However, there are two sides to a situation, and some people believe that people with mental health problems are dangerous and should be watched every second of every day. The reasons being is because others believe that when around a person with a mental illness, they will be in danger for some reason and may be at risk. “Benevolence: persons with severe mental illness are childlike and need to be cared for” (“Watson and Corrigan” 2). Individuals believe that others are childlike and are not right enough in the head to be alone without supervision. Some who do have a mental illness are like this because of how their brain works and they are no way of helping it. Not only do people believe they should be watched at every moment of the day,
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A mentally ill person has to deal with quite some challenging things in their lives. Earlier it was said that people can get addicted to drugs and their prescriptions because of how many they are put on and for how long. Also, drugs given by the doctor can make people affect differently depending on their body/brain type. Not only do they struggled with the drugs that they are given and or becoming addicted to drugs, people also struggle with how they are perceived in the minds of people. While walking down the street one day shopping, Alana was with a friend of her and was getting a ton of stares from people around her. Everyone could tell she was anorexic due to her depression. Mothers with their children would stop and force them to look at her and scream at them “You better never do that to yourself” “That is nasty! Never do that!” Alana would hear everything these mothers were saying to their daughters. She was hurt, but this was not a first for Alana. In the media there are movies that have the main character having a mental illness such as depression, anxiety or anorexia. In these movies, the main character does not usually end of getting cured or having a nice time. In these movies it is the complete opposite. It shows the person being rude, going crazy and usually
A mentally ill person has to deal with quite some challenging things in their lives. Earlier it was said that people can get addicted to drugs and their prescriptions because of how many they are put on and for how long. Also, drugs given by the doctor can make people affect differently depending on their body/brain type. Not only do they struggled with the drugs that they are given and or becoming addicted to drugs, people also struggle with how they are perceived in the minds of people. While walking down the street one day shopping, Alana was with a friend of her and was getting a ton of stares from people around her. Everyone could tell she was anorexic due to her depression. Mothers with their children would stop and force them to look at her and scream at them “You better never do that to yourself” “That is nasty! Never do that!” Alana would hear everything these mothers were saying to their daughters. She was hurt, but this was not a first for Alana. In the media there are movies that have the main character having a mental illness such as depression, anxiety or anorexia. In these movies, the main character does not usually end of getting cured or having a nice time. In these movies it is the complete opposite. It shows the person being rude, going crazy and usually