Mental Health And Mental Illnesses

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Mental health is commonly used to connect or to refer issues dealing with ‘mental illnesses’. However, mental health services can cause some confusion when trying to understand the difference between the two terms, mental health and mental illnesses. Common examples that are exposed on daily bases are depression, anxiety, psychosis, and eating disorders. Mental health or “mental wellbeing” is a concept that is more than the visible of mental illnesses. Now a day’s people tend to use the term “mental illness” more as a fashion statement or trend, rather than using its real terminology. "Dismissing mental illness as a trendy fad is not just stupid, it’s dangerous,” said Dr. Brian Semple. These “trends” are the creation on how society perceives mental health and it is based on their social distance and their fear, pity, and or anger towards someone or something that cause these terms to be misused. One mayor mental illness and most popular around the globe, due to our society and by the pressure on how people are “supposed” to look, is eating disorders. Eating disorders involve many extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors involving self-hate, weight, and food. Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge are the most common eating disorders. At the university of Pittsburgh Medical Center, they carry a study saying the eating disorders were cause, “due to over-activity of a chemical system found in a region deep inside the brain.” The University’s goal is to research a molecular target in the brain for the development of more effective treatments than those that are now available. They will accomplish or try to accomplish this by using PET scans, “imaging to assess the activity of brain dopamine receptors, a neurotransmitter syst... ... middle of paper ... ...ptoms, tests, and medical history, and recommend medications and psychotherapy for treatment. Schizophrenia is usually confused with split personality. Schizophrenia is a psychosis, a type of mental illness in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined in their heads. At times, patients with psychotic disorders lose touch with reality and just perceive in what they see and what they believe is true. For many patients, the world may seem like a jumble of confusing thoughts, images, and sounds surrounding them. The behavior of people with schizophrenia may be very strange and even shocking towards other people who don’t know the patient. A sudden change in personality and behavior, which occurs when schizophrenia sufferers lose touch with reality, is called a psychotic episode. This psychotic episode is based on “losing of contact with reality” and

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