Mental Illness

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This paper contends that mental illness can not be treated in the same way as any other disease because it manifests in a way entirely different from most other diseases. The paper explains that, for individuals suffering from a mental illness, there is no clear cut answer that will resolve them of their symptoms or the stigma associated with diagnosis of a mental illness. The paper examines how important it is for mental illness to be examined from many different perspectives, both medical and sociological.

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"Mental illness may be defined as many things, depending on who you talk to. One this is certain, there is not one coherent and clear cut definition of what exactly mental illness is or is not. Because of this it is important that health care practitioners and sociologists work together to treat mental illness not simply as any other disease, but a diseases that is unique unto itself. Being diagnosed with a mental illness caries with it a stigma; most people rank mental illness as among the top ranked illnesses associated with a degree of deviance. There is also a large body of evidence which suggests that groups are sensitive to being labeled as mentally ill because of the stigma associated with it, particularly in Western and urban societies."

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