Bipolar Disorder And Other Psychotic Disorders

The introduction of new psychotic drugs can provide better or more thorough care for the mentally ill. Creating options rather than one solution may have been believed to do greater good for the mentally ill community. Furthermore, the economic incentives involved as long term care was and continues to be at such a high cost. Community resources cost little to nothing for the federal Government to support. As well as releasing the mentally ill to their families, in any case those with minor illnesses. Additionally, a shift from treating chronic patients to treating acute ones would generate basic sense into the minds of many. This modification states through actions that

Approximately one out of every four Americans suffers from some form of mental disorder in a given year. About 3.5 million Americans suffer from severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness. At least 40 percent of mentally ill people do not seek help or are not being treated, while many wander the streets homeless (Kornblum).

The conditions of psychiatric hospitals were poorly maintained yet again. From the late 1800s until the mid-1900s, the conditions of these institutions were hit or miss. Despite the rising population of those in need of mental health treatment, conditions were deteriorating across the board. This pushed in the deinstitutionalization movement (Nevid, Rathus, & Green, 2014). This was a push to remove patients from state-run hospitals into a more community-based treatment center. In most cases today, there are treatment plans in place depending upon the severity of the disorder an individual may be suffering from. It’s more about treating an individual with any variety of modern techniques or therapies and trying to reintegrate them into society rather than a lifelong stay in an institution. Deinstitutionalization didn’t work the way it was intended. After it was put into place there was a rise in the homeless population and different programs that were supposed to be put into place didn’t live up to

Mental illness has plagued human kind for as long as we have been on this earth. The science of psychology has made great strides in past century. The stigma of being mentally ill has begun to fall away and people are finally starting to get the help that they need to recover. Bipolar disorder is one illness that we have come to more fully understand. Through assistance from a psychiatrist, family and medication a patient with bipolar disorder can enter remission and live a normal life.

Seeking to improve care and lower costs, Florida became the first state to offer a Medicaid health plan designed exclusively for people with serious mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, major depression, or bipolar conditions. The plan offered by Connecticut-based Magellan Complete Care - is part of a state experimentation to co-ordinate physical and mental healthcare for those enrolled in Medicaid. Mental illness is a big driver of Medicaid costs because it is twice as prevalent among beneficiaries of the public insurance program for the poor as it is among the general population. Studies show that enrollees with mental illness, who also have chronic physical conditions, account

Bernstein et al (2011) affirm that in the United States, “25% of adults have a diagnosable mental disorder” (as Cited in Ghodse, 2011, pg. 451, ¶2) and “the high rate of mental illness

What is left is that we have many citizens who are mentally ill and are not receiving treatment. However the patients who are able to receive treatment are only able to have some treatment covered. Health insurers are responsible for covering the immensely large cost of substantial treatment, a mixture of medication and therapy; since therapy is highly priced, less reliable, and time consuming; patients typically do not receive treatment for therapy. Health insurers would much rather cover medication because it is cheaper, it heals patients faster, and it is more reliable than therapy. However, medication is not made to heal, but to only coax symptoms of a mental illness (Sandberg).

In today’s society there is a greater awareness of mental illnesses. With this greater awareness one might assume that there would be a substantial increase in government involvement or funding in the area of mental illness treatment. Unfortunately this isn’t the case in the U.S. today. There are hundreds of thousands of people with mental illness that go untreated. These potential patients go untreated for many reasons. These reasons are discussed in the Time article “Mental Health Reform: What Would it Really Take.

In 1965, there was a histrionic change in the method that mental health care was delivered in the United States. The focus went from State Mental Hospitals to outpatient settings for the treatment of mental health issues. With the passing of Medicaid, States were encouraged to move patients out of the hospital setting (Pan, 2013). This process failed miserably due to under funding and understaffing for the amout of patients that were released from the State Mental Hospitals. This resulted in patients, as well as their families, who were in dire need of mental health services. This population turned to either incarceration (jails and/or prisons) or emergency departments as a primary source of care for their loved ones.

The payment model devised in the study addresses the cost of psychiatric care for long-term patients. The type of facility, length of stay, diagnosis, and treatment and resources used during care affect the average cost of psychiatric care. The cost of services for mentally ill patients in long-term, chronic care decreased. Initial costs are so high due to the number of resources needed during acute-care; however, as patients require care for longer periods of time, resource needs declines, which in turn causes daily costs to decline. The average cost of the first day of care is approximately $140 while the one-hundredth day of care is approximately $40. After one hundred days in psychiatric care, the total cost would average about $6,000 2.

As schizophrenic patients have a functional psychotic disability they have a lower rate of employment. A cost assessment in Australia estimated that if schizophrenics had the same rate of employment as people without the disease then there would have been an additional 13,210 people in the workforce with an average wage

Most schizophrenics are not able to lead a productive economic life, unless under medical care. As such, the cost of treatment may be out of reach for them as they may also not qualify for a medical insurance coverage. Before the insurance companies were compelled by the government to provide insurance cover for the schizophrenics, access to treatment was very expensive and out of reach. This may have placed some financial burden on their families to meet the cost of their health care. With no proper care, they are not able to get vocational training to help them become productive members of the

After receiving insurance, a nine percent increase in mental health service utilization was found amongst previously uninsured young adults (Antwi, Moriya, & Simon, 2015). This is important, as many mental illnesses

Bipolar disorder (BD), or manic depression, is one of the oldest mental illnesses, first being documented in 1st Century Greece by Aretaeus of Cappadocia. He first noted the link between mania and depression that is so characteristic of the disease. As the years progressed the disease changed names from “mania” and “melancholia” during Ancient Greece and Rome, to “manico-melancolicus” in the 17th century, “lafolie circulaire” in 1851, and now, finally, “bipolar” as defined by the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1980. Bipolar disorder affects 2.3 million Americans, or 1.2% of the population (Gambaccini, 2012). It is equally represented in men and women and among all races,

These high prices also cause financial strain on the individuals and their families, which is another factor in choosing to stop taking medications. In conclusion, though medications may provide help in suppressing symptoms and increasing basic functionality for some individuals, it is not the universal answer to mental illness. In fact, it has even been historically proven that a more humane approach to treatment for mental illness will result in increased improvement (Levy 200). Therefore, to truly ameliorate mental illnesses, we must reduce stigma and encourage healthy environments in which individuals can reduce their symptoms, instead of just blindly prescribing