Essay On Mental Health Awareness

The term “Mental Illness” can have a wide variety of what illness a person actually has, a mental illness can be depression, schizophrenia, PTSD, etc. Mental illness is a wide range of conditions that will affect one’s ability to think, their behavior, and their mood, yet there is no cure for one’s mental illness. With the help of hospitals, the right therapy, and of course, medicine mental illness can surely be treated. In society today, people view mental illness as having something wrong with someone, that they are psychotic and should be locked in a mental facility for the rest of their lives. We as humans view this due to the fact of everything we see on television and hear around our surroundings. The media has programmed our minds to believe untrue “facts” of what we believe is someone who is mentally ill. When in reality, the mentally ill people cannot help that they are the way they are because it is a silent disease that they struggle with every day. Due to their struggle and resentment of wanting to believe they are ill, they won’t ask for help when in reality they need it. They will keep quiet in fear of judgement, isolation, and discrimination, so every day they put on their mask and go out into the world pretending they are just fine.

However what we do know is that mental illnesses are complex, and in most cases indescribably destructive. In addition, the human population has a knack for making generalizations when we can not understand complexities. This combination of miscommunication seems like a recipe for disaster, right? Well, in a recent study its been proven that the vast majority of the general public believe at least one negative stigma about anorexia, bulimia, etc. This leads me to believe that the vast majority of people is also insanely uneducated. What does this mean for the victims? Obviously somebody, who is already knee deep in self loathing, has a pretty fragile state of mind for an uneducated attack from peers, parents, teachers, etc. Now imagine a teenager, in this vulnerable position. Young and naive as it is, struggling not only with an eating disorder but with the validation from the people who matter most in their recovery. Negative stigmas lead victims to feel ashamed, guilty and disgusted with themselves, which only worsens their disordered

Mental disorders are now expressions and phrases normalised by the everyday use of them. These idioms can be saying you feel “depressed” when having a down day, claiming someone to be “bipolar” for a sudden change of emotions, having “Obsessive-compulsive disorder” just because you like your desk a certain way, the list goes on. The regularisation of these disorders has made people think it is ok to use these sever issues as a pass remark or an insult, this both belittles the illnesses itself and also makes suffers of these disorders seem as outcasts. By people reading about these mental health issues in literacy often makes the idea of having an illness, by glorifying and romanticising mental disorders has created the illusion that having something which makes people like a misery is actually a quirk. {all needs re-edited}

There are many negative stigmas in regards to seeking treatment for mental illness. Is it possible that people around the world choose to not seek treatment due to these stigmas? Or does one’s cultural beliefs keep them from seeking treatment as well? Negative attitudes and beliefs toward people who have a mental health condition is common in America and countries around the globe. The stigma does not only pertain to the people who suffer from the mental illness but those who provide the treatment as well. Psychiatry is criticized for it’s a medicalization of normal behavior. As well as its lack of cultural competency ultimately leading to misdiagnosis of minority patients. With the recent change in global demographics,

For the last six years, I have been working in the substance abuse industry in both inpatient and outpatient settings. It would be fair to say that most people that are in need of substance abuse treatment have a co-occurring disorder such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and anxiety. These people are diagnosed by a psychiatrist or medical doctor and are typically given medication to help the patient.

After a mass shooting, America frantically searches for the cause of the sudden and violent event. Society has repeatedly blamed the mentally ill, despite the fact that there is little correlation between violence and mental illness. In the past few decades, there have been numerous highly publicized mass shootings in which the shooters were mentally ill, such as the Virginia Tech Shooting and the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting. These few, but detailed examples of violence committed by the mentally ill suggests that these situations occur frequently, however, they do not. In order to address the repeated blaming of mental illness as the cause of mass shootings, one must understand that the stigma of mental illness in society and the negative media portrayals of

Just 38 percent of youth with a mood disorder such as depression or bipolar disorder receive treatment services. Many students’ mental health problems continue to go unidentified and untreated,” (Gold). In summary, schools are not identifying the students who need help and those who do need help rarely seek it. Identifying students with mental health illnesses is a step for schools to prevent school shootings and creating a safer community.

