How Does Mental Illness Affect Society

Despite mental illness affecting a large percentage in America, there is still a lot of controversy around the topic. Mental illness has had a mixture of both support and stigma. In our modern society, there has been an increase in mental disorders awareness. In addition, in comparison to the 20th Century, it seems as if there are improvements in society's care for the mentally ill. This is largely supported, because people with mental disorders are no longer locked in asylums as they use to be. Yet, there has been increased reports of abuse of the mentally ill. For example, across the United States prisons there has been cases of the mentally ill inmates being “doused with chemical sprays, shocked with electronic stun guns, and strapped for

Whether it's the behavior of the mentally ill due to their perspective or society's attitude/behavior towards those with mental disorders. Through a scientific, social, and historical lens it could be inferred that regardless of the unique perspective each person carries, society has created an “acceptable perspective” in which those who do not share this perspective are excluded due to their behavior.
Perception can be defined as what allows us “sensory experience of the world around us and involves both environmental stimuli action responses to these stimuli” (Cherry). Or in most cases perspective can be simply regarded as the point of view in which we individually observe the world. Both definitions are accurate in the sense that they address different aspects of the term. In a scientific lens perspective is viewed through sensory perception. Sensory perception is the detection, recognition, and characterization of the stimuli around through the use of the 5 senses- hearing, vision, taste, smell, and touch- to interpret the environment (Gene Ontology Consortium). The first half of the process involves the senses working to pick up different stimulus in the environment,