A CELEBRITY WITH A MENTAL HEALTH

A Celebrity with a Mental Health

A Celebrity with a Mental Health

Mental illness is any disease of the brain or mind that seriously affects an individual's emotions or mood, thoughts, behavior, or personality. Mental illness can significantly interfere with such everyday functions as learning, thinking, and communicating. Other terms used synonymously with mental illness include mental, psychological, and psychiatric disorder or disease (Morwin, 2005).

Symptoms of mental illness may include extreme moods such as excessive sadness/depression or anxiety, a decreased ability to think clearly, memory impairment, or delusions and hallucinations. The type, intensity, and duration of symptoms vary from person to person. The symptoms of mental illness often can be controlled effectively through medication and/or psychotherapy (Morwin, 2005). For some individuals, however, the illness continues to cause periodic episodes requiring treatment. Consequently, some people with mental illness will need little if any support, others may need only occasional support, and still others may require more substantial, ongoing support (Morwin, 2005).

The terms neurosis and psychosis are sometimes used to describe the severity of various mental illnesses. A neurosis is a mild disorder that causes distress but may not interfere greatly with a person's everyday activities. A psychosis is a severe mental disorder that prevents an individual from functioning effectively and is a major mental illness with severe symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations as seen in schizophrenia and bipolar disorders (Morwin, 2005). Neuroses are much less severe and include such illnesses as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and posttraumatic stress disorders.

There is a general consensus about his historical importance (a term that does not imply a positive judgment). Hitler was principally, and alone, responsible for starting World War II. (This was different from the various responsibilities of rulers and of statesmen who had unleashed World War I). His guilt for the implementation of the Holocaust—that is, the shift of German policy from the expulsion to the extermination of Jews, including eventually Jews of all of Europe and of European Russia, is also obvious. Although there exists no single document of his order to that effect, Hitler's speeches, writings, reports of discussions with associates and foreign statesmen, and testimony by those who carried out the actions have often been cited as evidence of his role. Many of his most violent statements were recorded by his minions during his “Table Talks” (including the not entirely authentic “Bormann remarks” of February-April 1945). For example, on January 30, 1939, to celebrate the sixth anniversary of his rule, Hitler told the Reichstag: “Today I will once more be a prophet: If the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more in a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevization of the Earth and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe.”

In his final will and testament, written just before his suicide in April 1945, he charged the Germans to continue the struggle against the Jews: “Above all, I enjoin ...