Essays on Psychiatry

The following are number of health issues among the post-secondary students: Lack of physical activities: The first and foremost reason for the lack of physical active it is a sedentary lifestyle which can lead to various harmful diseases like Blood pressure, Cardiovascular, Obesity, Osteoporosis, Depression,...

There is an urgent need for improved techniques in understanding the causes, progression, diagnosis, prevention, and intervention surrounding psychiatric conditions. A relatively new field of extracellular vesicle biology offers a promising approach. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) refer to vesicles that are derived from the lipid membranes...

In any given year, one in five people in Canada will experience a mental health problem or illness, and about one percent of Canadians will experience Bipolar Disorder. (Mental Health Commission of Canada, 2013) Bipolar 1 Disorder formerly known as “manic depressive” disorder is characterized...

Bipolar disorder is a common chronic illness. The characteristics of bipolar disorder are change in moods, shift in moods, behaviours, normal day to day activity and their energy stages. Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, bipolar disorder was not differentiated from major depressive sickness....

Everyone is different, that is what makes us human. The most common mental diseases are not the egregious abnormalities in the mind, but instead results of systems that are in everyone’s mind working differently. How can we help the mentally ill, what causes these differences,...

The human mind is a pendant to the physical body. They are both essential mechanisms needed to understand the principles of Psychiatry. I believe by becoming a psychiatrist, I can make a positive difference to those suffering from diseases of the mind. To gather insight...

The physical body is a pendant to the human mind. They are both essential mechanisms needed to understand the principles of Psychiatry; the complex study of the human mind and physical body. I believe by becoming a psychiatrist, I will make a positive difference to...

Behavioural modification programmes. What do these three things have in common? All were a terrifying and overlooked part of the day-to-day running of the maximum security psychiatric hospital; Broadmoor. Most people think of Broadmoor as a prison, but in reality it’s the high security home...

The psychiatric patient should not be kept for long periods of time within care rather they shouldn’t be confined to the walls of a mental hospital their entire lives. Hildegard Peplau was a great advocate for nurse and patient relationships that were built on little...