Dilbert's Review: A Summary

Generally people with mental issues are cast aside in society. The mentally impaired are immediately labeled as different. Questions on what to do with these people are common. In literature they are seen being locked into a tower room where they are forced to live their days peeling back the yellow wallpaper. This confines the characters to a world where it's just them and their insanity. These characters are present in many different stories. Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Shakespeare's King Lear are two prime examples of characters suffering from mental disabilities and disorders. Although they are not locked in a tower, the mental illnesses are apparent when studying the Mad Hatter, Alice, King

When the phrase “mental illness” is spoken, the immediate thought that pops into the individual’s mind is the extremes such as Schizophrenia, or Bipolar Disorder. However, the majority of mental disorders fall into the spectrum of quite common disorders such as Depression, Anxiety, or Obsessive Compulsion Disorder (OCD). Why should the first thing that people think of be negative? What makes people think this way? Society has a negative view of mental illness because of media portrayal, the attitudes of individuals, and skepticism, and the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, makes a connection to these views of the world.

On days I was unable to pull myself out of bed, I would read Furiously Happy while under my covers, staring at the ceiling and dealing with the many voices that kept clawing and breaking each layer down that built a fortress of self-doubt and underwater volcanos of self-loathing. Many people do not understand these feelings that blossomed inside, and therefore bring their own selective perspectives about mental illness devaluing my human in brain experiences. Explaining to them proved to be harder.

Mental health is not the mere absence of illness but it is the sense of harmony and balance for the individual. Aspects associated with the individual include self-worth, sense of accomplishment, and a positive identity (Fontaine, 2009), where as mental illness is the disharmony someone is experiencing. This disharmony affects not only the individual but their friends and family as well as the surrounding community. This disharmony causes the person to be unable to function properly in many aspects of their life (Fontaine, 2009). Disco Di started to display signs of mental illness from the young age of 12. Her behaviours may have been triggered by a traumatic event and have been interfering with her life ever since. I agree with the

People with mental illness struggle to fit into society. They may feel socially awkward, causing feelings of loneliness or isolation. Likewise, those with mental illness are more likely to be unemployed because of anxiety or fears. Without having a job or way to

In fact, most feel as though their illness places them on the outskirts of society. Not only do they suffer the symptoms of their mental illness, but they also have to suffer the repercussions, the circumstances, and the labels that surround their diagnosis. In some cases, they are told it is doubtful that they will be able to hold a job or maintain stable relationships. In her memoir, Saks states,

Most people probably know someone with a mental disability. Just because someone has a disability does not mean we have to ignore, or neglect them. People with a mental disability are not to be shunned. The statement by J.F. Clarke proves true when using psychological lens to analyze conflict and characterization in the novella Of Mice and Men, by John Stienbeck by Stienbeck's use of conflict throughout the novella.

The mental conditions that obstructed with our thinking, feelings, moods, and our ability to associate with other people or carry out our daily functions are referred to as mental illness. It has no regards for race, age, religion and is not a result of weakness or lack of character or our upbringing. (Pilgrim, 2010).

People who are mentally ill or disabled are often stigmatized in society and deemed of lesser value than those who are “normal,” meaning they do not have a mental illness or disability. There are only a few options for treatment within the disabled community and all of the options are unfair. They are, hospitalization to imprisonment to being homeless. These so-called treatments for those who are considered “abnormal” and “sick” dehumanize them, prevent them from making their own life decisions, devalue their quality of life, and further perpetuate stereotypes by separating the normal and abnormal people (as if they are different). In my paper, I will utilize the article “A Training Ground for Untrained Artists” by Nathaniel Richdec and a

Dr. Seuss was originally born as Theodor Suess Geisel. He was born in 1804, on Howard St. in Springfield, Massachusetts. Theodor's father and grandfather were brewmasters in the city. When he was younger, his mother would soothe her children to sleep with wonderful chants and rhymes which played a part in his interest for his rhymes and stories that soon made him such a famous man. Theodor and his sister, Marnie, enjoyed a happy childhood despite the struggles German immigrants faced after WWI. Theodor's memories of his hometown, Springfield, can be seen throughout his work. Drawings of Horton the Elephant trotting along streams in the Jungle of Nool are seen to mirror the watercourses in Springfield's Forest Park from that time period. The

Mental illnesses make things almost impossible, such as keeping a job or housing. Each individual's interpersonal difficulties differ from one another (Green). Some

The report says: “Some people find it favorable to have an illness, others fancy thinking of their problems as an aspect of who they are, which sometimes causes them problems.

Mental illnesses contribute to the daily life of individuals and they make those people who they are, but mental illnesses aren't always bad nor odd. Media influences many viewers in America which leads them to making choices, but the media also informs people about significant topics such as mental illnesses. Literature and film incorporates mental illnesses into characters that belong to multiple genres from romance and thriller to horror and comedy, but not all adaptations of characters who possess a mental illness are portrayed accurately. Those who generated All the Bright Places , The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and Girl, Interrupted showed accurate depictions of certain mental illnesses in the lives of people.

A mentally ill person is like any ordinary person who is trying to live a peaceful live. Even though this person might be diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) it does not mean she can’t go out in the world and do something you and me can. For instance Elyn Saks whom suffers with schizophrenia has work though her disorder and is know a professor of law, psycology, psychiatry, and the behavioral sciences at th University of Southern California (USC). She studied law in one of tope universities Yale (63). In reality society would not believe this because of media.

Mental illness is a prominent problem in today’s troublesome world. Each day many people are diagnosed with a mental illness, most commonly depression. The human mind becomes tarnished when a person has a mental illness, and often the illness takes over a person’s life completely. Mental illness is a serious problem and often goes untreated or misdiagnosed. The darkness within a person’s mind is one of the toughest aspects of life for people to conquer and many lose themselves in the fight. To further understand mental illness, it would be easiest to peer into the life of someone with one of these illnesses. For example, taking a