Mental Health? Is it real?
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What do you know about Mental Health? Do you understand it? Do you believe in it?
Mental Health is the emotional, psychological and social well being of a person. It affects everything about a person. It affects the way that they act, the way they think and the way they feel. Mental health problems can have a catastrophic impact on peoples‘ lives and the people around them. It hits you at your core (your mind) and try to break you and bring you down. This determines how we handle stress and how we act in a social environment as well as how we make choices.
Online sources show that 1 in 4 people experience mental health issues each year in the UK and only 1 in 6 people actually report it in England. This means the the other 5 people are suffering in silence.
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A few online support websites for mental illness say that “A mental health problem can feel just as bad, or worse, as any other physical illness – only you cannot see it.” Is it a real? This is a question that is asked a lot when people use “mental illness” as a defence for something such as behaviour, attitude etc. Sources suggest people question mental illness because you can’t see it or physically prove it.
There was a book in 1961 writing by a psychiatrist Thomas Sasz where he states that classing emotional and psychological issues as an ‘illness’ takes away responsibility and independence. He suggests that people who suffer with mental health issues should be held responsible for there actions. But he also mentions that ‘mental disorders’ are as real as physical diseases. So the argument here is not whether or not ‘mental health issues’ are real but is referring them an ‘illness’ the same as something like cancer or other physical illness.
Its not always easy to prove something like a mental illness. It’s proven to take from month to years for a doctor to give an accurate diagnoses. “There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.” “There is no definition of a mental disorder. It’s bull—. I mean, you just can’t define it.” — Allen Frances, Psychiatrist and former DSM-IV Task Force Chairman. With few exceptions there are not any actual medical tests that exist yet. Although there are things like brain imaging but this is only to show how the mental illness is effecting the brain. Its not actually used for diagnoses. No blood tests or lab tests can show mental illness.
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