Argumentative Essay On Mental Illness

Do you ever experience symptoms such as feeling sad or down? Do you feel like you’re having a tough time concentrating or maybe even experiencing excessive fear or worries? These are signs and symptoms of a mental disorder. Mental illness can be defined as behavior, psychological, or biological dysfunction that interferes with an individual’s daily life. There are a few diverse ways mental illness can be treated. First and foremost a diagnosis is required to receive treatment. Hearing you have a “mental health disorder” may sound intimidating, and you then question, “Am I just being ridiculous?” I have been diagnosed with ADHD and severe anxiety, therefore I enjoy hearing others perspective on this topic. Counseling, psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy are all options to be treated. In today’s world, it’s questioned if pharmacotherapy is necessary, could physicians be writing unnecessary prescriptions? It’s often assumed that people with mental health disorders could possibly be abusing medication and refusing to cope with their disorder in a different manner. So, is pharmacotherapy necessary for patients that suffer from a mental illness such as ADHD, anxiety/depression, or even schizophrenia?

Neo soul artist, Angie Stone puts to lyrics what many Black women have been thinking about Black men for years when she said "you got mad issues, and you tend to refuse every opportunity to right your wrong". Because the women in our lives, who know us so intimately and care for us so deeply, can see when we are hurting or responding out of pain. But Black men young and old are walking around with anger, hurt, and stress which is literally sucking the joy out our lives through high blood pressure, impotence, fatigue, alcoholism, and many other physical and emotional manifestations as the result of poor mental health. However, many of us stubbornly refuse to get the mental health help that is needed to be better men - husbands, fathers, boyfriends, or just plain ole emotionally whole.

One of the biggest contributors for poor healthcare is the stigma against mental health. This stigma allows healthcare providers to view those with a mental illness as having low relevance, thus creating disinclination towards providing adequate resources and/or care. This negative stance, based on misinformation and prejudice creates those that have a mental illness to lose their self confidence. Because of this loss, people with mental illness decide not to contribute to their health or livelihood. In the past fifty years, many advances have been made in mental healthcare. However, with the attached stigma, many people choose to not seek out treatment.

Although about 450 million people in the world currently are suffering from a mental illness, many untreated, the topic still remains taboo in modern society (Mental Health). For years, people with mental illnesses have been shut away or institutionalized, and despite cultural progression in many areas, mental illnesses are still shamed and rarely brought to light outside of the psychiatric community. The many different forms in which mental illness can occur are incredibly prevalent in the world today, and there is a substantial debate about the way that they should be handled. Some people are of the opinion that mental illness is merely a variance in perception and that it either can be fixed through therapy or should not be treated at

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The large awareness of mental diseases is obvious, yet it is still apparent that many believe people with such illnesses are to be outcasted from the world because they are not fit for society. For this reason, they are discriminated against in all aspects of their lives. They are confined to small-minded stereotypes that define their whole existence, as if no person and no illness can be different from one another. Many are completely outcast from society as they become homeless or put into prisons. Approximately 26% of homeless adults living in shelters have serious mental illnesses and approximately 24% of state prisoners have recently had a mental health conditions (“Mental Health By The Numbers” np). Such large statistics can lead individuals to believe that all people living with mental disorders are unsuccessful and slovenly, leading them to be left on the street, or all are dangerous and intended for a criminal lifestyle, leading them to be put in correctional facilities. Such continues the cycle of more stereotypes being created, more oppression, and more statistics of how the mentally ill are incapable of leading a “normal” life. Because instead of realizing we, as a community, can help resolve these issues, we, as a judgemental society, make discriminatory

I was in the video group, in my group we have difference ideas when it comes to planning. Since we never took the time to plan or come up with an idea that everyone agrees with. Therefore, since we never come up with an idea that everyone agrees with I just went with my idea. Which was to interview different departments on campus and student organization. Which these departments and student organization that I have interview was Mosaic center, NAMI student organization, Women center, and veteran’s services. I interview these individual with my iPhone not with GoPro or Canon Vixia since I was not a big fan of these record materials. In addition, when it comes to the interview I record them in a week in a half.

Mental illness is a very difficult thing to understand because it is hard to tell what someone mentally ill is thinking or planning to do. People automatically assume that someone that is mentally is going to do harmful things to others and it scares people. Thats doesn’t make those people bad people for thinking that thought, because there has been crimes committed that has involved mentally ill people and it has left a permanent scar on people. But should this take an effect on the jobs they have?

