Illness

mental illnesses are shaped by personal knowledge about mental illness. Knowing in interacting with someone living with mental illness, can shape cultural stereotypes. Mental illness has a history of misunderstanding, stigmatizing, and discriminating against people with mental illness. All of these factors are still present even in educated societies and could be reduced by educating and informing their communities about mental illness. Mental health issues are alarmingly increasing around the…

We all agree that the effects of mental illness can be devastating. Yes, the illness deserves recognition, but how far can our pity go before mental health is an everyday excuse for bad behaviour? Should it be a valid loophole in our legal system for criminals on trial? How long would it be before paedophiles, rapists and murderers are picking up litter in the park instead of reforming in prison due to the blame being placed on their 'second personality'? Now, I'm not arguing that mental…

About 42.5 million Americans are affected with a mental illness. This affects their daily functioning and can often lead to unemployment, reliance on government assistance and even death. Many suffer from chronic depression and other mental illnesses like anxiety and schizophrenia. Their lives are often drastically changed from the moment they are suspected of having a mental illness. But hundreds of thousands of psychiatrist, doctors, nurses and volunteers are on hand to help guide patients…

As a major issue in todays society, mental illnesses pose serious problems to those suffering with the illness and the people around them.They are affected not only by the debilitating problem that is the illness in itself, but they are also presented with the major problem of not being fully understood. This is bought on by the stereotypes and stigmas associated with mental illness, and as a result a lack of general understanding and overall negative sentiment towards the issue. This presents…

The term life illness is referred to any illness or disease that can cause an individual to die. There exists a broad range of life-threatening illnesses such as acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), cancer, allied degenerative neurological disorders and, motor neurone disease. However, Cancer is considered to be the primary life threatening illness (Lyons et al, 2002). This report reflects the experience of a patient suffering from life threatening illness. It is an awful experience to…

Overall wellness is one of the main concern regarding aphasic patient, and lack of public awareness can negatively impact mental health of the patients, an important structure in maintaining the overall wellness. Mental health, even among healthy people, is a crucial part in maintaining the function of the body. However, mental health of the aphasic patients are usually affected by distress. By definition, distress can be described as anything that cause pain or suffering to the body, or even…

Watching “Hidden in Plain Sight: Looking for Mental Illness” on BBC and “Clinical Impressions: Identifying Mental Illness” made me aware of how those coping with a mental disorder feel. The participants experience varied among the individuals but overall, some shared a common characteristic such as expressing their confinement in their illness until questioned by the panel. The participants were asked to not share their illness with the other participants during the study which made it hard for…

Solomon discusses the ways in which people, who once dealt with a mental illness, are now dealing with the repercussions of getting medical treatment. Solomon focuses on how entering another country such as the United States, is more of a hassle for those who actually got medical help, in comparison to those who never received treatment, or who are still dealing with a mental illness on a daily basis. Rush’s study focuses on how those with mental illnesses fear the overall stigma associated with…

different cultures perceive health and illness differently. Cultural understandings play a vital role in determining what is health and what is illness. Throughout history, society has had its own ways of dealing with mental illness, however one thing has remained constant. The treatment of mental illness has been considered a social problem for many years. This essay will determine if mental illness is a social problem by firstly delving into how mental illness was treated in history, looking…

There are many different people living with chronic illness and disability, most are able to live on their own or with minimal assistant. In addition, both chronic illness and disability does not show discrimination, it affect the young, middle age and the old. Chronic Illness is the condition or health problem with symptoms or disability requiring health care management for three months or longer (Bare, Cheever, Hinkle & Smeltzer, 2010). On the other hand, disability is limitation in…