Crazy, By Pete Earley

The book, Crazy, is an interesting, and informative non-fiction book, about the struggles that mental health patients and their family members encounter. Pete Earley starts off the story by talking about his son Mike, who started to act strangely in his senior year of college. (Earley page 9). It turned out that Mike would be diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and was prescribed medications. Mike thought he was fine, therefore would frequently stop taking his medications. Mike refused treatment from

Introduction In the book, Crazy, by Pete Earley, provides a detailed overview of the mental health system in the United States, as it presents a first hand narrative of Earley’s family journey through the system. The author’s major premise and arguments, in the book, is to highlight the history of mental health, navigation through the judicial system with mental illness, the bureaucracy and policies of hospitals, society views on human rights and client safety, and the impact on the individual, family

Overview Crazy by Pete Earley and a series of class videos highlight the tension between access to care and the right of refusal for mental illness patients. Core themes and patterns in the material show the difficulties between state governments and local resources. Each film and book explores the availability of voluntary community-based treatments; personal and professional ethics regarding the individual choice to refuse treatment; and community demands for consumer safety and others. Compare

getting proper treatment at a mental health facility. Pete Earley’s Crazy: A Father’s Search through America’s Mental Health Madness points out the essence of educating the society about dealing with mentally ill people. Earley uses his son’s condition to emphasize on the need for medical treatment rather than the imprisonment of mentally ill people. He notes that the society cannot ignore the rights of the mentally ill in accessing treatment (Earley, 2006). Notably, the justice system ought to be reformed

prisons dramatically increase. At about 1970 the number in mental institutions and those in prisons cross so that the number in prisons are greater, rising quickly to almost equal the total number of incarcerated by 2000. This agrees with the book Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness’s claim that deinstitutionalization in the 1970s resulted in mental hospitals being emptied and jails taking their place as housing for the mentally ill. It is a reliable source because it

inmates, so the government needs to truly treat the mentally ill instead of just giving them medication and say they are ameliorated of their mental disorder. As mentioned in “Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness,” mental illness is defined as “... a brain disorder caused by a chemical imbalance” (Earley 101). The mental health system in America has always been deplorable. Since 1955, about 71,000 patients are admitted into a mental institution each day out of the 44 million

The book Crazy, was an interesting, and informative non-fiction book, about the struggles mental health patients and their family members encounter. Pete Earley starts off the story talking about his son Mike, who started to act strangely in his senior year of high school. It turned out that he would be diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and was prescribed medication. Mike thought he was fine, therefore would frequently stop taking his medications. When Mike was in the hospital, he refused treatment

How To: Avoid Mental Illness Discrimination Have you ever been surprised to find out a loved one is mentally ill? Mentally ill people are found almost anywhere in North America among many other countries. In some of Canada 's cities, you can see panhandlers who haven 't bathed in a month or people who are having conversations with themselves or others who are extremely inappropriate. Although there has been progress in the diagnosis and treatment of the mentally ill, stereotypes, mistreatment and

Punishment or Treatment When a person with a mental disorder commits a crime, what should be expected of that person? Well that person is expected to get arrested and go to jail. But this person has a sickness that is different from all the other inmates. Does this sickness get recognized? It should because if not then it may become a problem for everyone. People with severe mental illness do not necessarily think the same way other do which is a even better reason to want to help them learn how