Mental health
This essay talks about the topic of mental health. Mental health: “is a state of physical, mental, and social well-being. ... Mental health is a very vast subject and has many different points of view. ... Some things that will be discussed during this essay will include mental illness, mental health, medications, suicide, forms of treatment and future implications. ... As stated, there were some problems with the survey but there are many other problems dealing with this topic such as funding, health care issues and any others. It was thought that the students would lack knowledge concerning mental health due to poor education and low funding on the topic. ... The study consisted of one hundred surveys dealing with mental health. ... Questions were asked dealing with health, illness, medications, suicide and treatments. ... Seventy-four percent of students answered that mental illness is very common (plati,2003) suggesting that this is a bad problem and it needs to be treated. ... On question fourteen “do you think mental illness is brought on by stress or is it genetically inside you when you are born? ... Students believed that stress and life situations brought out mental illness. At the same time, thirty-three percent answered that they thought mental illness was most common in children ages one to ten years old (plati,2003) which completely contradicts itself. ... Students thought that life brought on mental illness and they must have guessed that the most common age for illness is one to ten years old. ... Forty-three percent of students believed that the most common kind of mental illness was depression. ... Mental illnesses are common in all ages and are very hard to deal with. ... “Mental illness profoundly affects an individual ability to think, feel and act.