First off, go away and don’t whisper” (Abcarian, 1169) Granny said this because she thought that Cornelia and Dr.Harry were talking about her behind her back. Although jilted at the altar, granny Weatherall still held the love she felt for George this was shown with her first child who she named George. From this past experience granny Weatherall never allowed herself to love someone with such profundity as she once did. “Love was denied Granny the day she was jilted and she herself never dared to love. But without love Granny’s radically human hurt was never healed.”(Unre, 108) At the age of forty, Granny Weatherall suffered of a second life changing jilting when her husband John died.
The author is a loving wife and parent who experiences complications in her family relationships because of her husband, John, who is spending less time with her and spending more time at work. As a child, Hope Edelman grew up in suburban New York where her father was always preoccupied with work, thus never spending time with the family just like her husband. The author was seventeen when her mother died of breast cancer causing Edelman great pain. Her mother did everything around the house when she was alive, so her passing caused a lack of discipline with the children and there were no more chores for any of the siblings. Nannies were suddenly walking in through the front door daily.
Intake Marla is a 42-year-old Hispanic woman. She came to the mental health clinic to seek help with some symptoms that have been troubling her. Marla has stated that she is suffering from sleep disturbances, feeling jumpy all of the time, and an inability to concentrate. She also stated that these symptoms are causing her problems at work. Marla now fears that her job is at risk because of her inability to concentrate.
She has always struggled with her confidence and belief in her own skills and abilities but doesn’t know when it first started but always seemed to have been that way. She came from a large family and many times there were 8 children in the home as her parents fostered children. Mother was always busy running the family home and father worked long hours. Father was very critical of everything/anything. The boys of the family were always encouraged to do well but the girls were always told by the father they would never amount to much as they weren’t very bright and it didn’t matter anyway, so were never supported/helped.
She feels tense as if her body is tightening up. Tina feels irritability about things that did not previously bother her, such as her teenage daughters playing loud music, squabbling, or talking on the phone too long. The lack of sleep Tina is getting because of worry is leading to her being tired all the time. The worry and irritability have left her body feeling tense as if her body is in knots.DSM Criterion 4 - Significant distress or impairment.Correlating Behavior from Case Study: Tina indicates the days since her husband's death have been miserable, and the least thing sets her off. Tina's distress is impairing her ability to sleep at night, maintain energy during the day, parent her daughters without irritability, and drive without feeling anxious, particularly
Psychological Disorder Analysis Case Study of Maria PSY 270 Jill Zelle October 3, 2010 Jennifer Hood Maria is a 42-year-old Hispanic female who came to the mental health clinic seeking help. She complains of insomnia, feeling “jumpy”, and is also experiencing problems with her concentration. These symptoms are causing problems for her at work, where she is an accountant. I was intrigued, as well as anxious, to dig deeper into Maria’s symptoms in order to make a diagnosis and set up a treatment plan. I began by observing Maria and conducting a clinical interview.
To begin with April and Cheryl Raintree grew up in a broken home, both mother and father drank a lot at the time poor April Raintree thought that it is was “medicine” and that her parents were sick. But also asking herself why they never got better doing so, having to deal with different people in her home and locking her bedroom door with what ever she could seeing and hearing all kinds of people fighting and yelling around at all hours of the night. Although being in the same situation I understand how April and Cheryl life was and how they felt about losing their mother and father to foster homes and losing each other, it’s hard growing up without someone in your life, my mother would also became a alcoholic when my father lifted, he moved on with his life without me, I always through it was my fault as the child I always felt like he didn’t care about what happen to me. Therefore dealing with addiction is in every Aboriginals and Metis families and still is a big problem to this day, not a lot of families are not open about this problem. When April and Cheryl were young and didn’t think that losing their mother and then their father to this addiction would impact their lives as it
Being careless and not listening to all my parents many cautions, I became a young mother in my late teenage years to a beautiful little girl. I deserved all that came to me and I feel karma had finally caught up with me. When my father past away of a heart attack due to stress from worry and I never got the chance to apologize, it hit a deep blow. He was the closest person to me in my life and I was too busy being a nuisance to be there. Next, when it came to the laws, I was terribly defiant and didn’t
|Tina’s symptoms match all four of the criteria in the DSM-IV checklist for generalized anxiety disorder. Tina worries constantly | |something is going to happen to her twins which is in correlation with the first criteria listed. The second criteria of having | |difficulty controlling the worry is exhibited in Tina’s own admission that she worries sll the time and this causes her to smoke, eat | |and drink excessively to deal with the worry. She exhibits all the symptoms in criteria number three. She is easily irritated by her | |girls, rarely sleeps and feels tired all of the time.
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