How does discrimination affect people with mental illness? People with mental health problems experience many different types of stigma. This article explores the attitudes and beliefs of the general public towards people with mental illness‚ and the lived experiences and feelings of service users and their relatives. Keywords: Mental health/Mental illness/Stigma/Discrimination This article has been double-blind peer reviewed 5 key points 1. Stigma can affect many aspects of people’s
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hears the term “Emotional Health” his or her mind instantly goes blank trying to surmise what this means. It is without a doubt that emotional health is something that the average human being deals with everyday‚ and it is as important as any other form of health. People do question that emotional health has a “good” and “bad” effect‚ and yes it is true‚ but they are never able to distinguish the difference. That difference is how severe “bad” emotional health is‚ also what it could lead
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Anxiety is an emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil‚ often accompanied by nervous behavior‚ such as pacing back and forth‚ somatic complaints and rumination. It is the subjectively unpleasant feelings of dread over anticipated events‚ such as the feeling of imminent death. Anxiety is not the same as fear‚ which is a response to a real or perceived immediate threat; whereas anxiety is the expectation of future threat. It is often accompanied by muscular tension‚ There are various
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Understanding Mental Health Problems 1.1 The nature of mental wellbeing and mental health is perceived in many different ways in turn causing conflict. Peoples views on the origin of mental health and the reasoning towards the conditioning of the illness creates many negative but yet also positive views. Negativity towards mental health is largely part of a lack of understanding and education towards the condition. It is believed that this may be due to the fact that mental illness is not a condition
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Anxiety All of us have some experience‚ of how and what anxiety feels like – e.g. our heart beat increases before a big event‚ we get butterflies in our stomach at exam time‚ we worry and get upset over family problems‚ we are concerned about our performance and looks at special occasions‚ or we feel nervous at the time of asking the boss for a raise etc.‚ etc. We are anxious just about anything. Actually‚ these are natural reactions related to our concerns about future. It is a fact‚ that anxiety
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Mental Health in East Africa I was born and raised in a city of Kigali in Rwanda. Growing up in a war torn country was awful. However‚ it gave me opportunities to move around East Africa. This allowed me to live in 3 different countries excluding the U.S.‚ to speak 5 languages and to learn a lot about different cultures in the East African region. When I came to the U.S‚ a lot changed and one of many things I could not understand was why there are so many mental health disorders. Before I came
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communities. During the 1980s‚ the cost of health care increased more than any other cost in our national economy. As a result‚ strategic planning has been made to reduce costs. "The political decision made to deinstitutionalize chronic mental patients started with the appearance of phenothiazine medications. Dramatically reducing the instability influenced by psychosis‚ these medications were of great significance to many individuals with serious mental disorders. At both the state and federal
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Mental Health of Refugees in Europe Research Paper Course „Notfall und Katastrophenpsychologie“ with Dipl. Psych. Susanne Deimling Akkon University for Human Science Melanie Jean Waetke Matriculationnumber 3122024 Submission deadline 30.03.2014 Melanie J. Waetke‚ Katastrophenpsychologie Mental Health of Refugees in Europe 1. Instruction 2. Facts about displaced People 3. Refugees in Europe 4. Reasons for migration 5. Rights of refugees 6. Mental health of refugees 7. Classification of mental illnesses
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Long Term Care The Continuum of Care What is Long Term Care? Health‚ mental health‚ social and residential services provided to temporarily or chronically disabled person over extended period of time Characteristics of LT Care Physical or mental‚ temporary or permanent Need based on functional disabilities Promotes or maintains health and independence in functional abilities and quality of life To enable us to die peacefully and with dignity Multiple services and multiple
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According to The Free Dictionary‚ mental illness is defined as‚ “Any of various psychiatric conditions‚ usually characterized by impairment of an individual ’s normal cognitive‚ emotional‚ or behavioral functioning‚ and caused by physiological or psychosocial factors “(The Free Dictionary‚ 2007). Mental illness can certainly be a physical illness‚ but is not as easily diagnosed like a disease such as diabetes. In a disease like diabetes‚ physicians can run tests to look for certain indicators of
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