Mental Illness and Violence Hearing about the mass shootings all over the country being tied to the mentally ill made me very interested in figuring out whether or not violent acts were really related to the mentally ill or if it was something more. It hit home when I saw that the mentally ill were being attacked as a group for these horrible mass shootings because I have a mental illness. In fact, while watching Switched at Birth, I heard my diagnosis Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) mentioned and immediately tuned in. I then saw that a “doctor” made an assumption that Sharee’s mother had BPD. She ended up stabbing the doctor for trying to “lock her up.” Many people have violent thoughts, including the mentally ill. However, mentally
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So, I focused on my first library database source. One of the first papers I found was a scholarly journal from ProQuest. This article, Mental Illness and Violence: Lessons from the Evidence by Sherry Glied and Richard Frank, spoke about how reporters often associate these violent crimes with mental illness automatically. They focus on mental illness being the main factor because they can’t seem to find anything else that could correspond with the violence. They use minor characteristics, such as being a loner, to identify the person as being mentally ill. I learned, from this article, that a lot of people in the world have had mental health issues at some point in their lives. I also learned that these people don’t have any mental health issues that are related to violence. Only a small percentage of these people do have mental health related violence issues. More often than not the psychiatrist they are seeing can predict violent behavior and do something to correct or prevent it. I was now wondering what was really the factor linked to violence. How did mental illness ever come into play? Surely, the mentally ill aren’t the only ones committing violent …show more content…
The article Substance Use, Mental Illness and Violence: The Co-Occurrence of Problem Behaviors Among Young Adults was written by three PhD’s: Hawkins, Van Dorn, and Williams. While reading this article, I found that if a person with a certain type of mental disorder doesn’t get the correct treatment needed, then they can become more violent than those who do get the proper treatment. Once substance abuse starts, people end up in a place where violence is more common and it just becomes a regular occurrence to them. In turn it becomes a vicious cycle that just gets worse. The majority of people who grow up as antisocial are more prone to be violent. Stress is a large factor in what can cause illness and substance abuse which can become violence. In Hawkins, 2009 it is stated that “males were more likely than females to engage in a majority of the outcomes… Finally, those with co-occurring mental illness and substance use were more likely to also report stressful life events than those with unitary substance use.” It makes sense that males are more likely than females to be violent. Growing up as a kid, my dad’s choice of punishment was spanking and my mom’s was just to scold me for what I had done. My dad was also on the verge of being an alcoholic and my mom never drinks. I wanted to
So, I focused on my first library database source. One of the first papers I found was a scholarly journal from ProQuest. This article, Mental Illness and Violence: Lessons from the Evidence by Sherry Glied and Richard Frank, spoke about how reporters often associate these violent crimes with mental illness automatically. They focus on mental illness being the main factor because they can’t seem to find anything else that could correspond with the violence. They use minor characteristics, such as being a loner, to identify the person as being mentally ill. I learned, from this article, that a lot of people in the world have had mental health issues at some point in their lives. I also learned that these people don’t have any mental health issues that are related to violence. Only a small percentage of these people do have mental health related violence issues. More often than not the psychiatrist they are seeing can predict violent behavior and do something to correct or prevent it. I was now wondering what was really the factor linked to violence. How did mental illness ever come into play? Surely, the mentally ill aren’t the only ones committing violent …show more content…
The article Substance Use, Mental Illness and Violence: The Co-Occurrence of Problem Behaviors Among Young Adults was written by three PhD’s: Hawkins, Van Dorn, and Williams. While reading this article, I found that if a person with a certain type of mental disorder doesn’t get the correct treatment needed, then they can become more violent than those who do get the proper treatment. Once substance abuse starts, people end up in a place where violence is more common and it just becomes a regular occurrence to them. In turn it becomes a vicious cycle that just gets worse. The majority of people who grow up as antisocial are more prone to be violent. Stress is a large factor in what can cause illness and substance abuse which can become violence. In Hawkins, 2009 it is stated that “males were more likely than females to engage in a majority of the outcomes… Finally, those with co-occurring mental illness and substance use were more likely to also report stressful life events than those with unitary substance use.” It makes sense that males are more likely than females to be violent. Growing up as a kid, my dad’s choice of punishment was spanking and my mom’s was just to scold me for what I had done. My dad was also on the verge of being an alcoholic and my mom never drinks. I wanted to