CRM 3311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Connation, Major Trauma, Diminished Responsibility
18 Jan 2017
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A (medical) condition that disrupts a persons thinking, feeling, mood and ability to relate to others. It often results in a diminished capacity for coping with the ordinary demands of life. Most common mental illness in canada: anxiety. What words, images, movies, come to mind when you hear the word mental illness: deranged psycho, dangerous, homeless, poor, take away accountability and responsibility. What implications/consequences can this have: going to hinder their recovery, negative connation prevents people from getting the help they need, becomes their master status. 1 in 20 canadian will experience a form of mental illness at some point in their life: false, actually 1 in 5. A person who has one or both parents with a mental illness is more likely to develop a mental illness: true, can be hereditary, more than just genetics, can be physical trauma, environmental, and biological as well. Not just one answer to why someone has a mental illness.
