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| There are other ways of interpreting mental illness. To psychiatrists disorders are all biological and neurological and tend to ignore social factors |
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| Poverty: rates among poor |
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rates of mental illness are higher among those in poverty.
some say it is downward drift- mental ill are going to be poor. Research doesn’t support this. |
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| Poverty: what research supports |
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Schizophrenia is higher.
Research supports stress. |
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Lots of stress with very few resources to deal with that stress. People who are not in a state of poverty have the resources to get relief or help from various forms of stress.
Hurricane Katrina- People who had money got out or lived in the areas that weren’t going to get flooded. |
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| Alzheimer's. Nancy reagan didn’t have to be there 24/7. she experience the emotional pain yes and it is hard. But on top of that she didn’t have the trial of taking care of them. That is just as much if not more stress than the emotional pain. Schizophrenia- exists worldwide. In third world countries fare far better than people in this country. It is because of how society views it. |
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| There aren’t any particular differences in gender for frequency. Onset for women tends to be later than men and have better outcomes than men. More likely to get a diagnoses of mood or anxiety disorders. |
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| Men are more likely to be diagnosed with personality and substance abuse disorders. Research supports primary reason for it is socialization. – men are supposed to be the bread winner, assertive, be ambitious, being competitive. For men being depressed is being a wimp. Men tend to express it more in external ways- anger, (suicides by cop are more likely to be men). |
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| in general, religions that emphasize love, and community- is a protective factor. Some with mental illness get drawn to religion for disfunctional reasons. Religions sometimes have negative factors as well. Certain religions tend to gravitate toward certain disorders. |
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Not all disorders found world wide.
How people do with schizophrenia depends on their nationality. Has everything to do with societies attitudes toward it. Wage earning countries tend to do the poorest. Schizophrenia is commonly thought to really be neurobiologically based. Because societies view it into much better light they fair better with no medication at all. |
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there arent’ really higher rates depending on race.
The biggest thing is African Americans- are the most likely to be misdiagnosed and mistreated. A lot of African Americans in poverty. Tend to be treated in the safety net system.- worst form of treatment in the country. Don’t get the consistency or quality that other people get with private health insurance. |
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has the power to decide what is considered a disorder.
The system is so entrenched that money and insurance companies make the decision to be paid.
Look behind the diagnosis at the meaning of the behavior. Don’t interpret everything through the lens of their diagnosis. |
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• At one time we burned witches at the stake. Now it is a mental disorder (OCD). A lot of them were considered demonic posession. Not a real thing. How we treat it depends on race, SES, and how prevalent it is is dependent upon where. MMPI- Blacks score higher on the schizophrenia scale. It is also a measure of social alienation. They experience more social alienation because of the bigotry that they experience in the country.
Mental illness is socially defined.
How it is treated depends on economic status, race, ethnicity, and other socio-demographic variables. |
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