Mental Illness Should Be Treated

Mental Illness and How it Should be Treated “These ‘harmless’ antidepressants have recently been linked to violent behavior, loss of impulse control, and suicidal thoughts” (Eakman). One thing that is real important is the over-prescribing of patients. That also leads into doctors not caring what they do to their patients, just observe them, diagnose them, and give them unneeded prescriptions for no reason inset for the money the doctors are making. People may think mental illness is somebody just wanting attention or that it is, not serious, but what they may not know is that it can be very serious; anorexia, anxiety, and depression have killed a lot of people ranging in a variety of age, race, and religion. Lastly, for people to keep track …show more content…
“ But today, while government at most every level has bloated over the past half-century, mental-health treatment has been decimated” (Kopel). People are not being treated, which means people are not getting the help they may need. By today, people can see a doctor for anything, and them not taking care of someone properly is just not right. the problem with all this is that mental illness is very real in this world and no one will even take it serious enough to really do anything about …show more content…
This means going to doctors, which proved earlier do not always help, but going to people who people can trust, is someone to go to. Mental health professionals are trained to help a person understand their feelings and help them through them, and improve their well being(“Suicide Prevented”). Also to help would be going to psychotherapy and getting a good dosage of medication from a doctor a person can trust. Just these little thing can keep a person from hurting themselves or somebody else. The road to recovery is just what somebody needs to be led down, be saved from themselves, and be happy. Furthermore ,in today’s society, mental illness should be better taken care of. Mental illness is nothing to play around with and can be very serious depending on diagnosis and seriousness of the disease, it can not be treated like nothing. It is causing unnecessary death from everyday people who look normal, but are not. To help the needy, people need to push and push to strive to get better because no one should deal with deal, and no one should be affected by mental illness, a terrible