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Post by negin94 on Sept 11, 2017 19:06:53 GMT
One of the important social problems I'm concerned about is the Stigma around mental health.
My group members also agree that even though there's more awareness around mental health issues within the western countries,specially compared to third world countries, We're not completely there yet as a nation. psychological research has progressed immensely since the 1800s. I believe psychologists could help us have a deeper understanding of where these mental illnesses stem from, and how it can impact our lives.
For example ,they can help us understand the root and cause of clinical depression and how someone who is diagnosed with it is impacted. psychobiology shows us that clinical depression is more than just feeling sad. As my group member Emily mentioned, their research can help us get rid of "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality that we have about mental health in our society. Through their research we can educate ourselves, friends and family and eventually raise more awareness about this particular issue.
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Post by mikey117 on Sept 12, 2017 21:16:58 GMT
Not even since the 1800's, we can go back as far as 20 years ago and see there have been ENORMOUS leaps in our understanding of mental health, I personally have ADHD and Depression and growing up...Oh boy, Doctors were convinced that I wouldn't be able to graduate from high school let alone pursue any University or Collage Education. For goddess sake they thought I wouldn't be able to talk! I wasn't able to really talk until 8-10 years old which suddenly I was able to read(another thing they thought would be impossible). Now Dealing with depression I do find there is an attitude as you mentioned "Pull yourself together, your making that choice to be sad". Which at times does make it really hard to talk about, or even to admit, when I was 1st told about depression years ago I lashed out when it was purposed that I could be having it. But since then(four years ago) I slowly came to terms with it and sought help, I have always wondered from then on what is our current understanding of it, as at 1st many people didn't believe me as they saw a guy that couldn't POSSIBLY have depression, which leads me to conclude its very misunderstood. It is more then "feeling sad" in the middle of the day when everything is objectively going well, or even sometimes about to cry for no reason. Its a shame its not understood as it makes it difficult to have a discussion about it meaningful when the person suffering through it is almost making constant corrections in their head to the point where they don't find the point in engaging in a conversation about it due to fearing they might make their own predicament worse since people can dismiss anything they say ass "Oh did you take your meds today? Are you sure they are working at all?" Which from personal experiences really sucks when people can in essence write your entire being off as just your medication "working" or not
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Post by negin94 on Sept 14, 2017 4:34:34 GMT
Not even since the 1800's, we can go back as far as 20 years ago and see there have been ENORMOUS leaps in our understanding of mental health, I personally have ADHD and Depression and growing up...Oh boy, Doctors were convinced that I wouldn't be able to graduate from high school let alone pursue any University or Collage Education. For goddess sake they thought I wouldn't be able to talk! I wasn't able to really talk until 8-10 years old which suddenly I was able to read(another thing they thought would be impossible). Now Dealing with depression I do find there is an attitude as you mentioned "Pull yourself together, your making that choice to be sad". Which at times does make it really hard to talk about, or even to admit, when I was 1st told about depression years ago I lashed out when it was purposed that I could be having it. But since then(four years ago) I slowly came to terms with it and sought help, I have always wondered from then on what is our current understanding of it, as at 1st many people didn't believe me as they saw a guy that couldn't POSSIBLY have depression, which leads me to conclude its very misunderstood. It is more then "feeling sad" in the middle of the day when everything is objectively going well, or even sometimes about to cry for no reason. Its a shame its not understood as it makes it difficult to have a discussion about it meaningful when the person suffering through it is almost making constant corrections in their head to the point where they don't find the point in engaging in a conversation about it due to fearing they might make their own predicament worse since people can dismiss anything they say ass "Oh did you take your meds today? Are you sure they are working at all?" Which from personal experiences really sucks when people can in essence write your entire being off as just your medication "working" or not Thanks for sharing your story Mikey! As someone with a history of depression i completely understand where you're coming from. Last sentence hit close to home. our mental health issues are not who we are, they're only a small part of us that we can not sometimes control, and that's the message we need to get out there to raise more awareness. More people are becoming aware everyday , we'll get there.
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Post by cherise on Sept 14, 2017 18:19:20 GMT
Mikey, I admire your courage in speaking out on such a stigmatized topic. With more research developed and with more people like yourself with keeping the convo open we will continue to find the appropriate resources.
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