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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In addition to that I had to be patient with them and I did not interrupt them when they were speaking, I made sure that I treated them as individuals with dignity and respect despite that they all have a learning disability. ...

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They try to do many things at once, are impatient, and easily irritated and angered - the type B personality is marked by relatively relaxed, patient, easygoing behavior * Type A behavior is a contributing factor in heart disease * The immune response is the body's defensive reaction to invasion by bacteria, viruses, etc... It is marked by a history of diverse physical complaints that appear to be psychological in origin * Conversion disorder is characterized by a significant loss of physical function with no apparent organic basis, usually in a single organ system * Hypochondria ...

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