Under patients' rights laws dating from the 1960's the mentally ill cannot be forced into treatment involuntarily in any state unless they are dangerous or so gravely disabled that they cannot care for themselves. In short, the laws protecting patients' rights also protect their "right- to be mentally ill. ... Advocates that are pressing for state laws that would make it easier to force patients to take medication under court order are faced with the opposition from civil libertarians and former patients, who see the issue not as a question of medicine but of civil rights. .....

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Because of the new discoveries as to treat the mentally ill in the1950s, dangerous medicines and operations were used on people without much research. ... The mid-1950s was when patient numbers were in its highest peak. ... The number of mentally ill patients and the number of asylums are at its highest point in the 1950s, because of the lack of effective treatments to dismiss patients from hospitals, but the number quickly fell soon after. The lobotomy, where part of the brain is removed or separated to allow the patient to no longer be depressed, was thought to be one of the most effective...

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Why does society treat the mentally ill so differently? ... The mentally ill were treated as animals. ... Patients are even allowed to visit their own family doctors. ... This problem occurs especially with the older patients. ... Medicine doesn't really help some patients; most of the prescriptions are downers to calm the patients. ...

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The focus of the movie was on a variety of mentally ill patients under the care of a very controlling and detested Nurse Ratched along with her overly aggressive assistants. ... She tells all of her patients what to do and when to do it as though they are merely children. ... Remarkable looks of achievement were on all of the patient's faces just over something insignificant like catching a fish. ... I learned that the treatment of the mentally ill in state hospitals during the 1960s was not entirely professional and had more negative effects than positive. The guards in the instituti...

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Chief Bromden is a tall, half-Indian patient in the mental institution. ... This signifies how the staff mistreats patients in mental health institutions. ... Nevertheless, he cannot be regarded to be mentally ill, as he is able to make rational judgments behind his pretext. Despite the fact that the setting of the novel One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest is in a mental hospital, it is fact that some of the patients are not mentally ill as other people think. ... Through these situations, it is a fact that he cannot be regarded as a mentally ill....

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One important way that creativity can positively affect lives is by helping treat mental illness in art therapy, by affecting the brain (neuroscience) in creative process and how that would be beneficial to patients having mental disorder, by providing patients an emotional outlet and by promoting self-esteem thus aid patients going back to society. ... What is 'wrong' with being mentally ill? ... So it is not an option for them for being mentally ill, no one wants to be ill after all. Perhaps the biggest misunderstanding of them all is the idea that being mentally ill is a matter ...

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In the early 1960s-70s there were many mental hospitals full of the mentally ill. Now there are many mentally ill in the criminal justice system. ... These "warehouses- of the past were known for their sparse living conditions, brutal treatment of patients, and harsh medical procedures and treatments such as electroshock therapy. ... However, when these institutions were closed, there were no conditions made to facilitate the recovery of the patients. ... Many mentally ill become worse when in prison. ...

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This is the same after diagnosing a patient with, for example, multiple-personality disorder. ... The self-fulfilling prophecy is one of the adverse effects of labels given to a patient. ... They internally accept the role of a "mentally ill patient" and even increase their symptoms rather than improve. ... Culturally, a clinician's diagnosis of a patient can be subjective due to cultural differences. Ethically, a clinician's diagnosis of a patient can cause various ethical issues amongst the patient as an individual but also within society....

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People labelled mentally ill are usually thought to be incapable of exercising their decision-making power in their own best interest. ... These people don't perceive themselves as ill; their "symptoms" are bothersome to others. ... This made some of the other patients paranoid, one girl in fact constantly asked him to see his eyes, and he always refused. ... Cuomo and Ronacher (1998) discuss studies done with university students in a social situation with the mentally ill. ... Males were also found to have a greater tendency to desire social distance from those perceived as mentally i...

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The patient then takes the dose or turns the switch (Gregory). ... During 2002, physicians in Oregon gave fatal prescriptions to about seventy-five terminally ill individuals. ... The mental illness of depression, in terminal ill patients, can also be missed and be the cause of their desire to end life. ... Another reason depression is not treated is patients don't tell everything to their doctor. ... New methods of pain management enable the ill to live better lives. ...

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This bill was appropriately called The Patient's Bill of Rights. ... I have seen patients being forced to take medication. ... The IGAP stated they had a complaint about a patient being forced to take antipsychotic medication, even though the patient was not a threat. ... Elyn Saks, who is a psychiatry professor at the University of Southern California wrote a book titled: Refusing Care: Forced Treatments and the Rights of the Mentally Ill. ... Patient advocacy groups" main goal is the protection of the mentally ill, not the convenience of the courts. ...

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In addition, she was never labeled as a mentally ill person either. ... This is why Lola Ridge does not entitle the patients as patients but, more like inmates. ... Patients are forced into asylums with no choice of a way out. ... She means prisoners as patients of the asylum. ... So in this particular phrase of the poem a reader uses his or her sense of sight by picturing a prisoner and not a mentally ill person. ...

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Stigma is the largest barrier to improving lives for the mentally ill. ... Her recollection of tortured patients, abandonment, and cruel and unsual treatment and punishment in the Kings Park Mental Institution shows the disparities in the treatment and amount of mentally ill people compared to the amount of resources they have. There is a need for social change in how mental illness is treated and how institutions are attempting to help patients admitted. ... Mentally ill people are often targeted as the reason for violence and crime in the country, therefore furthering the stigma. ... Many s...

