Source Entry 1.

England: The Institute of Psychiatry, ( Van Der Gaag, Rutger Jan. “Mental Health ‘Cure and Care’ in the Netherlands: Risks and Opportunities.” International Review of Psychiatry 23.1 (2011): 113–117. Web.)

The article emphasizes on the problem we possess, inherently, when we say mental health, we tend to think of it as a subject that is very sensitive. For example, if we say someone has cancer, he is sociable but if someone was mentally ill, he is an outcast. This integrated ideal of society is the very reason that people are becoming more reluctant to consider the normality of the mental illness that is prevalent in the majority. The mental health factor is not a very popular area of research as there are little profits in such sectors. Everyone is subject to mental health disorders to some extent because everyone faces problems in life and not everyone is ready to face such problems. Such social phenomenon was mostly dominant after the second world war.

As stated in an article published by the  source provided above,  “For many years after World War II, mental healthcare was not acknowledged as a health issue for which the (nationwide) medical insurance companies were thought to be accountable.” Now another new claim is brought up here, we can see that money and medical insurance companies had a phenomenal impact on the social acceptance of mental illness. A few years after the war people couldn’t hide the mental health factor which lead to a huge shift in the perception of mental illness by the public. The cure was never emphasized.

The materialistic and income driven world chose material over health I believe and this is something very alarming to me personally. I feel strongly for the people experiencing mental illness, but I also discovered that all of us, in one way or the other, are experiencing some sort of mental illness to some decree. Every problem comes into existence with a solution and we must strive for this particular solution (to mental illness) as we cannot let more people fall into this trap. One person is too much. When thought is given to the subject of health over money, it is appears to be blatantly fine but if we take the time to really look at it without prejudice, we find it to be really absurd. Who in their sane mind would choose money over a long and healthy life where one does not have to fight with one self and where one is locked inside of one self. Such thoughts should be the basis of the development of a cure for the mental illness issue that is very prominent in the world.