(2006) states that substance abuse frequently leads to conflict with family members, causing higher levels of expressed emotions, equaling a psychotic relapse. Lastly, substance abuse may further compromise cognitive functioning, which is already impaired in patients with schizophrenia. Other challenges to this population include: patient difficulty tracking or organizing responses to complex questions (Martino et al.,
Insomnia is a common problem for people that suffer or have suffered from physical abuse. This is can be caused by fear, stress, anxiety, feelings of guilt, and inability to let go of what happened in the past. A person may be afraid to go to sleep because they may have very vivid dreams about being physical abused. Insomnia can make a person find it very hard to function during the day as
Social isolation, poor housing, unemployment and poverty are all linked to mental ill health. So stigma and discrimination can trap people in a cycle of illness. The situation is exacerbated by the media. Media reports often link mental illness with violence, or portray people with mental health problems as dangerous, criminal, evil, or very disabled and unable to live normal, fulfilled lives. 2.2 How mental illness can have an impact on the individual: Psychologically: - person may become paranoid and therefore exclude him or her self -person may become paranoid and therefore hurt others who she/he fears will try to hurt him/her -person may become isolated and therefore out of touch with other people and reality in general -person may feel unloved even if it is not true -person may feel like he/she is a threat to society and therefore attempt suicide emotionally: -person may feel isolated, unloved, paranoid, panicked and non-human (read Francis Kafka's The Metamorphosis)
They might also become angry about losing a loved one which could make them unsettled and have bad behaviour. This may occur as depending on age, the child may find it hard or lack the maturity and experience to express how their feeling. This could make them frustrated which could then manifest itself into angry behaviour. 2) New sibling – When a new child is born into a family, this can make the existing child or children feel left out and abandoned as the attention shifts to the new baby. This can cause feelings of jealousy as they fight for the attention of their parents.
Individuals who abuse adults often threaten, harass, or intimidate them. For example, some abusers threaten to not let the elderly adults see their grandchildren. Others may prevent older adults from having visitors, or may threaten to leave them alone. They often feel shame, guilt, or embarrassment that someone in the family or someone close has harmed them. The
A lot of patients lose a reason or faith to get clean, The desire to become clean soon fades with some addicts; and this can occur for different reasons. I the case of Lucretia, losing her family is the reason she ended up losing faith in getting clean. Marcos used his addiction to deal with his troubled childhood. People turn to drugs for many reasons. In these cases, Lucretia and Marcos wanted escape unwanted feelings or bad memories.
Leshner states, “As with many other brain diseases, addiction has embedded behavioral and social-context aspects that are important parts of the disorder itself” (Leshner). Recognizing addiction as a mental illness can help reduce the health and social costs that are directly related to treating addiction. Research has exposed that drug abuse is a severe health issue, as well as a social issue. Addicts become so obsessed with consuming the substance it causes their immune systems to shut down and causes the addict to be incapable of functioning properly in a social setting. Addiction has severe negative consequences affecting the addict’s mental and physical well being.
Types of abuse Signs and symptoms Why people are vulnerable to this type of abuse Physical Marks on a person such as bruising, burn marks, bite marks also a change in a person’s behaviour could be a sign of physical abuse. People are vulnerable to physical abuse because they cant fight back, they don’t know anything different, there young/elderly, disabled - (physically or mentally ) they also might have a sensory impairment. Sexual Signs of sexual abuse could be repeated urinary infections, depression, low self esteem, and unable to form a long time relationship. People are vulnerable to sexual abuse because they might be too young to know the difference or could be an elderly person who cant do anything about therefore there are frail and scared. They could be disabled therefore they cant speak out of protect themselves from abuse Emotional Being emotional abused could lend to having low self esteem and no confidence with in your self, this could also lend to being withdrawn from
One U.S. study found that parents with documented substance abuse, most commonly alcohol, cocaine, and heroin, were much more likely to mistreat their children, and were also much more likely to reject court-ordered services and treatments (Besharov, 1990). Children with a history of neglect or physical abuse are at risk of developing psychiatric problems, or a disorganized attachment style. Disorganized attachment is associated with a number of developmental problems, including dissociative symptoms, as well as anxiety, depressive, and acting out
Were being an addict and having a mental illness both full under a medical problem. The reason being is that an addict is going to need help to be able to kick their addiction. The biggest issue to look at is that surveys show that some people are ashamed to admit that they know someone in their family that has an addiction problem. And if you are ashamed or scared to admit the problem then maybe this paper will help with that shame. Because if you are ashamed to admit the problem then the person can not get the help they need.