Essay On Diagnostic Labeling

My concern of community mental health professionals is both how to enable the right treatment and broaden the understanding of the patient. Everyone experiences sleeplessness, depression and/or anxiety, but none of those are criteria to one being insane. The study portrayed how complicated diagnosing a mental illness can be, or if one even exists in the individual. It is obvious that we cannot differentiate the same from the insane in hospitals. The environment of a hospital does show the meaning of behavior can be misinterpreted. These results lead to labeling. The way a label sticks with a person even after they are released from hospitalization, the mind of a patient believes that there is something wrong with them and it is most likely they will go back to their old behaviors. The mental health professionals have the habit to making more false-positives of mental disorders out of …show more content…
I know calling one by a diagnostic label can increase the likelihood that one will continue to act in that way. Also, labeling oneself or others with the potent labels of psychological diagnostic categories also can bear a blanket of negative feeling. The biggest problem with labels occurs when abnormal emotional reactions leads to medication. The downside of pills for emotions is their potentially side effects and anti-anxiety drugs can be addictive. Diagnostic labels are helpful though when they lead to a better understanding and more responses. Receiving an accurate diagnostic label for a patient’s difficult behavior can prove life-changing experiences. Mental health professions need to focus in on figuring out what to do about the problem. I believe using labels for emotional states as signs that point a way to improve the problem. To improve awareness and attitudes in similarity to mental health, we need to better the things that can help to protect mental health, including the support to be realized by engaging and communicating with other