Analysis of Mental Health in Canada

In this essay, the author

• Opines that mental illness has made big headlines in the news in recent years and that society has come a long way from trepanation.
• Explains that mental health refers to the psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioural adjustment.
• Explains that the history of mental illness dates back thousands of years to 9500 bce during the neolithic era.

• Opines that mental illness has made big headlines in the news in recent years and that society has come a long way from trepanation.
• Explains that mental health refers to the psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioural adjustment.
• Explains that the history of mental illness dates back thousands of years to 9500 bce during the neolithic era.
• Explains that hippocrates and galen introduced the four essential bodily fluids, which produced personalities and an imbalance of these would cause a mental illness. the first mental hospital was established in 792 ce baghdad.
• Opines that mental illness affects everyone. one in five canadians under sixty-five will suffer from mental illnesses at some point in their lifetime.
• Compares how 50% of canadians would tell friends or co-workers they have a family member with mental illness, compared to 72% who would discuss cancer and 68% who could talk about diabetes.
• Opines that social media and mental illness have made a huge stride in defeating the stigma and discrimination that has attached itself to mental illnesses.
• Explains that there is no specific cause of mental illness but ongoing research leads to a combination of genetics, biology, physical and social environments as the main contributors.
• Opines that the treatment of people dealing with mental disorders is more humane and professional than a thousand years ago.
• Argues that mental health and mental illness should not be brushed under the rug. cancer is an abnormal cell dividing uncontrollably; mental illnesses are usually a chemical imbalance in the brain.
• Explains alexander, franz g., and sheldon t. selesnick, the history of psychiatry: an evaluation of
• Explains that greek psychiatry's transition from the hospital to the community.
• Explains that butcher, james n., susan mineka, and jill m. hooley. abnormal psychology. ed. susan hartman. boston: pearson education, inc.
• Cites houston, r.a., "clergy and the care of the insane in eighteenth-century britain."
• Explains that macdonald, michael, mystical bedlam: madness, anxiety, and healing in seventeenth-century england.
• Explains the isb fund of the treasury and the cabinet office's "measuring the unmeasurable: an introduction to psychology."
• Cites okasha, a., "mental health services in the arab world." world history collection, scarborough-phillips library.
• States that phillips, michael r., “the transformation of china’s mental health services.” the china journal, vol.
• Describes rosen, george's chapters in the historical sociology of mental illness.
• Explains sadowsky, jonathan hal. imperial bedlam : institutions of madness in colonial southwest nigeria.
• Explains that timeline: treatments for mental illness. american experience - a brilliant madness, 1992-2002. pbs.
• Explains the cheo - mental health and illness fact sheet for parents. children's hospital of eastern ontario, n.d.
• Analyzes the need for mental health care by 1 in 6 canadians.
• Cites nimh rss, national insitute of mental health, n.d. web.
• Explains sicignano, michelle. "stigma and mental illness â social justice solutions."
• Analyzes how sheri block's "hughes: talking about depression prompted even more public response than winning olympic medals."
• Explains bower, meredith, "10 most diagnosed mental disorders : discovery channel."
• Explains foerschner, allison m., "the history of mental illness: from "skull drills" to "happy pills."
• Explains sicignano, michelle, "stigma and mental illness • social justice solutions."
• Opines that mental health is a part of the canadian mental health association's ontario division.
• Opines that what is cancer? - national cancer institute. cancer.gov, 2014.