I believe that mental illness is a case by case bases in that some people are more susceptible to mental illness because it runs in their family while others develop it over time because of their social status, behavior, or abuse they have endured. Mental illness is a disease that is very serious and should not be taken lightly and I believe that even the smallest of cases should be looked at with as much care as someone with a lifelong illness. I am a believer that certain people are stronger about handling their illness than others. While some use their illness as a crutch others use it to grow and better themselves it really all depends on the person with the mental illness and how they handle it. I have a strong bias against people who use their mental illness as a crutch and it makes me not want to help them or hear their …show more content…
However, as I 've gotten older I know its more of a hospital for the mentally unstable; people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and severe cases of depression. I used to think of the scary movies where people were being abused there but I now know that is not the case. Many people who are not in this field believe that psychiatric hospitals are like jails for the mentally ill but I think in-patient facilities are like that too. I don 't think of it as a jail but more of a holding place for these people to get treatment and get better. Psychiatric hospitals deal more with the doctors and what is really wrong with the person rather than therapy and counseling. I do know that people in psychiatric hospitals are in more need of acute treatment whereas people in in patient facilities do not. Sometime these places are just a holding place until they are ready to send them to a halfway house or in some cases jail. In the facility I work in, some of the children have come from psychiatric hospitals and next they will be going to jail because they are not progressing with treatment. It is a scary reality for some of these