History of Mental Illness
Treatment of Mental Illness
The Yellow Wallpaper
Stigma
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Who was in charge of the earliest forms of mental health treatments?
clergymen
100
What is the area of the brain that is severed in a lobotomy?
The Frontal Lobe
100
What was Gilman prescribed to do as a result of her depression after the birth of her daughter?
Rest Cure
100
Is there a greater stigma of mental illness in men or women in the last twenty years?
Women
200
What was the most commonly prescribed treatment for women with "hysteria"?
To find a husband
200
what year did psychology become a field of science?
1879
200
Is Gilman’s short story on “the yellow wallpaper- fact or fiction?
Fiction
200
What are the first Two signs of mental illness?
Feeling anxious and/or depressed
300
What year was the lobotomy engineered?
1935
300
Brain chemistry What do psycho active drugs alter in the brain?
Brain chemistry
300
Explaining Depression to my Mother. [Poem] What does the author call her "bad" days?
Dark days
300
What is the most common way people look at mental illness?
As a sign of disgrace.
400
Psychiatry began undergoing transformations and turned from asylums to...?
Pharmaceuticals
400
What was the earliest mental institution called?
Bedlam / London's Bethlem asylum
400
What does the author compare anxiety to?
A cousin visiting from out of town
400
Is mental illness curable?
Yes, in most cases with treatment
500
Which of the 5 faces of oppression was associated with mental health sufferers?
Powerlessness
500
What are the four humors that Hippocrates theorized?
Blood, Yellow bile, Black bile, and Phlegm
500
Why is mental illness stigmatized?
Because they still don't fully understand them
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