Over the course of ten years education has changed, sometimes good and sometimes bad. For the most part, our education is missing some important pieces of information. Mental health is something that has changed but has also become less talked about throughout societies. The education for it has decreased and is continuing to decrease. In future years the education for mental will drastically decrease. The more challenges will come up, and the more problems will be caused throughout society. Today, more and more teens are starting to be diagnosed with mental health illnesses but aren`t getting the treatment they require only because not everyone Is fully educated on the situation at hand.
Throughout society people have used a mental illness to get attention, it really shows how people show that they care about these types of things. Mental illness can be challenging, two people can be diagnosed with the same condition but will show the signs of it in a different way. Not every condition is portrayed the same way, some are more severe than others. But some are more noticeable than others. Do not judge someone until you know the actual truth about someone’s health. Sometimes stress can be the main cause of mental health but can also be to be overwhelming for one person to handle.
Too much stress can cause people to struggle more with mental health, which can give people the impression of it being fake. When people are using it for attention, they tend to consistently share about it on social media. Doing that can cause people to not want to talk about it. Which makes it a struggle to raise awareness for something that not a lot of people want to talk about, only because they have other people doing it for them. But doing it, in a way where their information is wrong and they did not fully educate themselves on something so important. People want to be aware of what is really happening, not something that is being made up. Like any mental illness health conditions can vary. There are days that can be more manageable than others, when they become more manageable one person can become more alive and aware of stuff happening around them, instead of staying in their own personal bubble. Most people with a mental illness want the chance to be successful throughout one day, which might even be getting up an getting ready. Or even just getting out of bed can be a big thing for some people. getting up and doing something doesn`t show that they are seeking attention, it shows that they are able to get through a day without any problems, even if that means the next day, they struggle to do anything.
People make things up all the time, but to make something up about a mental illness makes it hard for other people to talk about because they don`t know what’s true and what is not. They do not feel comfortable talking about something, that themselves do not fully understand. People are afraid to say that they are struggling with something so severe but are still being told that it is okay to admit that you have a mental illness, or even just to admit that you are sad. It is a good way to tell someone that something is wrong. There is nothing wrong with talking to someone about problems that someone is having.
People have a tendency to assume that people are not trying to get better. It can be hard to try and recover when people are in your head about not trying hard enough. It does not mean that they do not want to get better it just means that they do not have the fight in them to put the effort in and get better. Mental illness can be challenging but it does not mean it has to take over someone’s life. Raising awareness can help people to understand it just a little bit more than they already do. Mental illness should be understood just like math or science, it should never be ridiculed or silenced. Never accuse someone of making it up when you do not know the full story as to why they are acting the way they are.
People are more likely to get diagnosed with a mental illness between the ages of 12-19. People born in the 1980`s and 1990`s are more likely to be diagnosed with anxiety or depression. Back in the 60`s and 70`s researchers were not very good at cracking down on certain illnesses, which is why more people then were diagnosed in their late 20`s. In the early 60`s the main cases of mental health were anxiety and depression, only because they were the only known cases of an illness. Anxiety and depression are known as the most common illness in the early 60`s to 70`s. researchers now are studying on when it is becoming more known and at what ages. They are studying from the ages of children to middle aged adults. The study shows an increase in mental health with people in high school and college. The increase shows it started in the early 2000`s and over time has climbed but also declined. Other studies have shown that mental health has not improved over the past 20 years. More high school seniors in the year 2010 have been shown to have depression but were also having trouble sleeping.
Although suicide rates have gone down, the depression rates have gone up. People at the highest risk of suicide are more likely to be on anti-depressants even though the suicide rate has declined the mental health rate has drastically increased. As far as the study goes there are not many differences in mental illnesses, the main differences are that they are portrayed in different ways. The first step to making sure people are okay is to get them the help they need. Getting as much research as possible allows for people to understand the problem more at hand. If misinformation is spread the more it can hurt someone.
Currently younger kids are starting to show signs of mental illnesses. It all starts with not being able to pay attention, being distracted, lack of motivation, and always having a negative mood. From what researchers know it is still unclear as to what is causing mental health problems at schools. It can sometimes be known to affect their mental development, and in general their social development. Studies show that 1-6 percent children from the age 4-7 are showing more signs of a mental illness, 4-6 percent from the ages 7-11 are being diagnosed with a mental illness, and 4-5 percent from the age 12-19 are not getting treatment for their mental illness.
Mental health problems are showing more of an increase in students of having to repeat a grade, or even dropping out of school. By preventing that more students are changing schools because of the environment. But can also be different by school-based programs. Teachers are not recognizing the amount of stress they are putting on students, they don`t know a lot about the topic itself, which is why the education has gone downhill over the course of 10 years. Teachers don’t understand the how so much stress can affect one student, and how it makes them work. They are not fully educated on something so important. Schools do not take into consideration the amount of education needed for teachers to understand something to important. Programs should be made at the school for teachers to get the chance to learn about mental health so that they know what to do when a student is having a problem. It can make a big change in schools across the globe.
Mental health problems are affecting children and adults of all ages. The mental health rates are becoming higher as the years go on. Children are not getting the treatments they need to be able to live with something so severe. Very few children and adults receive the treatment they need to be able to live on. Some reasons why people aren`t getting the treatment they deserve would be that, the proper healthcare is not provided, they have a fear of being diagnosed with something they do not want, parents do not want their child to have a mental illness, little to no information, and sometimes language.
One of a teacher’s tasks is to support the children with their mental health development as they grow. Children in elementary school spend more time in a large group trying to be social but end up being more uncomfortable than they do comfortable. They face a lot of challenges, which can cause learning differences. It can also cause students to lash out at people because of how they are feelings, teachers do not know how to control that, and it is only because of the lack of education.
Over the course of 10 years the education has changed, sometimes good, but for the most part it’s been bad. Our education is still missing important pieces of information, which cause a decrease in research. It has still become less talked about and throughout society’s it still becomes less talked about. More challenges come up, and the more that come up the more people do not understand. More and more teenagers are starting to become diagnosed with a mental illness, but even then, they are not getting the treatment they need to be able to make it through a day. The reason no one wants to talk about mental illnesses is because they are scared that they have it themselves.
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