Like all form of disparities, mental health disparities is a serious challenge for minorities’ communities across America. Individuals with mental health illness how do not receive adequate health care due to variations can be affected in many ways. When their mental illness progress without any diagnosis they can easily be perceived as a threat to society. In cases where crimes are committed, and they cannot prove they are mentally challenged they can be charge and send to prison without being diagnosed which could affect their condition due to the lack of treatment. Without eradicating or implementing policies to deal with mental health disparities the probability of legally or morally assuming that people with mental health challenges are

Have you ever wondered what the minds of those responsible for school/mass shootings were thinking? In some cases, we CAN see inside the minds of these individuals/groups. How? With psychology. Through exploring frequently asked questions about the world of criminal psychology, we can learn so much about society. What phenomena is there surrounding school shootings in the US? Why is there so much talk of mental health in anticipatory crime?

Hawaii, which is an island state that many consider paradise on earth, is rich in beauty. American citizens come from all over the nation to visit Hawaii due to its unique landscape that isn’t found anywhere else in the United State. Hawaii is also known as the “Aloha State.” This nickname was given due to the fact that the word aloha is one of the most commonly used words in the state. Aloha can mean goodbye or hello, and can also communicate welcome and love. Although the benefits of Hawaii are many, its citizens fight the war on substance abuse on a daily basis.

The results suggested that the news stories caused people to have more negative perceptions on individuals with severe mental illness and to favor gun policy (McGinty et al., 2013). In comparison to the control group, participants who read about the mass shooting event with the suggestion of gun control on people with severe mental illness were in favor of banning high-capacity magazines (McGinty et al., 2013). Participants who read about the mass shooting with the suggestion of banning high-capacity magazines favored both gun policies (i.e., gun control for those with severe mental illness and banning high-capacity magazines; McGinty et al., 2013). However, in comparison to the news story that only included the mass shooting event, news stories

After a mass shooting, America frantically searches for the cause of the sudden and violent event. Society has repeatedly blamed the mentally ill, despite the fact that there is little correlation between violence and mental illness. In the past few decades, there have been numerous highly publicized mass shootings in which the shooters were mentally ill, such as the Virginia Tech Shooting and the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting. These few, but detailed examples of violence committed by the mentally ill suggests that these situations occur frequently, however, they do not. In order to address the repeated blaming of mental illness as the cause of mass shootings, one must understand that the stigma of mental illness in society

Our society today is filled with potential stressors all caused by our own expectations of life and rising needs. With world shrunk to a global village, information on fingertips, uncertain economy, terrorism, rising cost of living, parental and health care concerns add up to stress which is the main factor for the rise in mental illness. I believe one in every 5 would certainly have some sort of mental illness which disrupts their daily life.

The stigma of mental illness has the effect of that of a double edged sword. One edge is the public, led by misunderstanding and fear, which influences how they will interact and support people with mental illness. The second edge cuts into the mindsets of the mentally ill themselves, as they deal with living in a stigma saturated culture; this influences how they experience their physiological distress and also whether they decide to seek treatment. The attitudes that are cultivated through public misconception create a negative impact upon mental illness.

Picture this: a love-sick teenage girl has her world turned on its head when her ‘dazzling’ vampire boyfriend perishes. Locking herself in her room for months on end, contemplating her reasons to live she is feeling completely lost. But in traditional Hollywood fashion she one day ‘magically’ decides she is perfectly fine and spends the day with her werewolf-to-be best friend. Obviously, she has been wondrously ‘cured’ because that is how depression is ‘fixed’ - anyone who has a vampire boyfriend and a werewolf best friend would know! This is the bewitching plot of New Moon, the second movie of the teenage phenomenon Twilight Saga. Similarly to other movies and television shows, New Moon sinks its fangs into