The Causes Of 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 was first introduced in the mid-19th century. Mental illnesses are medical conditions that interrupt a person's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily functioning, they are medical conditions that reduced one’s ability to cope with the daily activities such as going to work or raising a family.

For years the nurture versus nature debate has been argued by people around the world. Mental disorders are one of the main topics discussed among these people. Mental disorders apply to many mental health conditions that can affect someone’s emotions, logic, and attitude. According to The Kim Foundation, 26.2 percent of Americans who are 18 or older suffer from

There is an ongoing debate whether mental illness is caused by genetic or environment. Although many argue that genetics is the cause, I believe that there is greater chance of it being environmental. I believe that mental illness is caused by environment because there are many factors that contribute to environment which include: a traumatic situation an individual encounter, feelings of inadequacy, or social and cultural expectations from an individual.

Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder that affects about 1% of the adult population and carries a high disease burden involving a number of health comorbidities and an average decrease in life expectancy by 12-15 years. Current drug treatments for schizophrenia primarily target the positive symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, but usually fail to treat negative symptoms such as social withdrawal, difficulty focusing, and lack of motivation. A major research challenge is to better understand the causes of schizophrenia so that more effective prevention and treatment plans can be developed.

Many studies have reported that the main cause of schizophrenia is unknown. The results of the disease are from combination between influences of biological, psychological, and environmental factors (Townsend, 2015).regardless of the exact causation, the results is impairment in brain function that may produce the psychotic symptoms that can be seen in the diagnosis of schizophrenia (tusae). Even though researchers are still struggling for additional facts about the etiology and development of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia typically presents in a gradual onset of abnormalities in perception, though, motion, and behavior often during young adulthood (). Patient with schizophrenia often suffer from terrifying symptoms such as auditory hallucination,

As has been quite well known to the field of psychiatry for some time, people who end up in trouble with the law often do so because of severe mental illness. Sometimes this mental illness can take the form of a personality disorder, which at present is considered incurable, or it can take the form of severe depression, for which there are currently many treatments. This paper aims to shed light as to how conditions beyond a persons control, such as mental illnesses like depression or personality disorders can cause these individuals to get into trouble with the law.

Society is incredibly fast pace now compared to say 15 years ago. This is great for production and advancements in things like technology and transportation, but for people living in this world it is extremely taxing. This causes mental disorders. Mental disorders is a mental or bodily condition marked primarily by sufficient disorganization of personality, mind, and emotions to seriously impair the normal psychological functioning of the individual.

Despite the influence of pharmaceutical companies and the access many Americans have to these medications, consumers are looking for alternative, non-medicinal options to cope with psychological disorders. Currently, the number of Americans coping with depression, stress and various types of anxiety, is higher than ever before (Thompson, 2017, para. 1). Recent data estimate 8.3 million adults in America are suffering from a serious psychological disorder (Thompson, 2017, para. 1). As this statistic has increased, so has the popularity of alternative therapies to help cope with and even improve the symptoms of these distressing disorders.

The movie that I will be analyzing for this assignment is titled Call Me Crazy: A Five Film. The movie follows five individuals’ lives and focuses on how long lasting relationships are constructed based on hope and triumph. These relationships raise a new understanding of what happens when a loved one struggles with mental illness. Although the movie reflects on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression disorder, and bipolar disorder, this assignment will focus on one of those characters, Lucy, who suffers from Schizophrenia.

As WHO (2001) estimated, about 450 million people around the world suffer from mental disorders, and mental disorders is therefore one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. Studies have been contributing to the growing number of mental disorders for long. Although medical scientists attribute the causes to the physiological factors, social scientists often time argue that the socioeconomic development of a country, social classes, gender, and other social factors have impacts on mental disorders.

Conduct is taught at a young age when a parent wants the child to live up to certain standards; however not everyone follows to their parents’ expectation. It is not a parents fault that their child ends up doing something wrong. Parents can only do so much for their children. People within years change and change into criminals. These inmates are sick, mentally sick and do things at the wrong time. Yet these inmates have gone thru a lot which caused them their mental illness. Mental illness isn’t a game or something people makeup its something really serious which makes people do wrong things at certain times. These people then do the wrong thing and up behind bars for the rest of their life for something that they might not have intended

After reviewing this week’s lecture, readings, and multimedia, I have to slightly disagree with the statement that DSM-5 mental disorders are medical problems, and that psychiatric diagnosis is a scientific (and essential) component of successful intervention. Although the biomedical model of mental disorders classifies mental health conditions as diseases of the brain, I personally do not believe each diagnosis in the DSM-5 should be listed as a medical problem (Deacon, 2013). According to the statistics, “more than one in five insured American adults take psychotropic medication (Deacon, 2013). Those numbers are alarming considering a plethora of clients are continuing to be diagnosed daily with minimal improvements being made to correct the “so- called” chemical imbalances. As far as the psychiatric diagnosis being a scientific and essential component of successful intervention, I am in agreement with because as a result of working closely with agencies that provide diagnosis to clients, the client must be diagnosed before receiving treatment, so that the agencies can receive financial reimbursements for their services.

Mental disorders are defined as a “syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental function” (Shiraev & Levy, 2017, 2017, p.253). While there are numerous symptoms, there are several that are highly associated with mental disorders including substantial distress or a form of impediment in social settings and other important events. Culture has a great impact on psychological disorders influencing five critical areas: subjective experience, idioms of distress, diagnoses, treatment, and the outcome. Subjective experience is the individual’s understanding about

Mental disorders are extremely taboo, mostly when you talk about its occurrence among youth. Many people avoid the subject because they are scared or because they just don’t believe they are real illnesses. When you add a possible relation with technology use, you lose your audience. Not only ill people don’t believe the correlation between the extreme use of technology and their sickness, they deny it because they are addicted to it.