Choose one of the following discussion topics and write a 4 page reflection pap

Choose one of the following discussion topics and write a 4 page reflection
paper examining the topic. You must cite at least two sources from the
relevant research literature.
You have the option of revising and resubmitting your paper one time for full
credit if you receive a grade below B-. The revised paper is due no more than
two weeks after the initial publish is graded.
1. In graduate school, Jamison writes, “Despite the fact that we were
being taught how to make clinical diagnoses, I still did not make any
connection in my own mind between the problems I had experienced and
what was described as manic-depressive illness in the textbooks”[p.
58]. Why did she refuse to acknowledge the obvious? Why didn’t she
question the “rigid, irrelevant notions of self-reliance”[p. 101] she
had been taught?
2. “Being open is the sort of thing that I advise people to think very
long and hard about,” Jamison has stated. “It’s one thing if you’re
independently wealthy. It’s another thing if you’re out in the real
world”(Washington Post Magazine, 4/16/95). Why did Jamison avoid
bringing her illness into the open for so many years, and what made her
finally decide to do so?
3. “Lithium moderates the illness,” Jamison observes, “but therapy
teaches you to live with it”(
Time, 9/11/95). Has she convinced you that
drugs plus psychotherapy is the answer for mental illness? In that case,
might not psychotherapy benefit people suffering from any debilitating
illness, not just a mental one?
4. After David’s death, Jamison reflects that “grief, fortunately, is very
different from depression”[p.150]. How can you explain the essential
difference between the two? Is it more possible to cope with the
“real” causes of grief than with the impalpable causes of depression?
5. Jamison worries that her work may now be seen by her colleagues “as
somehow biased because of my illness,” while admitting that “of
course, my work has been tremendously colored by my emotions and my
experiences”[p. 203]. Does this make her work less viable than strictly
“objective” work, or more so?
6. “My major goal has been to really try and make a difference in how the
illness is seen and treated”(Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/18/95). Has she
succeeded, so far as you are concerned? Which of your preconceptions
were changed by reading her account?