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- North Korea has one of the world's most primitive levels of mental disorder treatment - Mentally ill patients are called "Number 49 subject" - Not many people survive in mental hospitals - Psychiatry is the least popular concentration among medical students In South Korea, Seoul National Mental Institution's reconstruction and relocation plan has been an issue of contentious debate amongst the community residents since 1995. ... Mentally ill person is called "Number 49" or "Number 49 subject" and put into custody at "Number 49 Prevention Post&quo...

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As an undergraduate at Africa Nazarene University, I was fortunate to work with amazing lectures who trained me in the art of engaging with different kind patients. ... Unfortunately, majority of those problems went undiagnosed and unmanaged and patients were left to silently suffer. ... Where the reality of the mistreatment of the mentally ill in Kenya hit me. ... Families with patients suffering from mental health often felt like they had been cursed and most of them dropped the patients off at the gate and left, never to be seen again, and others opting to take their loved ones to witch doc...

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There are a variety of drugs for the treatment of depression but not all have the same effect on their patients; however, there is evidence that marijuana has helped treat depression on patients who have taken the drug. ... As you continue taking antidepressants, the side effects get worse; nevertheless, you can't stop medication as you become ill. ... Also, antidepressants increase the risk of suicide in younger patients (teens), marijuana doesn't. ... Cannabis on the other hand, is effective on all patients but only at low doses. ... Medication-induced suicide has taken the life of...

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It is as if, when becoming mentally ill, they can no longer function to the highest degree as they did before. ... Jamison writes, "Patients who do well socially and academically when young and who then are hit by devastating illnesses such as schizophrenia and manic depression seem particularly vulnerable to the scale of their own mental disintegration and the terror of becoming a chronic patient." ... As written in Jamison's book, when it kills the young, it is beyond our understanding, in the sick or ill fated too understandable or explainable, terrible in the old, unexplainable in ...

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These potential patients go untreated for many reasons. ... These mentally ill people often don't receive treatment because the police are often picking up the mentally ill and they are not trained to diagnose mental problems so the problems go unnoticed. ... There is a huge number of mentally ill that are homeless because they've gone untreated. ... There are confused mentally ill people that have been forgotten about by society that are roaming the streets. ...

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This may lead some to think that the parents of a schizophrenic are mentally ill because we inherit our genes from our parents. ... Based on the analysis they can get a better glimpse into what the patient is going through. ... Enough insulin would be given to the patient that would cause him to seizure. ... This environment proved to do much more harm for the patients than good. ... lithium carbonate) which help to alleviate the patient of ...

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There are no straightforward steps a psychologist can use to determine whether or not a patient is of sound mind when presenting a case in the Queensland Legal System under the code. ... It is not only the Queensland Criminal Code act which falls short on guiding principle regarding mental illness and mentally ill offenders. ... The Act contains provisions for assessment, treatment, and patient rights. It provides mentally ill offenders help to understand criminal responsibility where the person has a mental illness or intellectual disability. ... The Mental Health Act provides for and protect...

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Schizoaffective disorder is defined as an: Illness during which the patient has symptoms of both schizophrenia and a major mood disorder at the same time. ... Schizoaffective patients have a higher "likelihood of returning to a previous level of functioning than schizophrenics- (Lambert, Gordon). ... Some schizoaffective patients experience symptoms between episodes, but generally, symptoms can be controlled with medication. Many schizoaffective patients function very well in normal society with treatment. ... Victim, not villain: the mentally ill are six to seven times more likely to b...

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This type of therapy encourages the patient to talk about the feelings inside their mind. Interpersonal Therapy focuses on the behaviors and interactions the patient has with other people. ... This type of therapy generally lasts for an infinite amount of time, and is the most deeply involved in the patient's mind. ... Medication and therapy, when used in conjunction, have proven extremely successful in treating the minds of the mentally ill. ...

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The yelling, screaming, and carrying on with the patients and nurses, is all of what is perceived to happen at a psychiatric hospital. ... I learned more from the book, as what goes on in a mentally ill person's head. ... She talks about, as a mental patient, which has attempted suicide, takes medication, and has hallucinations, what she feels and what goes through her head. ... Not only is the story about the life of mentally ill women, but it discusses the importantness of recovery, and how living at a psychiatric hospital is very emotionally distressing. ...

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Thankfully the treatment of the mentally ill has significantly evolved over the last fifty years or so, and an emphasis on empathy for patients is now instilled in medical professionals, and treatment is no longer perverse and cruel in the vast majority of cases. ... When treating a patient who is suffering from depression, bipolar disorder or Alzheimer's disease hospitalization or drug treatments tend to be the preferred method over psychological exploration. ... Different clusters of one illness have different consequences for a patient's behavior. ... People can be anti-social wit...

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It is not just costly to the patient or the family of the patient, but to the government as well. ... Not having the appropriate treatment for a mental illness or disorder can harm the patient. It can cause the patient to manifest in negative behaviors. ... The U.S. currently has more mentally ill men and women in jails and prisons than in all state hospitals combined (Sigurdson). ...

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