Mental Disorders and Treatment

This paper attempts to look deep into the psychology of Esteban Trueba, the main protagonist of Isabella Allande’s novel The House of the Spirits. The study is focused on only one psychological attribute of Esteban that is ‘Narcissism’. American psychiatrist Hotchkiss’ theory of ‘Seven Deadly sins of Narcissism’ has provided foundation for the detailed analysis whereas the idea is further developed by the approaches of Dr. Lisa Firestone and Melanie Tonia Evans who provided therapy for NPD (Narcissist personality disorder). The study is qualitative in nature and through textual analysis is entailed to identify ‘Seven Sins of Narcissism’ in Esteban and moves further to find out those factors that lead to the healing of ‘Narcissist Personality Disorder’ in him to convert him into a ‘generous and considerate’ human being.

Objective: To obtain information about basic knowledge towards mental disorders, what they think their causes are, to evaluate public attitudes towards mental disorders, from which they recommend to seek help if needed and what kind of treatment they consider appropriate.
Population and method: This study is a questionnaire-based survey. The questionnaire language was Arabic language. The target population was varying in age, sex and socio-demographic background.
Result: A total of 210 participants about 45.7% were aged <25 and all of population lived in Al-Ahasa city. About 45.7% (n=96) rated as parent-child interactions as most important risk factor, 84% of respondents considered psychiatrist as a more frequent source of sufficient information about mental health problems, 30.5% of respondents had misunderstanding for define schizophrenia. Stigma still exists in relation to mental health. Nevertheless, 44.8% disagree about people knowing about if they themselves were experiencing mental health problems
Conclusion: According the results populations have good attitudes and beliefs but have poor knowledge about mental health problems.

We checked the blood groups of subjects and after identifying them made their connection with the depression. The objective of present study was to interlink the blood grouping with depression. A total of 159 subjects took part in it. It was concluded from the present study that the original findings are that the blood group B+ (males and females) have higher depression while blood group type AB- (males and females) have the lower depression overall.