Argumentative Essay On Mental Health

733 Words2 Pages

Psychiatric Interviews for Teaching by the University of Nottingham displays to the audience the process and the realities of a personal interview with the patients. The process begins with “taking the history,” in other words, finding out the patient’s history of the ongoing illness. During the interviews, one starts to realize whether or not the patient is aware of his/her sickness. The video for Mania and Psychosis, both males believed that they were not ill, on the other hand, the lady in Depression knew she was sick and wanted help from the doctor. The harsh realities are displayed upon the actual doctor and the patient themselves. For example: after seeing the three videos, the young man in Psychosis seemed normal to me; however, he believed that the secret service of England was after him. The young man is roughly two years older than I am. His demeanor presented a very …show more content…

However, some injuries leave a mark or may even leave someone paralyzed; therefore, he/she may never recover from that injury. The methodology in how to approach the mental health issues, in my opinion, should be focused more on the individual’s history and how he/she is affected. Mental health is not like cancer or an STD where everyone who is diagnosed possess similar symptoms. Each individual has a unique injury inside his/her brain and the only way to cure it is to find the casual mechanism and attempt to “distract his/her’s pain” or completely remove it from existence. When I get injured I try to make something else hurt, so I pinch myself. My mind cannot focus on two pains at once, so I attempt to make the brain focus on my pinching rather than a collision or a stump. The mind has to be distracted from that casual mechanism and the only way to find out what it actually is, is by conducting interviews

Open Document