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Topic: Illness

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 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite possession(s):Smallpox vaccine
People talk about their ..:Childhood trauma,  Positive outlook
Bad point(s):Pessimistic
Personality:Depressive,  Suicidal,  Sad
Dream job(s):Nurse,  Social worker
Favorite body part(s):Lungs
Favorite activity(s):Sleepwalking sleepwalker
Medical note(s):Family history of schizophrenia,  Approaching psychosis,  Undergoing therapy
Ultimate fantasy(s):Having severe anorexia
Worst habit(s):Drinking,  Smoking
Favorite quote(s):"I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it."
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something." - last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)
 
 
 Expert Talk
The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant

Injury illness and other risks The Company accepts no liability whatsoever for the theft of or other loss or damage to the property of any Client which is not covered by the Company insurance referred to in condition 6 above.
The goals are to reduce the incidence of illness and injury caused by hazardous materials in the workplace and to develop the ability to safely handle chemicals.
There is a permanent exhibition illustrating the experience and characteristic features of mental illness which is used for undergraduate and postgraduate medical teaching as well as others who are training in areas of health care.
Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer

But there will always be serious difficulties with diagnosis of mental illness because these disorders manifest themselves in thoughts and actions rather than in physical symptoms such as blood sugar or blood pressure readings or tumors.
If mental illness is identical to physical illness, wouldn't it make sense to say cancer and diabetes are the same as schizophrenia and drug addiction?
People who are suffering from a mental illness such as schizophrenia or clinical depression do have significantly higher suicide rates than average, although they are still in the minority of attempters.
Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

There therefore remains the possibility that many Indian approaches to mental illness were being mixed in with the incompletely translated British ideas and as such what existed in practice at the asylums was a hybridised psychiatric system.
Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator

The early ideas of depression and mental illness while descriptive and generally accepted are inadequate to explain most suicidal events when judged by the resulting false positives and false negatives in clinical efforts to manage potential victims.
Mental illness is a broad category of disorders, each of which displays a unique set of symptoms, with the common feature that all diminish the capacity to cope with the demands of life and all manifest as a functional limitation of behavior.
Curing mental illness and epilepsy appear to be synonymous with driving out demons, and it is a subject that receives much attention in the artistic repertoire, with some choice examples illustrated by Dr Loebl.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

These are the six highly occurring disorders in the fields of mental illness and neurological disorders which are representative world wide of the gap between available means of intervention and their application.
Thomas Owens,
Police Officer

Maghakian Place is a residential treatment facility in Ramsey County for adults experiencing mental illness and chemical dependency.
 
 
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