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...

Depression Mental illness will now strike one in five people in the United States alone and the numbers are steadily increasing. In particular, serious depression has risen astonishingly in the recent years. Depression is, by defintion, "A condition marked by an inablity to concen...

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...

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...

Section One: Summary Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in a person's mood, energy, and ability to function. Different from the normal ups and downs that everyone goes through, the symptoms of bipolar disorder are severe. They c...

1. Schizophrenia is a mental illness, characterized by a range of symptoms. Most common symptoms include delusions and hallucinations. Additional symptoms of schizophrenia found in humans include: bizarre behavior, loss of contact with reality, disorganized thinking and speaking, decreased emoti...

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...

For many years, people who had mental health issues were locked away in institutions and spent their lives within the confines of that setting. There was little hope of ever having a normal life let alone a productive one and family members accepted the fact that their family member was substandard....

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...

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...