How Mental Illness is Becoming the Normality
“To look closely at complex behaviors like smoking or suicide or crime is to appreciate how suggestible we are in the face of what we see and hear and how acutely sensitive we are even to the smallest details in life.” Humans adapt to their surroundings whether consciously or unconsciously whether we like it or not. Mental illness affects one in five people within their lifespan. Illnesses such as anxiety, depression, and eating disorders have been rising in numbers which can lead to misconceptions and being thought of as normality. Consequently, which leads people to have a higher risk to develop the disease, romanticize the effects of the illness, and ultimately lead to misunderstandings and misrepresentations.
It has been proven on multiple accounts that being exposed to any mental disease gives you a higher risk obtaining that particular disease. It can be related to the phrase of “monkey see, monkey do.” Like the suicides mentioned in the book The Tipping Point, suicides were almost unheard of until one person took their life. From then on, it snowballed into an every other month occurrence to almost weekly. Not only did it affect adults, it affected children also. Children at the age of seven were hanging themselves. I would like to think that they did not understand …show more content…
Just like the quote at the beginning of this paper, humans are a creature of habit and will test the limits to get what they want. We can change, if we have to, within however long of a time period. We must be careful and aware about having a higher risk for mental health illnesses, to not romanticize it, and then to simply not give off misconceptions or misrepresentations. The reality of disorders affects the person so negatively, they would not wish it upon anyone else. Support the person, but not the
“To look closely at complex behaviors like smoking or suicide or crime is to appreciate how suggestible we are in the face of what we see and hear and how acutely sensitive we are even to the smallest details in life.” Humans adapt to their surroundings whether consciously or unconsciously whether we like it or not. Mental illness affects one in five people within their lifespan. Illnesses such as anxiety, depression, and eating disorders have been rising in numbers which can lead to misconceptions and being thought of as normality. Consequently, which leads people to have a higher risk to develop the disease, romanticize the effects of the illness, and ultimately lead to misunderstandings and misrepresentations.
It has been proven on multiple accounts that being exposed to any mental disease gives you a higher risk obtaining that particular disease. It can be related to the phrase of “monkey see, monkey do.” Like the suicides mentioned in the book The Tipping Point, suicides were almost unheard of until one person took their life. From then on, it snowballed into an every other month occurrence to almost weekly. Not only did it affect adults, it affected children also. Children at the age of seven were hanging themselves. I would like to think that they did not understand …show more content…
Just like the quote at the beginning of this paper, humans are a creature of habit and will test the limits to get what they want. We can change, if we have to, within however long of a time period. We must be careful and aware about having a higher risk for mental health illnesses, to not romanticize it, and then to simply not give off misconceptions or misrepresentations. The reality of disorders affects the person so negatively, they would not wish it upon anyone else. Support the person, but not the