Mental illness

and Koplewicz 8) Mental illness is a very common thing that can be treated with the proper care. With so many people struggling from day to day our mental health awareness and help for mental disorders still seem to be lacking. People that do not have access to health care and help tend to be the ones left behind. Therefore, people’s illness can have consequences due to their illnesses getting out of their control. Violence is a problem in our world today with the mental illness and its lack of…

Mental Illness The issue of mental health resonates among all cultures worldwide. Each one of these cultures has their own ideas and ways of treating people with mental health issues. Some decide to treat them harshly, sending them away or shunning them for being different from the majority of the population. Others realize that mental illness is a real problem that shouldn’t be ignored and work together to provide support people that are affected by a mental health problem. Mental health has…

Individuals diagnosed (currently or formerly) with mental illness often face many difficulties in life such as, prejudice and stigmas. Mental illness is still seen as a sign of weakness despite of all the knowledge known about it (Byrne, 2000). Stigma is a term with Greek origins. Stigmas are a sign of disgrace that makes a person different from other people (Schaefer, 2004). The Greeks cut or burned the skin of a person with a stigma to show that they are a blemished, and should be avoided at…

Our society has been continuously affected by mental illness. Many people tend to believe that an individual with a mental illness cannot operate in society, whether it’s in school, work, a relationship or at home. There are many individual attitudes, beliefs, and judgements about mental illness that lead to stigmas. Before anyone begins to judge others in society, he or she needs to learn the proper terminology. Mental illness can refer to many health conditions, like disorders that affect…

707,000 million legal U.S. citizens as of October 2016. According to the mental illness statistics about 26.2 percent of the American population ages 18 and older, in other words, one in four individuals suffers from either one or more of the 200 classified forms of mental illness. With the population of individuals with mental illness being larger than the population of law enforcement, and having 200 classified forms of mental illnesses. This “special population” is challenging to maintain,…

one of their primary functions. After committing a crime, individuals who cannot obtain mental health treatment in the community are swept into the criminal justice system. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, fifty-six percent of state offenders and forty-five percent of federal offenders have symptoms or a history of mental health disabilities. Many offenders have explored the world of mental illness through a serious handicap in ways of major depression, bipolar disorder and…

“You’d never say ‘It’s just cancer, get over it.’ So why do some say that about depression?”- Unknown. Mental illness is a wide range of disorders affecting emotions, thinking and behavior and millions of people suffer with it. But, there is still a stigma against mental illness making many people with it afraid to come forward with it and get help because they are afraid to be called weird and deranged and be grouped in with pyschopaths that shoot up schools and bomb concerts. This is a fear…

Depictions of Mental Illness in Literature The depiction of mental illness in literature has been written in several different forms, including short stories. The various types of mental illness described in these stories affect each character differently depending on the theme, setting, and social situation they are in. Short story literature such as, The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892), and The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allen Poe (1842), depicts characters that…

who suffers from mental illness that requires treatment and safety from mental facilities or hospital care, but there are those who are unable to control themselves due to their impulsiveness. Being impulsive can be very dangerous because of the unpredictable things one may do. According to the Mental Health Act in 1983, those who are suffering from a mental illness can be taken to hospital for treatment against their wishes resulting in a high population in hospitals and mental facility. Brooke…

What I consider a human service, as well as, a spiritual problem is mental illness. The internal cause for mental illness may vary, based on or depends on the specific disorder. Mental illness could be triggered by different biological, psychological, and environmental factors, which contributes to the advancement of mental disorders. The external cause could come from life’s circumstances such as: pain, bereavement, incapability and loss of independence (Stein, 2013). My son was…