Mental disorders

Young Adults and Their Families Living with Mental Illness: Evaluation of The Usefulness of Family-Centered Support Conversations in Community Mental Health Care Settings by Aass et al.

Raneem Baalbaki

Aass, Lisbeth Kjelsrud et al. “Young Adults and Their Families Living with Mental Illness: Evaluation of The Usefulness of Family-Centered Support Conversations in Community Mental Health Care Settings” Journal of Family Nursing, vol. 26, no. 4, November 2020, pp. 302-314.

In this journal article, four experimental psychologists from Norwegian University of Science and Technology studied how mental illness effect young adults’ self-esteem, optimism, confidence, and just going about their everyday life. They explain that while the patients are suffering mentally their families and those around them feel the effects of it too. Families and friends close to the person suffering mentally must not only watch as the person they care about loses a different battle repeatedly, but they must have the mental capacity and strength to be there when they ask them to help them get back up. This article can be of use for my final paper because it helps further prove the point that living with a severe mental disorder effect everyone. If a third person can feel the effects of a disorder imagine what the diagnosed person is feeling.

-“The well-being of siblings of an individual with a severe mental disorder like psychosis has also been shown to be negatively affected as they experience challenges in relation to be a sibling” (Aass et al. 303).

-“Relatives of inpatients with depression report that health problems, burdens, and worries in everyday life are challenging. Their lives are often very intertwined with the life of their severely mentally ill family member” (Aass et al. 302-303).

Assisted Suicide Study Questions Its Use for Mentally Ill by Benedict Carey

Raneem Baalbaki

Carey, Benedict. “Assisted Suicide Study Questions Its Use for Mentally Ill” The New York Times, 10 February 2016.

In this newspaper article by Benedict Carey, a former science reporter for The Times and a health and medical writer for The Los Angeles Times, a freelance journalist, and a staff writer for Heath Magazine, he begins by explaining how assisted suicide for those with psychological disorders is becoming something talked about more and more. At least three countries — Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland — allow assisted dying for those suffering mentally and places such as Canada are debating whether to take that step. Carey goes to on explain cases of patients who had different types of mental disorders that coexist with each other, and they described living with the disorder.

– “The depression was often mixed with other problems, like substance abuse, mild dementia or physical pain. More than half had received a diagnosis of a personality disorder, like avoidant or dependent personality, which are typically bound up with relationship problems. The group also included people with diagnoses of eating disorders and autism spectrum conditions. Many reported being intensely lonely” (Carey).

– “A team of doctors…reported that most people who sought doctor-assisted death for psychiatric problems had depression, personality disorders or both” (Carey).