Global studies is interesting in that each person in the world has an individual personality. Those personalities make up groups, with likes, dislikes, actions, and feelings. It makes me wonder, how does the outside affect the inside? Our discussion on cultural globalization really made me connect back culture and cultural practices to mental health.
http://www.slideshare.net/envisageinternational/mental-health-awareness-nafsa-region-ii-2015
In a fairly long article, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK44249/ I found the term "culture-bound syndromes." These are defined as sets of symptoms much more common in some societies than in others. This means there are disorders in other places that we may never know of or experience.
Top 10 bizarre cultural disorders: http://listverse.com/2009/08/21/top-10-bizarre-cultural-disorders/
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If there's one thing I've learned since taking abnormal psychology, it's that mental health disorders affect everyone. Regardless of social class, religion, or ethnicity, everyone is susceptible to having a sickness of the mind. According to http://www.ct.gov/dmhas/lib/dmhas/publications/mhethnicity.pdf, the only difference is that minorities are stuck with the poor end of care. Each culture affects it's members in different ways, and while I cannnot say one culture is right and one is wrong, I can say that some are more harmful than others, and that hurts me.
https://brentonrwif.wordpress.com/2014/06/26/tips-on-how-to-use-positive-thoughts-to-combat-depression/
Culture affects everything we do. In the case of mental health, it affects the cause of the disorder, the treatment, the doctor, everything. The more I learn about this the more it makes me want to do something for these people. Perhaps that's how I will truly become a global citizen, by helping others and their mental states around the globe.
Great topic! I was wondering if you did any research on how other countries might deal with mental health compared to the united states. Also from reading your blog i thought of a few things, you said that everyone is any country might have a mental illness, because of course we are all human. I did some research and it said that the united states has a very high if not one of the highest rates of poor mentally healthy people. Is this because we over diagnose? or do we recognize peoples medical issues more than say Kazakhstan or some other rural country where modern medicine isn't present? Also thinking about the mental state of our own country, it seems as though the mental health readings are correct in some sense. Think about our daily lives and how busy they are, all the pressures and standards we have to or think we have to live up to. The mental health world is vast and complicated right here at home. Although I would love to hear ways in which americans can effectively help mentally unhealthy people in other countries but i think it would be a even better idea to fix our problems here in the USA.
ReplyDeleteLindsay! I'm really glad you chose to discuss this topic; mental illness is such a prevalent Health Related Event that doesn't discriminate. It's so important to realize that as our global community expands, so does our rate of interaction with people who struggle with it. It's become so prevalent, that children as early as 2 or 3 years old present symptoms. Living with mental illness is going to be a trying process for a huge portion of future populations - our perspectives, as well as those of our governments, so that there can be proper implementation of policies, programs, and resources that can make lives better and move us towards a more empathetic and wise future. Liked it a lot!
ReplyDeleteI really liked how you added knowledge from your major and applied it to this class. Also ^ Haley's comments are on point, bringing up lots of good ideas. Something that really stuck with me was when Haley said "I was wondering if you did any research on how other countries might deal with mental health compared to the United States". That got me thinking, it would be a great idea to research mental health issues and their remedies in other countries. By looking closely into how different countries solve these different mental health issues we might stumble upon a cure or maybe even the best solution to some of these problems. From there we can apply it worldwide.
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