Mental Health Care Failure

I completely agree with your perceptions on the neglect and abuse presented in the Willowbrook State School video and the Serbian Mental Hospitals video. Although I do think mental health care has come a long way in the relatively short time since these films were originally released, I personally believe that we still have a long way to go in terms of ethical practice of both medical and mental healthcare in the United States. Just as recently as 2016, for example, eight different psychiatric research studies were terminated at New York University because of numerous ethical violations. These violations ranged anywhere from falsifying patient records and maintaining inaccurate case histories up to lax oversight of subjects and

Mental illness is not getting the proper attention it needs. The United States should provide more funding to the mentally ill, for research, and medical purposes. Over fifteen million people are diagnosed with a mental illness every year. Many of them have difficulties to afford the treatment they need. Some do not even know that they have a mental illness because they never had a reason or even the finances to get checked. A mental illness can be detected at a young age. One with a mental disorder can suffer from depression and suicide, by receiving support from family and friends can help prevent this. By providing test at public schools could help detect an illness at a young age and give them the proper treatment needed to overcome their illness. Many who have a mental illness are unemployed, and have financial issues. By not receiving the proper treatment can result in harm to themselves or even others. The government is not giving the proper amount of funds for research and treatment. Some take advantage of the system and are the cause of the amount being so low. Mental illness is not getting the appropriate funding it needs to provide proper care.

Around the 1970’s and 1980’s around the United States many mental hospitals were shut down. There were many reasons why they closed these Asylums was because money, and knowing that there was only about twenty county asylums were built around the country. The asylums also known as the Looney bin was established in Britain after passing in 1808 county asylum act. There were so many patients in these asylums around the world in 1955 about 558,239 severely mentally ill people in the United States were accounted for. Now in these times any mentally ill people don’t get help they just go straight to jail without proper diagnosis or treatment. People need to know these people need extreme care and treatment. Even regular people or considered the norm in today’s society eventually go crazy when they’re in prison too long. We have as much people that are mentally ill as regularly incarcerated. There is one prison in Houston Texas that does take care there mentally ill. We have about 2.2 million

The responsibility should be given to the states so that the states could reform the mental health system. By giving over the responsibility to the states it can be the start to reforming the system. The states would need to have the resources to be backed up on this major reform. Federal Medicare and Medicaid are two big resources that are currently going on services that help the mentally ill and in which the states need authority to by the government in order to have a successful health care system. If the federal government block grant to the states the states would need to set up a few things for these institution to become a success. For example: The federal government should give authority to allow states to put conditions on SSI and SSDI payments, Improving the department of justice information base regarding the effects of mental illness on homicides and law enforcement officer events, also Improving federal research on serious mental illness through spending money on these researches and lastly abolishing the substance abuse of mental health services administration also known as “SAMHSA”. When the state gets what they'll need from the federal government they would now have to work on making a service plan so that the system would be more effective and

In today’s society there is a greater awareness of mental illnesses. With this greater awareness one might assume that there would be a substantial increase in government involvement or funding in the area of mental illness treatment. Unfortunately this isn’t the case in the U.S. today. There are hundreds of thousands of people with mental illness that go untreated. These potential patients go untreated for many reasons. These reasons are discussed in the Time article “Mental Health Reform: What Would it Really Take.

The United States has never had an official federal-centered approach for mental health care facilities, entrusting its responsibility to the states throughout the history. The earliest initiatives in this field took place in the 18th century, when Virginia built its first asylum and Pennsylvania Hospital reserved its basement to house individuals with mental disorders (Sundararaman, 2009). During the 19th century, other services were built, but their overall lack of quality was alarming. Even then, researchers and professionals in the mental health field attempted to implement the principles of the so-called public health, focusing on prevention and early intervention, but the funds were in the hands of the local governments, which prevented significant advances in this direction.

American history is littered with tails of reform and revolution. Earlier on in America’s young life, revolution included war, struggle for basic human rights and dignity as well as radical tactics taken by the public. As time went on Americans learned that revolution and reform could occur through the government systems that our forefathers had put in place. The battle for human rights has all but ended but the way in which Americans wage war is a different story altogether. Now American’s fight for better public healthcare, equal rights for homosexual individuals and couples, and stricter standards for social welfare programs.

As the acceptance and incidence of mental health has increased over the years, there is a dire need for constant change when it comes to mental health services. After reviewing both the State of Mental Health in America: 2017 and the Mental Health Reform Act 2016, I feel as though the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) alongside the state and federal governmental programs are addressing the issue head on and with purpose. Although there are lapses within the legislation, especially regarding the lack of grants offered for treatment of the homeless, the Mental Health Reform Act 2016 effectively addresses mental health and substance abuse appropriately while increasing managing to make mental health services more

Problem Statement: The World Health Association defines ‘good’ health as: “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” However, in the United States, access to care and funding for mental health care are grossly neglected and underfunded in comparison to other aspects of health care.

Take a moment and think about those your care deeply for, those you would give your life for. Now, imagine if he or she were sick, or in any other kind of trouble. What would you do to help them? Go to the edge of the world and back, fight, not stopping for yourself until they were in good health once more. Now imagine if you found a potential cure, or a solution, but it was held away because a few people who had more money than you did not want it to be used. You have seen and heard of this proponent being used in other countries and has had very promising results, yet still those who claim they have “power” over you deny what you seek. The fact of the matter is thousands of Americans suffer from some kind of mental illness, including my brother. Whether it be chronic anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, depression, bi-polar, schizophrenia, addiction, the list can go on. America has a botched mental health system, the main way we treat people is by shoving pills down their throats, most that have little to no substantial effects, leaving people still feeling empty. The pills rather just “control” or alleviate symptoms rather than eradicating them completely, leaving people to have to take dose after dose daily to keep their lives in check.

Unfortunately, associating well-being with economic health is not unique to recessions. Poverty and prolonged unemployment influence the mental health of those who live in a perpetual state of either of those conditions. The Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health explains that ongoing and increasing occurrences of economic difficulties were associated with below average mental health when compared to those in better financial situations (Lallukka et al., 2013). The National Center for Health Statistics provides backing for this data, expressing that depression was most common in those below the poverty level (2011). As seen in the data to the right, “among adults 20–44 and 45–64 years of age, depression was five times as high for

The Mental Healthcare has failed the patients that they are supposed to be helping. According to Huffingtonpost.com “The national alliance on mental illness in 2009 gave America’s mental health

The people whom have a mental health issue and choose not to go and seek treatment put their life in danger as well as with the people they are surrounded with. In an article called “Involuntary Commitment of People with Mental Illness: Should states

Lack of mental health literacy has been a rising problem in society as the prevalence of psychiatric disorders have increased. Heath literacy has helped people with physical health problems to get treatment and support that they need. It is important for people with mental health problems to have this support as well. The article, “Mental Health Literacy” by A.F. Jorn is about the issues that many societies today face when it comes to people understanding mental health.

When dealing with Americans over the age of 18, roughly 26.2 percent, the estimated equivalent to one in four adults, will have a diagnosable mental illness (Mental Disorders). There is a stigma of people that obtain any form of any mental disorder, which leads to the controversial question of when it is acceptable to admit someone into a psychiatric hospital, forcefully or not. It is legal to commit a person, without their will, in a mental institution in multiple states. Many are uneducated on the reality of mental illnesses, which can play into the impulsive action of wanting to admit any person that acquires some sort of mental disorder. States should not