Alcoholism and Genetics: Is Your Parent Responsible for Your Drinking? Has heavy drinking affected your family? If it has, you are not alone. Almost half of all adults in the United States (43%) have been directly affected by alcoholism or have a parent, sibling, child or spouse af...

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that affects people worldwide. This disorder is one of the most severe brain disorders. By definition, it is characterized by profound distortions in one's thought process, emotions, perceptions, and behavior. This serious mental disorder causes a person to l...

Childhood Revealed takes us into the hearts and minds of children who live with a specific challenge in their cognitive, psychological, or physical aspect of their life. For these children, drawing, and writing about their drawings, are ways of finding solutions or communicating with anyone that wi...

Schizophrenia: A Life Destroyer Schizophrenia is one of the most common serious psychiatric illnesses. It affects one percent of the general population. This is a socially and financially devastating disease that robs people of their most productive years of life. Schizophrenia still co...

Psychological Disorders The meaning of abnormality has gone through many drastically different changes throughout history. It went from supernatural forces, demons, and witchcraft, to physical illness. Where exactly does the line of normality end and abnormality begin? There are numerous behavi...

Suicide is defined as the act of killing oneself. And in this day and age it is becoming more and more of a problem. Not only for a certain race or age, but also for adolescents. Most people would not think suicide is a major problem for today's youth, but the numbers keep multiplying each yea...

Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder is a personality disorder that is wide spread among our country. There are two main parts to this disorder. These two parts are depression and mania. Depression and mania are two completely opposite problems. Depression is a persons extreme low. While ...

1 1. Depression is an illness with a wide range of physical and psychological symptoms. There are many symptoms of depression. One may suffer from a few but it is rare to have a feeling of all of the symptoms. The symptoms are: Feeling of helplessness and hopelessness, feeling useles...

Multiple Personality Disorders By Philip Ausherman Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) was first recognized in the 1700's but was not understood so therefore it was forgotten. Many cases show up in medical records through the years, but in 1905, D...

When a person hears the word "crazy", their first thoughts are probably of symptoms of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is seen as the ideal case of insanity. The causes of this disease remain unknown, but scientists are constantly searching for answers. Although a cure for schizophrenia is s...

HISTORY OF DEPRESSION: Depressive illness has been known since biblical times. The word depression comes from the Latin word deprimere (to press down). Thus it means feeling pressed down, sad or low. In the late Middle Ages, religious leaders believed depression was caused by posession of evil spiri...

SCHIZOPHRENIA Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that affects approximately one percent of the population. One out of every hundred people will at some point be diagnosed as schizophrenic. This syndrome was first described as a si...

SCHIZOPHRENIA Schizophrenia, from the Greek word meaning "split mind", is a mental disorder that causes complete fragmentation in the processes of the mind. Contrary to common belief, schizophrenia does not refer to a person with a split personality or multiple personalities, but ra...

SCHIZOPHRENIA Schizophrenia, from the Greek word meaning "split mind", is a mental disorder that causes complete fragmentation in the processes of the mind. Contrary to common belief, schizophrenia does not refer to a person with a split personality or multiple personalities, but ra...

Depression and Everything That Comes With It Depression is something that most people will experience at some point in their life (Patterson, 1). It can be a result of an external or internal influence. Depression can last for minutes or years. There are many different kinds of depression tha...

Julien Rouleau Suicide: A Self-Destruction Suicide is the act or an instance of intentionally killing oneself. According to Emile Durkheim, suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will prod...

Psychological Disorders Anxiety- Anxiety is a generalized feeling of fear and apprehension that may be related to a particular situation or object and is often accompanied by increased physiological arousal. Karen Horney described anxiety as the central factor in both normal and abnormal behav...