Disability friends only

Our Admin team

Creator and Head Admin Sara Jane Gorman

Head Admin Harry Cawood

Admin Jennifer Ann Gilbert

Admin Claire Garnham

Admin Alistair Wilkinson  

This group is for people with disabilities, mental health problems, and long-term or lifetime conditions who want to try to make friends with members the same if not similar to themselves. This is not a dating group, but we do not interfere with what happens, so don't bring it into the group. However,' your safety and privacy matter so feel free to report any problems on and off the group from people in this group with proof, more information will be on the pinned post and my website link. 

No porn, hacking, buying, selling either.

No personal information on the group such as home addresses, personal phone numbers, email addresses, no passwords. We advise if you give personal information, only on private messages, if you have known people long enough, those you can trust. Please be careful, any problems please feel free to report them to us, with proof so don't block and remove them from the group by mistake no one is blocked who hasn't done anything wrong. Just to let you know videos are allowed that are safe to show.

Purpose, advice, and safety guarding.

To try and make friends you need to write a brief message to introduce yourself. For example, my name is Fred Blogs, I am 21 and I come from London. I like playing football and I am a gardener. Like our other group, we have a private message and friend request rule. It is your choice whether or not you want to give people permission to pm or friend request you and the same for them towards you, please respect one another, if someone doesn't want to get involved with you or you don't it is our job or and theirs to respect and accept that. However,' this is a friendship group for disabled people and other problems only.

Again, like our other groups unless you know someone or you know someone is alright about PMing or and friend requesting ask their permission first, do not contact them unless they say yes, and they will have to request you the same too. There will be plenty of other people on the group and others joining too be patient and remember not everyone thinks the same. Feel free to add a selfie with your message if you like but make sure it is clean and safe.

Feel free to chat on the group, post hobbies, interests, etc. Just to say as well, it is fine to try and make friends without private messaging or friend requests if you wish to do so, those who think otherwise need to respect and accept your choice and theirs. Some people may be just happy to post, chat, etc. on the group.

This group is for people with disabilities, mental health problems, and term or lifetime conditions who want to try to make friends with members the same if not similar to themselves. This is not a dating group, but we do not interfere with what happens outside of the group so don't bring it into the group. However,' your safety and privacy matter so feel free to report any problems on and off the group from people in this group, more information will be on pinned post and my website link.

 Learning disability and Mental health awareness 2024.

 

Introduction. The purpose of writing this report is because October is learning disability month, and I will raise mental health awareness simultaneously. Also, many Universities, schools, and colleges will be starting the new year of learning whether you are moving up a year or staying where you are.

 My name is Sara Jane Gorman, I have disabilities and mental health problems myself, including Autism, epilepsy, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Anxiety and Depression.

 This used to be a visiting lecture on Learning disability and Mental health awareness. It is for those who are involved in the lives of people with learning disabilities and mental health issues or who work or study in the field.

 Whether you are a parent, family member, carer, social worker, teacher, tutor, lecture, support worker, doctor, nurse, Career advisor, Employment officer, Housing officer or any other professional who may teach, train or and support, care for people who face disability and mental health.

What is a learning disability? A learning disability is a disorder to the brain, body, or both, which happen before, during, or and after birth. This may affect how someone learns but different people who face learning disabilities face how they affect them in different ways. However,’ they face strengths and weaknesses in different ways like other people to one another. What is different to other people, we may be slower, and we may need more help and support with such as say doing shopping, paying bills, getting a job, housework, somewhere to live etc.

 Most people may need help with personal care for e.g., cutting nails, hair, washing, bathing, showering, dressing, etc. These difficulties faced by someone in a wheelchair, walking or and hidden disabilities. https://www.mencap.org.uk/learning-disability-explained/what-learning-disability

https://www.mencap.org.uk/learning-disability-explained/learning-disability-and-conditions    https://www.mencap.org.uk/about-ld?gclid=CjwKEAjw1Iq6BRDY_tK-9OjdmBESJABlzoY7qA1zUG7gdV00JMBxMWmecoqorTcDHEyhjOix1uA4ehoCAkvw_wcB

Learning disability, learning difficulty and mental health, mental ill health most people often get confused with all five of those.

