Analysis Of Mental Illness

In recent years, evidence and studies have proven that the shutdown of various mental health facilities across the nation has caused a dramatic increase in the number of incarcerations for people who suffer from mental illness. In 2006, the Bureau of Justice Statistics calculated that there were approximately 705,600 mentally ill adults incarcerated in state prisons, 78,800 mentally ill adults incarcerated in federal prisons, and 479,900 mentally ill adults incarcerated in local jails (“Mentally Ill”). In response to the increase in the number of incarcerations and news stories, people around the nation developed harmful stigmas towards mentally ill people. According to Sarah Glazer’s article entitled "Prisoners and Mental Illness", the state governments do not allocate enough spending to mental health care. In the hopes of reducing funding and saving money, many state governments across the nation forced the shutdown of public mental health facilities, which led to an increase in crimes committed by mentally ill people. According to Dr. Marie E. Rueve and Dr. Randon S. Welton’s article entitled “Violence and Mental Illness”, society believes that mentally ill people are worthless and violent, which is a negative impact of the increase in crimes committed by mentally ill people. In response to the stigma created by society, many people believe that the mentally ill deserve incarceration in order to keep them from harming other members of the community. According to the

What does mental illness look like? Is it the “weird” kid at school that everyone bullies? Or maybe the latest hair-raising movie about a psycho killer? Mental illness is constantly construed and made to seem dangerous, unnatural, and sickening. Mental illness, as defined by Mayo Clinic, is simply a “disorder that affects your mood, thinking, and behavior”(Hall-Flavin). These people, who live with mental health issues, including one out of ten teens and one out of five adults, are often treated as if they are outcasts or different("Mental Health Myths and Facts."). From uncharged jailing to not being able to choose what is best for them to plain everyday interaction, persons with mental illness are ostracized and treated unfairly. As a

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The first unit focused on the history of mental illness and mental assessment. We started by defining “abnormal” behavior, which I find interesting because it a very slippery term. It is not as simple as “an abnormal banana has brown spots” or “high blood sugar is abnormal.” It is a loose, shifting term that poses a challenge in identifying and treating mental illness. Not only is there a difference in the perception of “normal” behavior between different cultural groups, but our perception of normal changes with time. Therefore, we get a range of what is “normal.” Furthermore, it highlights the conflicts that unique groups can face when interacting with each other - to what extent should we be sensitive to others’ viewpoints, when they differ

The popular Western conception of the depressed patient remains both culturally-pervasive and largely homogenous. From Eeyore to Hugh Laurie's portrayal of Dr. House, pop-cultural depressive symptomology oftentimes equates to images of despair, withdrawal, and an almost palpable air of sadness. This understanding of depression, indeed, too echoes in diagnostic criteria for depressive disorders as recently published within the fifth edition of the DSM. Accordingly, for example, the DSM-V classifies those exhibiting either (1) depressed mood and/or (2) anhedonia in conjunction with at least five of such other symptoms as “recurrent suicidal ideation” and “significant weight loss” for a significant portion of two-weeks, as clinically diagnosable with suffering from a “Major Depressive Episode.”

Reading this chapter really hit home with me since I do have some family that suffer from mental illness and for some people they believe that all it takes is a couple of pills and the individual is going to back to normal “normal” but that is not always the case. People tend to stay away from them due to their idea of what a mental ill individual is like. However, that’s not the case I have been around a schizophrenic half my life and he is relatively normal other than the fact that he talks to himself and hallucinates but we all know that’s not his fault.

This week we learned about psychological disorders, what could be the cause of them, and how we try to treat each one of the disorders. In truth, it is a hard task to discern which of the known disorders that were covered in the chapters assigned for us to read this week would be more difficult for me to live with. Depression could cause me to feel like everything I did would not really amount to anything, deal with insomnia, and unable to find pleasure in my daily life. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can result from a terrifying or shocking event; this could result in me having to experience the ordeal over and over again at any given time, losing sleep, and closing off the relationships I have with my friends and relatives.

Regarding what is known as, "mental illness" makes it hard to believe or not to believe that mental illness is real and not a myth. With the ongoing changes that are made to diagnosing patients as well as the symptoms they "must" encounter, it is hard to know exactly what medical abnormalities would fall under this category to be diagnosed with what is known as a mental illness. Do to the various definitions and meanings that fall under "mental illnesses" I would have to say that I agree and disagree with what Thomas Szasz has written. Szasz has some great points but many that I disagree with.

