HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bipolar Disorder, Mania, Upper Class

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 1CC3
• Professor: All

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The medical model (he will refer to these models) This model dominates our thinking about mental illness. When people are mentally ill, they go get help from this model compared to other models. Its" a medical disease like any of other causing malfunctions in the brain. Can be due to improper signals in neuro transmitters. Or due to genetic abnormalities, abnormal brain structures. The model says mental illness is a disease of the brain. Disease has a cause, therefore mental illness has a cause and this model sees it in this regard. Each one of these mental illnesses, does damage to a person. And there is a drug that deals with the dopamine imbalances in this model. Mental illness is a biological disease but others think that it"s caused by something else. It limits who takes care of mental illnesses. (natural professional that deals with mental illnesses are doctors and such.