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  1. Hello, My name is Wyatt Force, and today I'll be
  2. presenting mental health through the past 50 years for an
  3. introduction to this topic.
  4. Mental health institutions in the 19 seventies were some of
  5. the most gruesome places to research.
  6. The mentally ill were looked at as insane and helpless
  7. and just downright nasty.
  8. Since the 19 seventies, however, mental health treatments have gone
  9. from gruesome toe helpful in many ways.
  10. In the first decade, the 19 seventies, we had New
  11. York and many other states face a huge problem head
  12. on. This was the mental health institutions nationwide that would
  13. refuse to accept thousands of patients because they believe these
  14. patients could survive on their own.
  15. This led the huge discussions in New York, and in
  16. the 19 eighties the state of New York decided to
  17. increase funding for such programs by $100 million.
  18. Even after such a hefty fund increase and the hope
  19. that this would help, it was figured out that money
  20. was not the only thing that could help increase the
  21. care for these patients.
  22. We had the impartial care for the mentally ill, as
  23. many of the mentally ill would first go to the
  24. emergency room and poor low class neighborhoods instead of going
  25. straight to the mental health institutions.
  26. This would lead to a lack of beds and a
  27. lack of, um, lack of care for these patients because
  28. many of them would be pushed back out onto the
  29. streets as there was no room for them in the
  30. mental institutions.
  31. That was from a lack of knowledge, as many patients
  32. were not aware of the fact that they had a
  33. mental illness.
  34. Since this might have been something that grew up with,
  35. grew around as other people around them had a mental
  36. illness of this or they just, it just became a
  37. norm to them.
  38. The next decade we have is the 19 eighties.
  39. In the 19 eighties, we started to see foundations and
  40. acts kind of form and be presented as one of
  41. the main ones was in our sad, which is now
  42. B B R F, which stands for Brain and Behavior
  43. Research Foundation, the B B R F, the foundation that
  44. is now on online site that helps researches and just
  45. people curious of learning about mental health with information, and
  46. you can access this at any time it's b b,
  47. r f dot com acts and more foundations.
  48. In 1985 we had the passage of the protection and
  49. advocacy for the mentally ill Act by Congress.
  50. This act allowed for more protection and investigation on possible
  51. abuse or neglect of those with mental health, illness or
  52. disorder. This was huge for the security of mental health
  53. illness patients as it provided for more rights for them.
  54. In 1998 1989 we had Mental Health America released the
  55. report of the Invisible Children.
  56. This report touched on the neglect on Children with emotional
  57. disorders. This was the first time in my research that
  58. I was able to find scientists or researchers pushing for
  59. advocacy for adolescents and mental health, since they knew that
  60. it wasn't on Lee just in adult thing.
  61. The next decade we have is the 19 nineties, which
  62. offer a humongous change in the mental health caring system.
  63. Ah, lesser known changes the prevalence and rate at which
  64. treatments were provided throughout this decade.
  65. A study for done by Professor Ronald C.
  66. Kessler in a group of scientists dove into the change
  67. rates of this into the change in the rates of
  68. treatment, treatments and prevalence.
  69. The data collected on the prevalence, however, was a dead
  70. end as the mental disorder.
  71. The prevalence of mental health disorders did not change during
  72. the decade, 29.4% was shown in 1992 1992 30% was
  73. 10 years later in 2000 and one in 2003.
  74. So on leah 0.9% change, which is not that much.
  75. But when we go to the data collected on rates
  76. of treatments, it was a huge major change.
  77. Between the years 1990 and 1992 the percentage of population
  78. that had access to treatments was only 12.1%.
  79. That percentage skyrocketed the 20.1% between the years 2001 and
  80. 2003. The next decade we have is the 2000.
  81. This is the first time in my research that I
  82. decided to look at the medical medical side of mental
  83. health or the prescriptions.
  84. Overall, almost 70% of patients with depression in this study
  85. were helped by one or more drugs.
  86. This was a quote taken from pits.
  87. Fitzpatrick, who was the head of a Mental Health America,
  88. and they did a study on the use of anxiety,
  89. drugs and prescriptions and how much that helped and this
  90. was released in like 2005.
  91. Sadly, though, through this report it was shown that these
  92. were not effective enough as 30% of those 70% of
  93. people who did not who were taking the drugs did
  94. not feel the remission of symptoms until taking a second
  95. drug. This meant that after the first drug, there was
  96. a 2nd, 3rd, maybe fourth drug that needed to be
  97. taken as we go to the 2005 survey.
  98. This shows more importance of that as the data collected
  99. within this survey, so that average patient with depression was
  100. using up to four different types of medication before any
  101. form of dismissing of the symptoms was present.
  102. The survey also gave the data that the majority of
  103. patients also experience up to six different episodes of depression,
  104. usually in their lifetime.
  105. The next and final decade we have is the 2000
  106. tens John Twins and a group of researchers performed a
  107. study on the national survey of drug use and Health,
  108. which collected data on the rise in mental health issued.
  109. The data collected showed that the right of individuals reporting
  110. symptoms consisted with major depression in the last 12 months
  111. increased 52% in adolescence, showing that not on Lee is
  112. mental health rising and adults.
  113. But it also was skyrocketing and adolescence.
  114. In this decade, the downfall of the 2000 tens the
  115. decade of 2010 was not was a downfall from the
  116. rising rates in which mental health was being cared for
  117. and represented as promised.
  118. Improvements and cures to symptoms were not produced.
  119. Twins, the author of the other article we were talking
  120. about related this down fall to a change in culture.
  121. In today's age, she basically blamed on technology stating that
  122. face to face interactions would be better than screen screen
  123. interactions for anxiety and depression.
  124. So that is the end of my presentation.
  125. I had a great time researching all of this and
  126. found out a lot of information, and I hope I
  127. was able to relay it back to you as well