Health Care

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 I plan to change the stigma on mental illness by changing the narrative that surrounds it. If people could just realize that disabilities do not mean in capabilities, but simply special abilities. There is still a barbaric outlook on mental illness and how it should be treated. I also would like to advocate for better medical treatment for those in need. Major pharmaceutical drive the cost of prescription pills high making it virtually impossible for those in need to purchase them. I also want to urge medical doctors to stop generalizing their practices and using their patients as lab rats.By lab rats I mean stopping them from prescribing medication arbitrarily without fully understanding their patient. 

     Mental Illness is said to be a neurological chemical imbalance found with in the brain. Most people are unaware of this imbalance which has caused the unknown number of reported cases. Awareness of mental illness is very important because it will play a major role in reducing the stigma and create a more positive dialogue that will encourage people to seek help.   Looking at foundations like Susan G Komen’s for Breast cancer awareness or Magic Johnson’s      Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome awareness, we have learned that bringing diseases and illnesses to the forefront of society helps with coping. Also, by creating nationally publicized platforms for any deficiencies creates an unwavering amount of support for the cause that will provide people who do not have the opportunity to get help a chance. Dr. Graham C. L. Davey indicated in his journal that organizations like A Time to Change   helps to “improve attitudes towards people wi...

     Mental illness and anything involving it has been heavily stigmatized since the ancient times. According to blogger Abbey Cressman and the Museum of Health Care it was doing the ancient times where mental illness was “… centered on the idea that victims were possessed by evil spirits”   (Cressman) .   The perception of the mentally evolved from evil spirit possession to wild beasts which would eventually change the way clinicians attempted to treat these illnesses. Originally mental illness was treated with charms and amulets to release any evil spirits from the body, however, the institution of church referred to these types of rituals as demonic and witchcraft. Medical treatment for the mentally ill would eventually evolve from charms and Electro Shock therapy to prescription pills that are being used today. Although treatment for curing mental illness has evolved, the animalistic outlook towards them would remain the same. It is evident that even tod...