by Nora Kovacs

Created on: May 31, 2008

Recognizing Mental Illness and the Availability of Treatment

Some of the ways that mental illness or treatments can be improved on are to first recognize the illness or problem; then and only then can treatment be effective. It has not been determined whether mental illness is an illness , a mental condition or the effects or results of problem behavior. The treatment of some disorders can be merged into the general mental system, once it is diagnosed on a level that it can be treated on that basis. No other tax dollars should be needed when there are already hospitals, research, clinics and treatment centers for the purpose of diagnosing and treating "mental illness".

Mental heath care should be made available to all those in need of it. Being able to afford care and/or treatment should not be a condition or stipulation of who receives care. The issue should be making the communities, neighborhoods and society in general, a safer, healthier world in which to live. Having money or not does not constitute sanity or make one mentally fit, and should not be a condition for having a chance at becoming well and functionally fit. Quality care is a privilege and a right. It should be offered and available to all Americans in order to improve society and take another step toward alleviating poverty, disease, economic distress.

One very common disorder of mental illness is bipolar disorder. It is estimated that 2.3 million Americans suffer this disorder, which is also known as manic-depressive illness. A person with bipolar disorder usually swings from one end of the emotional scale to the very extreme opposite end, in a matter of seconds. Medication can help to control this disorder. Bipolar disorder ratio is the same among African Americans as it is among other Americans, but African Americans are less likely to receive a diagnosis or treatment. http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/go/information/ge t-info/african-americans

Improving mental illness or the treatment of it can be easy if the proper channels choose to help. The government makes out like a bandit with the taxes that they apply to everything we purchase. There is tax on everything from a to z and we always seem to have the same question of "what do they do with this money?" It is clear that they are willing to splurge millions of dollars towards issues of war, but yet turn away to help those have lived long enough to have experienced one. The elderly have just as much rights to proper care as any other young

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