Awareness about Mental illness

people joke about killing themselves or throw around terms such as bipolar or depressed they do not realize they are supporting the mental health stigma society has created. The statistics speak for themselves, and show that more people suffer from mental health illnesses than one would think. For example on a college campus, one out of four students is suffering from a mental illness (Kerr,…

government agencies designed to address mental health care. In effective clinical settings, psychoeducation can reduce the cost for the government to create and provide additional funding for patient readmission due to unsuccessful treatment goal (Jun, Merinder, Belgamwar, 2011). On the part patients, psychoeducation is one way of improving their understanding about their mental illness, and it also provides them useful information and options on where to access mental health services (Jun,…

Background According to the National Institute of Mental Health, in the United States, half of all citizens have a mental illness; Most of them never seek treatment (National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH], 2008). Suicide is a major concern when considering the lack of mental illness treatment sought. Suicide was found to be twice as prevalent as homicide from 2008-2010, and “more than 90 percent of people who kill themselves have a diagnosable mental disorder” (NIMH, 2008). Psychologists…

Mental Health Bystander’s Problem Identification Coming up with an interesting topic was a little hard for my group. We had many ideas but had to be careful of how we presented them. When coming up with a topic, we did not want to make anyone feel guilty. So we decided to tackle awareness bystanders on mental health. The reason my group member’s and I decided to come up with this topic because most people who have a mental illness are in denial. The will not state that are depress but their…

Stigma towards an individual with mental illness still exist. Even with the increase number of dramas or movies that includes mental illness individual roles. They were shown that they are suffers differently. They also shows many ways of helping the affected individual as to encourage the society to have the right mindset against them. Thus, helping the society to know how to react against the situation if it occurs. Even so, the mindset of the society against stigma still persist. Health…

believe his mental health should remain consistent throughout his life. This is an especially common case in the United States, where people are conditioned to ignore their mental well-being and feel shame at the thought that they may have an issue that demands extra attention.…

surrounding the syphilis experiment conducted in Tuskegee, Alabama by the U.S. Public Health Service at the Tuskegee Institute. During this experiment, African American males were withheld from getting treatment for syphilis. However, not many people know about the controversy surrounding Dr. J. Marion Sims, the “Father of Gynecology.” Sims is greatly known for perfecting a surgery to cure vesicovaginal fistula (VVF). Vesicovaginal fistula is a tear that extends from the bladder to the vagina…

issue that is shown in everyday life and in Shutter Island, is how society deals with mental illness. How it was dealt with in the past is shown in Shutter Island. Ashecliffe Is the name of the hospital which is on the island. The island is far away from the mainland as the hospitals for dangerous patients who are also prisoners. They are patients because they are suffering from severe conditions of mental illness, but have also committed horrible crimes. These patients are sent to Shutter…

school he attended. Malo hangs outside and steals his mom car. Chaka is never home and when he is home he do not stay for long. All the troubles from Uzi, Malo, and Chaka does nothing but stress Amina out who already have mental illness and choose not to speak on it but write about her troubles in a journal. Malo decides to read his mom journal one day because she was admitted the Philadelphia Psychiatric Center. Malo was indecisive on if he should really read it, but then he decided that he…

on the mental illness issue that has been plaguing this country. Long is a mother of a 13-year-old mentally ill son that has fits of violent rage on regular basis. She felt the need to write a blog after the Sandy Hook tragedy. Sandy Hook was an elementary school located in New Town, Connecticut where a 20-year-old named Adam Lanza was able to get a gun and kill 27 people. This sparked a national conversation about gun control but did not address the other critical issue of mental illness. This…