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mental health

It’s not all sadness

April 20, 2018 by

By: Grant Goetcheus
Twitter: @goetcheusg
Email: goetcheusg@Findlay.edu

In today’s society, we hear the words mental illness a lot, especially when it comes to crimes. We use it as a crutch sometimes. We label someone as being ill and that makes it understandable as to why they did something wrong. But, how many can say that they know what it’s like to have that illness; to look at themselves in the mirror, and not recognize what’s in it.
I am one of those people. I wake up every morning and look at myself in the mirror. Sometimes it is accompanied by a pleasant thought, while others it is more of a negative response. More often than not, it’s just a nothingness. I look in the mirror and there is nothing in my head other than if I need to comb or not. That is what depression feels like. It’s not always about feeling sad. It is more about not feeling anything at all anymore.
According to Mentalhealthamerica.net, 1 in 5 Adults have a mental health condition. Even more shocking is that youth mental health is getting worse. From just 2012 to 2015, the rates increased from 5.9% to 8.2%.
I hear all the things that people say about depression. Oh, just be happy, but that will not help. I have tried that, and it did not work. I try to do the things that I love and they have no affect anymore.
That nothingness is so powerful that it spreads. Now the things that I loved to do and the people that I loved to hang out with no longer bring me joy or happiness.
Also, depression does not care what you own or the love that is in your family. All that means nothing because your mind makes those things lose meaning and value in your eyes. The value and meaning that we put on things is all in our minds and in society’s mind. Once you have this illness, the world around you changes. You see things different, you see people differently, your brain chemistry changes and how it processes the information that it gathers changes.
That’s what leads to the idea that suicide is the answer; it never is. All suicide does is transfer the pain from yourself to those that loved you. It is not easy though, it’s a struggle each day to find the good to keep going. Somedays are easier than other while there are some that make it easy to look at suicide and say, ‘why not today?’
Today things are becoming better, however. Mentalhealthamerica.net states, “More Americans have access to services… Access to insurance and treatment increased, as healthcare reform has reduced the rates of uninsured adults.”
It also seems like people are doing more research into mental illnesses and breaking the association with being mentally ill and being a bad person. I just want to live a normal life and get back to being me.

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: mental health

Not a mental issue

November 17, 2017 by

By: Grant Goetcheus
Twitter: @goetcheusg
Email: goetcheusg@Findlay.edu

There will always be anger and hate in the world. That is something that cannot be stopped or changed. That is something people need to understand. The latest mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Tx. has many people asking, why and how?
With each tragedy, we seek to find the answer to why someone would commit it. The complexities of the human mind are not assisted when the person that has committed these tragedies dies either by their own hand or by another person.
According to DailyNews.com, after the event in Sutherland Springs, President Donald Trump said, “This was a very, based on preliminary reports, a very deranged individual. A lot of problems over a long period of time.” During the joint news conference in Japan on Monday, Nov. 6, Trump also stated, “We have a lot of mental health problems in our country, as do other countries. But this isn’t a guns situation.”
That is something that I completely disagree with. This is totally a gun issue. The gunman used a gun to kill people, that makes it a gun issue. Devin Kelley was the shooter in Texas and according to nbcnews.com he did escape from a mental health facility in 2012. So, he was mentally ill. He obtained a gun legally, and that is where the problem is. Not in the victim’s mind, but in the actions, that were taken or not taken that allowed a man that was mentally ill to buy a gun.
Not everyone that goes out and kills people is mentally ill. Fox News wrote an article about the Las Vegas shooter in connection to mental illness. In it they state, “The fact is the vast majority of those diagnosed with psychiatric disorders do NOT commit violent acts, and only about four percent of the violence in the U.S. can be attributed to those diagnosed with mental illness.”
We as a nation need to come together to put an end to the violence. We need to talk to our representatives and tell them that we need more gun control. I do not mean that all guns should go away. Gun control is a grey topic and there are many levels that need be present to aid in the limiting of the mass shootings that we have in this country.
Mental illness is something that does need attention and the two go hand in hand. However, to say that these mass shootings are only caused by one issue is ignorant and uneducated.

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: gun control, mental health

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