Are Mental Disorders Important Too?

Are Mental Disorders Important Too?

Layla Hollis

Oct. 22, 2019

As of 2019 In the United States, only 41 percent of the people who have a mental disorder in the past year have received professional health care or other services. That’s literally less than half of our population running around with messed up thoughts. How would feel if every night you went to bed crying or if every time you wanted to do something a voice in your head said no? Well, this is the case for many who have mental illnesses.

Now, don’t go running around saying you have a mental disorder because you got mad at your mom once. This is a serious disorder that affects a lot of people, but yet the government can’t come up with enough money to support rehabilitation centers and support groups. Instead, they have enough money to spend on businesses that are giving them money.

Apparently, the government is concerned that we need more physical and real illness treatments, but to be honest they don’t take care of that either.

They wonder why our violence rate has went up. Well, it’s gone up because the government isn’t providing for places that could help these people with their mental illnesses. So instead of helping these places be free, they’d rather toss the issue in the trash like they do the rest.

For example, over 1.3 million teenagers die in a year from suicide because of mental illnesses like depression. When is it going to stop! When are we going to tell our government enough is enough?When are we going to stop letting people die because the government can’t open their eyes to see that this is an issue?

To be fair, it’s not just the government that were fighting . We are also encouraging parents to notice when their children are struggling with mental disorders. It doesn’t take much to check on someone and see if their doing okay.

If you experience troubling emotional or psychological symptoms,like depression, bipolar disorder or manic depression, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, dissociative disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, an eating disorder, or an anxiety disorder, you may be looking for some information and support on speaking out for yourself.

Perhaps, you have forgotten that you have the same rights as other people. Maybe, you may have come to feel that you have lost the power to ask for what you want and need. You may have struggled so much that you have become discouraged, just a little, or maybe deeply.

Perhaps the government has forgotten that this is a striking issue in America and it needs to be not just talked about, but something needs to change about this. It shouldn’t be that when you turn 18 you get kicked out the system and you have to have professional help. It shouldn’t be that millions of people are dying every year to mental disorders that could be treated just like a wound could.

“The brain exists within a human body, which in turn exists within a family, a culture, a society, an economy.”

Works Cited
Fred Osher.“We Need Better Funding for Mental Illnesses”. New York Times. May, 19, 2016.
Lisa Pryor. “Mental Illness Isn’t All in Your Head.” The New York Times. March 15 2019.
Thomas Insel. The National Institution of Mental Health. February 15, 2016.