Mental Health Essays (271 words) - Psychiatry, Health, Mental Health

Mental Health During the 1950's and 60's everyone was treated in the same way, insane. Whether you had depression or schizophrenia, you were usually treated based on your sex and your behavior. Modern mental health is a lot different from back then. During the 1950's deinstitutionalization started to become popular, even though institutionalizing someone was the best course of action and the first way they treated someone. This became popular because there was overstaffing and poor living conditions. They usually moved them to a residential area or an outpatient facility where they would be taken care of. To make life easier on the people leaving the mental institute they finally created antipsychotic drugs to make then more normal. This invention was an amazing discovery. As people have progressed so has medicine. And the start of antipsychotic drugs started to help many people as medicinal therapy became more popular than imstitionalizing everyone. In today's society there has been many more advances in technology, knowledge, and medicine. Now in America it's more common to go to therapy to help with your problems and to get medicine to help make you feel better. Many people have some sort of mental illness, it's very common and you aren't treated very different from other people. McCleary 2 Finally, more people are diagnosed today than they were in the 50's. Take a look around in your work or school and many people in there have some sort of mental illness. In the 1950's we had less knowledge and more people institutionalized. McCleary 3 Works Cited "History of Mental Health Treatment." Dual Diagnosis, www.dualdiagnosis.org/mental-health-and-addiction/history/.