The only thing worse than an undiagnosed case of any form of mental illness is being turned away after a diagnosis. My brother, Timothy Charles Hobson Jr., a survivor of multiple suicide attempts, succumbed to his final attempt that began on his birthday, August 16, 2014 and ended three days later.

This essay, through the analysis of “Screen—addicted children may have newest mental illness” will demonstrate the magnitude reported words have on delivering misrepresenting perceptions of mental illness to its audiences. This essay acknowledges the negative consequence of over-usage of the internet; however, it emphasizes the absence of superior concerns such as over-diagnosis, medicalization of life and social detriments that significantly influences the mental illness and the individual.

For this paper, I have chosen a real person who has multiple diagnosed mental disorders. To simplify the analysis, I have decided to focus on the most severe disorder the person has. The focus of this paper is on a 22-year-old white female from Harlan, Iowa. She grew up in a primarily lower-middle-class household. For several years in her teens, her household was considered much more on the lower end, and the family received multiple sources of government assistance to pay for things such as food, bills, rent, and even textbook fees for her college-credit high school classes. Her home life consisted of her being an only child with married parents. Although her parents were married, more time was spent fighting and verbally abusing one another

“The true definition of medical illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.” These words of Shannon L. Alder (an inspirational author that writes the most inspirational quotes on Goodreads) perfectly describes that people worry about the past and/or future more than enjoying the present. To me, mental health is a serious illness that can hurt a lot of people mentally and sometimes physically. A lot of mentally ill patients don’t have affordable access to treatment and when they don’t have affordable access to treatment, they can’t live a “normal” and “happy” life. Society has treated mental illness as if it’s not an important factor

As difficult as it is for me to admit, she was unreliable; however, it solely stems from her inability to articulate the unusual occurrences in her head and uncover how she feels. Throughout the text, admitting her illness is notably challenging since everyone believes she is fine. Particularly when her husband and family dismiss and correct how she feels, “I am a doctor, dear,” says her husband, “ and I know… Really dear you are better!” Consequently, denying the truth causes a domino effect, crippling her mental health, in the end, leaving her a hostage of her own brain. Being trapped in her own misconceptions of her mental processing, she is left with her thoughts on the house eventually her obsession with the paper. She starts with “the

Based on the case notes, the defendant Howard does have a mental illness. Bipolar 1 disorder is most likely the mental illness. In order to complete the diagnoses the disorder must impair the sufferer’s life in a severe way which it has in this case. There is also a possibility that a sufferer may have psychotic features such as delusions. Howard had a severe delusion at the night he violated Stacey. He believed that fate brought them together rather than believing the encounter was just out of the ordinary. Believing in fate in itself does not necessarily mean someone is suffering from psychotic delusions or any disorder. However Howard was suffering from a number of symptoms associated with bipolar 1 disorder. The disorder has two phases the mania stage and the depressive stage. The symptoms exhibited depend on what stage the person is in. In order to be diagnosed for the disorder at the mania stage, one must be irritable and show over three other symptoms such as doing pleasurable activities with negative consequences, having racing thoughts, and being highly distractible. Howard exhibited symptoms from both these stages. He appeared to be at the mania stage when at the strip club. For around a week he spent all his life savings on lap dances thus showing he was engaging in pleasurable and gratifying activities with negative consequences. His thoughts were racing and he was easily distracted. So much so that his friends did not

In just a small, pink, squishy orb, many thoughts and memories are stored. The inside of a brain has always been a touchy subject, mostly because most just don’t understand how it works. Brains are trying to figure out how it can think, talk, remember, and even change. Everyone’s brain is different, inside and out. Most minds are small and round, but sometimes the brain looks different. In recent studies, scientists have learned the brain can have abnormalities, which usually leads to a mental illness. Another risky subject in the world is mental illness. Some people say that it is made up. Which it is not, because now science can prove how it is. It is not hard to see the difference between a “normal” brain, and an ill one. Someone who studies the nature of the mind is known as a psychologist. A psychologist can be in many different job scenarios, but the most recent expansion is the forensic psychologists. (Cherry) Their job is to determine if someone did the crime he or she did, and if they knew they did or not. For years on end, killers have gotten away scot-free, until the invention of forensic psychology.