Mental Health Essays

On February 3, 2019 an article was published on sciencenews.org about why it’s highly important to diagnose people with depression and/or anxiety early in life. It goes in depth on how the effects of anxiety and depression worsen over time and how it affects people. The article states that kids …

With the development of science and technology, smartphones have become a useful and important part of an individual’s lifestyle1. The highest mobile phone usage is found to be in the age group 25 – 34 at the rate of 62%, from which 53% users being males and 47% users being …

Mental illnesses, they aren’t a fun topic to talk about and they definitely aren’t anything fun to have. I have struggled with mental illnesses since I was a kid. I have major depressive disorder and multiple types of anxiety. I’ve only found one thing that has really helped me when …

First, we must make sure we know the difference between mental health and mental illness. I see a lot of times people us them to mean the same thing when they don’t. When we talk about mental health, we’re talking about our mental well-being: our emotions, our thoughts and feelings, …

Have you ever wondered what happened to the people who are mentally ill and locked up in prisons by police officers? It is surprising to some people in the public who think people who are mentally ill need to be locked up or not in public. This is important, because …

I’ll never forget the morning I woke up to my mom telling me that I had lost my sweet friend. As you can imagine, I was speechless. The first thing that rushed to my head was, “ how…. A car crash?….An unspoken illness?” With tears in her eyes, she informed …

Suicide, mass shootings, substance abuse and behavioral problems appear on our schools at growing rates. People judge, criticize and place blame on the parents for the actions of their children. Often parents don’t have the tools to recognize the signs when it is time to take a stand and advocate …

Many people diagnosed with mental disorders are challenged by the stereotypes and prejudice that result from misconceptions about mental illness. Stereotypes often depict people with mental illness as being dangerous, unpredictable, responsible for their own illness or generally incompetent. All of which can lead to excluding people with these conditions …

Self injurious behavior is also a common phenomenon among the people with mental illness, which means that someone hurts him/herself deliberately. The common methods includes cutting with sharp things like knives, hitting on hard things like a wall, picking at wounds to prevent healing, pulling out hair, deliberately causing burns …

Labeling Mental Illness In today’s society, it is easy to identify individuals with physical disabilities such as, blindness or loss of hearing.  However, people diagnosed with having a mental illness are more difficult to detect.  According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 44.7 million people have been diagnosed with …