How To Write A Persuasive Speech On Mental Illness

Mental illness in this country, and throughout the world, is a huge, and ever-growing problem. More and more people suffer from mental illness every year and suicide is becoming more and more common. The statistics are troubling, and the way we treat people with mental illness is even more distressing. The root of the problem is the stigma and the outright discrimination against people with mental illness, but in this speech I will specifically address the systemic issues in our country in regards mental illness. For starters, those with mental illness do not have sufficient health insurance coverage when it comes to getting medical illness related medical care. Even in Vermont, the state with the best access to care, 46% of adults with mental …show more content…
For example, the caretaker who was shot in Florida, whilst trying to care for an autistic man. Mentally ill people are more likely to be incarcerated when what they need is hospitalization. They’re blamed for violence when they’re more likely to be victims of it. People living with mental illness are scared to let anyone know about their condition in the workplace because they can be punished and fired for it. Even medical professionals don’t take mental illness seriously enough, and are more likely to follow up with someone suffering with a chronic physical illness like diabetes, over an illness like depression. We need to think about the misery we are putting people with mental illness through by discounting their suffering and keeping them from the medical care they need.We wouldn’t tell a cancer patient or a paraplegic or an epileptic that their illness is their fault, or to get over it or that it’s an excuse or they need to try harder and all they need is some positivity and exercise and they’re cured! So why is it we tell people with mental illness these