Childhood Depression And Its Effects On Women

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.

Furthermore, death is an extreme outcome of intimate partner violent in women (Guggisberg, 2006). Women who are victims of intimate partner violence are four times more likely to have suicidal ideation than non-abused women (Guggisberg, 2006). However, death goes both ways for women who have been victims of abusive relationships; they commit suicide or they kill their abusers (Guggisberg, 2006). Traditional attitudes towards intimate partner violence being a private matter and victim blaming still exists in our society (Renner & Markward, 2009). Therefore, some professionals are a bit hesitant to help victims affected by intimate partner violence. The damaging effect of fear and anxiety is a contribution of psychological factors from intimate partner violence Renner & Markward (2009) reported that mental health disorder correlates with an increase in suicidal rates (Renner & Markward, 2009). Furthermore, a strong risk factor of suicide in abusive relationships survivors is mental health issues (Renner & Markward, 2009). Ministerial Council for Suicide Prevention (2004) as cited by (Guggisberg, 2006) found that 57% of people who commit suicide were diagnosed with a form of psychiatric disorder in the months prior. Furthermore, more than half the people who committed suicide have made at least one other attempt go end their lives. Taff (2004) as cited

1) Mental health treatment has seen substantial improvements within the developed world. However, mental health patients continue to experience difficulties receiving mental health care as opposed to physical health care. There are many barriers to receiving mental health services in the developed world even with the advances in technology and treatment seen in medical treatment. When compared with physical health care services, mental health services delivery continue to face issues (Andrade et al., 2014). The barriers to mental health services can be linked to issues of structure and issues related to the patients themselves. Many people do not seek treatment as they may not think they require treatment or believe that they are healthy. Others may seek assistance from a mental health professional and drop out after treatment had already been initiated. This may be due to lack of satisfaction with the quality of service provided. This increases the likelihood of dropping out of treatment (Andrade et al., 2014). Some people do not seek treatment for fears of social stigma and discrimination in the work place. They may become worried about being labeled mentally ill and be denied job opportunities (Andrade et al., 2014). For such reason, many people retrain from disclosing mental illness or treatment. Structural barriers speak to the person’s ability to pay for services and the availability of services. In some developed countries like the United States, a large proportion

India is still only reaching the surface of their research. They continue to investigate the burden of mental illness due to years of social consequences that have resulted in unemployment, stigmatization, and violations. The conquest of India has shown a very important concept about health and its’ policies. Health policies are a byproduct of people in control. These people can dictate who receives or who doesn’t receive health benefits. It can also dictate how much money, power, and time is designated into solving a health issue. The ideology that health is unequal creates many of the current controversies about poverty, taxes, and upper class

Sandra was a 26 year old mother of four children who had been married for eight years. She had given birth to her fourth child two months ago, with the help of a midwife. Due to her husband’s recent pay cut, and already difficult financial situation, Sandra did not receive any antenatal or postnatal care. About a month after birth she felt normal. However, she soon began to exhibit unusual behavior including losing interest in her daily activities, spending most of the day alone without speaking to anyone, and ceasing to care for her

Access to mental health care is not as good as than other forms of medical services. Some Americans have reduced access to mental health care amenities because they are living in a countryside setting. Others cannot get to treatment for the reason of shortage of transportation or vast work and household tasks. In some areas, when a

It has been discovered that women are suffering more than men with the psychological disorders such as depression. There are many reasons behind it such as interpersonal violence. There are many intervention methods that have been introduced to manage this issue. One approach is to target the symptoms and biological factors that cause depression. The outside environment of any person, along with intensity of circumstances and incidents play a crucial role in determining mental health. It is necessary to investigate how an

“A recently published study shows that nearly 30 percent of the general population would benefit from mental health care; however, only 10 percent of the population actually receives help” (Nauert, 2016, pg. 1). Therefore, “it is important to support governments to adopt mental health policies and to integrate mental health policy into public health policy and general social policy” (Jenkins, 2003, pg. 14). In view of the fact that “mental disorder causes a heavy burden for societies, impedes the development of other health and development targets, contributes to poverty and differentially affects the poor and, last but not least, because mental health itself is of intrinsic value as is physical health" (Jenkins, 2003, pg. 14). Therefore, in

