Mental Illness And Its Effects On The Quality Of Life

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,

The social problem I have chosen to write about is mental illness. This problem is important to talk about “because of the number of people it affects, the difficulty of defining and identifying mental disorders, and the ways in which mental illness is treated” (Kendall, 2013, p. 227). “About 57.7 million people, or one in four adults, in the United States suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder” (Kendall, 2013, p. 229). “Many of these illnesses begin in childhood or adolescence, with the most common problems being anxiety disorder, mood disorders, impulse-control disorders, and substance abuse disorders” (Kendall, 2013, p. 229). I chose this topic because I wanted to learn more about how mental illness is a social problem and I have been interested in learning more about mental illnesses and how to help people with mental disorders.

Forget all the stereotypes of mental illness. It has no face. It has no particular victim. Mental illness can affect an individual from any background and the black community is no exception. African Americans sometimes experience even more severe forms of mental health conditions because of unmet needs and barriers to treatment. According to the Office of Minority Health, African Americans are 20 percent more likely to experience serious mental health problems than the general population. That’s why UGA third year Majenneh Sengbe is taking action as the co-founder of her upcoming organization Black Minds Daily.

Mental illness refers to many disorders that affect your mood, thinking, and behaviour. There are many different types of mental illnesses with different severities such as depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, eating disorders, and addictive behaviour. Having a mental illness is so common in Canada, 1 in 5 people encounter some degree of it. Many of your friends and family may be suffering from some form of mental illness without you knowing it. This can be because it is at a very early and week stage, they are on their medication, or they are doing a good job at hiding it from you. People often hide their illness to prevent being judged and treated differently from their loved ones. This can be a problem as their illness could worsen and cause long term irreversible damages. Some of our society doesn’t respect people with mental illnesses as before, people with this illness were called crazy and they were told they had a disease. This may be a reason people still don’t feel comfortable telling people close to them.

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Another issue people with mental illness face is comorbidity of illnesses. Due to the fact that mental health and physical health are conjoined, comorbidity of other illnesses tends to occur when mental illness goes untreated, or vice versa. One study estimates 25 years of life are lost for each person with a serious mental illness, which is commonly attributed to illnesses like cardiovascular disease and diabetes (Shim & Rust, 2013). On top of that, further data shows that when compared to people without a mental illness, people who are mentally ill receive less attention to comorbid issues, and an overall lower quality of care (Smith et al., 2016). One example of receiving an abnormal level of attention during a doctor visit could be referred to as diagnostic overshadowing, which is when a person’s mental disorder diagnosis overshadows physical ailments (Kassam, Papish, Modgill, & Patten, 2012).

Mentally disordered women that are incarcerated have different needs than their male counterparts do. According to Sun (2010) research done by the Bureau of Justice Statistics show that there are an increasing number of mentally disordered inmates in correctional facilities. Although the plight of mentally disordered women in prisons in no better than that of their male counterparts, harsher sentences, especially drug offenses cause overcrowding in women’s prisons. These inmates are a diverse group with a wide range of treatment needs. In many occasions these inmates have more than one diagnosis as evidenced by research. Research indicates that many women going into correctional facilities not only have substance abuse problems but mental disorders as well. They are also more susceptible to environmental stressors. Overcrowding and noise, can aggravate existing mental disorders or hasten the development of new ones (Sun, 2010). According to Stuart, Wormer, and Bartollas, (2011) in the general population, women with substance use disorders are more likely to have mental disorders compared with their male counterparts. The most common disorders in these women are posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, and eating disorders. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics 2006 special report on mental health problems among prison and jail inmates, female inmates reported higher rates of mental health problems than male inmates in state prisons. Major depression and

Although it is hard to distinguish mentally ill members of society from those who are not

According to National Institute of Mental Health, behavioral health disorders impact more Americans than any other illness including cancer and heart disease. 60 million Americans have a mental illness. 1 in 4 adults experience a mental illness in a given year. 9 million adults have co-occurring mental health and addiction disorders. Individuals struggling from serious behavioral health issues die on average 25 years earlier than the general population. According to the World Bank, by 2030 depression will become our most costly healthcare issue. In ways subtle and not-so-subtle, mental health problems, including addiction, haven't always been addressed as health problems, but as something somehow different—even as weaknesses in character.

