Examples Of Mental Illness In America

Mental Disorders Connected to Our Culture Mental Illness changes in the United states as the culture of the country changes throughout the years. Depression and Anxiety disorders are illnesses that have been extremely common throughout the years. These illnesses are connected to our culture. In previous time, tragic events effected our minds and bodies in a negative way. In today’s world, technology is everywhere and has a significant effect on our health. The Great Depression was a tragic time in the United States that effected our country forever. The stock market crashed in October 1929, causing everyone to lose their money and go into panic. This led to a high amount of unemployed people. According to Tom DeGrace, “By 1933, the

People didn’t have jobs, food, and a scarce amount of money. These are necessities needed to survive, and they were not available. This need for necessities continued to grow and caused more people to come depressed due to the fact they didn’t have these priorities. These individuals didn’t know if they would make it to the next day. This tragic event caused mental disorders to the people of this generation. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, displays an example of a women in past time fighting depression. The narrator does not feel as though she Is sick, but her husband, John, does. She is given a cure that forces her to stay in a confined room. She feels trapped by her husband, causing her to feel depressed. This woman believes she sees a woman inside her wall trying to escape, but in reality she is seeing herself in the wallpaper trying to escape because she is also trying to escape her depression. This depression causes her to be fixed on her own mind, leaving her to feel

Today, anxiety disorders are more common. Currently, more and more people are suffering from ADD and ADHD. ADD (Attention deficit disorder) and ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) are both an anxiety disorders that affect people’s ability to stay focused on things like schoolwork, conversations, and everyday activities. These anxiety disorders could be said to be caused by the increase of technology in our culture, causing younger people to have a hard time concentrating on the tasks at hand. Technology surrounds everyone in modern day society. Instead of playing outside, children are sitting inside on the IPad for hours on end. According to Russell Barkley, “On average, there are 1 to 3 children who have ADHD in every classroom of 30 students.” This statistic keeps growing and growing. Children get attached to a website or a video game, making it addicting. They are to focused on this game that they can’t focus on anything else going on. When the device is taken away, these children are lost and have no idea what to do. Technology is bringing anxiety on these children, giving them disorders that could last them a