Role Of Mental Health In John Steinbeck's Of Mice Of Men

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Mental disabled people are thought to be more violent and prone to commit crimes but their has been researches saying that normal people are just as likely. As People have mental disabilities these people are affected by how the people look and treat them. Mentally disabled had hard times finding help and finding ways to help others with the disorder. The novel Mice of Men demonstrates the real world problem of Mental health.

Mental health is an Important topic in the united states and in other countries such as africa. In the story mice and men lenna was someone who was not understood and was thought to be less than others. People thought that mentally disabled people are supposed to be feared and are dangerous people who are unstable but they are just as prone to commit crimes as people without. George is lennie's friend who takes care of him. George underestimates lenni and tells him what to do a lot get angry when he does not remember what he said.

In other countries mental illness affect how people look at others.In tribes having a mental illness can show that people are weird and should not be with them it can affect how people look at them.This shows that people are treated different and cared for differently with mental disorders.People think that with the disabilities that they have that they are dangerous and have to stay away from the normal people.They feel
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Mental health has problems but they like any other disorder they could be the same as normal people. People get help in many ways and are helped but the person with the disorder needs to help and try to get better at the mental health.People of many kinds have mental disorder and they live with and around us and they get help for themselves and live with it and take medicines to help control it and these help the people. Like in Mice and men George kept trying to help lennie but could not which resulted in the end of the

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