As of right now, there are about 200 known mental health disorders. A few of these disorders include dementia, schizophrenia, and depression. Many mental illnesses cause violent tendencies, forgetfulness, the inability to socialize or confide, and suicidal actions and thoughts. Now that technology and medical research has advanced beyond herbs and chloroform, cases of reported mental illnesses have skyrocketed tremendously. Robert Glover, the executive director of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Director, states that “Without federal support, states haven 't been able to afford to keep their psychiatric hospitals open. States have closed 10% of their hospital beds from 2009 to 2012”(Szabo 2). With the recent incline
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In the United States patients with mental illnesses are treated in a very primal and unfair manner. Furthermore, these sufferers of mental health disorders are subjected to violence in their daily lives. Not only can a sufferer become violent at any times, but when put around other sufferers the problems that can arise are limited. On the streets, violence is at an all time high where people suffering from a mental illness are either the perpetrators or victims. According to a recent article by CBC News “a police report called Vancouver 's Mental Health Crisis noted a 43 per cent increase in the past three years in admissions to St. Paul 's Hospital because of severe mental illness”(Proctor 2). This forty-three percent increase in can be perceived as a factor pertaining to the neglect of the mentally ill patients on the street. Not only is the violence displayed from neglected sufferers on the street crippling the sufferers themselves, but it is crippling the way society views people living with mental health disorders everywhere. By living on the streets, a mentally ill person does not have the resources nor money to receive treatment, leaving them to act on their own accord or act how their illness tells them too. This ultimately can lead to an unsafe environment for the ill and …show more content…
Not only would most of that go to mental health reformations, but also other reformations with the extra money left over. The first step would be to re-introduce new psychiatric beds into hospitals and create designated sections for the mentally ill to be, separate from the main care facility. Secondly, the government must provide new and more affordable alternatives when it comes to treatment. Currently, psychotic systems within the United States are underused whereas prisons are being overrun by those with mental health disorders. At the moment, mental health care facilities and psych wards are not adequate and do not meet the standards of living a mentally ill patient must receive. The reason that a reformation of treatment is so important is to save families from carrying the burden of caring for their mentally ill family members. In an article by The Guardian, it is conveyed that “Inadequate access to treatment services and providers all over the country, has left families of the mentally ill picking up the burden, and the cost, of providing care”(Spencer and Guardian Us Interactive Team). As stated previously, Karen Kelly put the lives of those she loved in danger because of her violent outbursts and constant manic depressive tendencies. So if the system were to be reformed using the government 's actual
In the United States patients with mental illnesses are treated in a very primal and unfair manner. Furthermore, these sufferers of mental health disorders are subjected to violence in their daily lives. Not only can a sufferer become violent at any times, but when put around other sufferers the problems that can arise are limited. On the streets, violence is at an all time high where people suffering from a mental illness are either the perpetrators or victims. According to a recent article by CBC News “a police report called Vancouver 's Mental Health Crisis noted a 43 per cent increase in the past three years in admissions to St. Paul 's Hospital because of severe mental illness”(Proctor 2). This forty-three percent increase in can be perceived as a factor pertaining to the neglect of the mentally ill patients on the street. Not only is the violence displayed from neglected sufferers on the street crippling the sufferers themselves, but it is crippling the way society views people living with mental health disorders everywhere. By living on the streets, a mentally ill person does not have the resources nor money to receive treatment, leaving them to act on their own accord or act how their illness tells them too. This ultimately can lead to an unsafe environment for the ill and …show more content…
Not only would most of that go to mental health reformations, but also other reformations with the extra money left over. The first step would be to re-introduce new psychiatric beds into hospitals and create designated sections for the mentally ill to be, separate from the main care facility. Secondly, the government must provide new and more affordable alternatives when it comes to treatment. Currently, psychotic systems within the United States are underused whereas prisons are being overrun by those with mental health disorders. At the moment, mental health care facilities and psych wards are not adequate and do not meet the standards of living a mentally ill patient must receive. The reason that a reformation of treatment is so important is to save families from carrying the burden of caring for their mentally ill family members. In an article by The Guardian, it is conveyed that “Inadequate access to treatment services and providers all over the country, has left families of the mentally ill picking up the burden, and the cost, of providing care”(Spencer and Guardian Us Interactive Team). As stated previously, Karen Kelly put the lives of those she loved in danger because of her violent outbursts and constant manic depressive tendencies. So if the system were to be reformed using the government 's actual