What causes Mental Illness by Dawson Edwards

Sources

18edwardsd — 2016-01-08 17:12:46 UTC

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Sigurdson, Chris. "The Mad the Bad and the Abandoned: The Mentally Ill in Prisons and..." Corrections Today. Dec. 2000: 70+. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 13 Jan. 2016.

Biological

18edwardsd — 2016-01-11 17:02:23 UTC

One of the three factors of mental illness is biological causes. Certain mental illnesses have been connected to abnormal functions of nerve cell circuits, genetics, infections, brain defects, injuries, and substance abuse. Not containing too much information on its own, Biological is usually the base for both other types.

Phycological

18edwardsd — 2016-01-11 17:02:33 UTC

The third and final type is phycological. Many things can influence mental illness in the phycological category including trauma, a loss of someone close when you were young, neglect, and a hard time relating to others. Phycological can be largely affected by social status. It can be feeling left out of things or being verbally attacked by people that feel they are better then others. Feeling bad about ones self, and depression will greatly increase ones chances of becoming mentally ill. on the gale virtual library, in the article Socioeconomic status and psychiatric disorders: the causation-selection issue, it says "high numbers of the poor and insane were new Irish immigrants to Massachusetts". It talks about how in the 1850's the Irish in Massachusetts at this time were facing large discrimination. Showing how social outcasting can have a toll on mental illness. These feelings of rejection are derived from peoples social environment.

Enviromental

18edwardsd — 2016-01-11 17:02:43 UTC

Environmental causes are things happening around an individual, that can affect the person. Common things that affect someone are loss of a close family or friend, dysfunctional family life, or stress, low self esteem. Not only have I found environmental to be things happening to people, but I believe it can also be the places they are and things they see everyday. In an article ,on the website Proquest SIRS, entitled THE MAD THE BAD AND THE ABANDONED: THE MENTALLY ILL IN PRISONS AND JAILS it points out the affect prison has on the inmates. It shows about how being confined to the same place, and feeling abandoned every day can create chemical effects on a persons brain. Now of corse not everyone is confined to a cell, but the same effect could be had on someone that works in a office building, or at a school that doesn't have as much freedom as we do.

Introduction

18edwardsd — 2016-01-11 17:04:42 UTC

In my book a big part of it was how insane people are. I was researching what makes people insane and I came to find out in medical terms it is referred to as mentally ill not insane. As i looked into it I started to wonder what exactly causes mental illness. learning more and more i found there are three common categories of causes. There are Biological, Environmental, and Phycological causes mental illness. They all have their own causes within their categories, and have a large part playing into the others.