Ultimately, this allows for gross misdiagnosis; for example, an individual could be restricted from a necessary treatment that could better his or her life simply because behaviors or patterns are perceived under the present cultural ideology as not unhealthy or impairing. Additionally, the opposite could occur, and an individual could receive medication for a disorder they do not have, which beyond being a wasteful expenditure of resources, could damage the patient’s

It is important to note that the intensity of emphasis placed accuracy of diagnosis is somewhat unique for the mental health profession. Haslam (2013) invokes a comparison with the fluctuating diagnostic categories of Rheumatology to lament that the outdated plight of the mental health profession is to be considered in opposition to the objectivity of physical illness and thus subject to harsher criticisms of inaccuracy and validity. This is an ongoing and pervasive challenge for mental health professionals and patients alike, it is therefore critical that major barriers to the accuracy of diagnosis such as mental health stigma, both professionally and socially, be reduced. Ultimately, the resultant discourse concerning false diagnosis in light of DSM-5 changes suggest that DSM-5 has prompted a shift in the burden of responsibility of diagnostic accuracy from the Manual to the clinician, a burden that can be alleviated incorporating broader diagnostic tools in diagnosis and addressing underlying mental health

A mental illness is a clinical diagnosis that takes into consideration many different factors such as observable signs and symptoms of the illness, the course and duration of the illness, the response to treatment, and the functional impairment caused by the illness. The Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM) is a book/ document that lists all of the different types of mental illnesses there are. This is where the clinical names come from when a clinical diagnosis is being made. However, it is important to note that the criteria for diagnosing a mental illness is difficult to measure and ends up being based on objective terms.

In 1957 alone, there were approximately 567,000 citizens suffering from different psychiatric disorders. The quality of life for those suffering has not always been as sustainable as today. Just the mere thought of having these disorders was frowned upon and pushed to the side, as if it was taboo to have such a disability . Patients of the psychiatric health system were affected not only by the disease from which they suffer, but also by stigmas, treatments they received, and the conditions of the facilities they were in.

Everyone is different in society. There are special individuals, which are affected by mental health illnesses. Mental health issues can affect society both negatively and positively. There are cultures that treat these individuals like the reincarnations of gods. On the other side, there are cultures that isolate these individuals and look for cures to these pathologies. Mental health illnesses are important because they have to be studied to understand their cause, whether it may be biological or environmental. These issues are important because like every type of illness they have to be delicately studied, focusing on treatments to either cure them or reduce the symptoms of the pathology. These people were either conflicted with the ideals of society or they were praised by it. Cultures, which didn’t accept them, closed them up into asylums. Patients inside these facilities were brutally used as guinea pigs for their experiments. The way these people were treated shows how cruel and ignorant people were to the unknown. By learning from histories mistakes we can move forward in improving our society and achieve greatness.

Have you ever wondered how medicine has progressed throughout the centuries? Medicine has gone from simple herbal remedies to powerful medications for pain and infections. Yet, how is it that physicians know so much about diseases, infections, the signs and symptoms, and the treatment of those diseases? In some cases, unethical medical experiments were conducted to figure out how diseases were transmitted and the symptoms that people would present if they were ill with that particular disease. This would then lead the physicians to observe how the disease would progress from beginning to end without any medical interventions, which often involved letting the person die. Then physicians might intervene with several medical interventions at different stages of the disease, such as medication, vaccination or surgery-to figure out when the interventions would best be suited for that particular disease. However, does this justify the actions of the doctors and researchers who conducted these unethical medical experiments? Many critics argue that these experiments were not only unethical but also immoral. Yet, unethical medical research has greatly impacted and contributed to modern medicine today. Due to these experiments several medical discoveries were made, such as vaccinations, which have allowed our doctors to have more knowledge on how to identify diseases and how to treat the patients, reducing the mortality rate and allowing our life expectancy to increase. Although, the