My Final Project Essay for Statistics to complete my Interdisciplinary Studies Associates

Mental health has seldomly become far from the headlines nowadays, with politicians, television presenters, and even members of the royal family raising awareness about illnesses and conditions. But is raising awareness on these topics enough for our communities? With awareness being raised, mental health has become a prevailing problem in communities that do not provide the proper information or help for those in need of medication and therapy. With many fear-based information on the new virus we have faced through the passed two years, families with mentally ill individuals have subsequently become more paranoid, nervous, anxious, and aggressive to their families, the public and to themselves. Those people with cognitive disabilities had the highest rates of total violent crimes (56.6 per 1,000), serious violent crime (24.0 per 1,000), and simple assault (32.6 per 1,000) among the disability types measured. These facts can be found in many crime map applications, especially “Citizen app” we use daily to see near by crimes. 
This specific category of crimes committed are incising to undergo because my own mother suffers from Epilepsy and Schizophrenia. Analyzing and getting feedback from different communities and areas near me, where these crimes are committed, I find that there is not many mental health care centers around urban areas who suffer from this the most. If mental health centers and resources were provided for these suffering families with little to no information about mental health, the number of crimes could lower, due to the information and resources than can help these families. Many mentally ill individuals do not understand or know when they are having an episode of manic or get off their medication, become addicts, violent, incoherent, aggressive, or uncontrollable of their actions. Some families who suffer from mental health or a family member who suffers from this either disown or become careless of these members of their family because they do not know how to handle such illness. Which cause a greater risk for those mentally disabled individuals.
For instance, for those who have just developed a mental illness, have became laid off, addiction, or even have become fearful and paranoid of the new virus that is killing people with and without a vaccine is very triggering to those who suffer mental disabilities. Not many individuals understand or comprehend how to approach or care for these suffering individuals. Commonly, most mentally ill individuals are mistaken or stereotyped to be drug addicts. When some have not even used any type of substance to be that way. Facing the facts of this problem could potentially help families become more aware of mental health. Understanding the concept that mentally ill individuals also need the resources to understand what they individually go through in their own minds as well.
 These resource centers can bring a balance as a collective, if more people new how to approach, understand and help these suffering people. These centers would provide information, referrals, health plans, therapy, rehab, and medication refills. In Los Angeles alone, there are   about “32 acute psychiatric hospitals and 26 county-based psychiatric health facilities. That to me is not enough to say that urban areas do not have the proper resources around them to get the help they need. I surveyed about 25 public individuals; the survey included 4 questions: Do you believe that there are enough mental health awareness/centers in your community? Do you believe mental health is important? If mental health help was provided in your area, would you seek the help? Do you or anyone you know suffer from mental illness? From the results, I can clarify that not many urban areas have the help and would seek the help if these centers were provided, I also figured that many individuals in Los Angeles no not know anything or little about mental health and what they can do for a mentally disabled member in their family or for themselves.
To concluded, we face a big problem in Los Angeles due to mental health. Through out this pandemic, crimes have risen, and most crimes committed were crimes committed by mentally disabled individuals who either have just developed a mental illness, became laid off, stress, hard labor, low pay, high rent, no health care, inflation that is affecting many, misjudgment, addiction, or even the fear of this unknown virus that is leaving many to conform instead of reform. These problems could potentially continue to rise if the resources aren’t being met in urban areas. Families who have no resources to mental health awareness, abandoned their family members due to not knowing what they can do for them, and lives are at risk with individuals who are not seeking the help they need to keep their manic episodes stay intact. If the state of Los Angeles were to provide more mental health awareness centers in urban areas where low-income families or unaware families suffer, the number of crimes would lower, and the awareness of mental health would arise to help those in need.