Mental Health and Marginalization: Schizophrenia and Solutions Report

This report delves into the issue of mental health marginalization, focusing on schizophrenia and its impact on individuals. It explores the factors contributing to marginalization, including social discrimination, inadequate mental health services, and structural inequalities. The report highlights the challenges faced by individuals with schizophrenia in their daily lives, such as social exclusion, lack of support, and legal discrimination. It emphasizes the need for improved mental health services and legislative protection to address the marginalization of people with mental illness. The report also discusses the importance of community support and understanding to effectively manage mental disorders. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of supportive measures in addressing the problem of marginalization and mental health disorders.

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Introduction
– Marginalisation refers to exclusion and ignorance of needs and desires of a
small group in the society.
– Schizophrenia refers to a mental malfunction that becomes visible in early
adulthood or late adolescence (Cockerham 2016).
– It is characterized by hallucinations, cognitive difficulties and delusions.
– It can sometimes be a life long struggle.

Factors promoting marginalization
among the people with mental illness
– Social roles access
– There exist discrimination attitudes that patients encounter in their day to day life.
– Some of them include community prejudices and lack of understanding. This results to loss
of friends, feeling neglected and provokes fear.
– Mental health services quality
– This refers to the perceived inadequacy of institutions and treatments for mentally disabled.
– There exist lack of collaboration between parents, family members and metal health
practitioners.
– Absence of law or legislations protecting the rights of those suffering from mental disorder
has also promoted discrimination.

Factors promoting marginalization
among the people with mental
illness Cont.
– Structural discrimination
– Despite poor experiences pertaining quality and availability of mental health
services, relatives and their patients have reported legal discrimination
experiences (Devarkar et al 2016). Mental disorder is rarely reflected on by
legislative and political world.

Conclusion
– In order to effectively control mental disorders in the community we ought to
support those who are affected.

References
– Cockerham, W. C. (2016). Sociology of mental disorder. Taylor & Francis.
– Devarkar, S. C., Wang, C., Miller, M. T., Ramanathan, A., Jiang, F., Khan, A. G., ...
& Marcotrigiano, J. (2016). Structural basis for m7G recognition and 2 -O-methyl′
discrimination in capped RNAs by the innate immune receptor RIG-
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