America Needs Mental Health Care - 2384 Words

According to globalmentalhealth.org It is estimated that 120 million people suffer from depression, 50 million from epilepsy, 37 million from althezimers disease and 24 million from schizophrenia. About 1 million people worldwide commit suicide every year, and approximately 20 million unsuccessfully attempt suicide. In the United States, suicide is the eighth leading cause of death—another life is taken this way every 17 minutes. With these figures in mind it brings up the question Do we as a society handle mental health properly? From a global scale to how we all individually handle the mental health of others. Lots of people claim that mental health is being treated properly stating preposterous things like; we are already doing enough†¦show more content†¦If we as people truly handle mental health properly then we would not shame people who need help or think of the stereotypical asylum that comes along with mental health, these stigmas quickly prove we do not hand le mental health properly. For example myth that we do enough globally for those in need of mental help can quickly be disproven by simple facts and information. Many people disagree with the following claims, Dr.Cesar Chelala wrote in a piece for globalmentalhealth.org that states â€Å"on a global scale, approximately 70 percent of people have access to less than one psychiatrist per 100,000 people, 55 percent of people have access to less than one neurologist per million people, and 44 percent of people have access to less than one psychiatric nurse per 100,000 people. These are general figures that do not take into consideration significant regional, national, and local variations. All in all, the services and resources available are one-tenth to one-hundredth of what is needed.† Proving that we are not doing all we can to help those who need it, the world lacks the sufficient amounts of specialists and facilities to help those who need it. Mental illness is becoming a rapid problem in many countrie s and can be a big issue to many people s safety if people can not get the help they need, in an article for CNN author Johan Nylander writes about the mental health crisis in China and around the world he states that â€Å"work