Essays on Mental Illness

For decades, individuals dealing with mental illness have been depicted as crazy, harmful and dangerous. Although there has been progress in recent years, these portrayals are overwhelmingly negative and remain the dominant representations of mental illness in mass media and popular culture. When we watch...

Physician prescribed medications are the usual treatment for mental illnesses and are (worldwide) often dispensed in the doctor’s office, but with the growth of mental disorders, pharmacists are ideally positioned to play a greater role in supporting people with a mental illness. This paper aims...

Growing up I always had a secure attachment to my parents, especially my mom. Having a strong bond with my family allowed me to learn how to regulate my emotions and develop strong social skills. As mentioned in the textbook, children who establish a secure...

Child endangerment and abuse can formulate can many negative symptoms and ultimately mental health problems, in which this problems can affect them in his or her adult life. If a child is treated with care, he or she will grow up wanting to respect others,...

Social psychologists have observed that our society, which is heavily governed by stereotypes which when internalised have a debilitating impact on people’s sense of self and their ability to reach out for help. This phenomenon is known as ‘self-stigma’, and it is especially associated with...

Everyone is attacked by stressors and has stress reactions on a daily basis, but stress and stress responses are not necessarily negative events. They can be what encourages and gives us the energy to excel and or meet our goals if used productively. The teen...

Many scientific studies regarding self-stigma have arose in the past few decades, providing insight of its effects on the people affected by such. The experience of having mental health disorders is impacted strongly by interpersonal interactions and social factors particularly throughout the course of the...