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- 9901: Dreams
- ... in our dream. Certain groups believe so strongly in the significance of dreams as if these mental images are some sort of mystical thing. For example, if my paranoid aunt has a dream about a death or a terrible accident, she will go ahead and call everyone in the family and warn them to be cautious in whatever they go about doing today. Buddhist monks believes strongly in their theory that ...
- 9902: Bipolar Disorder
- ... of hopelessness and helplessness. Some of the symptoms of a depressive episode include anhedonia, disturbances in sleep and appetite, psycomoter retardation, loss of energy, feelings of worthlessness, guilt, difficulty thinking, indecision, and recurrent thoughts of death and suicide (Hollandsworth, Jr. 1990 ). The manic episodes are characterized by elevated or irritable mood, increased energy, decreased need for sleep, poor judgment and insight, and often reckless or irresponsible behavior (Hollandsworth, Jr. 1990 ). Bipolar ...
- 9903: Quit Smoking!
- ... discovered that women smokers could cause major damage to the fetus if they are pregnant. In 1964, the annual Surgeon Generals Report On Smoking And Health reported an overwhelming association between smoking and early death from lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and all other chronic diseases (Payne 2). Smoking has been proven to cause many life threatening problems, therefore cigarette use should not be tolerated. The number one killer of ...
- 9904: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- ... can result from drinking while pregnant. The most common effect is an increase in spontaneous abortions, commonly know as miscarriages. Some of the others are increase in stillbirths, decreased IQ scores, and an increase in death rate. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is one of the leading causes of mental retardation and the only one that is entirely preventable (McCuen, 81). FAS is a life long impairment for the children that are affected ...
- 9905: Compare And Contrast Depression And Schizophrenia
- ... decrease in sexual drive; (5) fatigue and loss of energy; (6) feelings of worthlessness, self-reproach, or excessive or inappropriate guilt; (7) diminished ability to think of concentrate, or indecisiveness; and (8) recurrent thoughts of death or suicide, or suicide attempts. Not all of these characteristics occur in each individual who becomes depressed. For purposes of psychiatric treatment, a person is considered to have experienced a major depressive episode if he ...
- 9906: Skin Cancer
- ... it isn't detected quickly enough and it has progressed into the deep portions of the tissue. If Basal cell carcinoma is left untreated it can be very hard to treat and may even cause death. The common methods of treatment involve the use of Mohs micrographic surgery, radiation therapy, electrodesiccation and curettage, and simple excision. Each of these methods is useful in specific clinical situations. Depending on the case, these ...
- 9907: Vegetarian Diet
- ... suffering and killing which occurs in commercial farming, we demean ourselves, coarsen our sensitivities, dull our feelings of sympathy with our fellow creatures, and so begin the descent down the slippery slope of torture and death, to a point where it becomes easier for us to contemplate and carry out the torture and killing of human beings. (20) This moral argument for vegetarianism is also noted by John Robbins who states ...
- 9908: Bipolar Disorder
- ... bad phases sometimes emotional disturbances can even make matters worst. Suicidal behaviors can occur to a bipolar disordered people as a response to a situation that the person views as overwhelming, such as social isolation, death of a loved one, emotional trauma, growing old, not have a job or money problems, guilt feelings, drug abuse and alcohol during bad phases. The manic phase is in the relation of attention deficit disorder ...
- 9909: Breast Feeding Infants
- ... essential to premature infants. Since breast milk reduces the amount of infections, breast-fed premature infants normally leave the NICU sooner. Human milk has also been proven to lower the risk of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). (http://medicalreport.health.org) More and more research has provided evidence that breast-feeding leads to optimal brain development. Taylor (1984) determined that formula-fed children showed less performance on development tests when he ...
- 9910: IVF: A Medical Breakthrough or A Medical Burden?
- ... outcome." In other words, if a person were stricken with a deadly disease, this would suggest that the natural thing to do would be to let the person lay, without medical attention, and wait for death to take its toll. However, this is by no means a natural human instinct. According to Singer, the overall concept of what is natural "is the application of our intelligence to overcome adverse situations in ...
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