Category: Mental Illness

Definition- ‘a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behaviour, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.” (oxford dictionary) Schizophrenia is a mental illness that causes some to have…

Executive function with a focus on working memory in schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a complex disorder with a large heterogeneity within its clinical handbook. Categorised as a disorder of psychosis, it remains an abstract chronic illness that affects one percent of the global population (Nordqvist, C. 2017). With a vast variety of clinical presentations, the exact…

Poetry has been around for centuries. Going back to the 2nd century. As poetry has been around for some time now. Poetry has a tendency of helping soothe the pain, suffering of mental illness and so much more. In Will a poem a day keep the Doctor away?, talks about the use of poetry and…

Schizophrenia, a term introduced by Bleuler, names a persistent, often chronic and usually serious mental disorder affecting a variety of aspects of behavior, thinking, and emotion. Biopsychology analyzes how the brain influences behavior, feelings, and thoughts (Kalat, 2016). Peculiar behaviors may be associated with social withdrawal and disinterest. A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 biographical…

Around the world, many mothers have very smooth postpartum experiences, but on the other hand, some tend to have unfavourable physical or mental health complications. When it comes to mental health and postpartum, a common disorder that affects mothers and their infants is postpartum depression. According to Bicking and Moore (2012), about 15 percent of…

Mental illness as a general term is defined as any of numerous disorders categorised by impairment of an individual’s thoughts, emotions, or social functioning. Types of mental illnesses may include bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, ADHD, psychotic disorder etc. It has been discussed that mental illness is linked to crime. As public opinion surveys highlight that mentally…

Losing a job or dropping out of college is one of the most stressful events of life. But witnessing your career declining or being not able to work and study as a result of mental disease is surely a very big emotional and psychological trauma for one. Schizophrenia is one kind of mental illness that…

Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness, characterised by symptoms affecting the patients perception of reality, emotions, thoughts and behaviour. TraditionalThere is a range of symptoms such as delusion, disturbed and illogical thoughts, irrational behaviour, hallucinations, such as hearing voices, disruption of verbal communication and negative symptoms such as emotional disengagement, social disconnection and absence of…

Postpartum depression or postnatal depression is a widespread problem occuring in the mother, but also affecting father and child. INTRODUCTION Postpartum depression is one of the most common problems occur in the women after giving birth to their offspring. A study has shown that in developed countries 10-20% of mothers were affected by PPD. It…

Schizophrenia is a chronic psychiatric disorder that often causes individuals to lose sense of reality. Symptoms normally start to show around 16-30 years of age. (CDC, 2015) Symptoms show up in three different ways; positive, negative and cognitive. Positive symptoms are visual or auditory hallucinations or delusions. Negative symptoms are monotone voice, withdrawal of everyday…