Mental Illness In America

It is sad to know that even now a days you can find people who are mentally ill, being mistreated, and discriminated against. Mental disabilities should be helped to prevent further issues among those who are mentally ill. Mental disabilities effect many people and little amount of help is given for their problems. There are many people who are mentally ill and get picked on by others due to these illnesses. Mentally ill suffer from both discrimination and suffer from their own mental disabilities. There seems to be a low amount of help for mentally ill. There seems to be a large lack of psychologist to help treat the mentally ill. “According to a report released this year by the American psychological Association, there was approximately one psychologist for every 3,375 of its patients (Downs & Moraes-Pinheiro, 2014).” There should be at least one for every 1,000 patients. “Psychiatric Times author Daniel Carlat calculates that there is only one psychiatrist for every 10,463 Americans stating that "America is shy about 45,000 psychiatrists (Downs & Moraes-Pinheiro, 2014)." There should be more psychiatrists for the job or even they will have a hard time dealing with that many patients. Cost of mental illness is expensive for most people. Mental illnesses affect America as well as all over the rest of the world. “Furthermore, a 2001 Pan American …show more content…
The only way to live in this world is to have a job and those with mental illness seem to get fired from their jobs often. “This can include being denied opportunities such as employment or accommodation because of their illness (Parle, 2012).” Mentally ill do not just have a hard time working do to their illness but they can also suffer from stigma. “They assume they will be rejected socially and so believe they are not valued (Parle, 2012).” This leads to less mentally ill wanting to get help for their