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The question most adults ask is what does Psychotropic agents mean along with the different classes of medications and how the medications are classified. Psychotropic agents refer to different substances that effect the mind and are used to treat stress and can be used as a tranquillizer. Psychotropic agents have different classes of medication which include; the central nervous system stimulant, antidepressant, anxiolytic, antimanic and antipsychotic medications. In reference to how the…

one cause of premature death to schizophrenic patients. 12%- 13% of patients commit suicide and 40% attempt to commit suicide at least once. Schizophrenics are put in jail frequently for cases such as trespassing. 20% of the Americans in jail have a mental illness. 55% of mentally ill patients are not being treated for multiple reasons and many even have anosognosia. (Schizophrenia facts and statistics) Anosognosia is when people refuse to acknowledge that they have a disorder at all or they are…

person who suffers from some sort of mental illness. Maybe it is OCD, or anxiety, or bipolar disorder. Maybe it is one mental disorder that seems very common lately, depression. Most people have experienced depression at least once in their lives, but some people have to suffer through that feeling of hopelessness and self hatred most hours of the day. For those people, antidepressants were created. At first, many antidepressants had extreme physical and mental side effects that were anything…

Jar The Bell Jar is a story of a young woman struggling with her mental health. Many factors including social oppressions reveal in the novel led her into madness. Esther Greenwood the protagonist of the novel experienced breakdowns in her life which led her at many times to suicide. 3.1 .The Protagonist’s Madness and the Woman initiate mental Illness Sylvia Plath describes her long term depression that blocks her mind her scope of writing. Most of her work depicts her life. Her…

Mental health has been an ongoing issue that has been progressively advancing for years. It is because most people with problems in mental health suffers from stigma and discrimination. BUT what causes this stigma and discrimination? It is said that discrimination is an effect of a prejudiced behavior. This behavior roots from stereotyping in which we classify people we interact with, in groups. We stereotype and stigmatize people with mental illness in a group entirely different from us…

that have been conducted on animals the approach is not reliable because how animals portray behaviours can be different to humans. The behavioural model removes the label of being ‘ill’ and the stigma that is attached to it. The approach explains mental…

Mental illness has been a hot topic in recent news. From Sandy Hook to the Aurora movie theatre shooting, effects of mental illness has sparked fierce debate and a negative stigma surrounding the issue. However, only 59.6% of individuals with a mental illness report receiving treatment, as often those with mental disorders are seen as “dangerous, unpredictable, responsible for their illness, or incompetent” (Corrigan, Druss, and Perlick). With so much riding on the issue, a question needs to be…

The first mental institution, in Europe, may have been the Valencia mental hospital in Spain, 1406 CE. In many mental institutions (where the majority of the population are Catholic), the staff was regularly made up of those with clergy. Most mentally ill people in Russia were taken into monasteries until asylums…

Introduction Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that effects a person physically, mentally and emotionally. It began to interest me about 6 years ago. I believe my mother suffered for years and went untreated. When I began college, I had a short briefing on the disorder, it sparked an interest in what could have so largely affected her life. 11.4 Million people in the United State have some type of mental illness per ABC news. 7-8 people per thousand suffer from schizophrenia at some point…

California's Atascadero State Hospital, said, "There are criminals who happen to exhibit symptoms of a mental disorder, [and] there are mentally ill people who happen to have committed crimes. They all end up in the same place". Thousands of mentally ill individuals are unable to continue life after treatment because of society’s negative views on mental illness. Society is unaware of the troubling facts about mental illness and incapable to accept individuals who are mentally ill, often because…