In this Project we all got to choose a mental illness, when we got our illness we had to research everything about it, like how people treated it, or how it effected the people who had it and the others that were effected in the process. Me and my partner got Pyromania which is an impulse control disorder where the person who has it likes to set fires to various objects like buildings or forests or anything that can be destroyed by fire, it is a similar effect as gambling or kleptomania, The patient who has sometimes just simply cant control it, and they just have an urge to light fires.
Through out this project I have learned so much about all the different mental illnesses and how a lot of them work, And what some of the effects are dude on the human body. When we had to find out how the treat the illnesses i was amazed by how many side effects some of the medications have, Some of them would completely fix the problem but it could cause serious depression.
Our exhibition was interesting, it was a good set up how we had the parents and other visitors take a folder with a name tag and one of the students stories. It made it interesting for us because we had to talk to the visitors about our illness and try and see if it matched with the folder that they got.