Argumentative Essay On Mental Suicide

Suicide rates in have continually increased over the past decade yet little to nothing has been done to prevent this. Mental illness should be treated as an equal to physical illness since they are equally as deadly. The number one of the many elements of that cause suicide are mental illness. But what can be done about this? Probably the best place to start is with improving the public services of citizens suffering from mental illness since our mental health care system is practically useless to the people. People suffering with mental disorders carry with them an elevated risk of suicide in their lifetime. As a matter of fact, around 90% of people who commit suicide suffer from some sort of mental illness. These disorders that include a higher
risk of suicide are depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, namely posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and phobias. A troubling number of the American population are suffer from mental illness. 75% Two thirds of people who die by suicide have symptoms consistent with major depression at the time of death, and people with major depression have a suicidal risk of twenty times that of people with no emotional disorder. People with bipolar disorder have a suicide risk of fifteen times that of people with no mood disorder. Individuals that suffer from psychotic disorders like schizophrenia have a 5% higher risk of suicide. According to researches, one of every seventeen people in America suffer from a serious mental disorder. Due to the budget cuts and the already insufficient funding on mental health care and other services for mental Illness has made it difficult for Americans to receive proper treatment for their illness. All of this due to the current recession in America. During the past 5 years the states combined cuts has resulted in a total of an increasing 41.3 million dollars, resulting in services that provided medical care and housing for the afflicted to be completely shut down and waiting list for other living services to grow extensively. Due to these budget cuts on mental illness, it has become much harder to receive proper or any treatment in America in comparison to physical illness.
This has gotten to the point where prisons offers better mental health care than anywhere else, resulting in judges being willing to send people to prison so they can receive better care for their illness. When it comes to treatment of serious mental disorder the patient is usually sent off into a psychiatric unit for a weekend to a month and is later discharged with a prescription without even any certainty that the patient will continue with his treatment. Which is improper considering the great possibility that this person could harm themselves or others depending on their condition. Then when it comes to a physical illness, one just has to walk into a hospital and their physical illness is treated with greater importance than that of someone with a mental illness. There have been many situations where a mentally ill person is sentenced to a psychiatric hospital for a suicide attempt only to be discharged days later with not actual treatment, which leads to the person performing a second attempt on their life and, in most cases,
succeeding. In conclusion and after considering these facts, it is reasonable for the Americans to demand better health care for those that suffer from a mental illness/disorder. These people are a danger to themselves and some to others. People, adults and children, are losing their lives due to the negligence and poor treatment of their condition.