Question

Mental health is a serious issue that is impacting our society. Many citizens are not seeking help due to feeling of embarrassment and lack of knowledge. How can we decrease the stigma around mental health. How can chronic illness,unemployment,substance abuse,and violence contribute to the onset of mental illness?

Answer 1

We need to start having checkups like we have physicals, they need to be mandatory, both are equally as important. We also need to realize people who are diagnosed and or medicated are NOT crazy people. Mental health plays a big role in unemployment; for example someone with depression may find it hard to get out of bed let alone look presentable for work. People who abuse substances most likely do not know how to cope with their mental illnesses, so they become addicts of some sort of substance. Violence is unfortunately another big contributor. My friend Maddie suffers from severe anxiety. It is not the cute shy and shaky anxiety, Maddie because very irritable and scared. So much so that the simplest of things will make her body pump out adrenaline, causing her to go into fight or flight, why would Maddie need to fight anyone while she is, for example talking in front of class? Maddie because super skiddish because her body is never relaxed so if someone comes up to her quickly and suddenly her body will instantly react and fight, hit the person or she will jump back and away from that area.