Are Mental and Physical

Health Held to the Same

Are Mental & Physical Health Held
to the Same Standards?
Standard?

Rija Awan, Saihaj Deol, Rishita Gudeti, Vaydehe Parmar, and Nina Popovski
Scientific

Physical & Mental Health

Mental
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how
we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and
make choices.

Physical
Dr. Shehla Jaffery - Internal Medicine & Pediatrics at Henry Ford Hospital
There are multiple components to physical health. One is well being. Meaning, it isnt just
the absence of disease but the presence of health...The second arm would be functional
capacity - is the body functioning properly The final arm would be quality of life. Can they
do daily activities like eating, driving, and reading?
Historical

Scientific

Economic

Ethical

Artistic
ARE MENTAL & PHYSICAL HEALTH
HELD TO THE SAME STANDARD?
Historical

EVOLUTION OF TREATMENT
Historical
Historical

exorcisms, incantations, prayer, atonement, and other

various mystical rituals were used to drive out the evil spirit
Historical
Historical
Historical

EVOLUTION OF DIAGNOSIS
Historical
Historical

According to Ingrid G. Farreras, chair of the Department of

Psychology at Hood College,

German psychiatrist Emil Krpelin (1856-1926) published a

comprehensive system of psychological disorders that
centered around a pattern of symptoms (i.e. syndrome)
suggestive of an underlying physiological cause
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DIAGNOSIS
Scientific

Diagnosis

Physical
Anders Baerheim - Professor in Department of Public Health & Primary Care at the University of
Bergen

1. Patients medical history

2. Describe symptoms - look for recognizable patterns Possible diagnosis
3. Medical tests diagnosis
Scientific

Diagnosis

Mental
Thomas Insel - neuroscientist &
psychiatrist
While DSM has been described
as a Bible for the field, it is, at
best, a dictionary, creating a set of
labels and defining each The
weakness is its lack of validity
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Invalid Diagnoses

Hardeep Singh - Professor in Department of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine

1 in 20 people are misdiagnosed

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TREATMENT OPTIONS
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Treatment

Mayo Clinic
1. Psychotherapy - talk therapy
2. Hospital treatment programs
3. brain-simulation
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43.4 MILLION
Economic

When surveyed by the US Department of Health and Human Services....

Economic

Insurance Coverage

According to National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems,

Medicare still has a 190-day lifetime limit on inpatient psychiatric care

that does not exist for inpatient medical care

Economic

Dr. Hesser and Dr. Walter concluded that...

Two-thirds of persons with mental illnesses have an annual income

of less than $20,000

Economic
Economic

Unproportionate Research Funding

U.S. National Institutes of Health

$5.3 Billion - Cancer Research

$2.2 Billion - ALL Mental Health Research

Ethical

Lack of Available Care

According to the Treatment Advocacy Center, there are

37,679 staffed beds in the United States
43.4 million adults
Ethical

High Rate of Diagnoses

Ethical

1 in 20 of these diagnoses is incorrect

Ethical
Ethical
Ethical

Treated worse than murderers

ARTISTIC
ARTISTIC

MENTAL PHYSICAL

:
ARTISTIC

10% of the Academy Awards handed out from

1929-2009 have been awarded to movies pertaining

to mental disorders
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ARTISTIC

GLORIFICATION NORMALIZATION
PLAUSIBLE SOLUTIONS
1. EDUCATING THE PUBLIC
 Improving public education
Creating support groups
Walks of awareness
 DRAWBACKS

Impossible to spread message to everyone

Difficult to change the personal views of people
Would take multiple generations
 2. INCREASED FUNDING
FOR RESEARCH AND
TREATMENT OF MENTAL
ILLNESSES
 DRAWBACKS

National Science Foundation - primary funding

source for sciences - provides little to no money for
mental illness research
 However, this can be changed by
educating the public, which would lead
to increased importance in communities
and a push for further research funding.
One in four people has a mental illness.
You can be the one that helps.
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