Overall throughout the history, wealthy and privileged people used their power to label poor unprivileged people as mentally ill and exploit them to control society. To justify the controlling of the society, society used experts because if the scientific information is coming from well-respected expert’s no one questions it and everyone believes it.
1. When considering youth and the mental health industry, I have made the argument that medicating kids is a political act. How does the 20/20 documentary about foster kids help us to understand the “politics” associated to medicating foster youth?
Political and economic factors influence mental health in a society. Some people seek gains from the suffer of others, the business relationship …show more content…
At first, the individuals resist taking medications. People resist to accept both diagnosis and medications because of the stigma attached to the mental illness. They simply did not want to be labelled to avoid the consequences. During the second period, despite the oppositions to the drugs, patients finally accept the short term medical treatment because of the pressure to take medications by the psychiatrists and the patients accept taking medications because they feel that they have no other choices. Accepting the biological causes of depression starts during the trial commitment period during which medical experts convince patients to accept to take medications for a short period of time. However, most patients end up taking the medications for longer periods because “once patients have accepted and internalized rhetoric of biochemical causation they become committed to a process of finding the right medication” (Karp 1996). Karp states that most of the people he interviewed stayed on drugs for months, tried different drugs and “never find a drug that significantly influences things for the better” (Karp, 1996). The last steps of making decisions about taking psychiatric drugs is called disenchantment and deconversion. After people converted into the the belief of biological causes of depression, they experienced other form of depression and they lost their beliefs in drugs and seek help trough other
1. When considering youth and the mental health industry, I have made the argument that medicating kids is a political act. How does the 20/20 documentary about foster kids help us to understand the “politics” associated to medicating foster youth?
Political and economic factors influence mental health in a society. Some people seek gains from the suffer of others, the business relationship …show more content…
At first, the individuals resist taking medications. People resist to accept both diagnosis and medications because of the stigma attached to the mental illness. They simply did not want to be labelled to avoid the consequences. During the second period, despite the oppositions to the drugs, patients finally accept the short term medical treatment because of the pressure to take medications by the psychiatrists and the patients accept taking medications because they feel that they have no other choices. Accepting the biological causes of depression starts during the trial commitment period during which medical experts convince patients to accept to take medications for a short period of time. However, most patients end up taking the medications for longer periods because “once patients have accepted and internalized rhetoric of biochemical causation they become committed to a process of finding the right medication” (Karp 1996). Karp states that most of the people he interviewed stayed on drugs for months, tried different drugs and “never find a drug that significantly influences things for the better” (Karp, 1996). The last steps of making decisions about taking psychiatric drugs is called disenchantment and deconversion. After people converted into the the belief of biological causes of depression, they experienced other form of depression and they lost their beliefs in drugs and seek help trough other