Adulthood

Gordon 5 destroy to create an adult?’. The depressed person, however, is the inversion of child and adult in that they tread the traceable threads back to childhood, against the forces towing the line towards adulthood. The child garners much glee when they begin to walk: “‘Now we have heard enough of the tight-rope walker; let us see him, too!’”. A ‘tightrope state’ in the ethical imprisonment of the ‘child’ (the ‘self as other’) and ethical administration by the ‘adult’ (the ‘self for other’).…

Childhood or Adulthood? Not all families work out. There are always problems that go unheard or unsaid during marriage. We just tend to find out when we start spending one week with our mothers and the following one with our fathers. I thought I was going to have the family that everyone envied, the one that everyone looked up to and said, “Can you look at them; they have been married for 25 years.” My family did not win any of Mr. Wonka’s golden tickets is something I would say. Along with a…

I enjoy a number of activities, both of the active variety and lazy. On the weekends I enjoy going for bike rides, playing golf, or taking the dogs for a walk to counteract the lack of exercise due to work that leaves me in sitting in the office most of the day. When the budget allows I enjoy going out to the movies or out to dinner with my wife, but most of the time we like to just relax at home and watch television. How is your motor functioning? My motor functioning has reached its full…

Faith Lasts a Lifetime Elderly adulthood is a time period in which older individuals aged sixty-five and older turn to their faith or belief in a higher power to sustain them through difficult and trying circumstances life often delivers: death of loved ones, loss of independence, family members distancing themselves, financial hardships, or coming to terms with the possibility of their own death approaching. During this stage in life, religion plays an important role in helping the elderly…

One of the most common growing disease in late adulthood is Parkinson which is a progressive disease of the nervous system with symptoms including tremor of the hands, arms, legs, jaw and face which is caused by failure of the normal cellular compensatory mechanisms in vulnerable brain regions, bradykinesia or slowness of movement, rigidity or stiffness of the limbs and trunk, postural instability or impaired balance and coordination. One of the main reason for these symptoms is the loss of…

between the ages of 18 and 30 (Arnett, 2016). As individuals reach young adulthood, they must make decisions that will have long term effects on their adult lives. Donald Super formulated a theory of occupational goals that is becoming less and less common throughout different generations. Approaching middle adulthood, studies have found that job satisfaction peaks in middle adulthood (Arnett, 2016). Those in middle adulthood are focusing less on the pay of…

heart rhythm begins to sound differently. People believe as we live in our younger years, determines how we will live in our later years. life gives a different shift, and during adulthood, developments have important aspects of life, to itself. The intense of this research is to understand the extend stage of later adulthood development. We need to retain a certain degree of caution and understanding. According to Erik Erikson (1902 – 1994) described the physical, emotional and psychological…

increased significantly over the past decades and continues to be a leading health concern. The purpose was to determine the risk of obesity in young adulthood correlated with both childhood obesity and obesity in one or both parents. Childhood obesity was defined as a body-mass index at or above the 85th percentile for age and sex, and obesity in adulthood as a mean body-mass index at or above 27.8 for men and 27.3 for women (Willett, 2013). Methods of study: Height and weight quantities were…

Depression affects people of all ages but its onset starts at age 12. However, not all individuals who are depressed experience every symptom since some people experience more symptoms than others. Some people experience only a few symptoms. The severity and frequency of symptoms vary depending on an individual or the stage of the illness. In children, both boys and girls are affected equally before puberty. Such children may show behavior, such as worry that a parent may die, refuse to go to…

Growing up from childhood to transitioning to adulthood can either have a positive or negative outcome. Many kids transitioning to adulthood can have its difficulties and struggles at times but with help and support it can be easy to overcome. Along with the transitioning there is a lot of changes everybody goes through as in puberty, hormones, and health. In other cases there is 200 million people in the world who have some form of thyroid disease. Thyroid disease is and has been one of my…