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Significance of childhood, late adolescence, the early twenties, and family influence.

Childhood is a period from when infancy ends to when puberty begins and has been known to impact brain development by marking a foundation for future learning, behavior, and mental health (Williams et al., 2020). The article addresses the history of Jeffery Dahmer, a US serial killer, and how his story can help prevent the existence of serial killers whose actions are linked to their childhood. Throughout his childhood, Jeffery Dahmer had an interest in dead animals, especially when he saw his father removing animal bones in their family home and became thrilled with the sounds they made to the extent that Once during a chicken dinner, he asked what would happen if the bones were dissolved in bleach and Lionel, impressed with his son's curiosity, demonstrated how to safely bleach and preserve animal bones.

At the age of four years, Jeff underwent brain surgery which is partly believed to be a cause of his mental disorder, together with the sexual assault that he was exposed to at the age of eight years by a neighbor, which is believed to have exposed him to uncouth behavior. In his early puberty, he witnessed the divorce of his parents, who existed in a toxic relationship with fights and disagreements, which led to his parents giving him less attention. The domestic violence and the fact that he was neglected made his brain become adaptive to violence and isolation.

During his late puberty, Jeffery Dahmer was living alone with no money, food, or parent's attention, and it was during this time that he began drinking alcohol, realized he was gay and killed his first victim by drugging them and later beating them with metal to death and masturbating in front of the corpse. He developed a passion for killing men and having sex with dead bodies claiming he usually got aroused by the cutting of their body parts, especially the pumping of the heart. He gets attracted to a jogger and hides somewhere to give his attempt at killing and do away with his type of libido.

Diagnosis and treatment

Jeffery Dahmer was diagnosed with a borderline, schizotypal, and psychotic personality disorder that had impacted the way he thought about himself as well as other people and included emotion management issues, behavior, and unstable relationships because the person cannot manage a relationship. This, however, was not clinically treated since it was concluded that it was not likely to cause impairment; hence Jeffery was supposed to obey the law and be considered to be of sane mind.

Substance Abuse (Alcohol)

After he began living alone, Jeffery Dahmer started taking alcohol excessively, which he consumes even in classrooms and the school compound and claims that it helps him evade the stress that he is coping with. It is the alcohol that he uses to make his victims unconscious and lure them to his tricks.

The Infamous act/Traumatic event/Crime

Moments when Jeff used to drill holes in his victim’s heads and dissolve their bodies in acid and eat parts of their bodies, especially the heart, made him considered an infamous killer. He committed crimes that were so much humiliating that he raped and murdered seventeen boys and men whom he approached in a friendly manner, being cordial to them and making them unconscious, later killing them, drilling their heads in an attempt to make zombies, and later dissolving their remains in an acid which he flushes in the toilet.

He was commonly known for cannibalism which he had no guilt of, and this is evident when he cooks his victim's body parts and shares them with Glenda, who is his immediate neighbor. The most traumatizing part is when he kidnaps Sinthasomphone, who is a kid and when the police come, he claims that he is his boyfriend simply because the boy is injured and cannot talk. His victims are mostly Negroes who are not granted justice when they present their cases to the law.

Incarceration/Jail

When Jeffery Dahmer is finally arrested , the trial lasts for two weeks, where he is sentenced to a lifetime imprisonment and taken to Columbia Correctional Institution, where he is placed in solitary confinement because of safety concerns of the inmates who are bitter about his criminal history.

Death/Current circumstances

While in Jail, Jeffery is assigned the duty of cleaning a block with two other inmates. One of the inmates realizes that the two inmates he has been placed with are serial killers, and he decides to kill both of them despite the fact that Jeff has accepted Christianity, got baptized, and promised to live a good life free from sins. Instead of being branded a hero, He is charged with murder. The body of Jeff is cremated, and ashes are granted to his parent in a halfway proportion for each.

How they all conform

The environs to which Dahmer is exposed contribute to who he becomes as he proceeds with life. The point of seeing his father teach him how to remove bones from animals and dissolve them in acid made him grow into a person who lacks guilt in what bad he does. This is because what he does in his late puberty stages is a reflection of what he learned during his childhood moments which have grown to be his passions, and he does them often.

Contribution of mental health to people's death

Mental illness is the leading cause of death worldwide. The number of people who die as a result of mental illness either directly or directly is high compared to normal deaths. Mental illness can cause the death of the patient or people around him because it affects how one reacts, feels, and associates with people. Things like divorce, depression, loneliness, death of a loved one, among others, affect one's mental health because they tend to make wrong or unthoughtful decisions that contribute to immense results. Patients are prone to committing suicide or killing others since nothing makes sense to them at that moment. Boredom and loneliness often lead the patient to feel isolated and that no one cares about them. Mental health is essential at every stage of our lives; it grows gradually without the patient noticing until it's too late to correct, and the victim begins to be socially active if untreated mental health leads to an increased number of homeless people, unemployment, drug abuse, inappropriate imprisonment, or suicide.

Characteristics of the serial killer

Serial killers are often cordial to their victims so as to lure them into falling for their tricks. From the story of Jeffery Dahmer, a variety of traits are evident. He was cruel and abusive to animals and set them on fire at a young age. Getting obsessed with missions that they would do with his father was a red flag that his father ought to have noted. Dahmer was curious to know more about weird things like dissolving bones in the acid to clear the evidence of existence.

Interventions

Mental illness is the leading cause of death worldwide. The number of people who die as a result of mental illness either directly or directly is high compared to normal deaths. Mental illness can cause the death of the patient or people around him because it affects how one reacts, feels, and associates with people. Things like divorce, depression, loneliness, death of a loved one, among others, affect one's mental health because they tend to make wrong or unthoughtful decisions that contribute to immense results. Patients are prone to committing suicide or killing others since nothing makes sense to them at that moment. Boredom and loneliness often lead the patient to feel isolated and that no one cares about them. Mental health is essential at every stage of our lives; it grows gradually without the patient noticing until it's too late to correct, and the victim begins to be socially active if untreated mental health leads to an increased number of homeless people, unemployment, drug abuse, inappropriate imprisonment or suicide.

Poster

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/621848661024377210/ is the wanted poster of the US serial killer, Jeffery Dahmer

NANDA mental health diagnosis and care plan

NANDA nursing diagnosis refers to the clinical judgment of human response to life occurrences and can either be problem-oriented, risk assessment, health promotion, or syndrome. It has the part for diagnosis, the goals and possible outcomes, the nursing interventions, and their evaluation. Jeffery, Dahmer had a history of disturbed sleeping patterns, was antisocial, and had a surgery history at the age of four years, where after, he developed a weird nature of cannibalism. He was diagnosed with a personality disorder out of the interests that he developed and were contrary to what his father often told him about. With sanity clinical conclusions, Dahmer has then prescribed insomnia medication with the goal of having reduced workloads and less active thinking.

References

Williams, C. D., Byrd, C. M., Quintana, S. M., Anicama, C., Kiang, L., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., ... & Whitesell, N. (2020). A lifespan model of ethnic-racial identity. Research in Human Development, 17(2-3), 99-129.