Essays on Health

Adolescence is the stage in life that lasts from puberty to full adult status. Adolescence largely describes the developmental change from childhood to adulthood, which is commonly perceived as the teenage years lasting between 13 and 19. However, the changes that do signal the beginning of the transition, both psychological...

Everyone possesses essential psychological needs which if not meet we suffer severely. Just in a similar manner, we need food, shelter, and clothing; we require fulfillment of our psychological desires to remain stable and mentally healthy. According to psychological studies, psychological needs can be narrowed down into four categories which...

People react differently to the losing their loved ones, but one thing is evident across the different segments of populations, others appear upset, others do not. Grief and loss are dependent on individual personality, age, how they react to stress, gender, stage of development, nature of the relationship and previous...

 The human body displays various reactions that are characterized by opposing tendencies. Such tendencies affect flight and fight reactions, feeling hungry, and nerve firing among many other body processes. This paper will use psychological and physical mechanisms to explain how various opposing processes apply to the automatic nervous system, color...

The article “The Beneficial Effects of Anticipating Anxiety –Related Symptoms: An investigation of Paradoxical-Success Imagery in the Laboratory” was written by Derek de la Pena in 2009. The author wrote the article in bid to provide an understanding on how anxiety affected performance in sports and methods that can be...

Bhanawat, N., Maheshwari, V., Joshi, G., Dhaduk, P., Singh, A., Gambhir, R. S., " Kahlon, H. (2017). A study of the association between depression and self-esteem among dental students of Udaipur. International Journal of Orofacial Research, 2(2), 57.SynopsisDepression describes a mood disorder whereby the patient experiences persistent sadness along with...

A human being will experience sleep disturbance resulting from anxiety in his lifespan. These two, anxiety, and sleep disturbance occur co-currently and they are closely associated. The main objective of the study was to find out how perceived anxiety control was related to sleep disturbance. Sleep disturbance in the extent...

Birrer, Daniel, Philipp R thlin, and Gareth Morgan. Mindfulness to Enhance Athletic Performance: Theoretical Considerations and Possible Impact Mechanisms. Mindfulness 2012: 235-246. Web. This article is important to the assignment at hand because it discusses not only the concept of mindfulness but also the different problems sports people face...

About 1% of the population over a lifetime will be afflicted with schizophrenic illness. Alcohol is a depressant drug that can slow down the messages to and from the brain and body. This exploration proposition has investigated the difficulties looked by people who are dependent on alcohol and have schizotypy...

Amnesia is a disorder associated with memory shortage, and it results from psychological trauma, brain disease, and brain damage. Retrograde amnesia refers to a person's inability to recall information that was acquired before a certain period, especially the time of operation or accident. Anterograde amnesia is the incapacity to transfer...

The movie “Return to Paradise,” raises profound ethical questions regarding personal mortality as well as lawyers’ ethical responsibility. The movie revolves around three young Americans who enjoy a cheap and sensual summer in Malaysia, usually while stone on cheap hashish. Two of them, Sheriff and Tony, return to the United...

Physician-Assisted Suicide: An Analysis Physician-assisted suicide (PAD), refers to the death of a patient helped by physicians and doctors through the administration of life-terminating medication (Menzel, "Steinbock, 2013). The Physician-Assisted suicide is similar to Euthanasia but differs in the sense that in the former, the patient receives advice about how to...