 

Such conditions as Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, ADHD can affect peoples’ learning ability where for example, they may need support with keeping up with everyone else in the classroom or and work force, which is a learning difficulty. https://www.mencap.org.uk/learning-disability-explained/learning-disability-and-conditions/learning-difficulties

A learning disability is when someone struggles with more personal skills like I said about managing at home, trying to get education, a job, etc. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/odep/initiatives/ndeam

 

Most people with a learning disability may struggle to get the health care they need due to being misunderstood because they may struggle to explain what are facing and what they are not. They may struggle to say how they feel what sort of pain they may be facing for example. https://www.mencap.org.uk/learning-disability-explained/communicating-people-learning-disability

They may struggle to communicate with others in all sorts of situations, but health is one of them.

Mental health is Emotional wellbeing. You do not need to face a learning disability to face mental ill health. However,’ most people with a learning disability face poor mental ill health. Neither one is linked to the other. When comes Mental health it can be when your Mental health is good and you have less things to feel sad about, angry about etc. Poor mental health meaning mental ill health is when you are feeling sad, angry a lot about different things, it does not necessary mean but may be such Anxiety, Depression. For example, someone feeling Anxious, worried, angry, sad, crying a lot etc.  https://www.mencap.org.uk/blog/whats-difference-between-learning-disability-and-mental-health-problem 

 

Mental health is how we think, feel, behave, even or moods, how we act and even react to our lives around us whether it is in a positive or negative way. Really without realizing it, Mental health is something we all face in different ways from our childhood, teenage years, adults, middle-aged and elderly.  In many cases how life is around us can make us the people we are, which what has happened our family, school, work home etc. Family history, Trauma, Abuse. https://www.samhsa.gov/mental-health  https://www.samaritans.org/

 

 

Always Learn About Disability + Never Judge Disability

 This group is people with disabilities or and Mental health problems, issues, etc. Also are those who are in their lives, working, studying, trained, and qualified in the disability or and mental health field. This could mean parents, carers, social workers, support workers, those who work and/or study health, education, housing, employment, etc. Such as teachers, tutors, lecturers, doctors, nurses, etc. 

People with disabilities or mental are allowed to make friends if they want to, post, and chat about hobbies, interests, animals, and more.  Please be mindful that there may be professionals, trainees, students, parents, and carers in the group. Those who want to try and make friends do not just pm and send friend requests etc unless you know there have been pming them, or added as a friend to them already, write a message on the group asking permission to those you don't know who you want to speak to. This is so hopefully you don't get any unexcepted contracts from those you have never spoken to and those who have never spoken to you. 

If you know people who may be interested and who may benefit from this group if you possibly can we would be grateful for members to join us but only if they want to join. Just a tip from our past experience if you do invite do not invite by the group but other ways like email, private message, etc. The reason for this is that when members have invited people from our groups, on most requests their questions are not answered, which makes me think they don't know the answers, the questions are there to keep the group safe but if you know the answer or and you have the person or people's permission feel free to invite them by the group if not then if they want to join they must request by you giving them our group link and answer the question themselves thank you.

This is a disability, mental health awareness, and even Advocacy, and counseling group. 

Topics On This Group, Access All Areas.

1. Health – Anything to do with the health of disabilities, Mental health, and other problems

2. Accessibility and disabled in all places - such as housing, disabled aids, accessible information, easy read, disabled access, disabled parking, wheelchairs getting around on transport, etc.,

3. Home support – help with cooking, shopping, housework, etc.

3. Careers – Education and Employment for People with disabilities, Mental health or and other problems.

4. Talent – Hobbies, interests, arts, crafts, etc. which can be in the home, socially, or in a career.

5. Social issues – Friendship, dating, going places, counseling, emotional support, etc.

6. Public Advocacy – Empowering and supporting people with disabilities and health problems to speak for their rights. For eg; (Person person-centered planning.)

7. Private Advocacy is mostly legal and illegal Advocacy such as hate crime, discrimination, benefit cuts, fit for work, not fit for work, etc.

8. (‘Learning Disability and Mental Health Awareness’) - people with disabilities and health problems training and educating those people without disabilities and health problems who are interested in working in the field of learning disability and health problems.

9..All and more. Information about this group, on our website links next to this information, sorry there's a lot as this is an all-in-one disability, mental health all problems.

Be kind

No spam

No porn

No hate speech

No spam

No bullying

No Hacking

No private messages or friend requests without asking people first unless you know them and they know you.

Nothing nasty at all respect everyone in the group, respect each other this includes Admins as well as members, thank you.

music, mental health, disability, making friends, and more.

  Welcome to music, mental health, disability, making friends, and more.

Our Admin team

creator and head admin Sara Gorman

Head Admin Harry Cawood

Admins

Alistair Wilkinson

Jennifer Gibert

Welcome to music, mental health, disability, and more.

