Monday, March 12, 2018
What do you think are the most significant barriers to recover from mental illness?
"From working in the medical field, I believe that there are two significant barriers when it comes to recovering from mental illness: First is the notion that mental illness is something you "recover" from. Mental illness is often a chronic, lifelong illness, which means the focus needs to be shifted away from "curing" it towards ",manging" it. Coping strategies, mental health care, talk therapy, and medications all aid in managing the illness. The second barrier is the social stigmas that surround mental illness. If people are too afraid to discover that they're mentally ill to seek help in the first place, we can't even begin working towards better societal management. You see people saying things like "mental illness is all in your head" and "just try being happy",when the fact of the matter is that mental illnesses are a chemical imbalance in your brain, the same way that people with diabetes don't produce the right chemical(insulin) to be able to process sugars. We need to reframe the way we look at mental illness and, instead of placing blame on the mentally ill for having their illness, look at mental illness the way we look at any other medical malady." Full question is As a mental health professional, what do you think are the most significant barriers to recover from mental illness? This was on Quora answered by Duane Buise, works at EMED
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