Mental Health Act 1983

Alliance on Mental Illness called “Depression Is,” Ingrid Vasquez shares her story of her journey through depression and how her culture disrupted her mental illness. This blog is part of a series titled “You are Not Alone,” which gives individuals who have mental illness the opportunity to share their stories and impact the lives of others, whether that impact be to professionals (i.e. doctors, researchers, therapists), those who can relate to the situations (i.e. others with mental illness or…

disorders on the patients admitted to the hospitals. He sought to find out the validity of diagnoses and if insanity is in patients themselves or is caused by the environment they are in. Rosenhan’s research proved that the labels associated with mental illness, particularly schizophrenia, have a significant impact on the way patients are treated. To conduct his research, Rosenhan and eight sane pseudopatients were admitted to psychiatric institutions. One participant was a psychology graduate…

toward and the treatment of mental illness in the United States that was most significantly marked by the passing of the Community Mental Health Act of 1963 (CMHA: Public Law 88-164). The Community Mental Health Act––passed under President John F. Kennedy’s administration and notable innitiative––was revolutionary in proposing the implementation of two novel concepts that largely contributed to the deinstitutionalization of those with mental illnesses. First, the act called for federal…

Levin, A. (2011). Media cling to Stigmatizing portrayals of mental illness. Psychiatric News, 46(24), 16a–16a. doi:10.1176/pn.46.24.psychnews_46_24_16-a Explanation of article: This article takes a look at how people diagnosed with a mental illness is portrayed in the media in regards to violent offences. The article shows how media outlets frame their stories. Levin talks about how, “People with mental disorders are more likely to be victims of crimes than perpetrators, but this is not how the…

his own insecurities about his father, the absence of Rhoda’s father could be significant in light of her reclusive behavior. If Rhoda’s father were dead, then his death, which would have occurred in her childhood, would have greatly affected her mental and emotional…

Underfunded and under-helped, the NHS’s mental health sector is destroying our society The NHS may receive £116.4 billion annually, yet a measly 12 percent gets given to the mental health sector and this is not enough. With 1 in 4 adults have mental health conditions, it is illogical to expect that every one of those people are able to get treatment. There has been a growth of 37%, since 2006, of middle-aged men committing suicide due to their mental health. This figure grows year by year and…

author who was well known for his criticisms of the field of psychiatry and the concept of mental illness. He moved to the United States from Hungary when he was a teenager and pursued a degree in physics followed by a medical degree in 1944. In 1958, Szasz began discussing his theories on the history of mental illness and the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry. He also explained modern day views on mental illness and psychiatry, explaining that the rights of individuals are…

the Bethlehem Hospital in the city London. The intentions behind asylums were to aid the mentally ill in overcoming their illnesses, therefore, soon after the establishment of Bethlehem Hospital, other countries began to follow this movement in mental health facilities. It is said that the first asylum in the Americas was San Hipolito, which was built in Mexico 1566. (Viney & King, 1998) It is said that these institutions became a place where the mentally ill were abandoned and condemned by…

Having a diagnosis of a mental illness can cause someone to feel confused and scared to speak up. Often times when being diagnosed with a mental health illness children could feel afraid telling someone because it will bring judgment and people will think he is going crazy. Nonetheless, society has created labels for anyone and anything. It has become a norm in society to label the car people drive, the grades given to children, the clubs children are part of, the house people live in, and the…

In Cree, one does not say, “I am sick.” Instead, one says, “The sickness has come to me.” I love that and want to honor it (Citeswt). Johanna Hedva is a Korean American contemporary artist whose most famous work is the Sick Women Theory. She got the idea of sick women theory from Audrey Wollen’s “Sad Girl Theory” and Kate Zambreno’s “Heroines.” She tries and gives the sick women the qualities opposite to a heroin because sick women are not considered as heroines. Her idea of sick women theory…