Lesher says, “Addiction is a brain disease expressed in the form of compulsive behavior.” As with most chronic diseases, addiction should also be treated with multiple recurring treatments since the brain chemistry of addicts often causes them to relapse into drug use. Lesher makes his case that addiction is a brain disease by stating that addicts cannot quit taking drugs on their own because they require medical treatment like most ill patients. The authors final opinion on addiction is that initial drug use is present due to the voluntary behavior of the addict and while it does not absolve the user of their responsibility as it was their fault, once they have developed an addiction, their brain has chemically changed so much that they can not will themselves to quit and must be treated as though they have a medical disease. NO: Alva Noe states that addiction is not a disease of the brain. First, he points that not all addictions are chemical substances and there are many activities that can be addictive to people.
These feelings may come from an experience in his or hers childhood, adolescent, or in adulthood. Psychodynamic therapy uses the assumption that everyone has a subconscious, and feelings held in the subconscious are often too painful to face. Humanistic-existential is the approach, which tries to do justice to the whole person including mind, body and spirit; to enable the patient to find constructive ways of coming to terms with every day challenges. Behavior therapy focuses on the present. This type of therapy helps patients overcome phobias and self-destructive behavior.
It has allowed for the development of a science of mental illness complete with measures, causation, classifications, psychological and pharmaceutical treatments, rigorous efficacy of treatments, decline in miserable people, and even the curing of mental diseases. Psychology is not good because afflicted people have been victimized, and others have gone wholly unnoticed. Psychology is working to become good enough via the 11th Reason for
The video, “The Medicated Child,” is a PBS documentary on the rising numbers of children diagnosed with significant mental disorders, from ADHD to Bipolar disorder. This also shows the significance of heavy medication of those children with largely untested drugs. Something that was only touched on briefly by one specialist is that these untested drugs are being pumped into our children with little- to no- testing for the effects on children, in general, as the human brain is still vastly not understood and to introduce stimulants and depressants into a developing brain is borderline insane itself, and worth of a disgnosis for heavy medication itself. When interviewing the representative of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), he stated
Anderson's use of literary elements shows how anorexia can slowly take someone over and completely control their life. Nova's documentary Dying to be Thin also shows how anorexia can cripple and suffocate its victims. Dyng to be Thin also examines the road to recovery, and demonstrates that it can take many long years and require extreme strength, devotion and bravery. To recover from anorexia you must truly be a strong and fierce individual. Anorexia Nervosa is defined as "a psychiatric disorder characterized by an unrealistic fear of weight gain, self-starvation, and conspicuous distortion of body image, where the affected individual is obsessed with becoming increasingly thinner and limits food
Dr. R. D. Laing, a British psychiatrist wrote: “Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.” This, to me, explains exactly how most Schizophrenics probably feel on a day to day basis between the crazy thoughts they hear, the way people perceive them and the way they perceive themselves dealing with all the voices and hallucinations. Some are probably desperate to feel normal while others have learned to cope with the disease and understand its something they will have lifelong but treatments may lessen the symptoms and make them feel
People have struggled with the concept of Mental Illness since the middle ages. In the Middle Ages if someone was behaving is an abnormal manner they were thought to be possessed by demons and they will be exorcised by priests. In the 1900s lobotomy was widely known as the cure for mental illnesses. In the 1940’s Walter Freeman went on a crusade to offer lobotomy to everyone that needed it (and some that didn’t) and in his career it is estimated that he performed 3500 lobotomies, even when the scientific basis for this was not very strong. In the 1960’s a group of psychiatrists’ formed the anti-psychiatry movement and stated that psychiatry had no validity.
“Thou Shalt Not Kill” is one of the most well known commandments, and in some cases, most controversial. Assisted suicide is a prime example of one of these controversies. Physician assisted suicide, also referred to as Physician Aid in Dying (PAD), is a practice whereby a physician prescribes a lethal drug dose to a capable terminally-ill patient, upon the patient’s request, with the knowledge that the patient intends to use it to end his or her life. The dose must be self-administered. While generally seen as unbiblical, as well as immoral, this practice has recently become more condoned.
A Beautiful Mind: Schizophrenia, Psychosis, and Life Span Disorders PSY/410 October 18, 2011 Abstract In the not so distant past; the diagnosis and treatment of severe mental illness such as Schizophrenia, Psychosis, and Life span development disorders were treated with distain; shutting away the victim of such diseases as though they were something to be ashamed of. The field psychology has come a long way in a short period of time; incorporating many factors into diagnosis and treatment. The analysis of the main components associated with diagnosis and treatment of Schizophrenia and Psychosis lends much needed understanding in order to promote more effective ways to therapies, interventions and preventions of these disorders.
According to Penn, Waldheter, Perkins, Mueser, and Lieberman, (2005), this type of therapy has shown based on their research data it has reduced symptoms, assisting individuals with dealing with their illness. This research seems to support the research provided in the study of Wong and colleagues regarding Early Intervention for Psychotic Disorders, (2012). It appears that many researchers are truly engulfed in the methodology of early intervention in terms of treatment. The study showed that schizophrenia was the most disabling of the mental illnesses and the most life impacting. The research done in the study Psychosocial treatment for first-episode psychosis showed that psychosocial and pharmacological treatment early on provided better results that if implemented later on, (Penn et al, 2005).