SOC 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dementia, Chlorpromazine, Antipsychotic

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2106
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Mental illness is a label applied to those whose behavior is abnormal and problematic, but not criminal. Label is used to control those who are troublesome btu not criminal. Label is most likely to be applied to those who do not have the power to avoid the label. Schizophrenia- hallucinations, delusions, bizarre thoughts patterns (1%) Anxiety disorder obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias, panic disorder, post-traumatic (12%) At least one percent of a population is liekyl to have a serious and persistent mental illness at any given time. 1 out of 5 people is likely to be diagnosed with a mental illness at some time during their entire life. In other words, six million canadians will have a mental illness during some period of their lives. There is no hope for the mentally ill, once mentally ill always mentally ill. Mental disorder is most likely to strike in winter months (sad), not. True (smyth and thompson, 1990; christensen and dowrick, 1983)