Mental Illness, I'm doing a research paper is there..?

Question

Is there anything particular you would want to know about this topic? I was thinking about making the research paper in the direction of assuming everyone has or will have a mental illness. Is this something you would be interested in reading? or Can you give any points of view on something else that can be interesting about this topic? Thank you! Greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

I work in a Psychiatric Hospital and the one thing many of us still struggle to understand are borderline personality disorders. Its a mental illness but yet not (strange i know). They really cant medicate it and it is mostly behavior based. Most people (psych workers) will tell you they are the most difficult patients to work with. Pretty fascinating people, think about checking that angle out as it doesn't get the attention that Bi-polar ,OCD, Schizophrenia and the others get. Good luck!

Answer 2

lilly's answer is interesting, and I would add that sometimes the pills have really bad side effects, how to weigh the benefit of the pills against the side effects? a lot of times the family can tell the pills are helping, but the mentally ill person can't, so it's a lot of side effects to put up with based on someone else's say so.

Not everyone will get a mental illness-less than half. And for serious mental illness, that is schizophrenia, bipolar, major depression, I bet that is less than 10% (maybe 1% schizophrenia, 1-2% serious bipolar, I dunno on major depression) A lot of people talking about mental illness mix up their numbers-some forms of mental illness are pretty mild, and people can hold down a job and it goes away on its own. Other people will struggle for a lifetime and be profoundly disabled. So when they say that so many people will get a mental illness, they are including very mild forms. (still suffer, but get better, and suffer less, and not disabled).

Almost anyone will have a family member with mental illness, tho, that is true. And a lot of families will have someone with a serious mental illness, although those illnessed tend to be genetic.

Oh, and a comment on lab rat's suggestion, bipolar people are probably more creative (ON AVERAGE) than others. I thought I saw a statistic that probably 1/3 of people in the creative arts are bipolar. The illness seriously interferes with a person's ability to do their work, tho. For other mental illnesses, intelligence seems to have a protective effect.

Answer 3

Not everyone has or will have a mental illness, but everyone might know or have a family member with a mental illness.

I think a good perspective of living with or coping with someone who has a mental illness and the issues it would raise in any given family. Like how to keep the person on meds, what if they don't want to be complient and take the meds.

What if the person is suicidal? The family constantly living in fear of "what if".

How to cope and how you can deal with someone who has a mental illness.

bi-polar manic-depressive.

good quesion.

Answer 4

people don't seem to understand schizophrenia so you could write about that. and maybe social anxiety disorder..cause yeah most people just think these people are shy.
and let the reader know what it's like living with a mental illness.

Answer 5

There appears to be a very fine grey line between madness and genius. Search through history and you will find multitudes of people to illustrate this.

Answer 6

post annoying stress sickness or bipolar a million with psychotic effective components. yet once you have very own reviews with any of them, i might decide for that, makes it extra thrilling for persons to study in case you write what you experienced your self.

Answer 7

I think Bi-Polar is something people don't understand or afraid of when they hear it

Answer 8

OCD