Sociology Mental Illness

Unacceptable Illness
Racism and discrimination are serious issues in our modern world. Yet, a major part of society contradicts itself by another type of discrimination, in which they deliberately show discrimination towards people with mental illness. In other words, a large part of society looks down at mentally disabled people and thinks very little of them causing various damages in the process. Furthermore, the desolation some people cause on mentally ill individuals is boundless, in which they can cause mentally ill people to develop issues that could even last a lifetime. Parties with negative view towards people with mental issues causes those people to isolate themselves, which reasons them to not seek help, and which leads them to

Furthermore, this negative view causes people with mental illness to obtain isolation, in which people with mental illness tend to be less socially active than others, which leads them to become lonely and secluded. The reason for their withdrawal from any socially active event is merely because negative views and denials have caused them to develop a deep idea that their mental illness makes them publicly unacceptable. According to Drew (2015) mentally ill people often exclude themselves from the ordinary social activities that would allow their social personality to grow just because they may look or act differently than others, as a result, they become social isolates. (p. 14) this however shows how society affects mentally ill people, in which they always think that they are not good enough for other people and everyone else is permanently one step ahead of them and is superior, which prevents them from almost all types of social activity. As a result of this social inactiveness, people with mental illness to have very little or no friends, and ironically, they are the most ones in need of friends. Finally, this chain of deleterious thoughts, loneliness and isolation causes those mentally ill people social issues to build up such as social anxiety, and various

For instance, Jude was an only child who suffered from shyness that everyone who knew about it, teased her for. This shyness evolved as she grew up with no close friends or family in her life aside from her parents who did not ponder upon it as such a serious issue, then as Jude grew up went to school, and college, Jude’s shyness progressed in a mind blowing manner. Jude developed various mental issues that originate from her shyness but are by far more serious, in which Jude was diagnosed with severe social anxiety, severe paranoia, very mild schizophrenia, and sever OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Jude’s case is very serious and all resulted from simple shyness that her own family teased her for, however when Jude is asked why she never spoke of her unstable condition she would say “if people laughed at me for being shy, then mental illness would just be a bigger joke”, according to Jude’s psychiatrist, “Jude’s situation worsened simply because she was not seeking help, if her shyness was treated from the start it would not have resulted in such complications in Jude’s head”. Jude’s situation, like many others, worsened because she did not seek help simply because the majority of society chose to see metal illness as a ‘funny joke’ or as a non-existent