the Salem, Oregon State Hospital. As the head administrative nurse, she exercises her power over the staff and the patients. She not only is controlling by telling others what to do, but she also enjoys punishing those that disobey or anger her. Nurse Ratchet takes pleasure in being feared by the patients.
This book tells the whole story of mental healthcare from the patient to the family affected by it, how the illness destroyed Sylvia Frumkin’s life and how she dealt with it, how the system did and didn’t help her, and how she persevered. Sylvia provided the book’s title. She was a student at New York’s High School of Music and Art when she had her first psychotic break. At 16, in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, she asked her mother “Is there no place on earth for me?” It’s a question she asked again and again over the years and by the book’s end, this question haunts me as well. Should patients be locked up in a mental institution or among our communities?
Elderly patients mistreated in care homes After investigating some of the mistreatment of elderly people in care homes from news articles on the internet mostly from the BBC there is significant evidence to suggest a lack of certain life quality factors in the care homes written about. The most startling being an elderly woman with Alzheimers and arthritis being physically abused and bullied. The article reported footage (caught on hidden cameras that her daughter had positioned) of the elderly lady (Maria Worroll) being slapped, manually rolled over and hauled into a bed when a hoist should have been used by her carers. The fact that more than one had assaulted her in this way implies that the care workers were conforming to inappropriate norms at the work place, resulting in Ms Worroll suffering considerably. This abuse probably left Ms Worrol stripped of her dignity, privacy, social support, any form of choice or autonomy and undoubtedly made the woman in question very scared and confused.
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.