Mental Illnesses In The Late 1800s

I realized after reading the book that the point of the wartime setting was to show the ignorance of the people living in this dystopian society. Fahrenheit 451 depicts how society’s main focus was what was on TV and what were the latest upgrades they could make to their TV and these senseless ideas were caused by the lack of books. This was especially seen in the part of the book at the Montag house when Guy questions Mrs. Phelps about her husband going to war, she doesn’t seem to be worried because, she has never seen the danger. This unawareness being the fault of the media and government not showing the war to the public as it is and showing the war as they want people to see it by lying in hope to manipulate the population. After the questioning by Guy, the conversation quickly changes back to their favorite topic of television showing what is important to them.

The Commander and Offred’s relationship is non-existent at first, but then it develops over time. They start initiating a secret affair in his office, an action that is forbidden in Gilead. They are not allowed to have any communication, yet both of them break the rule by commencing a relationship. Offred 's demonstrates her feeling of guilt towards Serena Joy in this quote, “ I felt I was an intruder, in a territory that ought to have been hers. [...] I was taking something away from her, although she didn 't know it.

“It is very uncomfortable to sleep in our small home” as there has to be “four to five kids sleeping on one bed”, said the mother. The kids do not possess the opportunity of obtaining a normal lifestyle as they are kept inside their house for fear from the gangsters “It is very dangerous to raise kids, they are inside all the time”. They are not able to walk down the street or play outside with other children due to fear from both the parents and themselves. They are scared of the shooters, the mother stated “I see ten year olds carrying guns”. This is due to the lack of resources in Caracas, Venezuela which influences them to become part of a gang.

“Homeless” written by Anna Quindlen, is about how people choose to be homeless instead of going to shelters and finding homes to live in. People wonder why those who don’t have homes would rather sleep sitting up on benches or huddled in door ways instead of going to shelters. Some do because they are emotionally ill, because "they have been locked in before and they are damned if they will be locked in again." Some are afraid of the violence and trouble they may find there. But some of them want things that are not available to them in shelters and they don’t want to compromise, not even for food or a shower.

I would talk in class but was not able to allow myself to create new friendships. Eventually I began making friends, but they did not bring me the same feelings of joy the others had, so I never allowed myself to be any closer to anyone. I would often spend the lunch period hiding in a bathroom stall crying, not because people had been mean to me or I had problems at home, I just felt so deeply unhappy with myself that I did not know how to deal with it. The sadness was then accompanied by numbness, and I finally thought of a way to deal with it. I started inflicting physical pain upon myself as a way to distract from the emotional turmoil I had been in for so long-- and it worked.

When people stared robbery and breaking into people 's house, people started to freak out because they weren 't even safe in their own home and people were touching thing in their house and it was spreading grem, they didn’t know if they had it or if they were okay and people still didn’t have the vaccine made yet and when then did it took a long time for an average person to already have it. Where we are scared and feared, we do thing and say things we wouldn 't do or say if we were think first and not doing or saying when we are letting our fear get in the way of what really going on we do dumb thing and we don 't see what’s going on and we don’t lissen. That why in the movie people were panicking and doing all this disaster and leaving their home and when they started to hear that war was a vaccine and that thing were going to get better they started to think

Part of the clinical process involves negotiations between these explanatory models, once they have been made explicit. some of the common explanatory models of mental illnesses explained by researches are Unprovoked violence Is violent in an uncontrollable way to others/things without alcohol or other provocation Violence to oneself Has attempted to or has committed suicide in the last two years Hallucinations Sees things or hears voices that others do not Possessions Possessed by ghosts, devils, evil spirits Social isolation Does not work, has no friends, is always alone and shows no interest in any social activity Sadness, depression Is always sad, unhappy, and cries for no apparent reason Insomnia Suffers from sleeplessness Irrelevant talk Talks irrelevantly, incoherently, and excessively Bizarre behaviour Behaves strangely and in a manner not acceptable to society Suspiciousness Feels suspicious of, and persecuted by, others for no apparent reason Neglect of personal hygiene Does not take care of self and surroundings Mental sub normality Behaviour not appropriate for age, Black magic, Spiritual possession, spells, curses, witchcraft Bad wind, evil eye, astrological

When she lived in the convalescent home, “The parents stand below shrieking up to be heard and the children shriek down to be heard, and between them the invisible wall ‘Not to Be Contaminated by Parental Germs or Physical Affection.’” The wall stopped parents showing love to their children and prevented children from feeling love. It is hard to think what a child will be if she is in serious illness and can’t get caring from parents. Finally, she became cynicism that she said that she didn’t care about the homework and coming test because people will be likely to die of bomb blast in following years. In general, the social situations forced Emily’s mother made choice and the choice lead to the formation of Emily’s

In the Allegory of the Cave and Fahrenheit 451, people become blinded by what they do not know and differences between lifestyles. In the Allegory of the Cave no one knew what the outside world was like and as stated: “He wouldn’t be able to see things up on the surface of the earth, I suppose, until he’d got used to his situation.” People do not understand or try to understand what they do not know or what they do not agree with. In the book, people abolished books because there was a chance someone would disagree with it. Everyone contains only happiness, because they live in a society where they do not know everything, but they do not know what they do not know.

Jem realizes this in a previous chapter. “…I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time… it’s because he wants to stay inside..(23.227).” The events involving Tim Johnson and Boo Radley support Harper Lee’s message because in both instances, people fear to help others due to outside influences corrupting their minds.

Hunger, deprivation, and loss of freedom from the outside world were all common feelings in the Secret Annex. For months mental and physical illness could be felt deeply. There was no time for leisure or having a childhood with fear of the fear of the Nazis coming to take either the Frank or Van Daan family. Nor talking, walking, or even using the toilet were permitted. Every day in the Annex was a bore for Anne since she was no longer able to express herself.

Mental Illness in the 1800's: something needed to be done If you had a mental illness in the 1800's you'd be put into an asylum which usually had horrible conditions. Thanks to Dorothea Dix that is not how we treat mentally ill people today. Dorothea Dix reformed society by showing the gov. how people were treated in these asylums and wanted to make the conditions better by, for example putting in libraries.

“...Insane persons confined within this Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.” These words were spoken in front of the General Court of Massachusetts by Joseph S. Dodd in January of 1843. Dodd spoke for Dorothea Dix, since women were not allowed to present cases to the Court. Dorothea Dix was a reformer in the 19th century, and went to extreme measures to take a stand for the mentally ill.

Legacy of Dorothea Dix During the ancient history, mentally ill people were perceived as cursed or punishment by God. Due to this reason families were ashamed and hid their family members with mental disabilities. In some cases, they were kept in the same facilities with prisoners, chained in dark enclosed spaces, lying in their own filth, without adequate clothing, and abused physically (truthaboutnursing.org, 2016). People have viewed mentally ill people as incurable and helpless predominantly just as a burden on society. Due to the fact that people did not have any knowledge about mental illness, they didn’t know how to care and treat them as humans.

For the assignment week two reading summary I chose the article The Myth of Mental Illness: 50 Years Later by Thomas Szasz. In this article, Szasz expresses what the book he wrote really means. Szasz defines mental illnesses and psychiatric responses as matters of morals, law, and rhetoric instead of defining them as medicine, treatment or science (P. 180). Szasz writes about how he believes mental illness doesn't exist rather mental illness are bodily affected related diseases. Szasz writes, “Psychiatrists will be able to show that all mental illnesses are bodily diseases.