Attitudes towards mental illness
Our society has a stigma. That stigma is a tendency to separate and isolate those with differences; mental illness being one of the most serious. These people are having their lives enveloped and swallowed by worry, panic and anguish and they’re having their very own internal struggle. Their minds are having a constant mental battle the last thing they need is people ignoring them, desperately convincing themselves, that these conditions don’t affect ordinary people. Our society needs to wake up. This happens to normal people every day at an increasing severity. Instead of being ignorant about this topic, we need to educate ourselves so we, as a community, can be there for people who need it most. 20% of the …show more content…
The pupil with the broken leg is excused from all physical activity because it’s physically impossible for them to do so and requires extreme physical effort for them to even comprehend taking on such a task in their condition. Whereas, the student with the panic disorder is not excused from doing a presentation in front of their class even though the student with the panic disorder also severely struggles to do the task they’re presented with. Even though, the circumstances are scarily similar. If mental illnesses were taken as seriously as physical ones there would a huge decrease in sufferers, just because you can’t see mental illness doesn’t mean they’re any less …show more content…
Looking back, if I had understood his torment I could’ve prevented his untimely death. Suicide. He hung himself after years of pain. Suicidal behaviour is a complex situation that usually occurs along a continuum of suicidal thoughts, from planning suicide to attempting it. In fact, in 2012 the rate of men who committed suicide was 18.2 thousand per hundred thousand and the rate of suicide among women was 5.2 per hundred thousand. It truly staggers me that this number is disgustingly high. The losses of a brother, a mother, a sister, a father are crippling to a family- financially and emotionally. These deaths could’ve been prevented. Groups such as the Samaritans are always there, if you or anyone else close to you is suffering; they can
Our society has a stigma. That stigma is a tendency to separate and isolate those with differences; mental illness being one of the most serious. These people are having their lives enveloped and swallowed by worry, panic and anguish and they’re having their very own internal struggle. Their minds are having a constant mental battle the last thing they need is people ignoring them, desperately convincing themselves, that these conditions don’t affect ordinary people. Our society needs to wake up. This happens to normal people every day at an increasing severity. Instead of being ignorant about this topic, we need to educate ourselves so we, as a community, can be there for people who need it most. 20% of the …show more content…
The pupil with the broken leg is excused from all physical activity because it’s physically impossible for them to do so and requires extreme physical effort for them to even comprehend taking on such a task in their condition. Whereas, the student with the panic disorder is not excused from doing a presentation in front of their class even though the student with the panic disorder also severely struggles to do the task they’re presented with. Even though, the circumstances are scarily similar. If mental illnesses were taken as seriously as physical ones there would a huge decrease in sufferers, just because you can’t see mental illness doesn’t mean they’re any less …show more content…
Looking back, if I had understood his torment I could’ve prevented his untimely death. Suicide. He hung himself after years of pain. Suicidal behaviour is a complex situation that usually occurs along a continuum of suicidal thoughts, from planning suicide to attempting it. In fact, in 2012 the rate of men who committed suicide was 18.2 thousand per hundred thousand and the rate of suicide among women was 5.2 per hundred thousand. It truly staggers me that this number is disgustingly high. The losses of a brother, a mother, a sister, a father are crippling to a family- financially and emotionally. These deaths could’ve been prevented. Groups such as the Samaritans are always there, if you or anyone else close to you is suffering; they can