The Negative Effects Of Mental Health

Mental illness is a matter of is it real or not. Many people say yes because they have seen the effects it has on loved ones while other say no because there is no scientific evidence. However, there is plenty of physical evidence it is just hard to find out what is going on. Mental illness is not know as someone getting sad every once in awhile. It is supposed to represent the extreme cases. If someone believes that mental illness is not real. It would probably be thought that mental health is just a normal thing that everybody goes through and is a part of normal life. Positive mental health treatment has only been around since the late 20th century before it was asylums and shock therapy. Even now there are problems with how there is a stigma against getting help because therapists are only prescribing medication so they can make money, and really do not care about the patient at all. Medication might not even be able to help patients a fifteen-year study shows that forty percent of people with schizophrenia recover without medication while only five percent who do take medication recover (Loren). Medication is even seen as the most moral solution even though it can have very serious side effects such as heart attack, stroke, sudden death, etc. Along with the risks there is still no way to prove scientifically that mental …show more content…
If someone themselfs does not personally have a mental problem then it is the person next to them. There really are not as many professional websites as one would think a lot of blogs however. It really shows that mental health is more important to the common person than it is to the media. There are no articles on the breakdown of how mental disorders are categorized. All the people who support mental disorders as valid are not even psychiatrist it is the common person again. The media really does not support mental disorders making it more of a