Summarise how mental health issues are present in this articles in relation to your knowledge of mental health today and its history as discussed in Book 1.

I this essay I will look at how mental health issues are very present in our daily life, its history, the diagnosis and how mental health can be treated. I will do this by looking and drawing examples from the 2 articles provided and also the course materials, concentrating on how people are treated, what are the advantages and disadvantages of diagnosis and what the appropriate treatment is.

Every day and during the course of our lives most of us have experienced different feelings, emotions, we have a fear of something or sadness if we lost a family member, a pet, a friend, etc. All this experiences could shape and affect the way we think and carry out our daily activities.  After reading both articles it seems that they both agree that there is an increase in anxiety and depression cases. Women seem to be the ones who struggle to cope and in some cases the medication prescribed by …(short extract)