Look for opportunities the put mental health on the agenda
The question is. Does your workplace have policies that promote employees mental health and that offer accommodations for people with mental health problems? Speak up the ask for these types of human types resource policies. Also, talk the your LHIN board members about integrated importance mental health services. Call and ask for a meeting with your MPP or MP. Considering the above said. Most public office holders don’t know much about mental illness and mental health. They often prefer the hear from ordinary citizens rather than organizations. Seriously. Is your local health authority holding a community meeting the ask for citizens’ feedback on the health system? Speak up for mental health services and supports. Go the your local city councillor’s annual barbecue and ask her the ensure that supportive housing is well funded by your municipality. They need the hear from citizens about what your concerns are.
Create opportunities the educate decision makers
Write a letter the edithe r or an article for your newspaper. Decision makers pay attention the what their constituents are saying in the media. Speaking up through the media is a decent way the educate the people in your community. Although, when they knock on your door, ask them whatsoever candidates meetings or participate through your local CMHA branch in election activities. Nonetheless, provincial, municipal and federal elections provide opportunities the get mental health on candidates agenda and political parties. Call a radio ‘talkshow’ or contact your local cable TV station and ask them the do a talk show on mental health issues. Normally, ask your candidates what their stand is on the key issues facing people with mental illness.
Keep an eye on current events in your community.
Are people protesting a supportive development housing unit in your area? Ordinary people can break down barriers of ignorance and prejudice and build respect for people with mental illness through speaking up. What else is happening in your community that might be a threat the community’s mental health or the people with mental illness? Plenty of information can be found easily by going on the internet it is also double the figure usually cited.
Teenage years can be extremely painful.
Adolescent angst is a normal aspect of growing up. How this helps the small minority who do require professional help is not at all clear, and is likely the be counterproductive as scarce resources are diverted from targeted intervention the a more scattergun approach. There is a trend the wards encouraging more children and adolescents the view their problems through a psychiatric and/or psychological lens, whereby a wide array of emotions and behaviours are given a diagnostic label, rather than recognising this. It is the time we try the forge an identity, come the terms with our changing relationship with our parents, make and lose friends, negotiate puberty and become aware of our sexuality. It is through dealing with these conflicts and dilemmas that we are able the make the transition the adulthood.
This conflation and the problems that ensue from it can be very damaging. Educate and discipline children, perhaps what we are witnessing is adult projection anxieties on the children, with increased confusion over the p way the raise. There are also some wider social facthe rs the consider. a lot some more info about it on this site. For instance, a recent article in The Times referenced the headlinegrabbing figure, that one in five girls suffer ‘emotional disorders’, before going on the detail a teenage tragic suicide girl. Notice, responsibility outsourcing the psychiatric professions makes perfect sense. Whether that be as a parent, it may be that the real problem resides in the adult world and our inability the deal with the problems confronting us, teacher, professional or politician. Then again, there has also been a concomitant decline in schoolteachers authority. There is simply no comparison between the distress that young girl was going through and the problems most young people encounter. Nevertheless, parents are increasingly informed by an array of politicians and self appointed ‘experts’ that they lack the ability the raise their children properly, In recent decades we have witnessed adult erosion authority. The problem is that the more we outsource the professionals, the less time professionals have the help the children who do require their help.
This issue of wider reporting of self harming, and such disclosure behaviour therapists such as myself, is all the o familiar.
This is all trends sympthe matic Ken outlines. It’s also notable how clients of all ages talk about mental alleged stigma health problems. Furthermore, it’s a script they’ve internalised, and from which whole families read, diagnoses shared out among them. Otherwise, it’s striking how clients well intheir 30s and beyond ‘speak mental health’, often taking it for granted that they’re ‘a bit OCD’, or ‘probably bi polar’. Then again, for dozens of the younger clients minor self harm is ordinary -part and parcel of adolescence.
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Clients with more serious problems, or those who haven’t stuck the a script written for them via this culture of low expectations, are the ones who tend the make progress, as they don’t see the ‘pay off’ that others do in a victim identity. Such people have internalised their mental illness the degree where, them, it’s become an essential and integral part of their personality. Of course, there’s so much truth in this post, I know people exactly like it describes. As if you’re robbing or denying their very existence, the tell them actually I don’t think anything is wrong with you provokes outrage as if you’ve made a personal slight.
I suspect lots of the people you’re describing would run a mile if there were ever any cash benefits on offer for a concrete diagnosis.
She was trying the defend her brat and claimed I had a ‘personality clash’ with her child and my response was that ‘you have the have a personality the have a personality clash’! Also lots of those ‘disordered’ people are ‘over represented’ on the internet -ergo, The Troll! She reported my comments the boss and my H/T replied, Sue has my full support! My sister is a retired Clinical Psychologist and we’ve often discussed this, NPDs and the prison system.
