How much has attitude to mental health affected
diagnosis and wellbeing?
Primary Research
Survey
Diagnosis
Anorexia not being treated until people become of a
low enough BMI (get worse)
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-33640160)
This would not be the same case
with physical illness! If
someone's blood pressure was
high you wouldn't wait for it to
further increase
"It's feeding those thoughts the illness is telling you,
setting you off on that awful spiral of going home,
restricting your diet and losing weight until you become
more poorly." -Jo
Cycle of hospital admissions because
treatment was based on management
of weight, rather than adressing
underlying mental health problem
Anorexia is narcissistic in culture (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35797158
Treatment
"Anti-depressants prescribed too easily, doctor
says"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-35569331?intlink_from_url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/814465c5-404b-4c88-889f-45907ba1f402/mental-health&link_location=live-reporting-story
This is their way of trying to cope with the overwhelming numbers of those
sufering with depression. This shows how trivial 'experts' (medical drs) see
depression- thinking that some pills will fix them instead of anything else
and patients are simpyl dissmissed after being given these.
"If you ask me who's really failing people I think it's doctors like me," Dr Healy told Post Cyntaf.
Over-prescription could be due to not enough
therapy being available as an alternative
treatment to depression which is shown to
be more effective. This could be due to the
lack of funds present
Doctor of psychology
thinks this about
doctors (medicine)
"These days when people go along to their doctor, they're hoping they'll get a pill to cure an infection and
they're told 'no we don't hand out antibiotics, these are tricky pills, things could go wrong (Healy presumed)
Mental illness treatment is based
off the treatment done for physical
illness
"But in the case of the
anti-depressants it's just
the opposite. These are even
trickier pills likely to cause
much more harm."
Dr Healy, director of the North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, said doctors should not be
afraid to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry.
Pharmaceutical industry affecting treatment
Experts are knocked down by the
pharmaceutical company which seems
to offer a qiuck and reliable fix to
something
Pharma being dominant in the mental
domain as well as physical shows just
how mental illness is seen as physical
illnesses' less significant broher.
Attitudes
"How does stigma affect people with mental illness?
http://www.nursingtimes.net/Journals/2012/07/06/q/p/l/120710-How-does-stigma-affect-people-with-mental-illness.pdf
Attitudes of Mental Health Professionals Toward People
With Schizophrenia and Major Depression
https://schizophreniabulletin.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/4/709.full
"Psychiatrists had more
negative stereotypes than the
general population."
The study concludes that the better knowledge of
mental health professionals and their support of
individual rights neither entail fewer stereotypes
nor enhance the willingness to closely interact with
mentally ill people."
Tesco refused woman alcohol because of
self-harm scars
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35831370