History of mental health

Mental health and resilience are paramount factors in overcoming obstacles and adversity. While it is often thought that resilience is merely one’s ability to overcome adversity, resilience is composed of several individual components that determine whether a person will conquer the obstacles that arise in life, and to what extent these obstacles will impact the person. In her article, Harrington (2012) lists several “key elements” of resilience which include emotional, spiritual, and family…

disparity: Homelessness and mental illness in veterans 2. Summary of the article: Disparities in Housing Status Among Veterans with General Medical, Cognitive, and Behavioral Health Conditions studied the risk factors associated with homelessness and the existence of medical and mental issues within the veteran population. The study found that although medical issues such as diabetes and lung issues complicated the issues of homeless and wellness, mental health was a stronger predictor of…

The term “dual diagnosis” is used when a person has a co-occurring substance abuse and mental health issues. Either the mental illness or substance abuse can develop first. A person experiencing a mental health condition (eg: depression, bipolar, anxiety) may turn to drugs and alcohol as a form of self-medication to alleviate the troubling symptoms they may experience (“F”, n.d.). Eventually, they become dependent on the substances to feel “normal”. Other times, repeated use of drugs or alcohol…

might be triggered by violence on TV or even the sex that they were hurt by if the other person gets too close. Mental health issues are a real and growing problem in modern society whether the issue is anxiety or a form of post-traumatic stress disorder, it is so important to recognize that there is a need for help. Help and stress relief comes in many forms for all mental health issues such as the obvious clinicians or intervention/self-help group, as well as personal self-help such as…

women with mental health issues. As hysteria describes the historical aspect of female madness, such as its ‘supposed’ link to the female reproductive cycle, “crazy” describes the cultural side. This side deals with the stigma attached to the word crazy, such as how society has viewed those labeled “crazy” then and now. Stigma is considered one of the biggest barriers to mental health care because it “manifests particularly in a phenomenon known as social distancing, whereby people with mental…

our minds? Mental illnesses are often left undiagnosed or even shunned from society in certain cultures. Mental illnesses are also incredibly overlooked and undermined, as people cannot physically see the illness. However, it is still there and very much harming the people dealing with it. In the article, the editorial reports that the US government will not fund the treatments for inmates with mental disorders in federal prisons. The cost of accommodating for an inmate with a mental disorder…

I found the topic of “medical tourism” odd and compelling. It made me wonder why Americans would travel all the way to Mexico for supposedly cheaper healthcare. Either Mexico’s healthcare is extremely cheap or the United States’ healthcare is extremely expensive to justify travelling that far for a dentist appointment and for that to be economically viable. I suspect it’s a mixture of the former and the latter, although honestly the violence between drug cartels in Mexico would make me too…

Most experts tend to say that mental illness causes veterans to make poor judgement or cannot really function back into society. While there are programs across the country that help veterans with their mental disables, but many veterans don’t really know how to receive help with their current problem. The major issue is that these veterans are not really receiving any…

Homeless with Mental Illness It seems like majority of the homeless you see on the street day to day are suffering from some sort of mental illness. The stereotype of any mentally ill homeless person is schizophrenic, bi-polar or manically depressed. More than 124,000 – or one-fifth – of the 610,000 homeless people across the USA suffer from a severe mental illness, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. (Jervis, 2016) Why is it when you just look at as a whole that…

My concern of community mental health professionals is both how to enable the right treatment and broaden the understanding of the patient. Everyone experiences sleeplessness, depression and/or anxiety, but none of those are criteria to one being insane. The study portrayed how complicated diagnosing a mental illness can be, or if one even exists in the individual. It is obvious that we cannot differentiate the same from the insane in hospitals. The environment of a hospital does show the…