Mind over Matter

Mind Over Matter

Laura

PSY/270

August 16,2015

Katia Araujo

Mind over Matter

Mental illness is a disorder that many live with every day. You have some that have a combination of mental illnesses and then you have a percentage that have only one or two. Some of the mental illnesses that some people might have are social anxiety, or drug addiction. Even though they have these disorders they know right from wrong. For example: Friend A and his friend B decide to go out to a party and while there they do some puffs off a joint. On their way home friend B wants to stop at the Mobile Station to grab something to drink. While he is inside he pulls out a gun and points it at the casher and tells them to give him all the money in the drawer. Even though someone has a mental illness they know right from wrong.

According to “Definitions For Insanity” (2001-2015) insanity, craziness, or madness is a spectrum of behaviors characterized by abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity may manifest as violations of societal norms, including a person becoming a danger to themselves or others, though not all such acts are considered insanity. In the medical profession the term is now avoided in favor of diagnoses of specific mental disorders; the presence of delusions or hallucinations is broadly referred to as psychosis. When someone is diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia because of the severity of this psychosis they do not know right from wrong. Another words they are not in the right state of mind when they do something that they are not supposed to do such as rob a Mobile station.

Ration and Guilty means the person had the mental capacity to know what they were doing was wrong. Example: Friend B new that robbing the Mobile Station was wrong. Guilty, but Insane means the person/s did not know what they were doing wrong. A person may be found guilty except insane if at the time of the criminal act the person was afflicted with a mental disease or defect of...