Effects Of Mental Disorders

Americans are now spending billions of dollars on psychiatric medications but according to Frances “We are ignoring the people who have severe psychiatric illness; so that, one-third of people with severe depression see a mental health clinician, two-thirds don’t. Two-thirds of people with severe depression get no treatment at all. At the same time, we’re way over-diagnosing people who have milder problems that would get better on their own.” Diagnosis can cause more harm than good when not really needed. We are over-treating those who don’t need treatment, while neglecting those who do.

Humans who are being over diagnosed with disorders, causes the spending of too much money on drugs and medication that could be harmful and is not needed for them to take. The objective of this book is to let people become aware of what is going on around the world. The audience that this book aims towards is the public. The main objective of Dr. Frances is to alert the public, health care professionals and clinicians about the misinformed diagnosis of people and the misdirected treatment and medications that are prescribed to people who are “normal.” Everyday pains and suffering are being diagnosed as mental illnesses and disorders. Psychiatry has specified people with false labels. The first of many arguments is that people are very worried that when a new disorder is brought up, that they have this disorder or illness. Another argument in this book is the misdiagnosis between mental disorder and normality. Many people who experience completely normal grief could be mislabeled as having a psychiatric problem. The next argument is to separate the people who have diseases from normality. Allen Frances blames the internet and social networking for the over diagnosis of mental disorder. This book is also about the high percentage of people who are now diagnosed with a mental illness,

Whitaker expands on the fact that the mentally ill who use psychiatric drugs suffer serious physical tolls on their bodies, indicating that there are more than just mental consequences to using such drugs. From the 1950’s until now, and in the future, the currently prescribed psychiatric drugs continue to hold a broad range of physical health risks. For example, Whitaker

The field of mental health is consistently targeted by the stigmatization of mental disorders, which has been created through various societal behaviors, such as the spread and reinforcement of illegitimate information. A major contributing factor is the abuse of pharmaceutical and psychiatric policies in the attempt to acquire prescription medication for unjustified reasons. The most blatant example of an overprescribed and largely abused medication is the type meant to treat attention related disorders, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. While ADHD medications are directed for use solely by those experiencing legitimate issues with maintaining attentional focus, they are commonly being used, and therefore abused, as

From schizophrenia to bipolar disorder to severe depression there is no question that these are serious mental illnesses that are debilitating and require constant medical care and according to the American Psychiatric Association(APA) hording and internet disorders are just a couple of new diagnosis that they have added to the manual of mental disorder or DSM. But is this addition of new mental disorders really beneficial for the patients or is this a way for doctors and pharmaceutical companies to cash in? , this paper proposes both drawbacks and benefits to the diagnosis of mental disorders as well as investigation of some specific examples of diagnosed disorders. However, the paper’s main direction is to focus on the drawbacks which

But have we reached the point in time where the treatment has become somewhat of an overkill? It can be argued that today, advertising for psychiatric medication has gotten out of hand, pushing out newer drugs that appeal to every little problem people seem to complain about these days. “Is psychiatry for sale?: An examination of the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on academic and practical psychiatry” Is a Maudsley Discussion paper, a series of short papers that deal with controversial issues in mental health. This discussion paper is written by Joanna Moncrieff, a British psychiatrist and part of the Critical Psychiatry Network. She primarily analyzes the influence of the pharmaceutical industry in the psychiatric field. Even though the paper is over ten years old, it provides insight into what is still most likely happening. She argues that because the industry is heavily involved in funding psychiatric research, that psychiatric practices could be directed by a profit-focused agenda (Moncrieff). She suggests that excessive advertising and research findings are likely produced to benefit this agenda, and likely causes the fabrication of specific disorders to create markets for new medications. It can be assumed that such an operation is capable of produce some widely dangerous outcomes, even if it is a small percent of the

In America alone, one in four adults suffer from diagnosable mental disorders in a year. Despite such a large number of people being afflicted; even the most common disorders and their side effects aren’t common knowledge. This leads to misconceptions and narrow minded thinking in regards to mental disorders. This essay will address the most common disorders and their effect on everyday life as well as the not as common but more severe disorders.

