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Many mental illnesses cause painful, sad thoughts.

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This represents the battling thoughts of people with mental illnesses.

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Many adults live with mental illness, and often they are not treated properly.

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This picture helps represent how other people tend to form our thoughts and feelings.

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This picture helps represent how many people with mental illnesses have extremely challenging clashing thoughts.

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There's No Shame In Taking Care of Your Mental Health

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There's No Shame In Taking Care of Your Mental Health

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Many people, especially men, do not want to open up about their mental health problems. Many people feel extremely weak when they talk about their mental illness. Opening up can be extremely relaxing and helpful.

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Sangu Delle: There's no shame in taking care of your mental health

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When stress got to be too much for TED Fellow Sangu Delle, he had to confront his own deep prejudice: that men shouldn't take care of their mental health. In a personal talk, Delle shares how he learned to handle anxiety in a society that's uncomfortable with emotions.

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Don't Suffer From You Depression In Silence

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Don't Suffer From You Depression In Silence

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Often people do not like to talk about their mental illnesses. But usually that can result in a lot more pain. Opening up about mental illnesses is much healthier and helpful

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Nikki Webber Allen: Don't suffer from your depression in silence

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Having feelings isn't a sign of weakness -- they mean we're human, says producer and activist Nikki Webber Allen. Even after being diagnosed with anxiety and depression, Webber Allen felt too ashamed to tell anybody, keeping her condition a secret until a family tragedy revealed how others close to her were also suffering.

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In Fahrenheit 451, the characters show that mental health can affect anyone, even those that do not initially have a mental illness. Many people will mental illnesses will talk to friends and family and sometimes the burden is partially put on them. Another factor is that people’s moods will affect others. Many experts agree that mental illness can affect anyone, saying, “When you or someone in your family has a mental illness, it can affect everyone. Some types of illness can cause big changes in the family’s routines, activities and finances. Different people in your family will react differently to these changes” (Department). Often when someone in a family has a mental illness, there is a lot of attention and money that goes to them and their proper care. It can also affect how families act around people with mental illnesses. Most would try to understand them and provide help. When a people learn someone in the family has a mental illness, they can feel deserted, thinking, “When a family is presented with this category of illness, they may feel like they’ve entered an alien world” (NAMI). Families can feel extremely isolated when someone in the family has a mental illness. Friends can often feel isolated, “If a friend no longer contacts you, it's understandable to feel rejected, but you are not responsible for other people's reaction to your problems. If one person ends your friendship, it doesn't mean that others will do the same” (Friendship). Often times mental illness will even overwhelm friends, causing them to leave the friendship. This does not happen often though, as most people are extremely willing to help others with their struggles. Most people will help by offering some advice or even just listening. Friendships usually are extremely important and helpful for people with mental illnesses.

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In Fahrenheit 451, mental health is extremely significant in both the book and the world, it often goes untreated and unnoticed. Mental illnesses can usually be identified, and there are many people with mental illnesses. Experts have analyzed data and found some interesting statistics, saying, “In 2017, there were an estimated 46.6 million adults aged 18 or older in the United States with AMI. This number represented 18.9% of all U.S. adults” (Mental Illness). That is almost one fourth of the population. Those also are only identified mental illnesses in men and women, many mental health problems often go unnoticed. According to experts, “According to the National Institute of Mental Health, in 2016 approximately 20 percent of adults over age 18 experienced mild to severe mental illness, accounting for 44.7 million people; of those, 43 percent received treatment for mental health symptoms” (Mental Health). That is less than half of the population of people with mental illness. Many experts agree that mental health often goes unnoticed, saying, “Little is known about the extent or severity of untreated mental disorders, especially in less-developed countries” (Gasquet). This quote shows that many people know that mental disorders are often looked over, but still not much is done about it. Many professionals also know that untreated mental disorders can cause extreme pain and can hurt the person affected in possible ways. Some other experts bring up the point that mental disorders, especially untreated disorders, bring illness and much more pain, saying, “About 14% of the global burden of disease has been attributed to neuropsychiatric disorders, mostly due to the chronically disabling nature of depression and other common mental disorders, alcohol-use and substance-use disorders, and psychoses. Such estimates have drawn attention to the importance of mental disorders for public health” (No Health). Mental health is not often associated with other illnesses and sicknesses. More attention is being brought to how often untreated mental illnesses can cause other illnesses, which helps the public health.

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In Fahrenheit 451, there are many symbols that allude to mental health. Symbols include Captain Beatty and the river Montag jumps in to get off the trail of the Mechanical Hound. At one point in the story it says, “In the middle of crying Montag knew it for the truth. Beatty had wanted to die. He had just stood there, not really trying to save himself, just stood there, joking, needling, thought Montag, and the thought was enough to stifle his sobbing and let in pause for air. How strange, strange, to want to die so much that you let a man walk around armed and then instead of shutting up and staying alive, you go on yelling at people and making fun of them until you get man, and then…” (Bradbury 116). Captain Beatty had purposely mocker and teased Montag, resulting in his death. After Montag had killed Beatty, Montag realizes that Beatty had wanted to die. This is a symbol of mental health because often when someone’s mental health gets too much to handle, they will end up doing very extreme things to stop the pain, including killing themselves. It is an extremely serious problem in society and this book helps bring mental health more awareness. Another symbol is when Montag jumped into the river, saying, “He touched it, just to be sure it was real. He waded in and stripped in darkness to the skin, splashed his body, arms, legs, and head with raw liquor; drank it and snuffed some up his nose. Then he dressed in Faber’s old clothes and shoes. He tossed his own clothing into the river and watched it swept away. Then, holding the suitcase, he walked out in the river until there was no bottom and he was swept away in the dark” (Bradbury 133). While running away from the Mechanical Hound, Montag tried to get him off his trail by jumping into the river. The plan ended up working, and the Mechanical Hound could not find Montag. This is a symbol of mental health because it can symbolize “washing away” problems. Many times, people with mental illnesses have to clear themselves of their problems. They often have to talk to someone to get what is bothering off their chest. Jumping into the river can symbolize Montag releasing his problems and letting them go, so he does not have to deal with them anymore.

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In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, there are many symbols and quotes that allude to mental health. Some symbols that allude to mental health are Clarisse and the burning of the books. Clarisse, the young girl Montag meets in the beginning of the novel, alludes to mental health often. She ends up being an extremely important part of Montag’s life. She starts Montag’s self discovery of his true emotions and feelings. Clarisse once asked Montag if he was happy, to which he replied “Of course I’m happy. What does she think? I’m not?” (Bradbury 11). At this point he started questioning his own happiness. He later answered the question with more thought, saying “He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself” (Bradbury 9). The burning of the books is also extremely symbolic. The books are another spark to Montag’s self discovery. One time Montag thought to himself “‘Last night I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I’d never even thought that thought before’” (Bradbury 49). He starts realizing how personal books are, and that deeply affects him. He realized how much normal, everyday objects could affect people and have an impact on their lives. He also felt a sense of interconnectedness, which means somehow someone he does not know or barely knows had an impact on his life. The burning books connect many people in a way most people would not connect by, which is symbolic.

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Ray Bradbury used his novel Fahrenheit 451 to bring attention to mental health issues in today’s society. According to current research, Bradbury was accurate in showing how mental health is often not treated and goes unnoticed, even though it affects the majority of the American population and causes extreme distress to people who both have mental illness and those who do not.