Being human comes with experiencing and managing many different emotions, sadness being one of them. Everyone will occasionally feel sad or down, and those feelings are normal and in many cases will pass within a couple of days. However, depression is an "illness that involves the body, mood, and th...
Patty Duke and Gloria Hochman (1992). A brilliant Madness: Living with manic-depressive illness New York: Bantam Books. Nonfiction The story I read was the true-life story of the actress from the 70's, Patty Duke. This book was one of continuing suspense and you could hardly put it down for anticipation of what was to come. The one thing I did not like about this book was the way it alternated between Patty's story and the co authors medical views in every other chapter. ...
Many of the ones who find out and don't understand call them attentions seekers, which isn't the case at all. ... And the attention seekers are the ones who self-harm are doing it for pity from others, and to make the hurt ones feel worse about themselves. ...
Much like Joan, Esther also has the problem of being phony in order to hide that she really is. ... When Esther was denied from the writing course she had applied for is when she went on a complete downward spiral and needed to seek medical attention as she claimed she could no longer read words off of pages she read (Plath 185). ...
With medicinal practice having a preexisting emphasis on healing and a complementary sentiment of failure if they cannot heal, fear arises that, combined with the new option of killing, doctors may attempt to hide their failures through assisted suicide. ...