Mental disorders have been around for as long as man has been around, although our knowledge of what they truly are and how to treat them is still relatively new. Bipolar Disorder specifically has been around as far back as 300 to 500 AD, however in those times; people with mental illnesses were horribly tortured and killed because it was believed they worked with the Devil and demons (“Through the ages, it’s been there”). It wasn’t until the 18th and 19th centuries that we began to see people with mental illnesses as something other than possessed and deserving of an understanding with the option of legitimate treatment. The treatments that were received by people with mental illnesses in the beginning were harsh, involving electric eels

Mental illnesses are not a thing of the past. They are also our present and future. John Q. Adams once said, “Who we are, is who we were.” That quote accurately describes mental illnesses and the mental health of humans everywhere. A mental illness can be defined as a health condition that changes a person 's thought process, emotions, behavior, and/or their body. Mental illness causes a person distress and difficulty in functioning and can lead to atrophy. They are ingrained in the wiring of many and they override safety precautions that the brain has set in place against viruses. Mental health issues affect society in many ways, such as identification, treatment, and overall understanding; as a result of this they have been mocked and dismissed for most of history.

Please stop saying everyone is a little ADD, Mental Health Issues aren’t just feeling stressed or sad Educate Yourself

In the old days, they were punished because of a belief that marked them by the gods as damned. In the old days, they were tortured and killed for reasons that most were born with. It is something that will be found in this race for as long as humans exist, so how dare the people treat it this way. One in five Americans suffer from varying mental illnesses. One in five Americans fight their mind every second of their waking days. And their reward, to rot away in hospitals and asylums meant to help. All across the world mental patients are mistreated by being denied the gentle care they need, or not being able to reach it because of finances and distance. For this reason, they starve on the streets, they commit terrible crimes that never should have happened because in most cases… they could be easily prevented. Mental caretakers need to start putting the patient first, they need to treat them for their unique needs and keep them off the streets.

Mental health, like many people I struggle with mental illness.Last year after the death of my Godmother I officially was diagnosed with severe depression, two impulsive and a social anxiety disorder.My journey has been long, confusing and a constant struggle even knowing many people can relate. Although a constant topic in the media, it remains taboo and many people are unaware of what to do when faced with mental health issues.The following is a series of steps to help and also a guide for those that need help dealing with a loved one or friend who suffers from these issues.

While the situation involving a young woman shopping for a dress and being alarmed by the clothing on the racks of Urban Outfitters isn’t an exact account of any person’s experience, it isn’t hard to believe that these shirts would upset a fair amount of customers. These shirts remained on sale, in stores and online, for a full six months before Urban Outfitters issued an apology. How many young people, males or females, bought these shirts believing that the messages offered were healthy? How many young people looked at the shirt with the words “eat less” only to find that they couldn’t even fit into the largest size shirt? The shirt with the word “depression” repeated across the shirt can be taken off at the end of the day, but real depression lingers underneath the skin after the shirt is thrown into the dirty laundry. These clothing items are damaging to the general public as a whole, triggering those who continually face mental health struggles as well as promoting a dangerous lifestyle to impressionable youths.

“Approximately one in 25 adults in the U.S.-9.8 million-experiences a serious mental illness in a given year that substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities”(Nami). Under those circumstances, without attentive care early on as a child grows older an illness can develop to be a greater harm to themselves and others and become counterproductive in their lives and community. Medical treatment like psychotherapy, which is a type of treatment containing behavior therapy and humanistic therapy, has been shown to eliminate patients’ risks of violence(Maxwell). Once a patient is diagnosed with a serious mental disorder “especially those who have behaved dangerously, should not be allowed to become ill in the community to the extent that they pose a risk to themselves or others(Coid).” Once patients stop receiving facilitated care, oftentimes the intake of medications cease and can cause dangerous situations with the law sometimes resulting in jail time.(The Editorial Board). Patients are thrown in jail without a dismay of the person’s well-being. With this in mind, to effectively deal with the crime rate you must “extend the public health system into jails and prisons, which takes in the poorest and the most illness-prone people in society.”(The New York Time; Mental Illness, Untreated Behind Bars). Since treatment eliminates their violent attributes, “Severely mentally ill individuals who are taking their medication are NOT more dangerous than the