Mental Disorders: Trichotillomania

In the story, “Because of Anya,” by Margaret Peterson Haddix, is a young girl, called Anya, which has a disease of Alopecia Areata. Alopecia Areata is a type of a disease that causes patchy hair-loss. At page #62, Anya’s wig detaches, and falls off. Anya, humiliated and speechless, rapidly snatched her wig, and ran out of the gym. The story states, “You lost your hair!”

Growing up my mom always permed my hair and the perm caused my hair to break. My hair was damaged all of my teenage years. As I became an adult, I decided to stop using chemicals in my hair. When I had children I decided to do that for their hair as well. Also I didn 't like how other people did my hair so I started managing it myself.

People with mental illness, also can easily obtain a gun, without having to take a test or someone looking at paperwork that says they

There are positives and negatives to labeling mental illness that affects the treatment, family, and social situations of the patient. The diagnosis is not a “cure all” and could worsen conditions of a lot of people when they realize that the diagnosis did not help. Additionally whenever the patient is label with a mental illness people are likely to create a stigma towards the patient and start avoiding him/her.

According to New York Daily, about 42 million American adults suffer from mental illnesses, enduring conditions such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. Mental health is a condition concerning one’s psychological and emotional well-being. People who are diagnosed with a mentally ill have major shifts in mood, thinking and/or behavior. Those who agree to seek treatment, consult with a counselor and agree to be labeled has mentally ill. This allows them to have access to medication, housing, counseling and money. However, the label “mentally ill” tend to carry a negative connotation due to the misrepresentation regrading this community. This can affect how they are seen by society, especially when seeking work, in court

Doctors and psychiatrists are too willing to place someone on medications for a quick fix. We are an overmedicated society looking for an easy answer for a solution to our problems. Research suggests that one in five Americans are diagnosed with a mental health disorder. I firmly believe that there is a mental health crisis in the United States and many people go undiagnosed. Mental health, does in my opinion, has stigmas attached to it.

The media has programmed our minds to believe untrue “facts” of what we believe is someone who is mentally ill. When in reality, the mentally ill people cannot help that they are the way they are because it is a silent disease that they struggle with every day. Due to their struggle and resentment of wanting to believe they are ill, they won’t ask for help when in reality they need it. They will keep quiet in fear of judgement, isolation, and discrimination, so every day they put on their mask and go out into the world pretending they are just fine.

Many people say that the real weapon used is rage. Guns are not bad things or good things. They are things, inanimate objects, chunks of metal with no will of their own (Medred 2). Why do we as a society not address mental illness more? The majority of all “school shooters” are misfits.

Annotated Bibliography Fornaro, M. (2009, May 18). Obsessive-compulsive disorder and related disorders: A comprehensive survey. This disorder is known to be the disabling anxiety condition and counts for more than half of serious anxiety cases.

Even thought out this essay I have had to convince myself to continue because my thoughts are telling me no one wants to know the things that I’m writing and nothing I have to say is important. Living with social anxiety is an everyday battle and some days the anxiety and fear win out. 3. Main Point 3- Treatment Options for people who suffer from social anxiety.

“The pain walking around without your pride is hard to do if you ask.” - Randy Wolff.   Currently, at the age of 37, Randy is diagnosed with alopecia, it’s a disease that makes all of the hair fall out, in certain parts, of the patient's body.  This is Randy Wolff and this is his eye-opening story about his never-ending battle with Alopecia.

We should be open about mental health, so that people are able to speak up and get help, but not to the point that mental illnesses are normalized, romanticized, and trivialized. So, stop glorifying them. Stop acting like it’s a choice. Stop acting like they are entertainment. Stop using them as an adjective.

1. Obsessive-compulsive behaviors often start in one’s adolescence or young adult stage of life, often times making an appearance by the age of 19.5. Although its most common during this time frame, it is not completely uncommon to begin during one’s childhood and is actually quite possible.

Considering mental health issues are so prominent in our day to day lives, why is it that they’re so vastly misapprehended? Mental disorders are commonly misconceived as Wyatt Fisher, a Colorado-based licensed psychologist implied in an interview with The Cheat Sheet; “People tend to view mental illness as a sign of weakness that people should just be able to ‘get over’, and many view it as a title given to those who are just ‘crazy’”. At one point mental health was a

They can have hands too rough for the shampoo, or miss the straightness of the lines. They can cause the colors to look dull and splattered all over someone’s hair, as well as completely ruin the new, really cute, style that one wanted to try that everyone else looks so pretty in. Not only that, but hiding the shame of this monstrosity