Mental Illness In Deborah Blau's I Never Promised You A Rose Garden

Did you know that mental illness is one of the biggest problems in 21st Century? Mental illnesses can also affect children and adolescents and can lead to bigger and worse problems in their later lives. Mental-health issues in childhood are basically having no control over thoughts, emotion and behaviour. It is a difficulty that anyone can develop regardless of race, gender and background. In Joanne Greenberg’s “I Never Promised You A Rose Garden”, the protagonist Deborah Blau has schizophrenia and the novel is about how her childhood and adolescent years have affected the mental-illness she had gotten later in her life. The novel’s goal is to make the reader understand how childhood abuse, bullying or neglect result in dreadful consequences.

As according to a study of 300 men, it was found that both being bullies and bullying victims were linked to negative outcomes such as “more financial difficulties, feeling unfair treatment and less optimism towards life” which also affected their beings physically (Jennings 1.) It has to be stated that mental illness can affect the body and risk of physical health as a strained mind also strains the body (Jennings 1.) Bullying and abuse, which can cause trauma, can have lethal effects on a person as they can cause cardiovascular problems (Jennings 1.) Furthermore, a lot of people from the old study could not participate as they were either dead or incarcerated (Jennings 2.) All of these studies show that childhood years can still affect people later in their lives and even in deadly ways. Even if the bullying and abuse have ended years ago, people still feel their past with suffering in their lives. However, these problems caused by bullying and abuse are not incurable or untreatable. Right now, Task Force and Dr Alex H. Krist recommend parallel screening as adults for children and adolescents as mental illness can easily affect them and unidentified mental issues can result in worsened conditions in mental-health as adolescents tend to fall back in their daily lives (Storrs 1.) Depressiın and other mental illnesses like stress and anxiety also have impacts and are important and clinicians have to do a further evaluation before they lead to other problems (Storrs 1.) According to Jennings, intervening and giving treatment to children and adolescents is beneficial in the long run and can lead to an easier life as an adult (2.) To conclude, as stated understanding the younger generation, having early screening, therapy and