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Mental Health: Introduction
- 1. Mental Illness in America AGENDA 1. Please turn off your cell phone and put it away. Thank you. 2. Attendance 3. Turn in reflection Heath Care, if you haven’t already. (typed) 4. Facts about mental illness 5. Next Class: bring your booklet Mental Illness in America and be prepared to deliberate about the three options.
- 2. Mental Illness in America Mentally Illness is the opposite of Mental Health
- 3. What I think • Make a list of all the negative things you have heard about people with cancer. • Make a list of all the positive things you have heard about people with cancer. • Which list is longer? • Now make a list of all the negative things you have heard about people with mental illness. Then a list of the positives. • What is different about the lists you made for cancer and mental illness? Why do you think they are different?
- 4. What I think activity • What do you think influences perceptions about people with mental illness? • With your partner brainstorm all the factors you can think of that affect our perception of people with a mental illness. • Be ready to share your ideas.
- 5. Do you know someone with a mental illness?
- 6. These people had mental illnesses ACTORS/ENTERTAINER S/DIRECTORS Marlon Brando Charles Schultz Drew Carey Rod Steiger Jim Carrey Damon Wayans Robin Williams John Cleese Rodney Dangerfield Richard Dreyfuss Frances Ford Coppola Audrey Hepburn Anthony Hopkins Ashley Judd Margot Kidder Vivien Leigh Joan Rivers Roseanne Winona Ryder STATESMEN/WOMEN George Washington Abraham Lincoln Mary Lincoln Winston Churchill Lady Di ARTISTS Paul Gaugin Vincent van Gogh Michelangelo Georgia O’Keefe Jackson Pollock ATHLETES Lionel Aldridge Oksana Baiul Dwight Gooden Peter Harnisch Greg Louganis Elizabeth Manley Jimmy Piersall Monica Seles Darryl Strawberry Bert Yancey SCIENTISTS/BUSINESS Howard Hughes Charles Darwin J.P. Morgan Sigmund Freud Ted Turner Stephen Hawking Sir Isaac Newton WRITERS/JOURNALISTS Hans Christian Andersen Mike Wallace James Barrie Walt Whitman William Blake Tennessee Williams Agatha Christie Virginia Woolf Michael Crichton Charles Dickens Emily Dickinson William Faulkner F. Scott Fitzgerald John Kenneth Galbraith Ernest Hemingway John Keats Larry King Eugene O’Neill Sylvia Plath Edgar Allen Poe Mary Shelley Neil Simon William Styron Leo Tolstoy Mark Twain MUSCIANS Irving Berlin Ludwig van Beethoven Karen Carpenter Ray Charles Frederic Chopin Eric Clapton Leonard Cohen Natalie Cole Sheryl Crow John Denver Stephen Foster Peter Gabriel Janet Jackson Billy Joel Elton John Sarah McLachlan Charles Mingus Alanis Morissette Marie Osmond Charles Parker Cole Porter Bonnie Raitt Axl Rose Robert Schumann Paul Simon James Taylor Peter Tchaikovshy
- 7. Mental Illness: Facts & Figures • 1 in 4 Americans experience mental illness every year • 4 % of those suffer serious conditions that prevent them from working and living normal lives.
- 8. Mental Illness: Facts & Figures • 50% of Americans will have a mental illness sometime in their lifetime. • https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=CUuyzoTI948
- 9. Causes of Mental Illness
- 10. Types of Mental Illnesses • Impulse Disorders: Unable to resist urges. Ex. kleptomania, pyromania, gambling • Personality Disorders: extreme inflexible personality traits. Ex. anti-social disorder. OCD. • Post Traumatic Stress – persistent, frightening memories leading to emotional numbness. • Anxiety Disorders: excessive fear and dread. Ex. phobias • Mood Disorders: persistent swings in mood or persistent feelings that interfere with daily life. Ex. depression, bipolar, • Psychotic Disorders: disordered thinking – Ex. schizophrenia • Eating disorders: extreme emotional attitudes toward food. Ex. Bulimia, anorexia
- 11. Schizophrenia • People with schizophrenia suffer hallucinations and hear voices. They are often self-destructive. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVHNGZ0Omx 0
- 12. Suicide • Depression is the most common mental illness – 9% of population (CDC). • 30,000 people commit suicide every year. That’s one every 16 minutes. • EVERY study has found that access to guns in the home doubles the risk of dying from suicide. 15 % of clinically depressed people die by suicide.
- 13. Do you know someone with a mental illness? Why is it hard to talk about?
- 14. Frank and Alice • What does stigma mean? • Why do you think people with mental illness are stigmatized? • What other health conditions or social conditions have been stigmatized in the past? • Read these two case studies and be ready to discuss the questions at the end.
- 15. When it’s personal • How do think it feels to be mentally ill or have a mentally ill person in your family? • Based on what happened to Frank, who would you tell? Who wouldn’t you tell? Why?
- 16. The Stigma of Mental Illness Mentally ill people are stigmatized and made fun of in our society. Studies show that a majority of people believe that people with mental illness are dangerous and unpredictable. or that they self-inflict the illness on themselves (i.e. bulimia, anorexia, alcoholism).
- 17. The Stigma of Mental Illness • The media play a major role in stigmatizing and stereotyping mental illness. • https://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=mbbMLOZj UYI
- 18. Myths about the Mentally Ill Myth Fact • Mentally illness cannot be cured. • Mentally ill people are violent. • Mentally ill people are possessed by evil spirits or did something wrong. • All mental illnesses can be treated. • Only 7 % of untreated mentally ill are violent. • Mental illness is caused by an imbalance of chemicals in the brain.
- 19. Mental Illness & Public Policy • Who should pay for the treatment of the mentally ill? • Who should pay for their very expensive medications? • Where should mentally ill people who cannot take care of themselves or work be housed? - In hospitals -in group homes -in prisons -left on their own to find shelters or live on the street
- 21. Mental Illness and Prison • 25 to 40% of people with mental illness will spend time in jail. Most will have sentences longer than a year. • 55% of males and 75% of female prisoners are mentally ill. • Ten times more mentally ill are in prison than in mental hospitals.
- 22. What rights do the mentally ill have? • Read the Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights Handout. • Why do you think mentally ill people need these rights spelled out? • Which rights surprise you? • Should mentally ill people have the right to reject treatment and medications?
- 23. Mental Illness and Guns *Only 7 % of mentally ill people are violent. Most states follow federal law and only ban people from obtaining guns if they are involuntarily sent to a mental institution or are found mentally ill by the medical establishment. Background checks are only required at federally licensed gun shops. 40% of gun sales are private or at gun shows.
- 24. Next Class • Deliberation on Mental Health Public Policy. Bring your NIF Booklet on mental health. • 11/17 Local Government Reflection Due • 11/24 Policy Paper due