I want to try to help everyone understand this group. How it is understood is the way we know it, meaning everyone who loves music and or other things too is more than welcome but you don't need to have disabilities or mental health to join this group, everyone is welcome either or all ways.

The purpose of this group is to give members to feel they can join for however many reasons they need or want, music, because may face disabilities or mental health, you may do our or and want support, care for teach etic, those who have disabilities and or mental health. You may enjoy music, hobbies, interests, careers or you may want to support those who want them to make friends and more. This may mean one, some, most, or all options but please respect that not everyone likes or needs the same.

The purpose of this group is to give members to feel they can join for however many reasons they need or want, music, because they may face disabilities or mental health, you may do our or and want support, care for teach etic, those who have disabilities and or mental health. You may enjoy music, hobbies, interests, careers or you may want to support those who wish to make friends and more. This may mean one, some, most, or all options but please respect only some people who like and need the same. 

Just want to welcome Members who have just joined us and those who have been here however long or short since I set it up about hours ago.

Just a few tips and advice for those who may want to try and make friends. A couple of safety rules I Forgot to do this bit of safeguarding and, I would advise no personal, private information such as names, addresses, and phone numbers on the group, on pm, or emails etc, up to you but please be mindful. I could guess most of you are mindful but it is also easy to make mistakes and make ourselves misunderstood without meaning to, I have done it myself in the past.

Feel free to write a message on the group saying you are from for eg; I am Fred Blogs from London. Maybe saying a bit about yourself, like for eg; I am a gardener, I like drawing and painting as a hobby. See if anyone and who replies, it's up to you if you wish to give them permission to pm, friend request you etc or not and respect each other's choices. Just to say this is just an example.

Please feel free to add a selfie if you wish but make sure it is safe and respectable. No nude picture etc.

Question when requesting to this group.

music, disability, mental health, other options or supporting them

Do you have disabilities or and face mental health?

Are your reasons music, hobbies, interests or something else?

Will you follow our rules?

and items from the past to today such as clothes toys, shoes, and more, etc?

Will you read and follow the purpose and rules of the group?

The period of this group is all past decades etc to today.

Hi, all welcome to Music, Mental Health, disability and more, we hope you enjoy the group.

Never thought I would create a group again, but the reason was that after being hacked Facebook wouldn't let me be Admin on one of my other music groups, I only have two music groups besides this one now.

However, it is no more different from other music really please feel free to post famous music, bands, singers, songs, actors, writers, etc; books, Tv, famous people even films, soundtracks, themes, programs, and more on YouTube, please do not post none - famous performances.

Items, music, film, books, TV Soundtracks, and themes are allowed from the past and today in all decades, years generations, etc from old record players tape, recorders to computers, mobile phones, etc but please do not try to buy and sell anything at all. These could be things that are still made and things that are not made anymore.

Safety rules will be on my website, which is our Facebook website as well.

Make sure you don't request any more than 2 profiles, whether it's one profile or 2 make sure you have a picture of you in the place where the profile picture is so it's seen when you post etc.

Also, if you face disabilities, mental health, or other problems

or if you are involved in those people's lives for example support, family, parent, etc we have that sort of group as 3 of us Admins are disabled ourselves, our disabled and mental health groups are called DISABILITY AND MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT and ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW, DISABILITY AND MENTAL HEALTH TALK for those who face disabilities or mental health or and those who are involved in their lives are more than welcome to join.

However, we understand that a lot of people in music groups are in a lot of music groups. If any of you know people who may be interested to join this group, please feel free to ask them, invite them, etc, your support is grateful if you can.

Do you face disabilities, mental health, or other problems if so what?

What is the reason for joining this group, making friends, chatting sharing, hobbies interests, good thins or both reasons?

Welcome to music, mental health, disability and more. contacts in the UK.

Topics On This Group.

1. Health – Anything to do with the health of disabilities, Mental health, and other problems

2. Accessibility and disabled in all places - such as housing, disabled aids, accessible information, easy read, disabled access, disabled parking, wheelchairs getting around on transport, etc,

3. Home support – help with cooking, shopping, housework, etc.

3. Careers – Education and Employment for People with disabilities, Mental health or and other problem,s.

4. Talent – Hobbies, interests, arts, crafts and etc which can either be in the home, socially or and in a career.

5. Social issues – Friendship, dating, going places, counseling, emotional support and etc.

6. Public Advocacy – Empowering and supporting people with disabilities and health problems to speak for their rights. For eg; (Person Centred Planning.)

