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ENG COMP 105 Professor Tingle William Karambelas 1 Call to Action for a N ational Mental Health PSA William Karambelas Department of English, Arizona State University ENG 105: Advanced First Year Composition Professor Tingle September 29, 2023
ENG COMP 105 Professor Tingle William Karambelas 2 Call to Action for a National Mental Health PSA Millions of Americans suffer from a mental illness without knowing they have one. That represents millions suffering without knowing the cause of their pain. Stigma prevents people from getting the treatment they desperately need. Think about the quality of life increase, and increases in productivity simply if more people were made aware about mental illness. The worst prison is one’s worst mind. Untreated mental illness leads to institutionalization and incarceration. OCD alone costs millions in disability allocations. However, the benefits to quality of life are incalculable. A mental health PSA is a good investment because of the immeasurable benefits to those that it helps. Specifically, a national style PSA and if not economically feasible, a local PSA at ASU Online. Stigma about mental illness prevents people from getting help. Stigma, in particular, prevents people from seeking help for their mental illness. (Corrigan, Druss, Perlick, 2014) Stigma often comes from the environment. People’s negative attitudes toward mental illness help form stigma. Stigma just doesn’t affect treatment rates. Stigma also lowers self-efficacy and self- esteem. (Watson, Corrigan Larson, Sella, 2006) This loss of self-efficacy impairs the ability of the patient to seek treatment on its own. Having low self-esteem further discourages patients from treatment.
ENG COMP 105 Professor Tingle William Karambelas 3 However, research suggests that invention via media is possible. Media is anything that produces information, but for the purposes of this essay we will consider media to only be the domain of video. This is because the evidence most strongly supports this format. Watching a movie aimed at lowering stigma can have positive benefits on expectations before seeking treatment (Anderson, DeMyan, 2012). This makes sense because the participant can empathize with the media, especially with human actors. The same research also supports evidence that watching a supporting video can lower belief-based barrier as well. Anything that lowers the barrier to treatment is going to get more people stable and functioning. The main drawbacks I see with my approach are all cost-prohibitive. To truly get the reach I’m looking for, millions would have to be spent on the recording, production and distribution of such media. While many may argue that there are more deserving charities, the worst prison is one’s own mind. Shouldn’t we give people a chance before we, at great cost, institutionalize or incarcerate them. Institutionalization for mental illness cost 22.5 billion in 1963. (Rice, 2011) Figures since are hard to find due to the fact that institutionalization has been replaced by incarceration. Incarceration in America costs 75 billion dollars. (Gupta, Schmitt, Warner, 2010) While not all of these incarnated people are untreated mental ill people, a staggering amount are.
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