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Examples Of Mental Illness In America

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Mental Disorders Connected to Our Culture Mental Illness changes in the United states as the culture of the country changes throughout the years. Depression and Anxiety disorders are illnesses that have been extremely common throughout the years. These illnesses are connected to our culture. In previous time, tragic events effected our minds and bodies in a negative way. In today’s world, technology is everywhere and has a significant effect on our health. The Great Depression was a tragic time in the United States that effected our country forever. The stock market crashed in October 1929, causing everyone to lose their money and go into panic. This led to a high amount of unemployed people. According to Tom DeGrace, “By 1933, the …show more content…

People didn’t have jobs, food, and a scarce amount of money. These are necessities needed to survive, and they were not available. This need for necessities continued to grow and caused more people to come depressed due to the fact they didn’t have these priorities. These individuals didn’t know if they would make it to the next day. This tragic event caused mental disorders to the people of this generation. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, displays an example of a women in past time fighting depression. The narrator does not feel as though she Is sick, but her husband, John, does. She is given a cure that forces her to stay in a confined room. She feels trapped by her husband, causing her to feel depressed. This woman believes she sees a woman inside her wall trying to escape, but in reality she is seeing herself in the wallpaper trying to escape because she is also trying to escape her depression. This depression causes her to be fixed on her own mind, leaving her to feel …show more content…

Today, anxiety disorders are more common. Currently, more and more people are suffering from ADD and ADHD. ADD (Attention deficit disorder) and ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) are both an anxiety disorders that affect people’s ability to stay focused on things like schoolwork, conversations, and everyday activities. These anxiety disorders could be said to be caused by the increase of technology in our culture, causing younger people to have a hard time concentrating on the tasks at hand. Technology surrounds everyone in modern day society. Instead of playing outside, children are sitting inside on the IPad for hours on end. According to Russell Barkley, “On average, there are 1 to 3 children who have ADHD in every classroom of 30 students.” This statistic keeps growing and growing. Children get attached to a website or a video game, making it addicting. They are to focused on this game that they can’t focus on anything else going on. When the device is taken away, these children are lost and have no idea what to do. Technology is bringing anxiety on these children, giving them disorders that could last them a

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The Great Depression was an enormous economic downfall in the history of the United States and was also a very hard time for many Americans. People had lost jobs, markets went bad, banks had shut down, and unemployment rate has gone up. It had lasted from 1929-1939. During the next several years, buyer spending and investment had dropped, causing a decline in industrial output and raising the unemployment level. It began with the stock market crash on October 29 1929, which had lost millions of investors, markets had lost $30 billion dollars in two days, making it ten times more than the annual budget the U.S had spent for WWI, and prices were dropping until the end of November.

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Furthermore, the CDC tries to drive the reader away from common thoughts on the causes of ADHD, such as parenting, too much screen time, or family life (CDC, 2022-b). Overall, the CDC’s website on ADHD easily persuades its readers through the appeal of logos in the logic and reasoning found throughout the

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In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a recent mother Jane has been feeling quite ill and depressed. Her Husband, a physician decides the best course of action is rest. He sends her off to an estate where she is cared for by his sister. With her only contact being her husband, and his sister, she is slowly driven to madness due to lack of creative stimulation. I found it interesting how Jane spoke so fondly of her brother and Husband even though she knew that their treatment was killing her.

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The Center for Disease Control, uses their website to establish that there are several solutions to help treat patients who have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The purpose is to convey the idea that, parents can try out new recommendations in order to help their child get adjusted to some sort of effective treatment. The website adopts a technical tone in order to suggest better outcomes and methods to further help educate families about how to treat children who have ADHD. To persuade the reader, they apply mostly logos, ethos and pathos. The CDC website has informative tabs that list and explain causes, symptoms, treatments, facts and statistics about ADHD, which supports the website.

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In The Yellow Wallpaper, a great deal of oppression placed on the woman of the story. Her husband John, was a well known physician and he prescribed her as mentally ill. She denied it at times when the diagnosis came from him, but her brother was also a well known physician and had the same diagnosis. The woman's husband had medication prescribed to her and he kept her in the house all day. The house that the woman stayed in was very old fashioned house filled with lots of rooms but the woman would be alone for most of her days with nothing but inanimate objects.

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In The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a cautionary tale about fighting depression with depression. Depression is defined as, feeling of sadness or gloom or, “a psychoneurotic or psychotic disorder marked especially by sadness, inactivity, difficulty in thinking and concentration, a significant increase or decrease in appetite and time spent sleeping, feelings of dejection and hopelessness, and sometimes suicidal tendencies.” ("Depression." Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web.

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The Struggle of Many Women The story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, reflects the life of many women during the difficult times they were living in. The narrator can relate to many people during the Victorian age where the woman’s role was to be a wife and a mother only. The narrator is a woman who is imaginative and is dissociated from herself and from the world.

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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story where the main character is on a “search for self.” The woman in this story is trying to get ‘better”. She seems to be very disconnected from reality and does not know the severity of her condition but she does know that John is there and wants her to be better, too. As the story continues, she is consumed by the yellow wallpaper in her room and starts to make faces and pictures in it that really aren’t there. She starts seeing pictures of strangled heads and beady eyes.

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The Psychotic Wife The women in The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, claims to be sick. Her husband who is a doctor, does not believe that she is sick. This kind of drives the women crazy because she is trying to convince everyone that she is sick. Her husband just tells her to not do anything and she’ll get better, but resting won’t cure what she has.

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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story set in the 1890s about a female narrator who struggles with postpartum depression. She moves into a home for the summer with her husband, John. Since she has this sickness, John forbids her from doing any sort of activities other than some houes work. If she was doing anything, her husband would want her to rest to help with her illness. This was a common "cure" known at the rest cure back then.

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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story told through diary entries of a woman who suffers from postpartum depression. The narrator, whose name is never mentioned, becomes obsessed with the ugly yellow wallpaper in the summer home her husband rented for them. While at the home the Narrator studies the wallpaper and starts to believe there is a woman in the wallpaper. Her obsession with the wallpaper slowly makes her mental state deteriorate. Throughout The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses many literary devices such as symbolism, personification and imagery to help convey her message and get it across to the reader.

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The main character, Jane, is suffering from postpartum depression and her husband feels that isolating her from society will somehow cure her disease. She is isolated in a room that is covered in yellow wallpaper which eventually causes her depression to worsen. However, this tactic winds up causing her to develop an

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