Problems of mental illness leading to violence in relationships

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Problems of mental illness leading to violence in relationships
The mental disorder tends to influence all territories of a man’s life, for example, work and school, collaborations with companions or relatives and personal connections. The public media and scholarly journals have both progressively ignored the effect of mental disorder on a couple’s relationship. Most works done in the past have focused on subjects, for example, how a kid’s dysfunctional behavior influences their folks or on the other hand, how the mental issue of a parent might affect a child.
This study seeks to find out the problems of mental disorder that leads to violence in relationships. The study research revolves within the US, as its citizens suffer from more mental illness compared to other countries.
Individuals with a mental problem can hurt their families either physically or emotionally. Black et al. (2) found out that one out of seven people who encounter aggressive behavior at home are probably going to sustain physical harm. From the short story “dimension” by Alice Munro, the court proclaims Lloyd criminally insane and subsequently ought to be placed in a safe organization. This event took place after Lloyd executed his children. Munro suggests that insanity got hold of Lloyd in the wake of being debilitated by the likelihood of Doree abandoning him.
Rates of violence against individuals with mental illness are higher than for the all-inclusive community, particularly those with complex mental illness and psychotic sicknesses.

People with emotional ailments are additionally more at danger of battering their accomplices, murder, suicide or self-hurt (Peterson et al.).
A study conducted by Elbogen and Johnson (2009) in the US where mental disorders are most common showed that mentally ill people are usually the victims of violence but not the perpetrators of violence in relationships. Many mentally ill patients report that their partners became abusive because of the change in behavior. One patient with depression reported that her partner found her when she felt so lonely and hopeless which is an episode of depression. When she was better, she realized the man was very controlling, and she tried living he became so abusive. He would blame his violent behavior on the fact that she was mentally ill and was only trying to curb the condition. She developed scratches from in pushed to the wall several times, but the man dismissed the claims that she was mad and hence scratched herself.
Van Dorn, Volakis and Johnson (2012) also outlines that another problem in mental illness that may lead to violence in a relationship is ignorance of the issue by the mental health professionals. Most mentally ill patients report that the health professional ignored their claims of abuse in relationships and only focused on their condition. The experts do not acknowledge the validity of information provided by people with a mental health condition. Therefore, the victims get discouraged. One even reported to have attempted suicide after an acute violence by the husband, but her claims were ignored and her husband claims of her not taking her medication considered. The nurses did not even make any reports even after her pleading with them. They believe she had become violent because she was off her medication.
Research conducted by Monahan, Steadman, Silver et.al. (2001) in the United States revealed that another problem in mental illness that contributes to abuse in relationships is stigmatization and labeling. Mentally ill people have been branded to be violent and therefore can kill or destroy individuals and properties. The branding, therefore, dismisses any claims they make of abusive relationships and encourage the perpetrators.
The branding has also made the police and health workers not acknowledge the fact that they may be the victims of the violent crimes but not the perpetrators making them suffer in silence. Reporting the claim to the police is also difficult since they are usually dismissed based on them being mentally ill and most probably not on medication or not taking them correctly. Most violent events typically attribute to a patient having episodes of mental condition (Mental Health America, N.P).
In the same research by Monahan and colleagues (2001), he also found out that the contribution of mentally ill to abuse in the relationship was limited. Only antisocial mental disorder contributed to an abusive relationship where the patient was the perpetrator of the violence. The violence would only occur if the patient were forced to do things contrary to their personality. Most perpetrators of the violence were the partners of the mentally ill patients who wanted to have power and control over them just because they were sick and hence have no voice in any matter.
Fazal and colleagues (2009) carried out a meta-analysis of twenty kinds of research that assessed any existing relationship of violence to mental health disorders. They concluded that psychotic disorders with substance abuse contribute the risk of violence. They meant that the increased risk of violence in patients with both psychosis and drug abuse could be attributed to the substance abuse but not the mental disorder. The study concludes after the researchers found out that schizophrenia with no substance abuse did not increase the risk of violence.
Another study by Gilead and Frank (2014) showed that most mentally ill people do not commit violent crimes. They made this conclusion after they realized that the many proposed approaches would be ineffective since they were directed by the fact that psychotic patients are violent and are the perpetrators of abuse ion relationships. Therefore, the approaches should work towards to treating the patients as the victims and not the perpetrators of violence. Only those patients who abuse drugs as well tend to be violent. Violence, in this case, is an effect of the substance abused but not the condition. This information suggests that that mentally ill patient may become violent when under the influence of substance.
From the review, mentally ill patients have minimal contribution to overall rates of violence in relationships. The results from the studies concur with the claim by Mulvey (664) that only a little rate of brutality in public ascribes to mentally ill patients. The mental disorder does not bring about physical abuse in a relationship but instead increment the danger and risks in patterns of abuse appearing in a relationship. Mental illness and abusive behavior in an intimate relationship are very different because of the abuse deals with power and control. Most abusive patterns do not usually show their negative behaviors to the public but only to the pattern meaning they control themselves while mental illness is a condition and none can control themselves. The patients also have no control on how the disease manifests itself.
From the above information, this study concludes that violence in relations with a mentally sick person is common, but the cause is not the condition. In most cases, the perpetrator takes advantage of the patient’s mental situation, though the mentally ill are the victims. Scholars should undertake many studies to confirm and address the situation before managing it poses a challenge. However, patients who abuse drugs may tend to be violent when under the influence of the drug. However, violence is an attribute of the mental condition.

Works cited
Black, Michele C., et al. “National intimate partner and sexual violence surve.” Atlanta, GA: “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” 75 (2011).
Mental Health America. American Opinions on Mental Health Issues. Alexandria: NMHA, 1999.
Munro, Alice. “Dimension”. The New Yorker, 2006, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/06/05/dimension.
Peterson, Jillian K., et al. “How often and how consistently do symptoms directly precede criminal behavior among offenders with mental illness?” Law and Human Behavior 38.5 (2014): 439.
Walton, Alice. “Why More Americans Suffer from Mental Disorders Than Anyone Else”. The Atlantic, 2011, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/10/why-more-americans-suffer-from-mental-disorders-than-anyone-else/246035/.