Mental Illness in People with Learning Disabilities/Learning Disabilities and Schizophrenia

Mental Illness in People with Learning Disabilities and Schizophrenia

Introduction

People are different and as a consequence , they behave differently People have varying ways of thinking , talking and feeling . People have varying ways of seeing the world and going about their lives . Such a fact can be attributed to the unique qualities in every person that cannot be duplicated exactly to another

However , there are certain strange and weird behaviours that b beyond mere peculiarity and cannot be simply disregarded for being so deviant . These could be instances when a mental

illness is already suggested . As such , there arises the strong need to be conscious and aware of such behaviours

There must be enough capability that will help detect the signified mental diss or abnormality in the mental and psychological makeup It must be kept in mind , however , that such necessity arises not for the purpose of discriminating among people who suffer from the dis but to be able to properly address the situation because the manifestations of mental illnesses will be addressed and resolved if they are properly diagnosed and assessed

Furthermore , there are also certain realities to take into account There may be certain special needs and treatment that have to be given attention . This , for one , will explore the occurrence of schizophrenia and how it affects or is being affected by another reality , the learning disability of a person . Schizophrenia is one acute mental illness that may require special regard . Opportunities for better health among people with mental illnesses are ever present , but they will remain to be unrealized if they are not known to the people . Thus this aims to explore all these matters mentioned in relation to learning disabilities and the particular mental health problem of schizophrenia to better know the needs of the dis as well the attitude of the people and the options offered today by the modern world

Mental Illness

Mental illnesses or diss are basically problems in the way a person feels , thinks , talks or behaves . Various mental illnesses are classified into categories to easily identify among the symptoms and to easily address the problem . The two major groups are the `personality diss and psychoses . There are also considerations of putting anxiety diss in another category (Turner , 1999

Personality diss can manifest in different cases . It has `milder versions where a person merely possesses peculiar and weird traits that can make him or her look eccentric in the eyes of other people . However there are some more serious complications that can lead to having anti-social attitude and extreme difficulty to communicate and connect to other people . Such conditions can make being with other people as almost impossible (Turner , 1999

The person suffering from the personality dis can also bring so much distress to the people they deal with . There is no exact cause to attribute this type of dis . It was only claimed that it is something that may be inherited or learned . Basically , some were able to find...