Theoretical Context
African Americans and Caribbean Americans developed a high rate of mental disorders over the past several years. This is an important issue because in the black community we have a high rate of mentally ill people that don’t seek help. African Americans struggle to seek help with the smallest of things such as receiving tutoring in math. This reluctance transpires to medical issues as well. This issue is something that needs to be acknowledged because, as millennial are becoming older and starting families, they need to be aware of this ongoing epidemic. Being a millennial is an advantage due to the age of technology and receiving a large amount of information at any given time. During the baby boomer years, families didn’t …show more content…
History shows that people with mental illnesses suffered through stigmatizing effects of being treated as a person of lower value. At times the individuals get treated as though they’re not able to do basic tasks such as everyone else. I found this to transpire into todays society as well because people still undervalue those that suffer from a mental illness. Furthermore, it makes the family and the mentally ill person afraid to seek help due to the feedback that society gives to …show more content…
This is critical because immigrants will struggle with learning English and understanding it as well.
History shows that religious organizations were often the first to offer compassionate care to the mentally ill; however, for hundreds of years the religious establishment also persecuted the mentally ill. This goes back to slavery because mental illness often resulted from a lifestyle that came from beatings and abuse which made slaves hider their issues. Over time, being strong is equivalent to survival and weakness, by which you might not survive it.
In Caribbean culture, a mentally ill person receives a lot of protection because they don’t want the person to go through extra hardships. However, this is also related to being strong for yourself. This is rooted by slavery which is a time of hardships and having no control over your fate. This time period is still relevant today because the black community still struggles with seeking help. Slavery was a time of instant survival and being mentally ill was a disadvantage, especially for those that couldn’t
African Americans and Caribbean Americans developed a high rate of mental disorders over the past several years. This is an important issue because in the black community we have a high rate of mentally ill people that don’t seek help. African Americans struggle to seek help with the smallest of things such as receiving tutoring in math. This reluctance transpires to medical issues as well. This issue is something that needs to be acknowledged because, as millennial are becoming older and starting families, they need to be aware of this ongoing epidemic. Being a millennial is an advantage due to the age of technology and receiving a large amount of information at any given time. During the baby boomer years, families didn’t …show more content…
History shows that people with mental illnesses suffered through stigmatizing effects of being treated as a person of lower value. At times the individuals get treated as though they’re not able to do basic tasks such as everyone else. I found this to transpire into todays society as well because people still undervalue those that suffer from a mental illness. Furthermore, it makes the family and the mentally ill person afraid to seek help due to the feedback that society gives to …show more content…
This is critical because immigrants will struggle with learning English and understanding it as well.
History shows that religious organizations were often the first to offer compassionate care to the mentally ill; however, for hundreds of years the religious establishment also persecuted the mentally ill. This goes back to slavery because mental illness often resulted from a lifestyle that came from beatings and abuse which made slaves hider their issues. Over time, being strong is equivalent to survival and weakness, by which you might not survive it.
In Caribbean culture, a mentally ill person receives a lot of protection because they don’t want the person to go through extra hardships. However, this is also related to being strong for yourself. This is rooted by slavery which is a time of hardships and having no control over your fate. This time period is still relevant today because the black community still struggles with seeking help. Slavery was a time of instant survival and being mentally ill was a disadvantage, especially for those that couldn’t