Essays on Illness

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 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...

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...

This paper is an assessment of the medical case study of a young girl and the prognosis that is given to her. The case study depicts Kant’s considerations that are based on the factors of risk and truthfulness.  We begin by discussing the medical conditions and factors that acted as...

Benefits of Drinking Water Through research, it has been noted that more than 60 percent of the human body is made up of water, this makes it necessary to keep the body hydrated. Drinking enough water ensures that that food is properly digested, nutrients, antibodies, hormones and the cells that are...

Obesity: A Growing Concern Obesity refers to a medical condition where there is an excess accumulation of body fat within the body, thereby, increasing one's body mass index to over 30kg/m2. Today, this health status has become a concern as it has tripled since the year 1975. In fact, the latest...

Drug syndicates and or trafficking cartels, try to move and sell drugs illegally across borders. The war on drugs, is enforcement of laws and fighting drug traffickers using agencies, security forces, and the military to suppress drug trafficking thereby curtailing the power of drug syndicates (Lynch, 176). The extent of...