Socioeconomic Status, Stigma, and Mental Health
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Socioeconomic Status, Stigma, and Mental Health
Introduction
Stigmatization has been the central point of concern with mental health issues and those seeking help. This explains why disadvantaged groups, such as older patients, immigrants, and ethnic minorities, underuse mental health services. However, there has been some research on the role of stigma in class disparities in the recent past, and the use of mental health services is lacking. This, at the same time in the past decade or so, mental health literacy has been on the rise, framing of knowledge and understanding of mental health disabilities. Studying mental health and stigma issues is important since the negative stereotypes indicate that stigma involves distortions of knowledge and understanding. This paper will unpack the relationships between social class and the concepts that contribute to mental health inequalities.
There has been considerable and growing evidence that shows that common health disabilities are directly linked with environmental, economic, and social determinants. The socioeconomic position has been systematically linked with increased rates of depression. Gender has been reviewed as mental disorders have been reported more as a common illness amongst women since they often experience environmental, economic, and social factors differently to men. This paper aims to understand links between the stigma and the socioeconomic status associated with mental illness worldwide and in the United States.
Literature review
There are three main aims of this literature review. Firstly, the paper will set out theoretical debates on the key concepts of stigma, mental health and well-being. Secondly, the paper will enlighten more on the political, historical, and social context and understanding the fundamental ways in which stigma has emerged and maintained over time. There is a need to take actions to improve on the daily life of individuals from birth, childhood, school period, in a family setting and during working ages since this are the opportunities which will improve the population of mental health and to reduce the risk of the mental disabilities which are brought by social inequalities.
There has been a relationship between mental illness stigma and social class, which has received little attention in the past two years. Socioeconomic differences are reflected in the treatment of common mental disorders and development. The underlying mechanism of the inequalities have not been established fully, and this study will explore more on the socioeconomic differences in comparison with the type of treatment and the socioeconomic status has any links between the treatment and the suicide attempt or the subsequent inpatient in respect with the patients of common mental health disorders.
Discussion
Mental Health
This is known as a state of well-being. Each individual realizes their work potential and can cope with normal life stress, work fruitfully and productively, and contribute to society. In the absence of any common mental health disorder, it does not mean that someone has good health since there are people with mental health, and they can still achieve some good well-being levels. These are the people who can live a contributing, meaningful, and satisfying life within the constraints of deliberating, painful, and distressing symptoms.
Mental Disorders
Depression, alcohol and drug dependency, schizophrenia and anxiety are common mental disabilities caused by stressful situations. Mental disorders can also occur even in the absence of these experiences as not always stressful situations lead to mental disabilities. Sub-threshold disorders and mental disorders have affected many people currently. There is a need for countries worldwide to shift their emphasis on the prevention measures of these common mental disabilities such as depression and anxiety by acting upon the social determinants of health and improving the treatment of the existing mental health conditions. These actions will focus mainly on causes and triggers of mental disabilities, which lie in political, economic, and social spheres in daily life conditions.