The amount of adolescents diagnosed with some type of mental disorder multiplied by forty between the years 1994 and 2003. Some people have such severe mental disorders that they are crippled by them and in turn qualify for Supplemental Security Income. In 1987 the number of people who qualified for this income was just one in every one hundred and eighty-four people. In 2007 this number increased nearly two and a half times to one out of seventy-six people (Levine). The reason behind these ever-increasing numbers is that teenager’s bad mental health is being ignored. This lack of treatment is resulting in violent outbursts and suicidal tendencies.
First, the juvenile-health system has been so corrupted that it no longer works. One of many …show more content…
Parents often simplify their child’s symptoms of a mental illness as stress. Doing that is dangerous because although it may truly be stress in the beginning, it can transform to be a mental disorder. For example, many teenagers stay extremely stressed out over school and over time develop a mental disorder. This would explain why mental issues seem to be so prominent in school-age kids. There are a few ways that chronic stress alters the brain. One of the changes happens in the hippocampus of the brain. The hippocampus regulates memories and emotions, but when exposed to chronic stress its stem cells mature into a glial cell called an oligodendrocyte which causes the stress to worsen. Stress even prohibits the production of stem cells to a lower rate causing learning and remembering to be more difficult. Those are not the only changes. Another abnormality it causes is decreased production of neurons and over-production of myelin. These imbalances are bad because the brain normally has a delicate and nearly perfect balance, but stress disrupts this balance and does serious damage (Sanders). It is important to deal with stress in teenagers to avoid permanent damage in their …show more content…
They make medicine to get patients addicted and work with other businesses to draw in more customers. Of course these companies will try to get more business by working with mental health screening agencies, but the treatment still helps the patient. It is a business and they have to make a profit, so these big drug companies will even go as far as to use their money to bribe people who have power to work with them. Their schemes do work according to their sales. In 2002, antipsychotic sales were at six-point-four billion dollars. In 2004, just two years later, it soared to eight-point-eight billion dollars (Pringle). However, no matter how much profit “big pharma” makes, their medications often help many
First, the juvenile-health system has been so corrupted that it no longer works. One of many …show more content…
Parents often simplify their child’s symptoms of a mental illness as stress. Doing that is dangerous because although it may truly be stress in the beginning, it can transform to be a mental disorder. For example, many teenagers stay extremely stressed out over school and over time develop a mental disorder. This would explain why mental issues seem to be so prominent in school-age kids. There are a few ways that chronic stress alters the brain. One of the changes happens in the hippocampus of the brain. The hippocampus regulates memories and emotions, but when exposed to chronic stress its stem cells mature into a glial cell called an oligodendrocyte which causes the stress to worsen. Stress even prohibits the production of stem cells to a lower rate causing learning and remembering to be more difficult. Those are not the only changes. Another abnormality it causes is decreased production of neurons and over-production of myelin. These imbalances are bad because the brain normally has a delicate and nearly perfect balance, but stress disrupts this balance and does serious damage (Sanders). It is important to deal with stress in teenagers to avoid permanent damage in their …show more content…
They make medicine to get patients addicted and work with other businesses to draw in more customers. Of course these companies will try to get more business by working with mental health screening agencies, but the treatment still helps the patient. It is a business and they have to make a profit, so these big drug companies will even go as far as to use their money to bribe people who have power to work with them. Their schemes do work according to their sales. In 2002, antipsychotic sales were at six-point-four billion dollars. In 2004, just two years later, it soared to eight-point-eight billion dollars (Pringle). However, no matter how much profit “big pharma” makes, their medications often help many