41 percent of countries have no mental health policy, and 70 percent of second and third world countries do not provide sufficient healthcare to citizens. The reason for this is because in lesser developed countries, there are so many spreading diseases and infections that mental health is simply overlooked. “...tackling mental health tends to be seen as something of a luxury. Aid spending remains focused on the "big three" communicable diseases of HIV/Aids, malaria and TB, with many other health conditions receiving only a fraction of the attention and funding” (The Guardian). There is not enough money for every issue to be solved, precipitating a scarcity in mental health care. In 2008 the WHO launched the Mental Health Gap Action Program, which intended to gain awareness for mental health around the world. In every country, the amount of patients left untreated is far too

Many fail to realize what can be a symptom or cause of a person's mental illness. In the article, “Mental Illness Is a Global Crisis”, the author, Michelle Chen writes, “Across the Global South, treating mental illness is less than a priority in communities that are often struggling just to provide adequate vaccination coverage, or to contain HIV infection”. Although containing infections is important, treating a mental disorder is a high priority as well. Seeking help for having a mental illness is hard to find today especially in lower income areas. With mental illness affecting 1 in 5 people, treatments for having a mental illness should be easier to obtain.

There is an economically, racially, and age diverse demographic of people that have been medically diagnosed and suffer from debilitating mental health disorders or conditions. The estimate of this population ranges in the millions, and doesn’t include the people that haven’t been diagnosed, don’t have access to medical care as a result of their economic status, lack knowledge of it’s existence, religious beliefs, or availability of effective resources.

Mental health has been a neglected aspect of many third world countries’ government such as Africa and India. Underfunding is a serious issue causing nations to have as little as “ 37 mental institutions, to serve a country’s...population of 1.3 billion” (Religion, Doctors At Odds). Governments don’t seem to realize the reality many of its citizens live. Individuals can be a danger to themselves and their families because of the violence and delusions a number of these illnesses induce. Many governments are even lacking in medication forcing programs such as The Carter Center to “[work] with the government on policy to support a good practice” (Liberia Marks Milestone). Family members of those suffering from mental illnesses have even begun, “lobbying the Indian government to pay more attention to it’s mental health program, which...is underfunded…[the government] has...de-stigmatized HIV and AIDS...but hasn’t done the same for mental illness.” (In India, Stigma Hinders

Although it is assumed that these risk factors are responsible for the higher prevalence of depression in low or middle compared to high-income countries, there is little direct evidence to support this assumption. In one small previous study, we found that Indians living in India were exposed to a greater number of life-threatening events, especially deaths, financial problems and illness, compared to their siblings.

Maternal depression is a comprehensive term for a range of depressive conditions affecting postpartum and pregnant women (“Identifying and Treating,” 2010). Earlier this year, a group of researchers studied the effect that maternal depression has on the body, focusing on changes in DNA methylation in maternal T-lymphocytes of cord blood and adult hippocampi. DNA methylation is an epigenetic mechanism where methyl groups are added at CpG sites. Scientists are continuously identifying new effects that the disorder has on the human body, thus making it scientifically relevant to the realm of psychobiology. 10 to 20% of mothers will be diagnosed with maternal depression during their lifetimes (Center on the Developing Child at Harvard

Women experience depression at twice the rate of men. Gender differences emerge first at puberty and occur mainly in the common mental disorders such as depression, anxiety among others. These disorders, in which women predominate, affect approximately 1 in 3 people. The frequency of major depression in adults is estimated to be 7 to 12 percent in men and 20 to 25 percent in women in a community and this constitutes a serious public health problem (NIMH, 2006). Several and variable factors in women contribute to depression, such as genetic, hormonal, developmental, reproductive, and other biological differences like premenstrual syndrome, childbirth, infertility and menopause. Factors associated to social issues may lead to depression