Psychotropic medications are now among the most commonly prescribed of all medications, and the widened use of these agents has improved the lives of millions of individuals living with mental illness. Psychotropic medications are among the most commonly prescribed of all pharmacological agents. Significant controversy exists surrounding ethical best practices in the prescription of psychotropics. Why is it that non psychiatric providers are the source of most psychotropic prescriptions in the United States? Should the professionals that specialize in the study of mental illness be the only provider allowed to prescribe the psychotropic medication? “Suddenly I wanted to get better. Mania wasn’t fun anymore. It wasn’t creative or visionary. It was mean parody at best, a cheap chemical, trick. I needed to stop and get better. I’d take whatever they gave me. I pledged silently. I’d take Trilafon or Thorazine or whatever. I just wanted to sleep” David Lovelace. There are ethical questions about whether these drugs ,some powerful antipsychotics, are being given by the appropriate provider, whether they are over-prescribed, and whether treatment for complex

In “Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering”, the authors Moynihan, Heath, and Henry (2002) draw attention to the under-recognized phenomenon of pharmaceutical companies increasing sales on medication by promoting maladies to consumers. The article provides illustrations along with five examples that represent the act of disease mongering that occurs internationally. The authors suggest that the rational approach to this issue is for the public to begin to rely on independent sources of information about health problems instead of articles and ads that misrepresent data in order to maximize profit.

.Significant advancement in the obtaining of knowledge about mental illnesses has greatly improved doctors’ abilities to make sure they are diagnosing the correct disease as well as their ability to come up with treatment options varying from person-to-person rather than treatments that follow the “one type fits all” concept. This new knowledge has led people to believe that these disorders are not resulting from a sin but instead are due to physiological and environmental problems. These developments led to better lives for individuals struggling with various diseases, and may result in a cure, as society hopes. Thus, as the world is starting to learn more about mental illness, it has allowed us to gain a greater picture on why mental illnesses

69 percent of the creators of the fifth Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders reported that the DSM had connections to the pharmaceutical industry (Cosgrove & Krimsky, 2012). Robert Whitakers research in his book “The Anatomy of an Epidemic” showed that many of the medications that are prescribed for psychiatric disorders actually end up hurting the patient more than helping them (Whitaker, 2010). Often people are prescribed medication for a psychiatric disorder which is actually just a pathologized version of normal human behavior. Taking these medications for essentially no reason eventually harms the patient because they frequently cause episodic and moderate emotional behavioral problems to be severe, chronic and disabling ones (Whitaker, 2010). This leads to a further rise in mental disorders, actual mental disorders. When we use drugs to get rid of symptoms we weaken our capacity to cope with the situations and we remove our ability to transcend the problem on our own. The research shows that using these drugs for short term treatment can be effective for some people but often they increase the chance that the person who is taking the drug becomes chronically ill in the long run (Whitaker, 2010). Therefore many people, who are treated for a mental disorder that could most often be treated with therapy, end up

The number of individuals diagnosed for one or more mental disorders and consequently treated with a corresponding drug has significantly increased the past several years. The following statistics displaying this are shocking:

There is a drug epidemic in America today, and physicians may be the driving force behind it. This is especially true in the case of mental health patients. "Psychotropic drugs are valuable tools in treating many mental health disorders, but inappropriate prescribing can cause serious harm" (Smith, 2012). Over-diagnosis is the act of diagnosing many with a condition they do not have. Over-medicating is the process of prescribing drugs to those who may not need them. These two problems commonly occur pertaining to the disorders: Depression, Anxiety, and ADHD. Traditionally, medication is the first alternative doctors have turned to in order to solve these illnesses. However, medication may not always be the best solution. Involving specialists, and alternative therapies can be equally or more effective in the treatment of patients. Mental health disorders such as, Depression, Anxiety, and ADHD are often misdiagnosed and lead to overmedication.

It is understandable that current techniques and medications are not enough to cure all patients of their ailments, however, the field of science is a never ending pursuit of technology and techniques to improve the quality of life for the people. Because better medication and psychotherapy techniques will continue to be spit out from the bottom of the human race to propel them forward in the future, we cannot expect certain mental illnesses to be incurable in the near future. This is why the argument against required compulsory treatment for patient, with the three restrictions, is invalid for the future since the continuous advancement of the medical and psychological field will work to make all mental illnesses equally curable in the near

In this article, we are pre-dispose to examine and assess the integrity of the Fifth Edition, of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, (DSM-5). Specifically, call into question is the proliferation of diagnoses and the expansion of the criteria that applies to kids for certain disorders. One example presented in the article was the assertion of the escalation of pediatric bipolar diagnosis secondary to ADHD. The article directly links an increase of atypical antipsychotic medication for both adults and kids to the over saturation of diagnoses for certain disorders. As a rise in consumption for antipsychotic and antidepressant prevail, researchers quoted in the article go on to indicate that medication compliance isn’t