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    Dispite the correlation between mental illness and violence being modest, those suffering from mental illnesses are at an increased risk of commiting violence. Mental illness as described by Dennis Howitt (2011) is a diversity of conditions where the characteristics are impotent and afflicting impairment in the psychological functioning of a person. This definition provided by Howitt is quite broad and the focus here will be on mental illness caused by alchol/drug abuse; personality disorders such

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    Differing Mental Illness

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    millennials of the modern American society, mental disabilities are often ignored and disregarded due to the inability to see their struggles and pains physically. Depression and Anxiety are common among most Americans, but many still are disregarded and not taken seriously. On top of not taken seriously society treats them unlike those without mental disabilities and differentiates them. Although modern technologies helps us to identify those with mental disabilities and give them tools to succeed

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    Mental Illness Mental Illness affects 43 million adults worldwide. It normally starts before a person is 14 years old. One in five adults suffers from mental illness. One in ten has a serious mental illness that could be affecting their everyday life without them noticing. The most common mental illness is depression. This mental illness is common in teenagers and adults. This disease is caused by millions of chemical reactions in the brain. Other causes of depression are stress,

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    Mental Illness Sociology

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    nearly as violent as they are presumed to be. Not all mental illnesses can lead people to be violent or more unpredictable, but those that do are not nearly as bad as they are portrayed in the media. Mental illnesses like dissociative identity disorder, schizophrenia, and psychosis are seen as “scary” mental illnesses because people don’t know much about them. In movies like American Psycho, Split, and Silence of the Lambs, people with severe mental illnesses are painted as ruthless, erratic, murderers

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    Involuntary psychiatric commitment has been like a pendulum, sometimes in favor as a government policy to treat mental illness, and other times not. Mental illness treatment has been evolving throughout history. Society once believed that mental illness was due to a reversed to an animalistic level of consciousness, possession of demons, a sinful soul, or a chemical imbalance. The medical journal Nature and Genetics, recently reported that, a defect in chromosome number six which has been identified

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    MENTAL HEALTH REPORT 1.Prevalence is the number of cases of disease in a given population and is defined with epidemiological data. Mental health is a person’s psychological well-being. Associated diseases have become increasingly prevalent in Australia over the past decade, with a recent advertisement by the ABC highlighting that 50% of Australians will experience a mental illness. Mental illness is responsible for the third largest burden of disease in Australia, making it a priority. • Morbidity

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    The stigma of mental illness was highlighted in a recent news article in Australia which sees the Victorian State Government overseeing plans to build housing for the homeless in Brighton, Victoria. Locals are fearing for their safety after hearing of the mental status of the people who may be residing in these homes, as one resident stated in the news article, “these people might have mental illnesses… I can’t come home at night and feel safe” (Yahoo7 News, para. 5, 2017). If the community were

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    Mental Illness: A wide range of mental health conditions — disorders that affect your mood, thinking and behavior (Mayo Clinic, 2015). Mental illness affects people of all ages, education, income levels, and cultures. While many Canadians will not have to deal with persons suffering from mental illness in their day to day, police officers have seen an increase in calls for emotionally disturbed peoples (EDP) (Boyce & Rotenberg & Karam, 2015). This has put pressure on police services to educate their

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    are afraid to step forward and admit to having a mental illness. Society has made it such a taboo thing to the point where people are afraid to even talk about.” This is what twenty-one-year-old Kaelia Nelson, a pageant queen originally from Hemingford, Nebraska, focused her platform on. She was recently crowned as Miss Alliance, and would have competed at Miss Nebraska in June of 2018. Unfortunately, Kaelia lost her battle against her mental illness. Kaelia was a junior studying education and was

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    The majority of people that have a severe mental illness are object to challenges in double measure. From one point of view, they wrestle with the symptoms and disablement that result from the illness. From another point, they are tested by the stereotypes and preconceived ideas that stem from the misunderstandings about mental illness. As a culmination of both, people with a mental illness are stripped of the chances that define a quality life such as a good job, safe housing, adequate health care

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