Full Disclosure Of Mental Illness Essay

Introduction
“More than 30 South Koreans kill themselves everyday” according to The New York Times (McDonald, ). There has been so much news about celebrities, politicians and business leaders committing suicide in these days due to mental illness such as depression. In fact, the number of patients getting medical treatment due to mental illness has been increased by 20% in two years from 2011 to 2013 (Park, Segye news). In general, people are reluctant to be open about their mental illness. Disclosing yourself on mental illness can disrupt you from getting a job, making friends, socializing with people or even getting married. Full disclosure of mental illness can make you to be forever stigmatized, at least in Korea (McDonald, ).
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It is expected that each patient choose different disclosure status, and each disclosure status will lead to different kinds of stressors or consequences that patient will have to face. Independent variable will be one’s disclosure status of mental health status. This can be divided into three major cases: full-disclosure, semi-disclosure and non-disclosure. Full disclosure will mean that patient is open about his or her mental illness no matter to whom, when and where. He or she will not hide about mental illness when asked. Semi-disclosure will mean that patient is open about his or her mental illness to only a certain people, such as family or close friends. Non-disclosure will mean that no one knows about his or her mental illness except for the patient oneself. Depending on each independent variable, there can be different consequences or stressors that patient experiences. This will be dependent variable. For example, patient who chooses non-disclosure will be stressed forever by people finding out about his or her mental illness. On the other hand, patient with full-disclosure might suffer from