The most common cause of death for people aged 15 – 24 is suicide, which is the 13th leading cause of death worldwide, according to World Health Organization (WHO).
The United Nations body submits that people who die by suicide is expected to reach 1.5 million per year by 2020.
The aggregate number of people who die by suicide suffer from mental illness.
Recent estimates suggest that the disease burden caused by mental illnesses will account for 25 per cent of the total disease burden in the world in the next two decades, making it the most important category of ill-health (more important than cancer or heart diseases).
Regarding this prospect, mental illness is the major problem that is challenging the health sector worldwide which should be a major concern.
Mental illness is medical conditions that disrupt a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily functioning. It’s also the ineffectiveness, mal-functioning of the cerebellum or inadequate vitality of the brain to operate. Mental illness is not the result of personal weakness, poor upbringing or lack of character.
Serious mental illnesses include Major Depression, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Panic Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTCD), Borderline Personality Disorder Impulse Control, and Addiction Disorders.
Schizophrenia is one of the psychotic mental disorders and is characterized by symptoms of thought, behavior, and social problems which psychotic disorder is a good example.
However, Psychotic disorders involve distorted awareness and thinking. Two of the most common symptoms of psychotic disorders are hallucinations — the experiencing of images or sounds that are not real, such as hearing voices — and delusions, which are false beliefs that the ill person accepts as true, despite evidence to the contrary.
Schizophrenia is considered to be the result of a complex group of genetic, psychological, and environmental factors.
Medications that have been found to be mostly effective in treating the positive symptoms of schizophrenia are first- and second-generation antipsychotics.
Health-care practitioners diagnose schizophrenia by gathering comprehensive medical, family, mental-health, and social/cultural information. In addition to providing treatment that is appropriate to the diagnosis, professionals attempt to determine the presence of mental illnesses that may co-occur.
People with schizophrenia are at increased risk of having a number of other mental-health conditions, committing suicide, and otherwise dying earlier than people without this disorder.
Bipolar Disorder can easily be characterized and revolves around mood that range from the low level of depression and mania at a goal. However Bipolar is a distortion, long-term situation that rebel your thinking faculty.
People with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) feel remorse which heighten their emotions and make them do extremely what they ought not to have done and they acted abnormally. With OCD, upsetting or scary thoughts or images, pop into a person’s mind and are very hard to turn off. People with OCD feel strong urges to do certain things repeatedly and more so, in order to banish the scary thoughts, one can try to ward off the bad thing they dread, or to make extra sure that things are safe or clean or right.
Most People that fall victim of impulse control disorders are unable to resist urges, or impulses, to perform acts that could be harmful to themselves or others. Pyromania (starting fires), kleptomania (stealing), and compulsive gambling are examples of impulse control disorders. Alcohol and drugs are common objects of addictions. Often, people with these disorders become so involved with the objects of their addiction that they begin to ignore responsibilities and relationships.
Mental illness can affect people of any age, race, religion, or income.
Psychosocial treatment such as cognitive behavioral therapy, interpersonal therapy, and peer support groups and other community services can be component of treatment plan that assist with recovery.
Heroin, Cocaine, amphetamines, alcoholic drinks and the likes are the cause of addictive disease. This particular disease gives different result like developing their tolerance with the objective of heightening their emotion to do things extra ordinarily.
Moreover, Cocaine addiction may also involve disruption of the endogenous opioid system in addition to the well-known primary effect of cocaine in blocking reuptake of dopamine by the synaptic dopamine transporter protein
It should be noted that mental disorders including depression are real, treatable health conditions.
Yet a significant number of those with mental illnesses who die by suicide do not contact health or social services near the time of their death. In many instances there are insufficient services available to assist those in need at times of crisis.
Although the attempt to fight stigma has been quite limited by undertaken public educational programs in reducing the stigma associated with mental illness and suicide.
Just as physical health is important, so is good mental health. Mental illness and psychological disorders have good treatment options with medications, psychotherapy, and other treatments.
