Mental Illness Case Study Julio Aguirre

“Mental illness refers to a wide range of mental health conditions - disorders that affect your mood, thinking and behavior” according institute of Mental Health. Mental illness can prevent you from doing your regular activities such as driving, talking and even interacting with other people. We should treat people with mental illness with a little more compassion and try to understand what they are going through before judging. I’ve heard multiple cases in which people with problems get treated unkindly and Julio Aguirre was one of them.
Julio Aguirre with 35-years old died from neglect at the shawnee county jail after he was arrested for an “injustice”. Julio Aguirre was diagnosed with bipolar disease since he was small the only way to …show more content…
because he knew he was going to get a bipolar spam and he needed to go to the Health Dept. to get some help and maybe stay the night like he had done before, however when he was getting down his vehicle and walking towards the building some officers were passing by and according to the reports he went to hug them and after hugging them he spit on them and that’s where everything started. We understand that spitting to an officer is disrespectful and you can go to jail but Julio was a Valeo’s patient meaning he was mentally ill. They arrested him and took him with them. His wife Laura Veronica Aguirre was trying to tell the officers that her husband needed to get attention because he was mentally ill but they did not listen to her and took him regardless. They put him in jail and his wife was still trying to let them know that the way he acted wasn't because he wanted to but because he needed help and needed to take his daily pills but they still did not listen. They let him stay in jail for days after days. According to the police Julio was showing strange attitudes such as rolling around, incoherent speech and inappropriate actions. All of these things was a result of Julio not getting the professional attention that he needed because he was mentally ill. After almost a week Julio was not eating and he was unhealthy, his body was full of bruises and scars from where he been harm or had harmed himself. The police decided to take action and take him to the hospital in which there, he died. Laura, Julio’s wife opened a case for her husband in which she won the case in