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The study of post-traumatic stress disorder known as PTSD in children who have been abused and neglected is likely to follow them into their adult life if not treated properly. Understanding the different kinds of studies done on PTSD in the mental health industry is crucial to helping children who suffer, gain control over their…

The pressure that outcomes from awful accidents accelerates a range of psycho-enthusiastic and physiopathological results. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental issue that outcomes from the experience or seeing of horrendous or dangerous occasions. PTSD has significant psychobiological connects, which can hinder the individual’s day by day life and be perilous. In light of…

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is a mental health disorder that is associated with people who have witnessed a life-threaten incident or a traumatic and stressful event (Ding, et al.). People who develop PTSD can experience symptoms such as emotional distress, nightmares about the traumatic event, and memory problems. Although PTSD is very common among…

Sepsis is a serious problem for patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Sepsis can lead to septic shock, in turn multi-organ system failure, and can ultimately lead to death. The statistics on the mortality rate of sepsis are staggering. The mortality rate in the United States for patients admitted to the ICU with sepsis…

A mental disorder is a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion, regulation or behaviour that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological or behavioral developmental processes underlying mental functioning. Mental disorders are usually associated with significant distress or disability in social, occupational or other important activities (Diagnostic and statistical manual…

Over 6.8 million African Americans have had a diagnosable mental illness in the past year (NAMI). African Americans live in a hush culture that dismisses mental illness as a “phase “and a clear sign of a weak relationship with God. These common misconceptions shed light on the stigmas of mental illness in the black community….

“Is there a link between creativity and mental illness?” This question has spurred lot of debates across the field of science and art. Previous studies made blind correlations between mental illness and creativity and third factors is either controlled or removed. The recent studies are discarding the bidirectional connection of mental illness and creativity and…

Mass shootings have created horror and fear in many communities. Many of those tragic events are caused by many complex factors many of them are still not fully understood. There is always question to why some psychologists criticize the use of diagnostic labels. In the DSM- IV- TR this book provides all of the labels…

Whenever someone hears the word mental illness they automatically assume the worst and those individuals are seen as different. Those words come with a negative connotation which date, back to the stone age. The small knowledge of mental illnesses was documented in the early 1500s. There might have been studies on mental illnesses, but there…

On March 12, 1938, Adolf Hitler enters Vienna in a limousine, prepared to announce his annexation of Austria in what becomes known as the Anschluss. He arrives a few years after the Jewish diaspora, in which Jews were expelled from Ukraine and flooded Vienna, where they became hapless victims of violence and religious persecution. On…