Mental Health Issues In Deaf Community

The Deaf community suffers twice as hard with mental illness than hearing people as an example they suffer from depression anxiety and schizophrenia . What makes it harder for deaf people to get help with their mental illness is that they have a harder time finding support and places to go because not everyone knows sign language and there might not be an interpreter to access which makes their problem only worse.

Many people have hearing loss, The population is between 15% and 26% but it is different to be profoundly Deaf especially if you have been deaf since you were born. About 7 out of 10,000 are in this category, and most put themselves into a minority that only uses sign and not the spoken language.

Not being able to function in a hearing society can also lead to having mental health issues. In a study it has been shown that 41% of profoundly Deaf people have said that the mental health issues have been caused by family stresses which can cause or lead to suicidal depression, substance abuse or violent behavior.

There has been other studies that have shown that one quarter of deaf students are struggling with a learning disability, development delay, visual impairment or autism. Deaf children who have trouble communicating with their families are four times more able to be affected by a mental health disorder than a Deaf child who can

A study involving some people found that more than half were not able to find a mental health service that they as deaf people could use. In addition, psychiatric conditions such as a mood disorder not diagnosed in the Deaf community because of communicating difficulties such as problems in translating between spoken language and sign language and differences in how deaf people display their feelings and perceive mental health. Reading and writing isn't always helpful and most of the Deaf community graduates with a grade