2006-10-15 11:22:08 · 20 answers · asked by Roscoe P Coletrain..yip yip 3 in Health ➔ Mental Health
If we're very very lucky and haven't blown ourselves off the planet, I would like to think mental illness will be accepted for what it is, an illness, and not something to be ashamed of. I believe by then a lot will be known about what we eat, what chemicals in the air cause our illnesses and how our early environments affect us.
2006-10-15 11:25:34 · answer #1 · answered by beez 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
At the rate science is going, mental illness will probably be able to be detected before birth. Hopefully people will be given a choice about what they want to do then.
They can already detect birth defects ahead of time.
Hopeful in the USA ( other countries will also have the same science) we will still be living in a democracy. And hopefully, there will not be laws put in place to eliminate those people before they are born. Hopefully, families will have the choice. Only thing is that after they are born, what will happen to them then, what kind of apparatuses will we have invented to keep them at bay, or to at least keep the mind at bay...you know. The future of it all could be absolutly horrendous...or not...it could all stay the same.
People would have a hard time excepting that their loved ones were gonna be born mentally ill, it would always be a debate about the accuracy of the tests...the validity of the treatment..and so on. I think, the debate over the mentally ill would drive everybody batty!!!!
2006-10-15 18:30:17 · answer #2 · answered by RAW29 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question has at least three major difficulties. The first of those is that it asks for a prediction of the future. I may be a lunatic, but I'm not stupid enough to think I can predict the future. Secondly "mental illness" is a blanket term that can be applied to serious disorders like schizophrenia, but usually actually means emotional issues- not really illnesses and not really mental.
If the human race survives- which is by no means certain- I believe we will have learned more about and have more encouraged the use of mental and emotional wellness techniques like meditation.
Call me crazy.
2006-10-15 18:59:20 · answer #3 · answered by anyone 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
paradigms shift slowly sometimes... if we want to see where we are going, best sometimes to see where we have been... I am currently reading "Mad in America - Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and The Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill" by Robert Whitaker... details the history of psychiatry and how the field has affected us for the last 300 years...
if I had my way, though, we'd come full circle back to the time of the York Quakers who, in 1796, at the Pennsylvania Hospital, provided patients with "...hair mattresses and feather beds. Those who were well behaved to stroll the hospital grounds and engage in activities like sewing, gardening, and cutting straw. Dr. Rush also believed that games, music and friendship could prove helpful... The insane, he (Dr. Rush) explained to hospital attendants, needed to be treated with kindness and respect. "Everything necessary for their comfort should be provided for them, and every promise made to them should be faithfully and punctually performed."
We've gone way astray since then and this book explains lots of the why... for the most part the issue was money, fear, ego and greed...the Recovery Model (strengths-based) goes back to lots of that basic logic and human decency and now we have the community resources (psychosocial clubhouses, continuing day treatment programs, intensive psychiatric rehabilition treatment) to once again attend to the whole person rather than just the symptoms of distress that meds and psychiatry address today... yes, those facilities still do operate on the Medical Model (what's wrong with you and working only with that - not with the whole person) but the push is on for the Recovery Model to take root
who knows though... given where we were, we could come full circle and be someplace totally different again
2006-10-15 18:54:48 · answer #4 · answered by dornalune 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well...I am not a lunatic, but if present trends continue, it will probably be possible to deal with mental illness in the future with effective medications, hormones, etc, as understanding of brain operation increases.
2006-10-15 18:24:34 · answer #5 · answered by jxt299 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the number of insane is rising 5% per year so when the insane become the majority do they become the sane and the sane the insane. Watch the movie In The Mouth Of Madness by John Carpenter in the early 90's great flick
2006-10-15 18:27:31 · answer #6 · answered by Guitarpix 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We will only be allowed to breed those that have no mental illness starting in the near future so by then there will be no place for us to go.
2006-10-15 18:24:16 · answer #7 · answered by sixcannonballs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They will have found the gifts that mentally ill people
have that benefit society.
It's all brain chemistry.We still know very little about the brain.
I'm hoping this will explain why bipolar women are so good in bed.
2006-10-15 18:27:13 · answer #8 · answered by moebiusfox 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The genes that predispose people will be altered in utero so there will be no mental illness. New drugs will be available to control whatever escapes the genetic engineering.
2006-10-15 19:23:08 · answer #9 · answered by karen wonderful 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
everyone will have some form so it won't need to be treated at all we'll all be just one big happy messed up family as we should be an thats too far in the future I think 2015-2020 is much more likely
2006-10-15 18:25:55 · answer #10 · answered by topgunpilot22 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