Uninsured Mental Health

Introduction

What is Mental Health. Mental Health is defined as state of emotional and psychological well-being in which an individual is able to use his or her cognitive and emotional capabilities, function in society, and meet the ordinary demands of everyday life. A person's overall emotional and psychological condition.(TheFreeDictionary.com2017) The mental health person does not have the capability of the people in normal society they can be put in centers and sometimes shipped to institutions and prisons. In addition, to their condition or their illness. Most of them are humiliated and rejected by their families or treated in and inhumane way. The faces of mental health range from any age, any color, and any background. They
The treatment for a person that is homeless and uninsured and mentally ill is appalling. They are treated indifferent in society. From the eyes of African American man in Louisiana; I seen them been rejected talked about. This is from doctors to the nurses to the staff. I seen people looked over and curse out and even kicked out of facilities for the way they look or acted. I also seen hospital with beds available and tell certain people no beds were available. I think there should be more training for medical staff and a bigger pay raise for them. Especially the medical staff that is willing to work and help the mentally ill patient. There is a major impact and burden on the healthcare and on society especially in Louisiana. The medications for the mentally ill can too expensive. Medications play a major role in mental health and how we treat patients. The medications, that we use to treat varies disorders from bipolar, psycho social disorder, to dementia. But there could be non-medication treatments that would play a vital role in mental health. Some other treatments could be integrated in to the healthcare for the treatment of the mentally ill. Such as various programs that improve response to treatment. This would reduce the dosing of medication on patients; which would save money on treatment cost for the patient. The program could emphasis on maintaining wellness; developing a more personalized plan
Law Enforcement job is a hard job. Most people do not want to be a police officer or a law enforcement you have to deal with a lot of situations. In a Law Enforce job things come at you fast and all at once. Police officer have to deal with a lot of people on a everyday basis; they have to have a great deal of discretion. When interacting with people that are mental ill and mental illness, and the homeless. At many police scene mentally ill people and homeless are detained and taken to hospital or arrested or taken to jail. The biggest system in Louisiana for the mentally ill is the correctional facility which has become the primary way to deal with the mentally ill because of budget cutbacks. The correctional facility are acting as holding areas like hospitals for the mentally ill. And even if they are not taken to jail the mentally facility offers little help to the mentally ill person. Because the funding for inpatient treatment options has dramatically have decreased. This then turns to a vicious cycle that repeats over and over for a mentally ill person or a homeless person. I think there should more training for law enforcement and better pay and on the job training for the mentally ill and how to deal with them in society and various places. In addition to on the job training there should be extra incentives to officer that treat and talk to the mentally ill and resolve the situations instead