7. Private Advocacy is mostly legal and illegal Advocacy such as hate crime, discrimination, benefit cuts, fit for work, not fit for work etc.

8. (‘ Learning Disability and Mental Health Awareness’) - people with disabilities and health problems training and educating those people without disabilities and health problems who are interested in working in the field of learning disability and health problems.

9..All and more. Information about this group, on our website links next to this information, sorry there's a lot as this is an all-in-one disability, mental health all problems.

Safety guarding around the member's chat group, Admins are added on there but may be not on very often, only to look and see if everyone is safe.

However,' please feel free to report anything unsafe whether it is on the member's chat, group or both, meaning any member or admin. Please try to prove what's happened so we can see clearly who is responsible, whether it is the group, chat, person or people.

Do not pm or and friend requests unless you ask permission off the person or people you wish to or if you know them or and added them as a friend if or and have been PMing them already.

Do not write your personal information the group or member's chat such as home addresses, email addresses, passwords, personal phone numbers etc., when there are a lot of people on the groups and chats, some people may pass on your contact details to others without you being aware.

If you experience any of these problems feel free to report it to us, providing proof to us, we will be grateful for as we do not want to block and remove anyone who is not in the wrong.

When we are on and offline may vary, so please be patient with us, if it happens, that we don't see to be around, write a message on asking one of us to pm and we will respond as soon as we see your message, don't say what the problem is until we message you. Some Admins may not feel safe, which is not anything against you, pm someone they don't know so whoever sees your message may report it to another Admin or myself. If you know the admin or, they are on your profile, you have been PMing each other already you have their permission, it is fine to pm them right off but if they busy, they may take a while to reply. While waiting it is fine to take time off the group until one of us replies and hopefully the problem gets solved, if you feel safer. This applies to the Member's chat as well as the group. Sorry for a lot of information and thank you for your patience.

Just to let you know, the reason why we have created this group today is that over a matter of months, Admins have been busier doing other things, but we have some time to go on the groups. Therefore, we hope to make this into one all-in-one group and close down three groups. From past experience, it doesn't always work that way. We are going to give it any time between now and just before xmas to see how the group goes, if it is a success by then we will keep this and close down our three groups if not we will close this one and keep the three. To try and help us make the group a success, we would be so grateful for you as well as ourselves to invite people who may be interested in joining this group, thank you.

Good and bad things about IT, internet, devices and more.

The purpose of this report is to highlight the good and bad of the IT, internet, devices and more.

No one is saying IT, internet and more should stop but safety, rules, law etc should be put in place worldwide. Although, we found  ways around living without it, even many of us weren’t aware. For eg; music on LPs, tapes, only three channels on the Telly, landlines, telephone boxes and more was a different  way of life than today. I am not saying that IT and internet is the big cause of crime but crime was  known very little before the internet etc. 

The good thing is for job search, getting in touch with people we know, the banks, dentist, doctors, the workplace and more ; searching for courses, doing courses, paying bills, studying, games, hobbies, interests, careers and more. 

Although there is not as much business with shops, libraries, and more as there was before the increase of people being online.

 This could be one of the causes of the increases of the cost of living, for most people it maybe  an advantage to shop and not leave their homes, to others a disadvantage they know to use very little online or nothing at all online. 

The internet has always incourged working from home, which started in Covid 19 from March 2020, which is see as a  good and bad thing.

Please feel free to rase your thoughts and feelings, sarajgorman@gmail.com

It can be good and bad for mental health, even physical health too. 

We can hope for meeting new people for example isn’t  always a good thing but it is not always, which can be worse than face to face contact and communication because they cannot see the people they are mixing with. This is concerning for everyone, including the vulnerable, children, teenagers, the elderly and more. Such as using social media, such as Facebook and more. There needs to be more health and safety around IT and internet safety to teach people all ages.

 No one should be driving, holding a mobile/ cell phone calling, texting etc at the same time or any other device. According to Google roughly 3’ 142 people died just by themselves or someone behind the wheel, even both, literally using their phone. Roughly 2’880 people may have been injured. This should be law worldwide. 

This report is not just about my thoughts and feelings, what are your thoughts and feelings on IT, internet and more? 

Researching mental health awareness.

We should not judge the difference between boys, men and  girls, women’s mental health even though in some ways there is a difference that needs to be aware.

 On the whole most  girls and women seem to be more open about what goes through their minds than boys and men so many have said for years. 

