Western Medicine: A Hard Pill To Swallow

Many citizens do not get the help they need because they are afraid of what will happen after telling someone their feelings. Why is that? People with mental illnesses should be okay with telling someone, while not being scared about what they might think of them after getting the help. That is why citizens should get the help they need. Which then when they do not get the help they need it can lead to even worse circumstances. According to a doctor with a PhD, David Susman. The eight reasons people do not get help when they have a mental illness is, one, fear and shame. Two, limited awareness; three, lack of insight; four, feelings of inadequacy; five, distrust; six, hopefulness; seven, unavailability; lastly, practical barriers. Although that most likely did not make any sense to the reader, citizens with or without a mental illness should address the problem so people with mental illness do not feel like they are alone. If the depression does not get help thoughts of suicide become a natural occurrence, the depression can become worse, likewise other medical issues can arise. Such as pains/aches can happen all over the person with a mental illness, the brain chemistry of a person with a mental disorder changes which can lead to strokes or even a heart attack. The well being of those who have a mental health issue that do not get help, remains appalling, alarming, furthermore the people with mental health issues have perpetual

We don’t usually pay attention to mental disorders at all. Life gets in the way and we brush away these issues. We can’t think idly about mental disorders. Instead, we must make the facts matter to us. Let us switch the term “mental disorder” for “cancer.” Imagine a world where a quarter of all people will get cancer. It will also affect 10-20% of the juvenile population; the generation of people who are our age or younger. How horrid a world would that be? Panic would ring through the streets. Headlines would rebound about the “cancer epidemic.” Patients would cram hospitals, begging for treatment. Imagine North America where a quarter of the population will live with cancer in their blood. Many talented and gifted individuals would be permanently chained to their beds. Countless children would be lost to painful, insufferable illness. Tombstones would scatter the countryside with the words “cancer” engraved across. Is that a world we want to live in? A world where the talented are wasted to fate? A world where children suffer for no reason? Do you want to live in a world where you watch your friends succumb to cancer? Hopefully not. We shouldn’t tolerate mental illness either. Physical ailments like cancer can ruin our lives. Mental ailments can do the same thing. If both cancer and schizophrenia can ruin our lives equally, then we shouldn’t compare them like one is deadlier than the

Throughout the centuries mental illness has been treated by countless treatments. Modern treatments have created an argument over which treatment options are best. the most debates treatments today are medication and therapy. the argument of medication versus therapy as treatments for mental illness is fairly new. Yet, proponents of both sides have strong arguments stating the advantages of their treatment option. proponents of medication believe pharmacogenetics, tailored treatments, and medication's ability to treat severe disorders makes medication the better treatment option. proponents of therapy believe drug addiction, suicide prevention, and need adaption establishes therapy as the better treatment choice.

When a friend says that they are ill, say they have a cold of the flu, we immediately recognise this as a physical illness and therefore we assist them in their recovery, empathise with them and give them time to get better. However, if they were to have said that the felt run down or depressed, they wouldn’t have been given the same treatment. In most cases, people suffering from these diseases are told that their illness isn’t real, to toughen up and get over it. This blatant disregard for the health of these people leads to their death. 8 million people die from a mental illness each year, with many of these being caused by suicide. And to think that many of these people could have been saved if someone had helped them. Helped them to see that what they are feeling is real and that they can receive help for what they are going through. But how will anyone ever truly receive help if we fail to recognise what they are going

From the dawn of time healing has been influenced by many different issues, such as religion, politics of the time, different philosophies, and vested interest such as money. There had been conflicts between Eastern and Western medicine for a long time. Eastern medicine is viewed by many people in the West as having no validity and makes little sense to those who view the body in parts and pieces. Eastern medicine has long viewed the body as mind, body and spirit as one entity. To understand the ideas of each Eastern and Western medicine its history has to be taken into consideration

It seems that the more human development changes, the more there is a demand to understand the role of pharmaceuticals in daily life with regard to mental health. In the article, The Mental Heath Practitioner and psychopharmacology, "a growing challenge for mental health counselors is to understand the potential benefits and limitations of many different types of drugs" (Dickinson & Kaut, 2009 p. 204-205). Incorporating a thorough treatment plan, which might include the use of prescription drugs (Anderson & King, 2004).

