The Theory Of Mental Illness

“She thinks of when she fought a flood…There are some things a bushwoman just cannot do… she cried then.” The woman crying shapes our understanding of her mental strength, after everything living in the bush has thrown at her, being reduced to tears and physically beaten she stays strong. Willing to endure even more the environment can throw at her. Burton also uses flashbacks to add depth to Alice’s character; the flashbacks are symbolic of the decline in her imagination, her willingness to try the ‘impossible’ and a symbol of her conformity. These flashbacks are also a sad reminder of the passing of her father; he was one to encourage the use of her imagination and believing in impossible things. Her current adventure in Underland is very different to the first because she has forgotten to believe in the impossible; once she crosses this barrier Absolum confesses she is again the ‘real Alice’.

"Mr. President, how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.'' A prominent quote spoken by American human activist, suffragist, and feminist. Alice Paul was a powerful, open-minded, persistent woman who felt she was obliged in obtaining right's for every woman. Alice made this obstacle her objective and her main asset to this was her grit and the thought of her and other woman having the right to go any place with the utter choice of choosing freely and thinking freely.

Also, the character of Alice has some interesting meaning to the story. The character of Alice may be modeled after the author Alice Munro because they have shared similar experiences between men. Apparently, the author had been through a divorce and many of the

     “I want to avoid being so much alone. If I am not careful I will grow unaccustomed to being around people.” (Anderson 118). Thus she joins new groups and attempts to recreate ties to her community. However, she is unable to pass beyond her limiting life-denying truth. A perfect example of this is not even considering any type of relationship with Will Hurley, who she had met at a Church group. Alice reaches the point of loneliness by the end which had been described in the beginning because, regardless of her attempts to move on, her search from communal bonds and humanity had been “fruitless”.

At the beginning she is angry and depressed with herself because she is forgetting everything that she needs to remember every day, such as a simple and common word. Her emotional changes also affect her relationships with others and her own feelings, because she has a negative behavior with others when she yells or says a word of anger. I think is the way how she shows that she is trying to avoid what is happening in her life with an incurable disease that changes the direction of her life. She feels frustration about her memory problems because gradually she has a restriction of freedom that means she loses privacy and independence in each activity she wants to do. We cannot imagine what she is feeling when she is losing everything she learned, all the way back to basic activities such as the skill to walk, eat, or even use the bathroom. Alice feels frustrated about what she is living, because it is a way to say she is stigmatized with this disease as though she were already dead. On the other hand, and in a positive way, she begins to enjoy her life when she shares more time with her family. She feels curiosity about a future of her children and grandchild, and then she wants to live to enjoy everything, despite she would “be incapable of remembering and executing this kind of plan.” (Genova 118). She creates a simple test and games to remember simple things of her life, and she can

Alice made multiple significant decisions because of what she believed in. Alice believed that she had more opportunity running away with Isaac than she did staying in Maryland; Alice ran away from with Isaac in parts 3 and 4 of The Fight. Alice later got caught and recalled “They beat me. I remember, the dogs, the rope… They tied me behind a horse and I had to run but I couldn’t.” (page 158). If Alice had not run away, Rufus would not have had to buy her, and Haager would not have been born.

The emotional focus of Alice Walker's story is rage, red-hot and isolating.  As I read this piece, I became livid, not only at the thought of her devastating

truly hard battle in order for her to start a normal life again. Alice tries very hard, but the

Forget all the stereotypes of mental illness. It has no face. It has no particular victim. Mental illness can affect an individual from any background and the black community is no exception. African Americans sometimes experience even more severe forms of mental health conditions because of unmet needs and barriers to treatment. According to the Office of Minority Health, African Americans are 20 percent more likely to experience serious mental health problems than the general population. That’s why UGA third year Majenneh Sengbe is taking action as the co-founder of her upcoming organization Black Minds Daily.

A major influence on Alice's identity was when she was a young child and her grandmother would tell her stories about events that occurred in Cambodia. In Alice's teenage years, her beloved grandmother has a stroke, developed disabilities and eventually had passed away. It is around this time where serious psychological problems occur for Alice. This almost forces her into a mental state in which she knows she does not fit in with the Australian culture. She believed she had to do everything she could to change that otherwise Alice knew she would break down mentally. Alice was forced to attempt to fit the social standards of Australia.

In 1961 Thomas Szasz penned a book by the title The Myth of Mental Illness that would go on to cause quite the stir in the world of psychiatry. In the book, Szasz stated his belief that what most psychiatrists would label as mental illnesses are in fact not illnesses at all, but instead what he would go on to call “problems in living.” This article will take a critical approach at Szasz reasons for his belief in these “problems in living” including an objective outline of his argument, a discussion on the validity of the argument and its’ premises, and finally the strongest objections to the argument. Szasz is an important figure in modern psychiatry and his opinions are very divisive but certainly worth discussing.

I personally felt as though it was not bad character development by having the character change her mind so suddenly. I think that Alice was beginning to piece together that there was a reason as to why Marc's ex-wife had left Marc. Alice's doubt eventually led to her dissatisfaction with her own relationship. When the two of the first entered the restaurant, she seemed very content with her love for Marc. She referred to him as "darling" and ordered whatever he liked to eat. However, towards the end, "she did not answer" Marc, but rather just stared at his facial features and contemplated his past. I feel as though since Marc and his ex-wife were only married just "fifteen months ago" that Alice is realizing she does not know a lot about Marc

Still Alice (Genova, 2009) is a captivating debut novel about a 50-year-old woman’s sudden decline into early onset Alzheimer’s disease. The book is written by first time author Lisa Genova, who holds a PH.D in neuroscience from Harvard University. She’s also an online columnist for the national Alzheimer’s association. Her other books include Left Neglected and Love Anthony. She lives with her husband and two children in Cape Cod.

The United States has their own view on mental illness when compared to other developed countries. The developed countries that were analyzed with the United States were England and France. Our research question was “Does the United States view mental illness differently than other developed countries?” The research that I conducted was over the policies and ideologies of mental illness in the United States.

She becomes very reactive and unapologetic. Her final step in harming her marriage is stonewalling. Alice starts to pull away from Michael and his love. He wants to help her, but she is not ready to accept that yet. She makes is difficult for the entire family to heal by doing this. She becomes withdrawn and pushes away those who love her. These things are very are very apparent in this couple’s relationship.