PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Active Listening, Bipolar Disorder, Dream Interpretation
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Later on, anyone with mental illnesses were put into asylums: the idea that human kind has recognized that there are people who behave differently than the majority. That behaviour has been viewed in a negative way. People were assumed to be possessed by the devil and were tortured to death. Clients: us data says that roughly 15% of the population seeks help in a year. They usually seek help for anxiety and depression: half of this percentage actually has a diagnosable problem. The other people are trying to get help with improving themselves: the majority of people seeking help are female. Stats suggests that males suffer from disorders more than females: there are issues with treatment. For someone with bipolar disorder, the delay is 6 years. For panic, the delay is 10 years: so many people wait so long because of medical insurance. Only recently has the us made a step in the direction of covered health care.
