Poor Mental Health

At the individual level, lack of proper treatment for poor mental health and mental illness has a detrimental effect. At a population level, society also suffers from the burden resulting from the lack of treatment options for poor mental health and mental illness, due to loss of productivity from those crippled by poor mental health and mental illness. Evidence has begun to emerge showing that lack of treatment for mental illness -specifically depressive disorders - has been linked “with increased prevalence of chronic diseases.” Currently it is estimated about 26% of adults in the United States suffer from depression.

The articles address the prevalence of the issue of mental health and claims the importance of policy reform at all levels of society.

Proof written by David Auburn goes through the life of an esteemed mathematician plagued by mental illness. In the beginning of the play Proof we are introduced to a professor at a local Chicago College named Robert. We first are introduced to Robert through a delusion of Catherine’s, another main protagonist of David auburns play. Auburn shows Robert’s genius and madness at various stages throughout the play. Auburn goes on throughout his play to exemplify the impact mental illness has on everyday family life.

For many centuries there has been multiple arguments about what causes mental illness. Hebrews believed that mental illness was a punishment from god for those who sinned. The way they cured one another was spiritually and through health. They believed that if you had a healthy diet that it would prevent you from any diseases. The physicians were also priests who had “special ways” to heal with higher powers. The biggest theory was that whoever had a mental illness was caused from supernatural forces. There had been many different treatments to help cure ones suffering. Dating back to 5000 BCE was the first treatment preformed on record, showing that one would chip a hole into the human skull to release evil spirits. Later on, the Ancient Egyptians

This article, written by the Head of Good Practice at ACAS, suggests that despite the difficulties in accurately diagnosing mental health problems, the government has calculated that mental health related sickness is costing the UK economy £26 Billion per year.

A strong case can be made for investing in mental health, whether to enhance individual and world wellbeing, improve life span, or even to enable people living with mental illnesses to have a better quality of life. Mental health problems account for a quarter of all ill health yet they receive less than 6% of all health research funding, people with these health conditions usually experience poor access to help services and lower quality care than those with physical health problems. Addressing mental and physical health needs together would be more cost effective for the NHS and would benefit the increasing numbers of people dealing with untreated mental illness.

This essay will focus completely on Mental illness in the UK. To gather my research I used various resources such as websites and books. I have also viewed YouTube videos in order to expand my knowledge. The statistics gathered may not be totally accurate in discussing mental health within the UK for the sources are secondary but it is reliable for giving a view of what the distribution is like amongst gender, age, class as well as ethnicity.

This increase in the quantity and geographical sprawl of cities, as well as our dependence on them characterizes what we commonly know as urbanization. In his article, “Urbanization, Mental Health, and Social Deviancy,” Anthony Marsella provides a more comprehensive definition, claiming that urbanization causes an increase in population which impacts the way individuals in an area interact with one another, resulting in behavior changes among the population such as “differentiation, segmentalization, segregation, and marginalization” (625). Due to the implementation of “city limits,” and due to the link that exists between urbanization and the development of cities, the beginning and end of “urban” areas appears to be well

The recommendations of the Bramford Review (2006) became the much needed drive in policy change in Northern Ireland on how we view and treat mental health. Although it did not free mental health from stigma it did however bring about the recognition that mental health should be an inherent part of our policy. Despite this Northern Ireland still has the highest mental health figures in the UK, Fundamental Facts (2016) published by the Mental Health Organisation reported that Northern Ireland has a 25% higher overall prevalence of mental health problems than England. An area of concern is the rise of mental health issues amongst the younger generation, a survey carried out by the Northern Ireland Young Life and Times survey on the mental and emotional health of 16-year olds in Northern Ireland found that 29% of its respondents had serious personal emotional or mental health problems (Schubotz 2010).

This article is about how poor mental health might be able to boost asthma risk. Brown University researchers reported that people who rated their mental health as poor were more likely to have asthma than those who said their mental health was good. Lead researcher Dr. Thomas Chun, an assistant professor of emergency medicine said that a person should be treated for asthma and mental health problems if they have both of those conditions. Chun also noted that even if they can’t prove the two are related, it is important to treat them both. If one condition is improved then the other might improve too. The study was published in the December 2008 issue of Chest. Chun’s team collected data on 318,151 people who volunteered in the Behavioral Risk

This essay will explain how contemporary issues in mental health influence people’s social wellbeing. Mental health is a fundamental element of resilience, health assets, capabilities and positive adaption that enable individuals to cope with both adversity and to reach their full potential and humanity. The impact on inequalities of health and other outcomes are sourced from mental health. For example, chronic stress of struggling with material disadvantage is intensified to a very considerable degree by doing so in more unequal societies.

The uncertainty towards the nature of urban life presents a compelling background for the investigation of present knowledge with reference to the impact of urbanisation on mental health and its subsequent consequences. The identification of the key factors that negatively affect mental wellbeing will assist a range of researchers and urban and regional planners in the development and implementation of appropriate urban interventions.

Mental illnesses can have many debilitating effects on the afflicted individual and their social system, these circumstances can develop from the symptoms of the illness itself as well as the stigma emanating from other’s perception of the illness. Connell and Brazier (2014) recruited 19 individuals within the United Kingdom’s mental health services to participate in semi-structured interviews that revealed seven domains of quality of life (well-being versus ill-being, hope, relationships and a sense of belonging, autonomy, activity, self-perception, and physical health). In terms of activity, the interviewees mentioned benefits that can be reaped from of being productive and engaging

It has been reported that the number of people with mental disorder is increasing in our communities at an alarming rate. Environmental and social changes are among the most mentioned causes of the accelerating rate of mental illness in society (Häfner, 1985). Despite the prevalence, about one fifth of the adult population will battle with mental illness every year ("Facts and figures about mental illness," 2014) and the acknowledgement of authorities mental illness is still given less attention then is needed to treat the problem successfully. Health bodies need to be putting more resources into this area as

Statement: World wide mental disease is third as far as impact on the global burden of disease (Burden of Mental Illness, 2013). With globalization of urban farming can help those struggling with mental illness by increasing exposure to plants and outdoor activities which trigger both illness prevention and healing responses (Bellow, et al, 2003).