Understanding Mental Illness: A Multidimensional Approach

The National Institute of Mental Health defines mental illness as a disruption in neural circuits. Mental illness is a social phenomenon which has been around since the prehistoric times. It is unequally distributed across social, ethnic and gender groups in the UK. The explanations for these differences rest upon biological, economic, cultural and institutional factors. Despite these, many medical advancements have made to treat mental illnesses. Looking at the history of mental illness, it was a widespread belief that mental illness is caused by spiritual or religious reasons, and rituals were used as the means to treat the individuals similar to today. So what is mental illness? The term itself covers broad of emotional and psychological

They are not just prevalent in the UK, but all over the world. Mental health is the main causes of overall burden disease worldwide (Vos.T et al 2013). 1 in 4 people in England will experience mental illness in their lifetime. Mixed anxiety and depression are the most common mental health disorder in Britain. Distributed according to the gradient of economic disadvantages in society. The poorer and more disadvantaged are unequally affected by mental health (Patel .V et al...2010). a mental health problem can affect anyone, regardless their age, gender and social background. Studies have shown that mental health effect man and women differently. More women are diagnosed with common mental health than men, however, male rate of suicide is significantly

And some researcher has suggested that this model does not reduce stigma. (Thomas Szasz, 2002) states “Liberation by oppression: a comparative study of slavery and psychiatry”. Szasz argues that mental health is a rhetorical invention itself. Psychiatric often stigmatise by insisting that mental illness problems are brain diseases and most Psychiatrist doesn’t see these things as ‘disease ‘ . Thomas SZAZ claims mental illness would only refer to behavioural deviations that have a well-defined organic basis. Other deviant behaviours the product of “problems of living”. Brown and Harris (1978) found major negative life events make people vulnerable to clinical depression. Other researchers found that certain types of life events are more likely to be associated with a development of mental disorders than others—events that are “no normative, unexpected, uncontrollable, clustered in time.” The key problem with this explanation is that coerced and forced medication is generally wrong and that psychiatrists do not warn individual about many of psychiatric drugs potential side