Kay Jamison thought a great job but those around her seem to differ in the opinion. According to her psychiatrist, seems to believe she was in this manic state (he noted multiple actions), however she believes she wasn’t acting manically.
“The shaking woman felt like me and not like me at the same time. From the chin up, I was my familiar self. From the neck down, I was a shuddering stranger. Whatever had happened to me, whatever name would be assigned to my affliction” (7) She recognizes here that she is two different people within the disease, however when she was up on stage, her husband was tempted to run to her side and help her. She wasn’t able to recognize the difference.
Time and time again there are instances where people attempt to overcome themselves and are not defining themselves as mentally incapable. They eventually overcome this anxiety, society does not. This is something that others notice but the self, does not.
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/April-2015/Changing-The-Way-Society-Understands-Mental-Health#
http://www.merckmanuals.com/home/mental-health-disorders/overview-of-mental-health-care/mental-illness-in-society
I am probably going to change this a little again, and focus it on students in school and how that affects them as a person. How they see themselves vs. others viewpoint.
It will be a good idea if you focus the mistakes that students make when they are teenagers and they realize it when they grow older like what they have done. I am pretty sure we all been through that when we are teenagers. When we in school as a kid we don’t care that much about things and the way we think is different. But our parent’s or older siblings always there to advance us, that doesn’t get you in trouble. Our mind and the way we think is not at that level, which is protecting us. As we get older we think outside of the box and others don’t have to advance us for things that we can take control over it. But Jamison and Hustvedt story was different they were seeking the help of others for their disorder so they can cure from it.
The shaking woman is similar to the book I want to look at for my research paper, “my stroke of insight” by Jill Bolte Taylor. They both report experiencing being two things in one body. Their brain and their body aren’t in sync. They also have the similarity that they were both the patient and the doctor in the same body. Taylor was a neuroscientist who got a stroke well into her career. I feel like when it comes to any difference, mental, physical,..anything, other people always have a harder time dealing with it than the person it is happening to! So in the effort to overcome their difference, they have to do it for themselves, because other people won’t understand.