I read according to the UK’ Mental health Foundation website that there are more men that are likely to take their own lives than girls, women, see a counselor, depend more on drugs, alcohol etc but yet more women than men are more  likely to self - harm, face eating disorders, face  Post Traumatic Stress and other forms of Anxiety than boys and men. Do we really know for sure? 

However’ no one really knows because we only know what is said and what is said is not necessary is thought or and is all thought.

 Most people are not  likely to say everything and should they except to be. 

However’  when it comes to negative thoughts eating away inside, it can be a huge concern but at the same time we need to respect that, that people have their own choice to how they live with that choice and we don’t always know whether something is bothering them or not.

I have written and said many times for some people they may open up but only to certain people, which for some people they know and others they don’t know but that may be different in different people, it may vary.

We tend to go by behaviors, reactions of life around us and more, which may not be the case for everyone and everything.

It is so easy to make the negative choices in life  at time of crisis like drinking a lot of alcohol, taking a lot of drugs, or and more, this may be because someone may be facing emotional crisises with friends, family, partners etc for example. It is neither right or wrong, a person should not be made to feel ashamed, guilty etc. 

Most people may not  open up because of fear of being judged, sigma, feeling as if they are something wrong all the time etc, fear of someone telling others about what they told them without their permission etc.

Mainly if for example someone has been smoking years for example, if they choose to work on stopping, it may take as long or as short as it is going to be. They  do not need punishment but they need encouragement. 

Not even the person themselves is not saying or thinking it is right either. However’ mental health issues are not an excuse either. 

This is where empowerment and  encouragement  comes in where you give suggestions of positive choices but not try to make a person do what they may want to do, like cut down, stop, start doing something whether it is stopping smoking, cut down drinking, eat less, eat more, exercise etc for example. 

This maybe also things they enjoy such as hobbies, interests, careers etc but some cases some people may not be able to focus on what they used focus happily before, it may take time  to pick up again or not at all. Such as arts, crafts and so forth for example. 

Search engine or ways of study these mental illnesses.

Mental illnesses. Anxiety , depression, schizophrenia,  Boarder Personality Disorder, Dissociative, Somatic, Elimination, Sleep - wake, Sexual Dysfunction, Gender Dysphoria, Disruptive and Conduct Disorder, Addiction disorder, paraphillic disorder, Schizophrenic.

Name the types of Anxiety, Depression  and more 

,there are and more by search engining, studying, googling which way you commutable. 

Treatment and support.

https://mhanational.org/mental-health-treatments

Nothing is 100 percent, different ways are different for different people, depending on people and their Mental illnesses. 

Counseling, Art and creative therapy, Taking Therapy, Meditation,  Relaxation, Music, CBT, Exercises and more. https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/mental-health-problems-introduction/treatment-options/

https://www.samhsa.gov/mental-health-treatment-works

https://www.mindfultransformationllc.com/landing?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwx-CyBhAqEiwAeOcTdcOuE_eRPoKZM2NUD-0jVWfQnVAfKTi0-YJJkDNn_omXdPLAYZRWZBoCbUEQAvD_BwE

Search engine, study, google etc the right solution to the right problem.

For example; How would you try to help, support or treat someone with Anxiety and Depression? 

2024 poems

 Never thought I would change.

Never forget what I felt when I was in love with you.

I must have been so crazy and so mad.

There was no wanting to get away from you, I loved you far too much at least I thought I did.

Now I would not entertain you.

I never forget how you broke my heart but now you don’t hurt me anymore.

I thought I was happy with you but I was too blind to see you did not love me at all.

So many years I wasted with you.

I was so wrong to think you loved me when you did not.

How blind could I be?

If only I could say then what I can say now.

You do not love me but I do not love me either so why did you have me in your life?

No reason other than to play games with my mind, my word if only I could see that at the time, I must have been going out of my mind.

The pain you gave me all those years ago has made me stronger, too strong to be with you.

My fault for loving you when you did not love me but soon as I stopped loving, you said you wanted me.

You lier, no you did not, as normal you wanted to play with my mind, that’s why I finely turned you down for good, which was the first and last time I stood up to you.

Your loss my gain.

I’m a flying cat-bat.

I have wings to fly with the witches, the ghosts and more.

Some of us are black, white, green and brown witches.

We all come out on Halloween if you know what I mean.

We are scary and mean.

We bring out black of the night, when the early nights get dark from the light, with the white moon and stars in the sky.

My name is Bat - cat.