Former president Bill Clinton once said, “Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of. But stigma an bias shames us all” (“Quotesgram” 1). When living with mental illness, it comes with a lot of challenges and obstacles along the road. People who have a mental illness struggle with some things more than a person who has nothing wrong with them. In the real world, people who live with a mental illness are judged because they are “childish”. The ones who suffer from mental illness go to doctors and more often than the general population and continue to get prescribed pills on top of pills to make their problems go away. It was the start of 9th grade. The first day at a new school is always the hardest, Jessica had been nervous because it was
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Jessica was bullied everyday while at her old school. Upperclassman had been telling her that it is super hard and that she will struggle a ton with all of the homework. Jessica has a history of depression and anxiety ever since she was a 7th grader. She woke up in the middle of the night before school because she could not breathe. She was shaking, freezing cold, could not talk, and was bawling her eyes out; this was a usual for Jessica. It usually happened whenever she gets angry, upset, or nervous about anything. This will happen to her at any moment of the day. She goes to the doctor every two weeks to get a check-up of how her weeks have gone, and if something has happened, what triggered it. They then show Jessica and her mother a new pill they want her to try to see if it helps her dial back on the anxiety attacks. Jessica gets home from the doctor and adds the new set of pills to the 30 other pill containers they wanted her to try. Jessica’s mom, Donna, is furious.as she does not think her child needs to be put on so many different pills to try and help her; it is her dad, Jeff, who thinks Jessica needs …show more content…
“Imagine feeling nothing at all, your mind numb to any pleasure you might receive from relationships, hobbies, school, or work” (“Mental Illness: The Challenge” 2) People with these problems are numb in the head, and some do not know if they are doing something wrong, they just do it because that is what their mind is telling them. They cannot enjoy things like a person without an illness because some of their minds do not function in that way. Mental illness is also hard and challenging for people to have because of how other humans treat them. In the show American Horror Story: Asylum, it is a building full of individuals who have a type mental illness and have gone completely mad. These ones are going crazy and killing others. This makes is hard for others to understand the true meaning behind a mental illness condition because shows like this make them believe that all types of people who carry a condition are like this. Ones with a mental illness get made fun of every day while around others. Parents will tell their children to stay away from them because they do not want their children to either see people like that or just in general talk to them. “On the other, they are challenged by the stereotypes and prejudice that result from misconceptions about mental illness” (“Watson and Corrigan” 1). In this article is a talk about how people who have a mental illness are being stereotyped
Jessica was bullied everyday while at her old school. Upperclassman had been telling her that it is super hard and that she will struggle a ton with all of the homework. Jessica has a history of depression and anxiety ever since she was a 7th grader. She woke up in the middle of the night before school because she could not breathe. She was shaking, freezing cold, could not talk, and was bawling her eyes out; this was a usual for Jessica. It usually happened whenever she gets angry, upset, or nervous about anything. This will happen to her at any moment of the day. She goes to the doctor every two weeks to get a check-up of how her weeks have gone, and if something has happened, what triggered it. They then show Jessica and her mother a new pill they want her to try to see if it helps her dial back on the anxiety attacks. Jessica gets home from the doctor and adds the new set of pills to the 30 other pill containers they wanted her to try. Jessica’s mom, Donna, is furious.as she does not think her child needs to be put on so many different pills to try and help her; it is her dad, Jeff, who thinks Jessica needs …show more content…
“Imagine feeling nothing at all, your mind numb to any pleasure you might receive from relationships, hobbies, school, or work” (“Mental Illness: The Challenge” 2) People with these problems are numb in the head, and some do not know if they are doing something wrong, they just do it because that is what their mind is telling them. They cannot enjoy things like a person without an illness because some of their minds do not function in that way. Mental illness is also hard and challenging for people to have because of how other humans treat them. In the show American Horror Story: Asylum, it is a building full of individuals who have a type mental illness and have gone completely mad. These ones are going crazy and killing others. This makes is hard for others to understand the true meaning behind a mental illness condition because shows like this make them believe that all types of people who carry a condition are like this. Ones with a mental illness get made fun of every day while around others. Parents will tell their children to stay away from them because they do not want their children to either see people like that or just in general talk to them. “On the other, they are challenged by the stereotypes and prejudice that result from misconceptions about mental illness” (“Watson and Corrigan” 1). In this article is a talk about how people who have a mental illness are being stereotyped