Essay On Mental Health

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The topic of mental health has long been considered taboo. Discussions of mental illness ought to be held in private and if a family member happens to be institutionalized, heaven forbid that it be brought up at dinner. One way mental health has been trying to make its way into the mainstream is by way of Public Service Announcements (PSAs), two of which come from the advocacy organizations Bring Change 2 Mind and Mental Health Australia. The main goal of these PSAs is to spark a public discussion about mental health. Although both PSAs use the rhetorical appeal of mythos through their stereotypical portrayal of gender roles, Bring Change 2 Mind (BC2M) focuses on mental illness itself and primarily utilizes a pathos appeal whereas Mental Health Australia (MHA) highlights the individual as the initiator of the conversation and emphasizes a more logical appeal.

Given the information provided through the summary of facts provided by the court reporter and comparing the facts and possible symptoms of Mr. Wertz to those stated within the most recent edition of the Diagnostic Statistic Manual (DSM), the conclusion that I have reached is that Mr. Wertz does indeed suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder. With the description of symptoms provided, it would appear that Mr. Wertz is suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a result from his past deployment to Iraq in the Army. Several of the symptoms that have been listed within the summary of facts are representative of the diagnostic criteria for the trauma-stressor disorder of PTSD as listed within the DSM-5.

There are many mental disorders that have different effects on people and are sometimes determined to have had an influence in some crimes. If these mental illnesses are truly what caused the perpetrator to act out on these crimes, do they deserve to receive the help that they need and are there any solution to help deter future crimes involving the mentally ill? If so, fixing the problem could prove to be difficult, the community should assume a portion of the responsibility in the finding of a solution to help not only the mentally ill but also protect anyone on the other side of these crimes.

“Psychological disorders are behaviors or mental processes that are connected with various kinds of distress or impaired functioning (Nevid & Rathus, 2005).” Many people battle different kinds of disorders ranging from anxiety, dissociative, somatoform, moodiness, schizophrenia, personality, and many other disorders (Nevid & Rathus, 2005). Some are so mild that people do not recognize when they have it, and some are so severe that they become a nuisance to the community. A disorder is simply an abnormal way of acting toward something. Psychologists have a reference guide called the DSM IV, which is the updated version of the DSM (Nevid & Rathus, 2005). A detailed guide that helps

The United States process for caring for the mentally ill during the eighteenth century was comparable to the way the English’s process. Both processes were not considered to be too thoughtful. The colonies believed it was local communities that were to be held accountable to care for their own. Since colonial society was primarily rural, individuals who portrayed different types of behavior were tolerated. Furthermore, if colonials were in sparsely settled areas, people who broke social rules could keep to themselves (Levine, 1981). Additionally, wealthy families would keep their disturbed family members in attics or cellars and would hire private attendants, and poorer families disturbed family members would be put in jail or cages on

psychoactive drug dependence six month before hospital admission and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) three months before hospital admission. Therefore, 106 in-patients (59 %), 45 men and 61 women (mean age 38.4 years; 95%CI 35.8-41.0), evaluated as healthy, according to their physical examination, medical history, routine blood and urine tests; not pregnant or breast feeding, were included into the study and provided blood samples for the assessment of Borna disease virus (BDV) infection markers.

In a nationwide survey gauging the attitude of college administration on the growing mental health issues among students, one dean shared “Students bring more and more nonacademic issues to campus … we are becoming a secondary social service agency” (Levine & Cureton, 1998). This was not an isolated phenomenon, but rather a troubling position shared across the nation. College presidents and deans fail to recognize the growing need for increased mental health services and academic support. Disability and counseling services are frequently on the cutting block when funding is questioned leaving 20% of children and 18.1% of young adult students suddenly losing the resources they need to thrive in an academic environment (NAMI, 2016).

The incarceration of people with mental illness has grown to be a serious social, clinical and economic concern (Hawthorne, 2012). There is an estimated 804,000 people in the United States annually that enters into the system (NcNiel & Binder, 2007). Majority are non-violent, low-level misdemeanor offenders that cycle in and out of the prison system due to the multiple barriers they encounter when attempting to access mental health services within the community (Hawthorne, 2012). A solution that has been developed to resolve this issues is establishing mental health court. Mental health court was established to reduce recidivism of individuals with mental illnesses and ensure public safety. The thought was that providing individuals with treatment needed to ensure stability of their mental health illnesses would aid in the decrease of the individuals involvement with criminal activity.

MightSight was an interesting disruptive idea. The mental health market is growing and is continuing to be a hot topic, an app that places control in the hands of the customer sounds viable. Group 37 made it clear how Millennials would feel about their data being available on mobile, but I would have been interested to understand how Group 37 would have overcome the obstacle, via their branding, about how people would feel about being implanted with a chip.

A growing literature demonstrates that early diagnosis of psychiatric disorders between children can reduce the risks of adverse psychosocial outcomes, in adulthood. The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between adjustable risk factors and psychiatric disorders, between children and adolescents, in a developing country with life style transition.

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study of its kind to examine comprehensive predictors to predict psychiatric distress, in a large population of children and adolescents.

During the first week of October 2017, Humber College hosted a Mental Health Week and invited students from all across the campus to attend. This event hosted multiple short presentations all throughout the week with one simple purpose in mind; To introduce students to the importance of mental health, by allowing them to explore different options deal with their anxiety, stress and depression that they may face as a student at Humber College. There was a large variety of events taking place, ranging from Art Therapy all the way to a Mental Health Run. It offered every student with something they may be interested in. The end goal of the week was to introduce students to new or creative way to deal with mental issues. I personally attended three events which were the “Friendship Bench Dedication”, “Cognitive Behavior Therapy Workshop” and the “Stress & Wellness Check-up”.

Throughout the past several weeks I have had the opportunity to witness what mental health really is. Upon starting the mental health unit I was unsure what to expect. I knew I had a passion deep down for people who have to suffer with the many different mental illnesses. The two locations my colleagues and I had to opportunity to experience was W3 and W2. W3 is an addiction recovery unit, and W2 is more of a psych unit. Spending my time at these two units really opened my eyes to how blessed I am, because someone somewhere has it worse.

I liked many aspects of this memoir. I enjoyed her writing style which was clear, but at the same time vivid and descriptive. Jamison (1995) did an excellent job describing her experience with lithium. Medication is not always a complete cure for diseases and side effects are unpleasant. Jamison made sure to detail the positive, such as how she got her life back together after a lower dose of lithium, and negative aspects of taking medication, such as the nasty side effects. Jamison also discussed the influence of other people’s reactions to medication. She was reluctant to take lithium because her sister berated her for depending on the lithium. In addition, Jamison believed that she was the exception to the idea that people with manic-depressive illness need to take lithium. She made sure to retaliate this by detailing the consequences of not taking lithium for her and her patient. All of these elements gave the reader a unique perspective on mental illness treatment from a professional and personal standpoint.