In the United States patients with mental illnesses are treated in a very primal and unfair manner. Furthermore, these sufferers of mental health disorders are subjected to violence in their daily lives. Not only can a sufferer become violent at any times, but when put around other sufferers the problems that can arise are limited. On the streets, violence is at an all time high where people suffering from a mental illness are either the perpetrators or victims. According to a recent article by CBC News “a police report called Vancouver 's Mental Health Crisis noted a 43 per cent increase in the past three years in admissions to St. Paul 's Hospital because of severe mental illness”(Proctor 2).…
People with bipolar disorder have violent outburst and can change their personality within seconds which has a high probability of causing danger. People with bipolar disorders more likely to be charged with “violent, non-violent and intermediate level criminal offences” ("Bipolar Disorder And Criminal Offending: A Data Linkage Study”) compared to their community peers due to the lack of medical treatment available for…
A nervous breakdown can result in violent outrages resulting in harm done to other prisoners, guards or even harm to themselves. Multiple studies have shown that inmates who are seriously mentally ill commit nearly half of all inmate suicides. This is an increasing statistic throughout correctional facilities across America. Police officers and prison guards are not receiving training in regards to interacting and managing individuals with mental disorders. Also due to the privacy restrictions, most officers do not know the health histories of prisoners.…
Also, prison guards have claimed that sometime mentally ill prisoners act quite dangerous. According to the article “Violence Behind Bars”, “Something is happening that’s causing inmates to act out in quite serious and dangerous ways, sand stuff do not have that situation under control”. (Grisson). Even though they want to give them treatments, if mentally ill prisoners may be threaten to prison guards or other inmates, the only thing they can do is to place them into a cell and separate from other inmates. For example, 18 years old mentally ill prisoner in Arizona jail attacked four prison guards that resulted in one hospitalized with server injure.…
Many people believe that children don’t experience mental health problems, people with these problems are inherently violent, and that they cannot handle the stress of the work force (“Mental Health Myths and Facts”). These untruths have had significant effects on the lives of the mentally ill. Beliefs that these illnesses are not real or cannot be helped has had a hand in the decrease in funding for mental health research and coverage for mental health care (Corrigan et al. ).…
Every so often mental illness may run in families, which suggests that people who have a family member with a mental illness may be at risk to develop one themselves. Severe mental illnesses, like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, are brain diseases and biological conditions like heart disease or epilepsy. Instead of treating these unfortunate individuals with compassion they are more likely to incarcerate the mentally ill in correctional institutions rather than treating them in health care facilities like any other sick individuals. In 2012, there were roughly 356,268 inmates with severe mental illnesses in prisons and jails, while only 35,000 people with the same diseases were in state psychiatric hospitals (Mencimer,…
This mental disorder can be dangerous to others because the person that has the disorder cannot think clearly. Although the disorder may be dangerous, it shouldn’t be treated differently by society. If a person is treated differently just because they are different, that is what causes them to act unjustly. Furthermore, others need to be aware so they can better understand mental illnesses. For example, in the article We Shouldn’t Treat Mental Illness Like Physical Illness; Michael Karson stated, “The analogy to physical illness misses the point that for many serious mental illnesses and personality disorders, the issue is that they don’t ‘get’ other people”.…
Mental Illness Crises Mental illness is a very serious situation considering that many jails have more ill people that any hospital. Prisons aren’t set up for ill people. But they pick the mental ill people form the streets do to the fact they can’t support them self. The main goal for this institution is to help out the mentally ill. Some inmate’s target the weak, and the inmates that need help would become easy prey.…
The Treatment of Mentally Ill Offenders There is a major issue with the mental health treatment in our society. With much of America increasingly being diagnosed with a mental illness, it is still a much stigmatized disease. It is estimated that one out of every five Americans have been diagnosed with a mental disorder ranging from mild to severe. Yet, the extent of therapy and support programs available for the mentally ill is considerably insufficient. Deinstitutionalization ultimately had a negative impact on our society and was responsible in criminalizing the mentally ill.…
Mental ill problems could be traced all the way back to the 1800s until the present day. During the 1800s mentally ill offenders believed to be possessed by some type of demonic spirit. There is little to be done for the mentally ill, because many of the programs for the mentally ill has failed and the majority of the people that are homeless have a serious mentally ill disorder. Women have a higher percent of mentally ill offenders than men. Many women suffer from substance abuse.…