Patient Name: Barbara Williams Diagnoses/Symptoms: Barbara is diagnosed with major depressive disorder, anxiety, insomnia, and bipolar. Her primary symptoms include sleep disturbances, feelings of sadness, hopelessness, trouble thinking and concentrating, fear, racing thoughts, and poor decision making skills. Formative Influences: Barbara had a difficult childhood growing up. Her mother abused alcohol and her father was never involved in her life. In Barbara’s early childhood, her mother committed suicide leaving Barbara to move away from her friends at school to live with her grandparents who took her in for raising. She believes now that she did not have adequate coping skills to deal with the death of her mother at such a young age. Her …show more content…
She has struggled with making friends at the facility and does not wish to engage in many activities that are offered throughout the day. It is a new situation for her and she is having difficulty coping with the daily schedule of the center. She can no longer care for herself independently and must rely on staff members for assistance with her activities of daily living, bathing, dressing, and getting in and out of bed. She has outbursts of anger and tearfulness towards staff when they try to assist her. Barbara is now realizing she requires more assistance than prior to her admission which has left her feeling overwhelmed and anxious about her health conditions in the future. Barbara chooses not to participate in scheduled activities at the center such as bingo or cooking class due to having anxious outburst about not being accepted by the other residents. At the center, residents have the choice to take their meal in the privacy of their room or in the main dining room with all other residents. Barbara chooses to eat her meals in her room. She gets anxious and worried thinking about the crowded dining room and does not wish to sit at a table with people she does not know. She is overwhelmed with the choices available to her and does not feel like she fits in with the other …show more content…
Then after the passing of her mother, she was raised in the home with her grandparents. Barbara believes that her mother struggled with bipolar herself due to the behaviors she would exhibit at home. Barbara was often fearful of her own mother while she was under the influence of alcohol and would lock herself in the bathroom until her mother passed out from too much alcohol consumption. Her mother never received substance abuse treatment or saw a psychiatrist for her mental health issues. As a teenager, Barbara struggled in school with her grades and her social life. She had very few friends and felt that she never belonged anywhere she went. In high school, Barbara became pregnant at the young age of 16 by a boy she seemed to really love. Once she told him she was pregnant with his child, he wanted nothing to do with the baby or her. Barbara had to raise this baby all on her own with the assistance of her grandparents. She eventually dropped out of high school to care for the baby and never went back to receive her diploma. Barbara worked at various local restaurants to make a little income to assist her grandparents with
Theresa Williams is my great grandmother the mother of my grandma Terri Williams and her two other sisters and brothers. Grandma Theresa was born in 1936 on July Thirty-first in Cleveland,Ohio. She spent most of her childhood in the Kinsman and Harvard area. Her parents are Elazora and John McMillan and Theresa had a total of eight siblings plus her makes nine children. Theresa is the fourth oldest of her siblings and the third of the girls.
Williams was born in Lynwood, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, on June 17, 1980, the fourth of five daughters born to Richard and Oracene (nicknamed Brandi) Williams. Sister Serena, the last of the five Williams sisters, was born in September 1981. Her father ran a private security firm in Compton and was a dedicated fan of tennis, who became hooked on the game by watching televised coverage of professional tournaments, told his wife that he wanted to make tennis stars out of his daughters. He had little luck with his older girls—Isha, Lyndrea, and Yetunde—none of whom showed any particular aptitude for the game. His efforts proved far more successful with Venus and Serena, both of whom turned out to be naturals on the court.
Barbara strategy to escape is multifaceted. Barbara lives in Colorado, showing that she sought to physically escape her dysfunctional home and start fresh somewhere else. Furthermore, Barbara often attempts take matters into her own hands and create the ideal world she desires, similar to her mother. One such example occurs when Barbara orders her family to search for and remove Violet’s various drug stashes from the Weston home. Barbara adopts a controlling attitude from her mother, which creates tension not only with Violet but her husband Bill as well, expanding the issue of the broken family to her daughter Jean.
Barbara and her family deal with similar symptoms as those who were directly victimized. Barbra has to deal with the stress of loosing her daughters and the process of the cases. When a crime first happens it can be very traumatic to the victim. The victim could be in shock or confused to what happen to them. Once a person has been victimized they must begin to put their life back together.
Teaching her what a marriage should look like and how important it is to be truthful while standing up for what you believe in. Upon graduation from High school Sara decided she wanted to make a difference in this great nation. With her great success in high school and strong will Sara was accepted into Stanford Law school where she graduated with her Law degree. Upon
However, I think in the end it helped her grow as a person to realize that her mother’s love and life was imperfect, just like her own. I think that understanding brought her closer to her
During the time of the salem witch trials and the late 1980’s-1990’s during baseball's Steroid Era were two different things, but they also had one thing in common the hysteria that was brought by both of these. In the witch trials there were many of people dying and in baseball there was various amounts of people getting suspended and their chances at the hall of fame forever destroyed. Many of people know about the Salem Witch Trials as one of the most moments and years of hysteria. During this time there were many of people wrongly executed. During the 1950’s a man wrote a book called The Crucible.
After careful consideration of the information that has been presented for Ellen Waters, I have decided that she meets the criteria for (F34.1) Persistent Depressive Disorder Severe with atypical features: Early onset. I have come to this conclusion after considering the following information. The synopsis states that Ellen has been referred for a medication consultation by her Psychotherapist whom she has been seeing for the last two years. Criteria A states that the depressed mood has to be present for most of the day, for most days and that this depression must be indicated by “subjective account” or observed by others for at least two years.
So, because she does not feel she can have someone who will understand her and not punish her for what happened, she does not speak. Her parent’s behavior toward her and each other make herself feel like she is a disappointment. Her mental state of mind is unstable and is struggling to process what happened to her. When her family and the people around her start pulling her down, she does not feel as strong and confident to stand up for herself and to face her so to speak demons. A perfect example of this is “I open up a paper clip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist.
But you can expect that even with her newfound maturity she still would have difficulty dealing with this loss. Besides the people that she is around that shape her environment there is also her physical environment where she lives, which
Due to the fact that Jacqueline does not work many hours she supplements her income with SSI as well as assistance from her family. When Jacqueline was young she became very ill and had an extremely high fever. The doctors tried to reduce her fever
During my time in this facility, my eyes were opened by the drastically different lives of the girls and young women that resided there, and by their stories of how they had come to live in this home. Serving as one of their mentors, I honed in on the skill of active listening and I attribute this to be one of the reasons why I was able to have a good relationship with the residents, as well as why they felt comfortable coming to me to share their concerns and life updates. I learned the importance of maintaining eye contact, demonstrating care and regard for what they shared with me, and of asking specific questions in a calm manner to let them know I was truly interested in what they had to
While reading the story, you can tell in the narrators’ tone that she feels rejected and excluded. She is not happy and I’m sure, just like her family, she wonders “why her?” She is rejected and never accepted for who she really is. She is different. She’s not like anyone else
The guilt she had from this decision of hers forced her to mature. Becoming a nurse forced her to mature as well and she grew up while treating the wounded soldiers. Once mature she finally realized how wrong she had been, but it was a slow
The characters around her did not attempt to help her out, causing her to commit suicide. Similar to a child, a child talks