There is a major stigma around mental health in our society, this often leads people with mental illness to believe that it is their problem and that if they tell someone else they will get ridiculed rather than supported. However mental health is a societal problem and should be treated as such. Mental illness is the leading cause of death among teenagers in Canada, but people tend to ignore it rather than face the issue. Because facing the issue would mean acknowledging the

America is running into the problem of inappropriate prescribing. Particularity, research has shown that Americans are taking medication that may be inappropriate for their mental problem. It is easy for any physician to send out a drug or write a script to treat a mental health disorder. The problem is that it may not be the safest and the most effective for the patient. Patients are now easily to receive psychotropic medication without the correct evaluation by a mental health professional. “Many Americans visit their primary-care physicians and may walk away with a prescription for an antidepressant or any other drug without being aware of other evidence-based treatment that might work better for them”

“I no longer recommend psychiatric medications to anyone. I believe the science behind this is seriously flawed. It is based on false assumptions that lead to self-perpetuating mythology (and huge profits for drug companies).” (Smith). While it may sound appealing to simply take a pill for each of your problems, it has almost become common knowledge that medications which directly affect the brain, especially in the long term, can have many direct and indirect consequences. Nearly ¼ of all Americans are diagnosed with either a personality disorder or as, and are prescribed some type of psychiatric medication. The three most popular antipsychotics alone are a $15 billion industry, with stimulants and antidepressants nearly being just as

There has long been a disconnect between mainstream medicine and the psycences. Due to the dietary changes, availability and increase in consumption of alcohol, chemical toxins, improvements in medicare, spread of infectious agents, and increased rates of immigration causing new forms of social stresses - that have all come about since the Industrial Revolution, there is an assumption within society that these circumstances are all to blame for the “rise in insanity” (Savelli, 2017). In most Western societies, the deinstitutionalization process within mental health has been in progress for several decades (Karlsson, &Markström, 2012, p. 289). The Twentieth century saw a growth in the size and importance of disciplines

The use of psychotropic drugs by adult Americans increased 22 percent from 2001 to 2010. Today, patients often receive psychotropic medications without being evaluated by a mental health professional, according to a study last year by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Many Americans visit their primary-care physicians and may walk away with a prescription for an antidepressant or other drugs without being aware of other evidence-based treatments — such as cognitive behavioral therapy — that might work better for them without the risk of side effects. Psychotropic drugs are valuable tools in treating many mental health disorders, but

In today’s society, quickly turning to the use of prescription drugs and/or psychotropic medications to help individuals who are struggling with their mental health conditions is an unfortunate act society continues to demonstrate. Unfortunately, most of society view prescription drugs and/or psychotropic medications (Anti-depressants, Antipsychotics, antidepressants, and anti-anxiety medications) as the quote-on-quote magical solutions to cure immediately individuals’ mental health conditions. In my own words, “Here is the magic pill or pills to immediately cure your mental health condition or conditions! There is no need for you to return to the doctor’s office to help address your mental health conditions in the future.” However, the quote-on-quote magic pill to cure individuals’ mental health conditions should not be the final solution.

Mental illness affects 57.7 million Americans or about 26 percent of the population, including 10 percent of children and adolescents (National Institute of Mental Health, 2015). Those effected by mental illness have symptoms varying in severity, which also differ in regards to response to treatment interventions (Castonguay & Oltmanns, 2013). The most common forms of treatment include medication and therapy, although more often than not the first method of treatment is medication, but this can become a problem because these medications just ease symptoms of mental illness, but do the treat the root of the problem (Castonguay & Oltmanns, 2013). Medications may also lose effectiveness over time, foster dependence or even addiction, can become costly, and sometimes are accompanied with negative side effects (Castonguay & Oltmanns, 2013). With

Another issue is that people don’t know how to help themselves and they don’t want to try and help themselves. There has been a lot of stigma placed on people that have mental disorders. People may see them as weak or crazy and so the person might try to hide that they have the issue. There have been some problems in the past about mental health care and professional

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