They struggle to make social connections and often cannot keep the ones they do make. For the seriously mentally ill, real freedom is hard to find. While many believe the policy of deinstitutionalization was a good thing, for the seriously mentally ill patient who needs constant care and daily therapy, the loss of that resource is tragic. A better understanding of how to divert mentally ill people who commit crimes away from prison is needed. Until then the cycle of prison to homeless to prison or worse will continue and the mentally ill will be doomed to a tragic life of never finding
It is estimated that approximately twenty five percent of the geriatric population consumes ten to fourteen separate medications daily. This can lead to other problems, risks and side effects such as, drug abuse, substance abuse, depression, dementia, and possibly, death. Typically people believe drug and substance abuse to be a problem primarily among young adults, but it is also a very real problem within the elderly population. Overmedicating is the primary issue that leads to late adulthood drug abuse. Moreover, physicians tend to treat their patients for a specific condition without considering that their patient has probably been prescribed medications for other illnesses by other physicians.
Personality Disorders Discuss the problems related with identifying and diagnosing Borderline Personality Disorder Introduction The term “borderline” means in-between things. Originally, this term was used when the clinician was unsure of the correct personality disorder diagnosis, because the patient manifested a mixture of neurotic and psychotic symptoms. Today there is a hopeful prognosis, but there are still a lot of questions to be answered and things to be learned about Borderline Personality Disorder. What is Borderline Personality Disorder? Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a serious psychiatric disorder that is difficult to treat, because of poor patient response and because of the trouble caused to the therapist and the treatment team.
I have worked with youngsters and adults with ADHD and find it astounding that in certain cases little is known by families, carers and the individuals about this disorder. Is this in light of the fact that resources are lacking, or on the grounds that opinions are divided on the condition itself? Alison Munden (1999) remarked that numerous families come to become despondent, on the grounds that their endeavours to find either a explanation for ADHD or a cure have been unsuccessful. I will begin with a brief look at the common treatments for ADHD followed by a literature review exploration of the choice of ADHD treatments. There are a lot of conflicting views and opinions for the treatment of ADHD I will look at four types or “treatments”
I do not want my disorder to control my whole life. One day I would like to be able to have my disorder under control. I mostly get angry more than anything else I get sad or upset some times but my anger usually gets the best of me. Another reason I feel as if my disorder is complicated is because I have to take my medication on time everyday if I miss a day or take it at the wrong time than the medication won’t be as affective as it usually would and than I might end up having mood swings and might end up bugging out on someone and might even get into some type of trouble. I also don’t like my disorder because I end up getting mad over little things and than I get into trouble and trouble comes with fines and / or jail time and I’m to old to be acting up anymore and its also not fair to my mother because I don’t have a job right now so she would be the one having to pay for the out come of my mistake because I got angry over something small or even something stupid.
Sarah Dunkerley Mental Health essay There is a wide variety of Mental illnesses, most commonly Schizophrenia, manic depression, Bi-polar and Alzheimer’s. Mental illness is a disorder that disrupts a persons thinking, feeling, moods and the ability to relate to others, it can become so severe that the person cannot cope with everyday activities and can sadly lead to deep depression or even suicide. Mental illnesses can affect absolutely anyone at any age, race, religion and class. With the medicines and treatments of today some mental illnesses you can recover from but it is not easy and it can be a long process. Some treatments include medication treatment, psychosocial treatment such as cognitive behavioural therapy and rational
If they cannot afford the amount for medication copay then they may hold out just to be able to save for another week or so. This brings me to the article mentioned below and an example of that is an episode in Special Victims Unit where there was a patient in a nursing home and he had to take a certain medication to treat his mental illness and the nursing home did not provide to him because they could not afford it. “Some 22 percent of Massachusetts nursing home residents taking antipsychotics in 2009 who did not have conditions called for these sedative like drugs. San Francisco Public Health Director Mitchell Katz said that 60-70 percent of people taking these drugs should not”. Anti-depressants have been helpful to those suffering with major depression to being down in the
Dual Diagnoses Carlethe Embry BHSH 431 Anthony Bennett Jan 23, 2012 Dual Diagnoses Dual Diagnoses is very important in the treatment of clients with co-occurring conditions. Co-occurring happens when the client has a substance abuse problem and a mental health disorder. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, millions of adults suffer from drugs, and mental health disorders, 7.4% receive treatment for mental health and drug use. That leaves more than 50% of the patients not getting any treatment at all (SAMHSA). Mental health problems can be the cause of substance abuse, and visa-versa, drugs can cause mental illness.
Virtually every medication presents some risk of undesirable side effects, sometimes even serious ones. Doctors consider the potential benefits and risks to each patient before prescribing medications, but even then if taken for long periods of time they can have an effect on your ability to see clearly. What makes it worse is that people who abuse drugs might not understand how these factors may affect them or that prescription drugs do more than cause a high, help them stay awake, help them relax, or relieve pain. Another problem is that many drug abusers take more than one drug at a time and this can cause serious consequences, one of which is death. Every 14 minutes someone dies because of prescription pills.
There are more medications today that can at least treat this type of an illness then it would have been back in the past. There have been more research options that has been developed to treat ADHD, then when I was a child. A timeline of ADHD Before 1900, Symptoms of ADHD are considered a moral problem of children. 1937- Scientists first report that stimulants can control ADHD symptoms. 1940- Symptoms of ADHD continue to be blamed on ‘’minimal brain damage’’.