Mental Illness Research Paper

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Answer For Question Five Mental illness does exist, and it make other people life worse. Maybe, someone may think that mental illness make other people easy because they do not have to work, they will not have to worry about paying bill, buying food, etc. On the contrary these people with mental illness suffer, they go through hard moments on their lives. They may feel happy one minute, then they may feel sadness for not reasons. How can these people have an enjoying life, when their minds is playing trick with them. They feel a bunch of different feeling that make them sad. In fact, they do not just feel the kind of sadness that we may feel. They have feeling that makes them end their lives. Labels of psychological disorders can be damaging because they may lead to negative stereotypes, which, as reviewed in Chapter 13, play a role in prejudice. For example, the label "schizophrenic" often has negative connotations such as …show more content…

When we label mental illness for a person, we makes his/her life worse. If a psychologist is going to label someone mental disorder, we want that the psychologist have a high education. The education, and the passion that the psychologists should have toward their patients have to be very high in order to help this people. Diagnosis are very important to treat people with this illness, but how educate may the person who interpret the diagnosis. When I was little I spend a lot of my time on a clinic. I believe that some doctor who treat me did not know that much because sometimes I did not get better. I wonder if something like that may happen to these people with mental illness. Mental health professionals need to do what they think is best for that person when they have to diagnosis a person illness. They spend a lot of their time getting a good education, they just have to put their heart in what they do to treat people the best way they