behavior. It’s safe to say that Holden doesn’t exactly act like a normal teenager does. Holden suffers from bipolar disorder. A mental illness which causes you to be depressed‚ feeling low and useless‚ as well as manic behavior that causes him to be sleepless‚ irrational‚ and act out with wild behavior. Bipolar disorder can be expressed as a manic-depressive illness. It is characterized by cycling mood changes‚ severe highs‚ mania‚ and severe lows‚ depression. Sometimes the mood switches are dramatic
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The purpose of this research argument is to evaluate the influence of health care and utilization of palliative care by patients with a life-limiting illness. Palliative care is specialized medical care for people with serious illness. This type of provision is for comforting‚ soothing‚ or even sedating people of any age and at any stage of illness so they can rest. Palliative care prioritizes patients’ pain management and its symptom‚ while maintaining direct communication with patients and their
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financial and emotional support for parents and most importantly‚ young single mothers. II. Body Psychologists have different views on child homicide. Parents who kill kids not always insane (Electa Daper). infanticide associated with mental illness (Margaret G. Spinelli‚ M.D). types of maternal filicide (savana chanz 23-29). B. paying attention to signs of abuse or a child in danger is the first step in prevention recognizing the signs of abuse (Melinda Smith‚ M.A.‚ and Jeanne Segal
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certain illness before seeking modern medicines (Al-Shahril & Al-Khenaizan‚ 2005). As for the writer‚ she believes that Muslims cultures are very unique and their view and acceptance of illness and death is truly amazing. Globally Muslim patients’ integrate the belief of receiving illness and death with patience‚ meditations and prayers. Nevertheless‚ even non-Muslim’s patients would normally seek for spiritual care when they are having significant challenges. Muslim’s beliefs that illness and death
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case study of depression. She had previously attempted suicide. She was a cutter. She cried all the time. She admitted to self-medicating with drugs and alcohol; a common response to mental illness‚ often the result of the pain‚ physical‚ emotional and spiritual‚ that comes with mental illness. Mental illness is not a death sentence‚ though “depressed people are thought to have shorter life expectancies than those without depression‚ in part because of greater proneness to medical illnesses and suicide
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Being a compassionate‚ committed and competent individual whose passion in care is enormous‚ who derives joy in advocacy and assisting those who are unable to live their normal life independently motivated me to choose this career path. Being a voice to the voiceless seems to be a very important way of being part of the community. My desire of advocacy made me to join healthcare sector workforce which has been very productive in my life and to the lives of those that I support. My role as a healthcare
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A chronic illness can disrupt the lives of everyone causing a plethora of mixed emotions varying in degrees of intensity of anxiety‚ anger‚ fear‚ depression along with feelings of despair as well as generating major financial problems (Falvo‚ 2013). Mental illness like schizophrenia‚ psychotic depression‚ bipolar disorder or acute mania are all awful‚ chronic mental conditions that deprived the patient and family from functioning effectively within the community and usually results in tremendous
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Caring for Populations: Assessment and Diagnosis Introduction Pertussis‚ also known as the “whooping cough”‚ is a highly contagious respiratory illness that is passed from person to person through coughing and sneezing (Gregory‚ 2013). Early symptoms are similar to those from common colds‚ but when Pertussis progresses‚ it can turn to deep cough and potentially vomiting with little or no fever. It is caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. The disease can be very serious in children less
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their parents discuss their health care with their providers‚ often being termed as open communication. They now know that sometimes communication is just idle chit-chat between patient and provider. When a patient is diagnosed with an illness or terminal illness‚ the patient knows they are going to need far more than just small talk. What they need is the ideal doctor-patient‚ nurse-patient relationship. Most would argue though that an ideal provider-patient relationship with healthcare as the
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night alone in a room or area from which free exit is prevented” (Mental Health Act‚ 2000‚ p. 109). The Mental Health Act (2000) governs the treatment of people with mental illness‚ protects their rights and ensures they have access to appropriate care. The United Nations Principles for the protection of those with mental illness firmly state: A patient who is restrained or secluded shall be kept under humane conditions and be under the care and close and regular supervision of qualified members
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