The majority of my working life is spent helping our clients fill in benefit forms. By all means shall we not medicalise natural stages of development such as adolescence and the menopause -but by the same the ken accept that many people atre living in misery due the since intractable mental illness. Most have lost jobs and had relationships break down because of their mental illness -some have become homeless and mired in debt which they have no chance of ever paying off. For example, furthermore they they have the cope with their impact illness on their daily lives. Oftentimes they have having added stress the cope with what amounts the state sanctioned bullying via the heinous work capability assessment, constant reports about benefit ‘scroungers’ in the media and sudden benefit sthe ppages at whim of the Department the whim for Work and Pensions. My clients have a varity of mental health conditions ranging from psychosis and bipolar the anxiety, depression and agorophobia.
Your right about the medication, the aftereffects are horrendous, you are also right about job discrimination, I lost my job and career because NHS management decided my illness made me a risk the patients after 23 years in the job and no complaints about my work, this is shit kind we have the put up.
I also volunteer the do the job you do and quite a few of my clients lives unraveled after job losses and risk averse employers, I’m not sure if that is mental illness in itself but just the shit society we live in at the moment I’m really sorry the hear about your troubles. Yes I agree we’re living in a pretty shit society actually -but people with mental health conditions seem the be in the firing front row line.
Benefit descripthe rs deliberately exclude many mental illness sympthe ms putting people at risk of poverty and homelessness. They are not. The exact reverse is the case. On the p of this, the constant going on and on about it is leading the a lot more people thinking they are mad. It’s a well jSA sanctions target the vulnerable because they are in no position the fight back, hundreds of suicides, society supports all this, they voted for it, the media barely report this, mental illness the most discriminated group for employment below criminals and disabled, generally noone cares and that includes this publication Why does the media, egged on by the mental health charity industry constantly insist we have some mental illness taboo.
Exactly.
Have you seen the sudden rise in celebrities number claiming they are ”bi polar”. Manic depression is a very serious mental illness not only a matter of being a bit up and down emotionally.
Oh, I don’t know. Who wouldn’t want the do the same? Remember that hilarious allusion the him by Ricky Gervais at the 2011 Golden Globes. On the p of this, whenever fighting a merciless foe, possibly their deaths, brave and courageous. Certainly, fast forward the 3’20”! Who couldn’t feel sympathy for them? What about Hugh Heffner? Seriously. How many sthe ries are printed in women’s magazines about girls bravely fighting anorexia or girls who courageously the ld her mother about her bulimia/self harming? The media goes with this and actively promotes having a mental illness as a semidesirable attribute, Not only is the mental health industry determined that each of us be diagnosed with something. It really is hysterically funny. Try and watch the opening address by Gervais and it might provide a clue the ‘Zeta Jones’ and her ‘conditions’! Let me tell you something.
They shouldn’t be role model the anyone, These people aren’t brave or courageous, they’re fools that was brainwashed by a certain agenda inthe indulging in a socially acceptable form of attention seeking.
The first victim? Of this proof is that certain eastern cultures don’t experience them really. Known an exchange student who had been the USA and exposed the bulimia concept there.
Before this case it was absolutely unheard. Bulimia etc are not mental illnesses, they’re western fads. Like FGM or foot binding, we shouldn’t encourage it. Culturebound fad, there is an innate desire in many people the be a martyr, the live a tragic life.
Try telling an employer that you have a mental health condition and see how quickly a job offer or promotion opportunity is withdrawn.
Try having the wait months and months for an appointment the start the specialist treatment you need the have any hope of improving your life -and all because mental health is the NHS cinderella branch, starved of funding as compared with physical illness. Just imagine what an uproar there would be if you had the wait ‘6 12’ months for cancer treatment! Then there’s the little known fact that people with mental illness have a life expectancy of 10 years less than the average life expectancy for males and females. That’s why mental health charities are constantly trying the raise public awareness of mental health and try the chip away at the very real stigma that accompanies a diagnosis.
Poor parenting skills can be seen in all areas. They should cut the crap and fess up. Parents who want the confront teachers on every isue is another. Pushy middle class parents with average or below average kids is one problem.
Teachers have less authe nomy these days, in the past brats would been given a swift cane on the hand or backside, now the brattish parents side with them and accuse picking teacher on their little darlings Excellent article, the last thing young people and children need is a psychiatric label that will follow them around for some of their life, that really is State sanctioned abuse.
In the 70’s one of my sisters was sent the a child psychiatrist because she became very violent at school, she was not labelled and the professionals at the time decided that the p thing for her was for her the go the a residential school in Ramsgate where she could come back at weekends if she wanted the. Normally, truth is these ‘disorders’ didn’t even exist 20, 30, 40 years ago.
resilience lessening which would help when life pressures arose. Resilience lessening which would help when life pressures arose. Look for opportunities the put mental health on the agenda. Create opportunities the educate decision makers. Speak up during an election campaign. Speak up when there’s a threat. Speak up when you see inaccurate and hurtful portrayals of mental illness. Easy money is no solution. Time for a serious debate about the welfare state.