History of mental health

Mental illness, when the general public hears the words mental illness they tend to think of someone who is ‘crazy’ but is that really the case? Mental illness has had a negative stigma, most of the time when you hear of someone having a mental illness a negative tone is attached to it. Many people’s only association with the mentally ill is through the media and popular culture. Oftentimes the media portrays violent criminals as mentally ill without an actual diagnosis, thus perpetuating the…

Mental Illness and Gun Violence: Debunking the Myth of Mental Illness’s Relation to Violence The myth that most mentally ill people are violent has been endlessly perpetuated by popular media so much so that the tendency to automatically associate mental illness with violence has become indoctrinated into popular belief. Today, with the widespread debate about gun violence and the search for something to blame, some sources, like the National Rifle Association (NRA), have turned to point the…

light 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.…

need to mental health service among combat veterans from all branches of the military. This is due to deployments for Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) which have related combat stressors and potentially traumatic events. These combat stressors such as killing an enemy, incoming fire, and seeing human remains have led to mental health problems such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), in fact roughly 30% of returning soldiers report having mental health…

Dimensionality of Mental Disorders Broadly speaking, symptoms of mental disorders can be distinguished into two parts: affective symptoms and somatic symptoms. Although sociologists often treat mental disorders as having a single dimension, they might benefit from appreciating the dimensionalities of mental disorders for at least two reasons. First, since it is possible that social interactions matters more to mood than to physical health, considering the two dimensions characteristic of mental…

Based off of what I read in the novel one of the issues with how individuals with mental illnesses were treated in the past was they did not have access to the proper treatments that they needed. They instead underwent shock therapies and lobotomies. I personally think it was wrong of the to use these types of treatments on patients because…

This is an important issue as mental illnesses are very common nowadays and especially with social media sites glamorizing the illnesses it will never stop, it will only affect more and more people on a daily basis. Mental disorder statistics will continue to increase and cause a mental illness epidemic. It will affect numerous people of ages 18 and under as media has an impact on their overall Hauora as they view the disorder in a distorted way of which they begin to idolize. For example if a…

Risk Assessment in Mental Health Mental health services can manage risk and safety more effectively by involving service users in planning for safety. However, conventional clinical techniques of risk assessment are obstacles to creating normal and risk-free physical life for admitted and recovering mental health patients (Ratnayake, 2010). It is recommended that mental service givers and patients should work jointly to develop and implement effective risk management plans for mentally ill…

Mental health is a state of well-being in which an individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and is able to make a contribution to his or her community. (WHO) According to the World Health Organisation one in four people will be affected by a mental health problem at some point throughout their lives. This means 450 million people worldwide are suffering from a mental illness placing them among the leading cause of health…

I would assume that starving ones self is extremely miserable, yet she seems to take pride in it. As her mental disease progresses, it becomes clear that she is unable to stop her restriction. Kelsey explains, “I was too depended on the process of the illness, and the rituals, and all that to give it up” (81). It is intriguing at how she found the process…