Mental Distraught In The Prisoners And Teza

Increasingly, more and more mentally ill persons are being held in prisons instead of receiving the treatment they need in a correctional facility or psychiatric hospital. Currently, 500,000 mentally ill patients are being held in jails and prisons across America, compared to the 55,000 mentally ill that are in facilities aimed to assist and treat them. This documentary follows the stories of several inmates in the Ohio prison system, all of whom have struggled with being in and out of jail and suffer from a mental illness of some kind. In Ohio, sixteen percent of the prison population is comprised of people who have a mental illness, a number representative of the nation. In Ohio, and likely other states, the mentally ill inmates are separated

Sense or nonsense, many different views can come from reading the Szasz article on mental illness. According to Szasz mental illness is “merely a convenient myth” (91, Szasz). In the article Szasz compares what it looks to have physical illness compared to mental illness, as well as the concept of what mental illness really consists of. By comparing physical and mental illnesses Szasz makes it evident to the readers that there are clearly more symptoms visible to the eye with physical illnesses, then there are with mental illnesses. Szasz explains that he does not believe in such concepts as mental illness, but he agrees that some factors of mental illness are evident in people’s everyday life. Szasz has some valid points and arguments in his article but overall, there is more to mental illness then just was Szasz sees.

The first source that I read was an excerpt from Thomas Szasz’s book titled The Myth of Mental Illness. In the book, he argues that mental illness does not exist. In the excerpt that I read, one argument that he makes is about the concept that mental illness is the same as any other disease. He believes that mental illness cannot be compared with physical diseases. He backs up this argument with two main points.

Mental illness affects roughly 56 percent of state prison inmates and 64 percent of jail inmates. It is a disorder that interferes with mental cognition involving changed thinking, emotion, behavior, or a combination of both. Several things are thought to be correlated with mental illness among the incarcerated. Some examples include prior life stressors, gender differences, prison life environment, etc (Drapalski et al., 2009; Gosein, Stiffler, Frascoia, & Ford, 2015). In the present paper, the role mental illness plays in the life of incarcerated inmates is investigated. It is hypothesized that individuals diagnosed with a mental illness are more likely to be incarcerated than inmates without a mental

When people think of an “illness” they typically don’t automatically think of mental illness. They think about HIV, cancer, or even a cold or flu. However when it comes to mental illness it is a whole different idea. But is mental illness even real? Addressed in the book, The Myth of Mental Illness (1961), a psychiatrist Thomas Szasz argues that the idea of classifying psychological and emotional difficulties as “illnesses” takes away sense of control. Instead of holding people personally and morally responsible for their actions, he states, doctors attempt to “treat” the person, often with medications. Diagnosing mental illness, on the other hand, argue that mental disorders are as real as physical diseases and diagnosing them allows people

The Holocaust claimed the lives of ll million men, women, and children (Documenting Numbers, 2012). The largest group of victims were the Jewish people with 6 million people (Rosenberg, 2017) However, there were 5 million non-Jewish victims (Rosenberg, 2017). These included Romani Gypsies, twins, people with mental illnesses, people with disabilities, homosexual people, and even more groups of people (Documenting Numbers, 2013). Many of these people were imprisoned, tortured and forced into concentration camps (Blumberg, 2015).

The century prior to The War of the Two Kings weakened Catholic’s position in society significantly. They lost their power, rights, and freedom to the newer English and Scottish settlers who were Protestant. However, when James II acceded the throne in 1685 after the death of his brother, a significant problem arose for Irish Protestants. As James II was a late convert to Roman Catholicism, he desired to fulfill God’s mission granted to him; the conversion of England from Protestantism to Catholicism. James II believed this would occur organically if people’s religion was based on their own morals by revoking legal blockades. However, when James II permitted religious tolerance and prohibited many laws that went against Catholicism, panic

The good news though is that inmates with schizophrenia were more likely to get constant treatment. This is because it is easier to see their symptoms, and the behavior risks. There is a greater danger if these inmates do not receive their medication because of their paranoid tendencies that can result in the danger to themselves and other inmates. This method of treatment in prison is called pharmotherapy which simply just means treatment by drugs.

How were the mentally ill treated before asylums came about? What was it like to be treated in a mental asylum? Were the mentally ill able to return to society after being treated in a mental asylum? Why did mental asylums close down? Mental asylums were supposedly opened to help the mentally ill, but for some patients, being treated in a mental asylum was a nightmare.

Solitary confinement does affect those inmates who have been diagnosed as mentally ill prior to entering solitary confinement differently than those who have never been diagnosed as mentally ill.

Mental institutions are failing all over the country because of the government. These institutions are having financial cuts because they are known to be “too expensive”. And, because these programs are failing the only solution for the mentally ill are the community based health care centers. The government should reevaluate what they spending money on because this is one of many huge factors in the United States causing homelessness.

The National Forensics Academy was full of multiple dimensions of crime scene investigation that I had not even thought about nor learned about in the past. The world of crime scene investigation is interesting to me because of all these aspects and because they are ever changing, and new and better methods are being discovered. Throughout the academy I learned about these aspects in detail and how there are various methods within each aspect. The aspects that I learned were how to photograph a crime scene, finger printing, foot impressions, crime scene sketches, blood spatter analysis, bullet holes, bones, and digging up a grace to recover a body. These aspects work together to investigate and recreate crime scenes.

Imagine millions of Americans being arrested for having a sickness or disease. What would the charges be? Hypertension? Diabetes? Cardiovascular disease? Asthma? This is essentially what has happened in the United States’ correctional system when it comes to the mentally ill. Instead of being treated for their illness, many persons with mental problems are receiving sentences – and harsher sentences at that (James & Glaze, 2006, p. 8-9). They are, in a sense, being charged with having a mentally illness.

Review of Thomas Szasz. M.D.,The Myth Of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct.

Imagine…you are at the school cafeteria eating lunch with your friends and a green person comes toward the table and asks if the green person can sit with you. All of a sudden, everyone in the cafeteria turns to look at your table, trying to find out if you and your friends will let the green person, who is rumored to be an alien who eats green crayons, eat lunch at your table. You were about to let the green person join you when your friends start talking about how there is no way they are letting any green people eat with them because of their “reputation.” They strongly reject the green person, who leaves silently and embarrassed, while everyone in the cafeteria resumes eating. Because of the system of high school, you agree with your friends. But, deep down you know your decision is wrong. This event depicts prejudice through discrimination. The green person was discriminated because of their skin color, silly rumors, and no reasonable purpose. The novel To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, depicts that the undercurrent of prejudice that reigns through Maycomb influences the crucial events in the story. Lee illustrates that prejudice results in discrimination and how it is inescapable.