Trifles..

When Mrs. Wright was arrested for the murder of her husband John Wright. Detectives demanded that she sit and talk to me, a Psychologist, for an hour and a half, daily. At our first couple of meetings she didn't say anything, she was as quiet as a mouse. I asked her questions such as, What was going on at the time the murder took place? If you didn't commit this crime who could have possibly done it? I asked her these questions plus many more but had gotten no response until our 5th meeting. As I began our session with the same questions that I had been asking her since the first meeting...she interrupted me before I could finish and she started to answer all the questions that she had known I was going to ask. Wright answered, "At the time of the murder out marriage was already falling apart. John was never around for me anymore, and when he did come homw he always started an argument. This time the argument was about the house not being as clean as he wanted it. I didn't understand why it was such a big deal to him since he was never there in the first place." It seemed that she started to get side tracked when she soon said, "I had been mistreated for a very long time, throughout the years. He had turned into someone that I didn't know. Years into our marriage we planned to have children but he changed his mind. I was really hurt because I felt unwanted and unloved. I think when he wasn't home, he was out with another women. Maybe he was but I didn't know for sure. Soon I bought a bird to keep me company, something that would need me and make me feel happy." She told me that "this all ties back into the story". Ms. Foster continued with her story, "When he started the argument about the house being dirty, I argued back, I had gotten more angry than I had ever gotten at him before. That was when he stormed into the den furiously and got my most prized possession. I cried, screamed, and yelled for him not to hurt my bird. He then choked the breath out of my loving bird and throw it onto the floor. I ran over to my bird and fell to the floor, wheeping." She had began crying in the meeting as if she was replaying everything that had happened during the horrible time. She paused her story as she tried to catch her composure. She started again "That was when I planned to get revenge. As "we" slept, I got up and took a rope I found from a tree from the back yard used for swing at one point in time and tied it about his neck. With all my strength I began to choke the life out of him just as he had done my bird. After I had done my deed, I sat downstairs all morning trying to keep calm, with all the thoughts about what I had done. I placed my bird in a gorgeous box and began knitting. I was so overwhelmed with my actions that I couldn't continue knitting. So I sat in the kitchen by the over for heat for the remainder of the time, until Mr. Hale walked in and saw me sitting there emotionless.

I wouldn't say that anything is wrong with Mrs. Wright at all, I also don't think that it is necessary for her to continue to meet with me, because she was only angry with him for harming something that she loved dearly, there isn't anything wrong with her. She committed a crime that she is now facing time for, that should be enough for her because she is a sane women.

Young Hamlet

I was hired by King Hamlet to be the family's personal Psychologist. Just in case the family ever had probllems I was always going to be there in their times of need. After the King died, Queen Gertude and Hamlet came more aften than usually. Not too long after I didnt see the Queen anymore, I think it was because she was now married to the King's brother, Claudius. She demanded that Hamlet continued his visits because she and her workers felt that he was having a very hard time coping with his fathers death. In fact, Hamlet was getting worse. Hamlet came to see me many times, most times I would just let him talk. He told me things about the ghost he saw, he told me how upset he was with his mother for marrying so soon with the murderer of his father. I could understand clearly why he was becoming "insane", it was because there was so many things going on in his head. I decided to put him through Psychotheraphy, to help him understand his strengths and weaknesses and why he his having such anxiety. Two weeks into the program I never saw young Hamlet again. I couldnt get in contact with the family but I heard rumes that he was sent away for good. I have yet to find out anything.

The Yellow Wallpaper

By Doctor Monroe

I'm a friend of John the Physician; he made an appointment with me for March 4, 1892 to talk about his sickly wife. He told me that she wasn't physicially ill but she was mentally. He told me that he knew something was wrong with her but  whenever his wife said something was wrong, he always assured her that she was fine. He didn't want his wife to worry about her health so he came alone. One day he found a journal that she wrote her past days in and brought it to me to read. In her journal it talked about the house they moved in but more specifically...the large room she slept in. She describes the rooms' peculiar yellow wallpaper with a strange pattern all over it. The majority of the journal talked about this wallpaper but other details she expressed was the way she cried when she was alone, her nervous weakness, the fatigue she had during the days and restlessness during the nights. It also says, written in bold letters, "it does not do to trust in people to much." The sick lady also writes about her hallucinations and delusions she has about the wallpaper, such as that there is a lady behind the it crawling, moving, and shaking the wallpaper, trying to escape. I did a lot of research from the records in the journal, to all the stories John told me about. For months, John and I met up to discuss my findings. I finally finished my research and my conclusion for his wife was that she was suffering from major depression. I came up with his because she seems to have very sad feelings almost everyday, has lost weight due to not eating, has lost interest in activities, sleeps too little, feelings of being tired and weak, feelings of irritability towards others and has hallucinations and delusions. Her depression is the reason she has a sense that she is sick but John didn't understand because it was a problem she was facing within herself.

Case Study 2-7-13

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                                                           "The Misfit": MALE, AGE:46

Background History:
The Misfit has 2 sisters and 2 brothers.
He was raised by his mother and father.
Worked in the arm service.
Married twice.
Serves sentencing in the penitentiary.
Unemployed.

As I met with The Misfit, I noticed that he was very nervous and had a high sense of paranoia. First, I asked him what was his full name but he told me he rather not let me know and to just call him "The Misfit." He told me about his childhood and expressed to me that he was a good but different child. As he had gotten older he says "but somewheres along the line I done something wrong and got sent to the penitentiary." He told me that he didn't remember what happened or why he was sent there. I started to question his two marrying's and asked him, "why did they end?" He told me that there were just too many problems. I was very skeptical about it but I proceded with further questions. I also touched on subjects about things that made him angry. He named multiple things but he said that the worst thing of all was "folks trying to control me." Which made me think that it could be the reasons for his divorces and for the murder of his father, as that could have been the reason he killed him, if he did kill him.

My diagnosis for The Misfit is hat he has severe bipolar disorder, he suffers from manic episodes and depression where he has unrealistic beliefs, behaves impulsively and goes on killing sprees because it is pleasurable for him. I noticed that he talks very slow and calmly. The Misfit also had problems concentrating and remembering things when I asked him to tell me about his childhood and why he served time in prison. He has gone a long time without being treated for this disorder and this is why it is now so severe.

The Misfit should be placed in a Mental Hospital inside of a prison and take medication until he learns to cope with his bipolar episodes. He needs to meet with a therapist daily, so that they can check his progress.