Mental Block

Mental health is one of the leading causes of health issues globally. One in four people will be affected with at least one mental health disorder during their lifetime. A person can only imagine how costly this must be for a country. This leads them to ask the question: how does mental health affect the economy of countries? In order to answer this inquiry, it is only logical to first explore the global prominence of mental health, how countries are using funding to help with the issue, and…

Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a mental disorder in which a person’s identity is separated into two or more distinctly dissimilar fragments. The person affected has multiple personality states that control the individual’s behavior in different ways at different times. This disorder is thought to stem from trauma experienced by the person with the disorder. The dissociation is presumed to be a coping mechanism in which the person separates him/herself from the traumatic event that…

The shame that surrounds depression among other mental illness is more widely rejected than past generations. This is not only because more research has been made available about mental health but because of the famous artists and writers who have helped to break down the stigma that surround it. Some of the most vocal advocates of depression today are female writers, who coincidently suffer the highest rates of depression out of any career path. Famous writers such as Sylvia Plath, Virginia…

As stated by the National Alliance of Mental Illness (2016), in a given year,1 in 5 adults in the U.S will experience some type of mental illness. A vast majority that suffer from mental or psychiatric disorders in the United States do not get the treatment and attention they need often because of the excessive cost of therapy and prescription drugs (Anxiety and Depression Association of America, n.d.). The long term effects of a mental or psychiatric disorder that goes untreated, can be…

Mental illness poses many challenges for individuals when aiming to participate and contribute to social life; they encounter structural barriers such as social stigma, poor education, limited employment opportunities, and poverty. This paper will focus specifically on the negative interaction and cycle between mental ill health and poverty. This cycle increases the risk of mental illness among poverty populations and also increases the likelihood that those already living with mental illness…

the psychology field, there are both psychiatrists and psychologists. Psychiatrists tend to be purely for prescribing medication for a mental illness, while psychologists tend to be based on therapeutic ways to cope with a mental illness. Within these two fields of work, there has been much debate over whether medication or therapy is the best way to cope with mental illnesses like depression and anxiety. Medication used for psychological disorders are all neurotransmission blockers.…

beliefs of torture, isolation, and inhumane treatment of mentally ill patients during colonial times are inaccurate based on his own analysis of multiple primary sources within, “’Crazy Brained: Mental Illness in Colonial America.” Contrary to the conclusions of other historians, Eldridge’s research found that mental illness, primarily, was not as widespread as previously thought. He also concluded that neither the accounts of “fits and disturbances,” nor the societal viewpoint of mentally ill…

which eventually leads to a mental breakdown. This teenager, Holden Caulfield, slowly progressed into depression through a series of traumatic events. For instance, Holden’s brother, Allie, dies at the age of 11 with leukemia. This created an extremely traumatic response from Holden, and in addition…

around the topic of mental illness or even people who are affected by it. One of my closest friends struggled with depression and self-harm and I watched her go through it, so mental health is an issue that is near and dear to my heart. I understand that this production centers around a healthy woman who has been falsely accused of insanity, but I’m still nervous to see how Emily Mann treats the subject. From what I have read, I’m fairly certain that she has written about mental illness with…

Detention Facility) that remained unsolved by experts for years. The most important subject publicized from this magnificent source, was that this immoral county jail has lacked the quality of serious attention for prisoners with mental health disabilities. There are mental health resources in the Sonoma County jail. These programs are available for ordinary inmates in certain modules, but restricted for disoriented inmates that would benefit through these therapeutic programs. These mentally…