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African Americans are less likely to have access to mental health care and are more likely to have lesser quality care when they do find it. [4] African Americans and other members of racial minorities are more likely to be uninsured or have Medicaid, limiting the amount and type of access that they have mental health outpatient sources.
People with bipolar disorder often have other co-existing psychiatric conditions such as anxiety (present in about 71% of people with bipolar disorder), substance abuse (56%), personality disorders (36%) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (10–20%) which can add to the burden of illness and worsen the prognosis. [24]
Stigma, originally referring to the visible marking of people considered inferior, has evolved in modern society into a social concept that applies to different groups or individuals based on certain characteristics such as socioeconomic status, culture, gender, race, religion or health status. Social stigma can take different forms and depends ...
Research shows that 50 to 75 percent of people with bipolar disorder experience psychotic symptoms at some point in the course of their illness, like delusions or hallucinations. Simultaneous ...
On a society-wide level, mentalism has been linked to people being kept in poverty as second class citizens; to employment discrimination keeping people living on handouts; to interpersonal discrimination hindering relationships; to stereotypes promoted through the media spreading fears of unpredictability and dangerousness; and to people ...
Physical and mental health are tied to social connectedness. Loneliness and isolation can have impacts that reach far beyond the more obvious domains of personal mood and happiness—everything ...
These groups include "LGBTQ" people, "women," and religious and ethnic minorities. "Heterosexual, White, Able-bodied People, Christian," and "Men" are "dominant groups" guilty of "social oppression."
There does not seem to be a meta-analysis of studies investigating the connection between discrimination and health, but a review of 33 studies on the topic reveals that perceived discrimination is associated to poorer mental health and health-related decisions in Latinos residing in the U.S. [80] However, the review did not find evidence of a ...
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