Abstract
People suffering from mental illnesses face numerous socio psychological challenges. All around the world there are policies related to proper care for people with any kind of mental illness. Improving the quality of care would positively affect behavior and intellectual abilities of patients with mental disabilities. Mental health illnesses are found in all societies but all patients do not receive effective treatments in this regard. This study was conducted to gather information about challenges faced by mental health patients and factors that support their treatment. Present research will help in increasing public awareness about various challenges of such patients and play a mediating role in filling gap regarding awareness among care givers about patients. Findings of our research also adds to the literature related to this field. For this purpose a sample of 40 participants was selected, who have faced any form of mental illness through purposive sampling technique. We found that people suffering from mental health illnesses face many social problems due to lack of awareness, such as social isolation, discrimination and identity stigmas. Challenges related to stress and depression can be avoided by providing necessary therapies such as psychotherapies, music therapies, sound therapies, professional counseling session and other interventions in the field of clinical psychology. Although many psychotherapies are available in the field to cope with mental problems but their benefit highly depend on the support of family, friends and community at large. Keywords: Behavior; Challenges; Disabilities; Issues; Mental; Social http://dx.doi.org/10.19045/bspab.2021.100131
Highlights
Introduction normal mental functioningSuch people haveMental illnesses are seen all over the world compromised ability to cope with their daily [1]
Questionnaire consist of series of questions designed to obtain actual information about mental health. It consisted of 15 items used to analyze mental health of patients. Among these 5 items measured stress and depression related problems of people suffering from mental illness, 3 items analyzed personal relationships, social activities and job related challenges of people suffering from mental illness, 5 items analyzed behavior challenges faced by people suffering from mental illness and 2 items analyzed role of community in improvement of people suffering from mental illness
The (Table 2) shows opinions about challenges faced by people suffering from mental illness related to personal relationships, social activities and workplace. 25% participants strongly agreed and 23% agreed that during the past week their mental health interfered with their personal relationships
Summary
In this research we used quantitative research method to collect data related to social and psychological challenges of mental health patients. Questionnaire consist of series of questions designed to obtain actual information about mental health. It consisted of 15 items used to analyze mental health of patients. 40 people including both males and females with mental disabilities were selected for this research. Results The (Table 1) shows opinion about challenges faced by people suffering from mental illness due to stress and depression. The opinion about having to cope with stress can make me stronger was scattered as 27.5% people agreed, 20% strongly agreed, while 22.5% disagreed, which is considerably a larger percentage. 27.5% strongly agreed that they feel tired for no good reason
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