Mental Illness in Korea
What kinds of mental disorder are there in Korea?
This is the statistics of percentage of mental disorders in man and woman.
This is the statistics of percentage of mental disorders in man and woman.
There are several kids of mental illness; addiction, depression, anxiety and so on. Man is more prier to get mental illnesses than woman. The most portion of the mental disorder of the man is addiction. When they get stress from their work or school, they usually resolve it depending on alcohol or smoke.
What about woman? They tend to have more sensitive mind than man. So mental disorder is usually related to their feelings or thinking. So, they tend to relieve stress by talking each other or doing something exciting.
What are these mental illness?
1)Addiction
People with an addiction do not have control over what they are doing,taking or using. It includes not limited to physical things we consume, such as drugs or alcohol. It may cover abstract things such as gambling or game. In other words, addiction may refer to a substance dependence (e.g. drug addiction) or behavioral addiction.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/info/addiction/
2)Depression
Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, feelings and sense of well-being. They may lose interest in activities that were once pleasurable, experience loss of appetite or overeating, have problems concentrating, remembering details or making decisions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_(mood)
3)Anxiety
Anxiety is an unpleasant state of mind. Anxiety is not the same as fear, which is a response to a real or perceived immediate threat; whereas anxiety is the expectation of future threat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety
People with an addiction do not have control over what they are doing,taking or using. It includes not limited to physical things we consume, such as drugs or alcohol. It may cover abstract things such as gambling or game. In other words, addiction may refer to a substance dependence (e.g. drug addiction) or behavioral addiction.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/info/addiction/
2)Depression
Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, feelings and sense of well-being. They may lose interest in activities that were once pleasurable, experience loss of appetite or overeating, have problems concentrating, remembering details or making decisions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_(mood)
3)Anxiety
Anxiety is an unpleasant state of mind. Anxiety is not the same as fear, which is a response to a real or perceived immediate threat; whereas anxiety is the expectation of future threat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety
How Korea is handling mental illness?
1) People who have received treatments over mental instabilities are discriminated against in acquiring certain licenses, certifications, registration and even occupations in some cases.
2) Many people don't tend to encouraging others to get counselling in school or company.
3) Especially if people get mental shock in early age, their emotional development or pride of themselves could be worse.
4) There is wrong common idea. Mental care is just about people who suffer from serious mental illness.
=> Actually people mind going mental hospital because of those above things.
=> It means that there are many people who suffer from mental illness.
=> It leads to worst happiness, high rate of suiciding.
2) Many people don't tend to encouraging others to get counselling in school or company.
3) Especially if people get mental shock in early age, their emotional development or pride of themselves could be worse.
4) There is wrong common idea. Mental care is just about people who suffer from serious mental illness.
=> Actually people mind going mental hospital because of those above things.
=> It means that there are many people who suffer from mental illness.
=> It leads to worst happiness, high rate of suiciding.
This statistics is about the ratio of suiciding of the countries in OECD.
The rightest one is Korea.
The rightest one is Korea.