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Mental Health in the U.S. - Coggle Diagram
Mental Health in the U.S.
Limited mental health resources
Need more vested in mental health outreach
Need to identify risk factors that contribute to mental illness– identify new markers or environmental issues -early identification
Plagued with barriers to equal access and treatment
Fragmented mental health support
Mental health clinician shortage
Financial obstacles
No enough residential centers for people with mental health
Leads to poverty, homelessness
Much needed support not available
Shame
Mental health stories are hidden and not shared
Belief is people are not more than their mental health
Labeled forever
Can not decide if people with mental health problems should be treated like other people
Society wants a fix method and would rather not deal with people with mental health problems
People with mental health issues are lower class
Separate from normal community members
not comfortable stepping forward to ask for help
Employers do not want to hire people with mental health problems
Viewed as unreliable
You have to be poor, broke, homeless, destitute, and so psychotic that society can no longer ignore you to get help rather than getting help when you first needed it.
Loss of dignity
Stigma to diagnosis and treatment of mental health problems
Media portrays
Media representations have driven a misleading skewed and overly negative view of mental illness
People with mental health issues are monsters and criminals
Real world is not as simple as movies portray
People should control their mental illness
People who do not control their mental illness are week
Happy pills give wrong impression
People with mental health problems are dangerous
People suffering from mental health issues should be locked away
10 times more likely to be victimized
Social pressure
Conform to society to follow
Increased depression
Increased suiside
Increased stress
Lack of Education
Broken mental health system
Broken mental health system
Medication is a bandage
Portrayal of mental illness make people reluctant to seek help and continue therapy onced diagnosed
Circle of insanity - continue same treatment and expect different results.
Limited information on what treating mental illness looks like.
Focus is on treating a medical disease and not a person as a whole
High percentage of incarcerated men and women struggles with mental illness
Largest provider for mental health care in American is jails and prisons
Jail is not a medical facility
Jail staff not educated on mental health
Lack of support for mental evaluation and treatment and issues are neglected – leading to crisis that can include people getting hurt
Lack of Governmental support and funding
Lack of reentry support
Poverty, homelessness
Increased chance of returning to jail
Complicated interrelationship with other influences
Upbringing
Genetics
Medical issues
socioeconomic actors
Broken mental health system
Complex navigating mental health care
Overwhelming amount of paperwork
No guidance and hard to get answers
Leaving those who most need help behind
Mental health cost are high
High costs for meds and therapy, legal fees
Trying to build on a broken foundation
Outrageous debt and limited funds