Essay On Abnormality

Most of us do not know what it feels like to be sad for most of the day, losing interest in almost all activities of the day and suffering from insomnia or hypersomnia and having the feeling of worthlessness and thoughts of death and suicide. This is what happens to one who suffers from “depression”. This paper tries to bring forth 3 arguments lying in the area of abnormality. The first one is the notion of what is normality and how are we defining abnormality, the second is the explanation provided by the biological approach in understanding mental illness and the third is should mental disorders be a public health issue.

What is abnormality and not is a bit tricky. The most fundamental question to ask is what this whole notion of normality is and what is is the basis to which we classify certain certain pattern of thinking, behaviour or emotion as abnormal? Abnormality has been defined in a variety of ways. One is deviation from a statistical norm meaning any behaviour that

Mental health problems have an individual and a social cost .We should give the same attention and effort we put in to prevent diseases being endemic because such an environment will lead to general well-being of a nation and reduce health risk behaviours like substance abuse as this well known to happen to an individual suffering from depression. So by active measures and actions we can prevent both physical illness and mental illness. Improving mental health can improve quality of life of an individual, for people around that individual and the productivity level in a working space. So an early diagnosis and intervention is required, better understanding of the mental health and illness is also required to provide conditions that is conducive for the betterment of mental