Awareness about Mental illness

According to Robinson and Potts (2014) it is highly prevalent among people who suffer from mental illness and is exacerbated by health inequalities. It costs the NHS approximately £720 million a year to treat smoking related diseases in sufferers of mental disorders. In additional, it increases the risk of mental health problem and suicide amongst mental health patients (Malone et al, 2003). Conversely, following cessation, patients’ anxiety levels are reduced and mood…

schizophrenia. I never to time to study and know more about this diagnosis. I had heard about it during my undergraduate, so I knew what it was and how the symptom is expressed on people who had it. However, there was a big difference while reading someone personal memoir about what they went through. Reading this book really opened my eyes to understand what individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia go through and how terrible it can be to have this illness and the impact it could create in a…

that has a severe mental illness in official and unofficial accounts. If this continues, the chance of being killed during a police encounter is 16 times higher for those who have untreated mental illness rather than those other civilians who are stopped by officers. On the other hand, people with mental illnesses killed law enforcement officers at a rate of 5.5 times more than the rest of the population back in 1998. In 1980, researchers began recording direct observations about how police…

Mental Health program at Capella University provides the necessary skills and support to understand the behaviors as well as how mental health affects different people, it also prepares graduates with the knowledge and skills to diagnose and treat mental disorders. The program can prepare you with the awareness and skills to work with individuals, families, and groups from different cultures. Clinical counselors help people who have normal cognitive processes as well as help people manage…

My headaches were getting better, the weather was still nice, and I could focus for the first time in what felt like forever when I was having a conversation. Things were looking good. Okay, fast-forward again to the end of Grade 11. To sum up my mental health during the school year in three words, I would say it was sad, painful, and exhausting. Every day I would conceal…

INTRODUCTION Serious Mental Illness (SMI) – also called severe or chronic mental illness – can be defined as mental infirmities that affect individuals long enough to result “… in functional impairment which substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities. … All of these disorders have episodic, recurrent, or persistent features; however, they vary in terms of severity and disabling effects” (Federal Register, 1993). Grave forms of depression and a wide range of…

For some people ignorance is bliss, for others however, ignorance is a prison. People don’t want to know about the hardships of mental illnesses such as depression because they don’t want to pity others. On the other hand, those who unknowingly suffer from depression feel that they are fighting an invisible monster. They can’t possibly hope to win if they don’t know what they are up against. At this point we need to get over our fears of the uncomfortable or the unknown to help those who suffer…

novel, well suited for high school students to read in the public school classroom because of its strong focus on mental illness, including depression, and the aftermath of death, in the lives of both teens and adults. Written in 1976, the text was banned in many public settings due to language, casual, but non-explicit, sex scenes, and the destigmatized discussion of mental illness. The main themes of Ordinary People include ways in which people cope with loss and the successive healing process…

A mental illness is a an identifiable collection of abnormal behaviours and thoughts considered to be reflections of extreme versions of what is thought to be normal. A 2007 national survey by the Australian Government has revealed that approximately 45.5% of Australians have experienced a mental illness in their lifetime ("Prevalence of mental disorders", 2007). Following on from this, it can be seen that nearly nine out of ten individuals with a mental health disorder claim that some variety…

of enabling people to reach a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion is the name of an international agreement organized by the World Health Organization. The agreement focuses on targeting communities, governments, and companies in order to achieve ‘Health for all’ and an overall better lifestyle for everyone. The Ottawa Charter provides people with guidlines on addresing mental health. This is done by providing several action areas.…