(PDF) Contemporary Issues in Depressive Disorders
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(PDF) Contemporary Issues in Depressive Disorders
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Running head: ANALYSIS OF CONTEMPORARY MENTAL HEALTH ISSUESAnalysis of Contemporary Mental Health IssuesName of the Student:Name of the University:Author Note:
1ANALYSIS OF CONTEMPORARY MENTAL HEALTH ISSUESMental health is one of the most challenging issues in contemporary days. The diseasehas the biggest impact on the life and lifestyle of the individual suffering from the illness. Mentalhealth disorders range from mild to serious disturbances in the thought process and behaviorpattern of the affected individuals. Mental illness has various forms, the common ones beingdisorder, dementia, schizophrenia and such others. It can be physical, emotional or psychologicalconnoting to the cause of the illness. Impact of any incident, series of incidents, geneticdisorders, environmental stress and others lead to mental disorders. Proper treatment and carehelps the affected person to recover, but in many cases, the problem exists for life-long (Andradeet al., 2014). The essay studies the lived experiences of mentally affected patients and analysesthe guidelines and implementations needed to deal with them. It explores the various ideas givenby the National Recovery framework, rendering a detailed study of how the patients can berecovered from the illness through clinical as well as personal recovery measures. Experiencesfrom the lived experience of Sandy Jeffs will be addressed throughout the essay to make it moredetailed.Mental health illness has been a widespread issue affecting millions of people worldwide(Nolen & Rector, 2015). The grievous condition of the problem is more understandable whenone who is living with the illness is acknowledged. Analyzing the case of mental disorder, it isfound that most of the patients suffer from psychotic illness or bipolar disorder. The rest arefound to be living with severe anxiety or depression. Acknowledging the case of mental illnessof Sandy Jeffs, a community educator who talks to people about how it feels to live with mentaldisorders herself has lived with Schizophrenia. The people living with the illness go throughtragic conditions pertaining to physical illness, isolation from society, stigmatized and left to livea lonely life. Jeffs voices the need to socially include the affected people in order to make them
2ANALYSIS OF CONTEMPORARY MENTAL HEALTH ISSUESfeel one with the others, to have a community-based care along the treatment for the disorder(Caplan, 2013). She pens down the real emotions and experiences one goes through beingmentally affected. She presents her own traumatic journey as a patient of psychotic illness with avery positive note in her poems and claims them to be the write-ups that celebrate the survival ofthe mentally affected ones. Most of the people, mainly from the rural areas are devoid of propertreatment and left to stroll around on the streets. Therefore, as Jeffs mentions in her poems, thereis an essential need of implementing measures and services by agencies to promote health caremeasures for the mentally affected patients in every part of the world.Mental health recovery does not parallel to the recovery a patient undergoes in case ofany other physical illnesses (Berne, 2016). Recovery in mental illness cases require the focusedconcern for building resilience of people suffering from the illness. There are recovery modelsthat initiate the different processes of recovery; however, ‘hope’ is the ultimate guiding principle(Kukla, Salyers & Lysaker, 2013). The belief that despite mental illness, one can have thepossibility to restore back to a meaningful life serves to be the basic concept of recovery fromthe illness. It acts as a journey that tries to bring a meaning to the life of the person living withthe illness. It commits to acknowledge the person as an entity and does not focus entirely on themental illness. The entire process becomes futile without the role, support and positive attitude ofthe family and the people who are related to the patient. The process also tries to embrace andwork with newer and more innovative means to cure the patients that they deal with. The mainaim of the process is to make the patient look beyond his/her trouble in order to set and achievetheir interests and dreams. The journey acts as a path of discovering one’s own self with elevatedvalues that ultimately foster personal growth of the individual.
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