More on Anxiety and depression

20.2.2013 – 15.3.2013   Reading the signals.

Anger.

When you or a person you support is in pain. For example when being in hospital, a lot of patients aren't treated how they should be.

There seems to be a lack of communication between patients and health staff mainly when the patient has disabilities and health problems.

Health staff can talk over the patients and their carers when both of them may not be able to have their say.

People been sent from one place to the other to get help to sort one thing out (for eg; benefit forms)

All these things can cause people to be angry and upset whether it’s for them or and people who they are supporting.

Anxiety and Depression awareness.

There’s only so much stress you can take. There are times you find yourself getting angry with the stress of services because yours or someone else’s needs aren’t taken into account.

People who have mental health issues for eg; Anxiety, depression, panic attacks and Epilepsy can become very ill if stress get too much for them.  This can cause a lot of emotional problems. Not everyone is lucky enough to get the right treatment for whatever illnesses they have got. Many treatments can cause a lot of side affect, which cure one thing but bring on another.

One can feel depressed whether they have a reason to do so or not. You feel sad, and then you can feel angry, which can be side effects of treatments, lack of sleep, worrying or no reason at all. Most of us can feel a sense of shame and guilt even if we have done nothing wrong to feel that way.

There world isn't all black and white even it may seem as it is black and white. There are ways of coping with these things but many people don’t know how. Some people cope with it by keeping the mind and or body busy. We have different ways of coping with our everyday lives. For people it could be art and for others it could be exercise even both.

There are different forms of depression, very mild and very major. Different people tend to need different treatment but some people with Anxiety and depression there isn’t any other treatment for them other than keeping the mind or and body busy but some people depend on both.

It can be very hard for GPs to know how Anxiety and depression can affect each patient and what can cure each patient.

Some people keep a diary on how they feel each day.

Many people find it hard to put the past behind them, this can cause some people to suffer from flash backs. Many of these things can cause Anxiety and even panic attacks. This is where some people can be victims of crime, others cause crime and in others both the case may be. This can depend on how or not so well that each person can help themselves. For some people walking out their front door is a start to help themselves.  In many cases some people find it hard to help themselves so they find it hard to get help. For some the stress get’s too much that they commit crimes or even their own lives. Help can’t be force onto anyone so mild mental health may turn into major. This may cause crime therefore because they may be a danger to themselves or and society.

There can be more and more cases of Anxiety and depression when people are trying to get the right support from services for themselves or people they support or and care for.

·       Travel expenses prompt payment.

·       ID badges -  interviews

·       Accessible, Access maps and instructions to be able to be understood as SC/U plain English.

·       Belle, quick means of Rupy f/t?

·       Someone to cover ground floor teaching rooms.

·       Better, quicker means of communication.

·        Interviewing credibility.

·       Academia instructions for Su/c issues – having choices, access and travel.

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·       Collage/ friendly face.

·       University new approach SHDH - Sharw

·       Background

·       Notes

·       Orientation meeting

·       Master list of meetings access to IT.

·       The interview skills

·       MH- MH DOA Desisnefing

·       Mentor for beginners

·       Back ground notes – orientation meeting

·       Differences in interviewing between nursing courses and mental health – debriefing in mh.

·       The interview cells

·       Paid £25.00 per session

·       Disability awareness – working

How Services and carers are treated.       

·       Lack of awareness

·       Made to look stupid

·       Misunderstood

·       Ignored

·       Apathetic

·       Stucke out

·       Worthless

·       Allemated

·       Resigned

·       Incapable

·       Useless

·       Helpless

·       Thick

·       Know nothing

How Service Users and Carers would like to be treated.

We don’t want to be felt sorry for but we would like a sense of empathy.

We would to be able get the help we need and someone to know the right places for us to go without going one place to another. It also cost lot money us to ring different places up. Emails may be free to send but we have a lot of other things to do too. It’s as if we are not listened to or taken seriously.

Information needs to be easier for a lot people to read and understand.

For so many years now so many people have been let down by so many services to a point they lose faith in asking helping at all. Making do without the help, therefore for people nothing gets done at all. We understand to some point people need to learn to do their selves but there are some things many people have tried for a long time and just can’t. Therefore my point is that services need to encourage people to use their services more.

What a lot of us sense is that a lot of people work in these services don’t enjoy their jobs, which make them very helpful which doesn’t make people feel good about asking for their help. Therefore there’s no smile or eye contact. 

Lack of Support through funding and worries about the future.

It seems now that people need the support the most the money isn’t there to fund services. Everyone’s cases and needs are different because some people get more support with friends and family than others. Some peoples’ disabilities and health problems are worse than others. More and more lives are in risk due to the support that’s lacked through funded. Not a lot of people can affront their support due to benefits cuts.

Ok lots of people are willing to work but many need support to find work and be supported in the placements as well. If support for runs out there’s risks of people on benefits while having to look for work again.

Advocacy.

Service Users and Carers look out for one another. We are one another’s voice in need. We have faced services. We have authority over own experiences. We understand what happens and why but services don’t understand or they don’t want to. Have authority to speak the truth. We have the rights to know why we aren’t getting the help need. The relationships between their experiences and society.

·       Speak up and stand up for ones’ self or and others.

·       Advocacy is also to empower ones self or and others.

·       Action to put words into action, do the job what’s spoken about.

·       Coping with change.

·       Achievement result.

·       Frustration

·       Confidence

·       Personal development

·       Positive

·       Images

·       Individual

·        Attitudes from people

·       Organisations