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    Mental Illness I struggle with a chronic illness known as Bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is reoccurring episodes of manic and depression that last from a day to months. This mental illness causes unusual and dramatic mood swings‚ energy and the ability to think straight. There is several different types of disorders. Bipolar disorder has a very negative impact on my life. This illness has caused me to ruin many friendships and have a downward spiral in my jobs and school. Ten billion people

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    Hamlet suffers mental illness since his father’s death and the remarriage of his mother to his uncle to affect Hamlet being insane‚ depressed and melancholy because of the tragedies on Hamlet‚ conversation to the ghost‚ and seeking revenge and being serious day by day. Therefore‚ Hamlet is being insane in the sane world and everybody is in normal. First of all‚ in the beginning of the play‚ there are many tragedies happen on Hamlet and they affect him to suffer from mental illness. Old Hamlet dies

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    individuals that suffer from mental illnesses such as schizophrenia

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    A mental illness is any kind of mental health condition or disorder. Mental illnesses affect mood‚ thinking‚ and behavior. A mental illness affects a character and the people close to them. It affects a character by causing sadness and disabling the things that the character is able to do. It affects the people close to them because others have to take care of them. A huge way that a mental illness affects a character is by causing sadness. Mental illnesses defiantly cause sadness to the character

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    stigma around mental health issues has a significant connection to violence in society that causes people to over amplify the danger of persons with mental health illnesses. The symptoms of mental illnesses are often exaggerated to be much worse than people with mental illnesses actually show. Ones who suffer from these mental illnesses are afraid of being criticized or judged. The media also contributes to this stigma of the mentally ill being violent. The lack of quality mental illness health insurance

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    blues Mental illness has become a topic that most people nowadays choose not to discuss for one reason or another. We as a society tend to forget about the mentally ill and cast them off to the side forgetting about them giving us a false sense that they are being taken care of‚ or in other words out of sight out of mind. Mental illness is a medical condition that obstructs a person’s thinking‚ feeling‚ mood‚ and ability to function daily. Almost like any other disease mental illness can be mild

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    This article tells us about a person who has been dealing with a mental illness for the majority of her life. She described how her illness made her feel as if she were wearing cracked‚ smeared goggles that only let her see the world as gray and grim. She tells us how her family and friends tried their best to keep her spirits up but‚ she could not figure out why she could not just buck up and get over it. When she finally came to terms with the fact that she was living with depression and PTSD‚

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    related to the individual and what the outlook for that particular‚ their illness‚ would be’ (P 10) ‘I don’t think any mental illness has an end point. I mean depending on what it is‚ if medication works for them then there might be middle ground maybe. I don’t think for Schizophrenics or Bi Polars there is ever an end point’ (P 11) Enduring perceptions of chronicity and pessimistic outcomes for people with mental illness results in the perpetuation of a barrier that significantly impacts their

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    Mental disorders and crime are frequently associated to each other due to the amount of offenders that are convicted of crimes. When offenders commit a crime sometimes it is due to the fact that they suffer from a mental illness. Mental illness is correlated to the term crime and it is important because one must understand the reason as to why offenders do what they do and under what state one was when committing such crimes. Mental illness is a diagnosable disturbance to a person’s emotional ability

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    The relationship between mental illness and crime has been questioned for quite relatively a long period of time‚ and during the last few decades various studies about this issue have been carried out by a number of scientists who have conducted a number of tests and studies which resulted in a range of different outcomes. People have always feared the violence of the mentally disordered‚ but is there really a relation between criminality and mental illness? Among the disorders which are most

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