Mental Illness
The issue of mental health resonates among all cultures worldwide. Each one of these cultures has their own ideas and ways of treating people with mental health issues. Some decide to treat them harshly, sending them away or shunning them for being different from the majority of the population. Others realize that mental illness is a real problem that shouldn’t be ignored and work together to provide support people that are affected by a mental health problem. Mental health has to be addressed in order for people to find a solution to treating mental illness.
The first step to finding a solution to end the mental health epidemic recognizes that an unhealthy state of mind is a real problem that affects one in four people worldwide according to the World Health Organization. This demonstrates the magnitude of mental health as about 450 million people have neurological disorders or will experience one in their lifetime. Unfortunately out of this large quantity of the population, less than 50% will seek treatment or help due to the fear that the people in their culture would shun them. In contrast, cultures that acknowledge the existence and mental health issues and its effects and prioritizes treatment of issues in mental health, such as …show more content…
Mental disorders can cause a person to lose their place society. An example would be how depression causes such intense feelings of sadness or emptiness that people who have this disorder intentionally distance themselves from society because they are more emotionally and physically drained than people without a mental illness. When a person with this mental condition receives treatment, they are able to regain their sense of belonging to their culture and work to restore their role as a functioning member of
The issue of mental health resonates among all cultures worldwide. Each one of these cultures has their own ideas and ways of treating people with mental health issues. Some decide to treat them harshly, sending them away or shunning them for being different from the majority of the population. Others realize that mental illness is a real problem that shouldn’t be ignored and work together to provide support people that are affected by a mental health problem. Mental health has to be addressed in order for people to find a solution to treating mental illness.
The first step to finding a solution to end the mental health epidemic recognizes that an unhealthy state of mind is a real problem that affects one in four people worldwide according to the World Health Organization. This demonstrates the magnitude of mental health as about 450 million people have neurological disorders or will experience one in their lifetime. Unfortunately out of this large quantity of the population, less than 50% will seek treatment or help due to the fear that the people in their culture would shun them. In contrast, cultures that acknowledge the existence and mental health issues and its effects and prioritizes treatment of issues in mental health, such as …show more content…
Mental disorders can cause a person to lose their place society. An example would be how depression causes such intense feelings of sadness or emptiness that people who have this disorder intentionally distance themselves from society because they are more emotionally and physically drained than people without a mental illness. When a person with this mental condition receives treatment, they are able to regain their sense of belonging to their culture and work to restore their role as a functioning member of