One important way that creativity can positively affect lives is by helping treat mental illness in art therapy, by affecting the brain (neuroscience) in creative process and how that would be beneficial to patients having mental disorder, by providing patients an emotional outlet and by promoting self-esteem thus aid patients going back to society. ... What is 'wrong' with being mentally ill? ... So it is not an option for them for being mentally ill, no one wants to be ill after all. Perhaps the biggest misunderstanding of them all is the idea that being mentally ill is a matter ...

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People labelled mentally ill are usually thought to be incapable of exercising their decision-making power in their own best interest. ... These people don't perceive themselves as ill; their "symptoms" are bothersome to others. ... This made some of the other patients paranoid, one girl in fact constantly asked him to see his eyes, and he always refused. ... Cuomo and Ronacher (1998) discuss studies done with university students in a social situation with the mentally ill. ... Males were also found to have a greater tendency to desire social distance from those perceived as mentally i...

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The patients" families can also receive treatment, including education and behavioral management training. ... Often, the patients can learn how to control, or at least minimize, the delusions and their effects. ... Therapists act as role models for proper social behavior, and the patients are praised as they progress. ... Many families even attend group sessions, and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill has over 1000 group locations to help families and patients cope with this illness. All of these methods have supplemented the medicinal treatments prescribed for patients suffering...

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As an undergraduate at Africa Nazarene University, I was fortunate to work with amazing lectures who trained me in the art of engaging with different kind patients. ... Unfortunately, majority of those problems went undiagnosed and unmanaged and patients were left to silently suffer. ... Where the reality of the mistreatment of the mentally ill in Kenya hit me. ... Families with patients suffering from mental health often felt like they had been cursed and most of them dropped the patients off at the gate and left, never to be seen again, and others opting to take their loved ones to witch doc...

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In cognitive therapy, the therapist takes an active part in solving a patient's problems. ... le the patient carries the whole burden of finding the answers they came to therapy for initially. ... The patient says her appetite got worse and she became physically ill with the progression of her depression. ... The fear of being mentally ill was so horrible that I decided to take my entire bottle of sleeping pills rather than face the shame of being a mental patient."... Whereas, Oster & Montgomery stated that "when parents are struggling over marital or career problems, or are ill themselv...

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There are no straightforward steps a psychologist can use to determine whether or not a patient is of sound mind when presenting a case in the Queensland Legal System under the code. ... It is not only the Queensland Criminal Code act which falls short on guiding principle regarding mental illness and mentally ill offenders. ... The Act contains provisions for assessment, treatment, and patient rights. It provides mentally ill offenders help to understand criminal responsibility where the person has a mental illness or intellectual disability. ... The Mental Health Act provides for and protect...

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Schizoaffective disorder is defined as an: Illness during which the patient has symptoms of both schizophrenia and a major mood disorder at the same time. ... Schizoaffective patients have a higher "likelihood of returning to a previous level of functioning than schizophrenics- (Lambert, Gordon). ... Some schizoaffective patients experience symptoms between episodes, but generally, symptoms can be controlled with medication. Many schizoaffective patients function very well in normal society with treatment. ... Victim, not villain: the mentally ill are six to seven times more likely to b...

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Physicians cannot always determine which drug will be best for a particular patient. ... Supportive therapies emphasize support and provide structure in the patient's life. ... Generally such groups consist of four to eight patients, and one or two therapists. ... Creative art therapy can be used for the patient unable to address his or her illness in the usual verbal manner. Patients are encouraged to express themselves through body movements or by writing poetry for instance. ...

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Thankfully the treatment of the mentally ill has significantly evolved over the last fifty years or so, and an emphasis on empathy for patients is now instilled in medical professionals, and treatment is no longer perverse and cruel in the vast majority of cases. ... When treating a patient who is suffering from depression, bipolar disorder or Alzheimer's disease hospitalization or drug treatments tend to be the preferred method over psychological exploration. ... Different clusters of one illness have different consequences for a patient's behavior. ... People can be anti-social wit...

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In paranoid schizophrenia, the patient becomes convinced of beliefs at odds with reality, hears voices that aren't there or sees images that exist nowhere but in their mind (2001). ... Most males become ill between 16 and 25 years of age, most females develop symptoms between ages 25 and 30 (1996). ... As soon as an imagined voice spoke, or a vision appeared, a patient pressed a button. ... When one patient reported seeing dripping colors and severed heads, for instance, the parts of the sensory cortex that process movement, color, and objects, became active. When patients hear vo...

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Therefore, diagnosis should not lie only in the physician's hands but be associated with parents, teachers, and anyone who interacts with the patient on a daily basis. ... Oster & Montgomery (1996) stated that "when parents are struggling over marital or career problems, or are ill themselves, teens may feel the tension and try to distract their parents." ... So how can the physician determine when a patient should be diagnosed as depressed or suicidal? ... An average of twenty to thirty percent of adult bipolar patients reported having their first episode before the age of twenty. ...

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Therefore, diagnosis should not lie only in the physician's hands but be associated with parents, teachers, and anyone who interacts with the patient on a daily basis. ... Oster & Montgomery (1996) stated that "when parents are struggling over marital or career problems, or are ill themselves, teens may feel the tension and try to distract their parents." ... So how can the physician determine when a patient should be diagnosed as depressed or suicidal? ... An average of twenty to thirty percent of adult bipolar patients reported having their first episode before the age of twenty. ...

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Also patients were given a little more freedom but the cure rate was still low. ... Psychotherapy is any form of treatment for psychological or emotional disorders in which a trained person establishes a relationship with one or several patients for the purpose of modifying or removing existing symptoms and promoting personality growth. ... People who are ill may also have visual hallucinations, a door in the wall where no door exist, a lion, a tiger, or a long dead relative may suddenly appear. ...

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The mentally ill were frequently incarcerated and mistreated at Bethlehem Hospital (also known as "Bedlam"). ... Mentally ill people were driven from towns, ridiculed, beaten, or stoned. Women who were mentally ill were often thought to be witches or possessed and were burned at the stake or drowned. ...

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The may feel very hopeless which can often lead to suicide. (4) Anxiety - Patients may experience the psychological manifestations of anxiety. Sixty to seventy percent of depressed patients report feelings of anxiety and sometimes extreme worrying... Therefore, diagnosis should not lie only in the physician's hands but be associated with parents, teachers and anyone who interacts with the patient on a daily basis. ... Oster & Montgomery (1996) stated that "when parents are struggling over marital or career problems, or are ill themselves, teens may feel the tension and try to distract the...

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Description of Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a chronic and progressive mental illness in which patients distort the senses of perception, thought, and reality. ... There is a considerable correlation between the closeness of genetic relationship to a schizophrenic patient and the probability of developing the disorder. ...

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They try to do many things at once, are impatient, and easily irritated and angered - the type B personality is marked by relatively relaxed, patient, easygoing behavior * Type A behavior is a contributing factor in heart disease * The immune response is the body's defensive reaction to invasion by bacteria, viruses, etc... It is marked by a history of diverse physical complaints that appear to be psychological in origin * Conversion disorder is characterized by a significant loss of physical function with no apparent organic basis, usually in a single organ system * Hypochondria ...

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