Rights and Equal lives are important for people with disabilities and health problems just the same as you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc_K9c24R5o This is why it's important for people with disabilities and health problems to be in a career we are good at, we can manage and that we are safe. 

adding post.

 Without been nasty or harsh to anyone, I know a people have been adding post and that is great. However it's been a fair few weeks now since me and Tim have closed down the old disabled groups and created new disabled group, which I manage on my own now. All the same Tim and I manage this 1 and the 70s and 80s and All Generations. The new disability group I run on my own now. I would be most grateful even if at least most of you would start adding post to their purposes and topics. Also most of you may have read my website that my career could be increasing but I will be here in the evenings. How many days a week I don't know myself yet.  I could be online a bit less than I have been so that is one of the reasons why I'd be more than grateful if at least most of you would add and or write post, thank you. All at your own speed.

We understand that most people may have IT devices that are not easy to add post to face book so free to ask me or Tim to support find information online if needs that may be tell you how you can add post to face book groups from certain IT devices. However, if you have an IT devices that is impossible to add post to face book we will understand. Whatever the situation please feel free to like the post or add comments on whatever post is put by us or other members naturally if the post interests you anyway whether it's possible or negative.  We don't want to force member into things you don't want to do what you don't want to do but we also want the group to grow forwards not backwards, which we accept that it could take time.

Listening skills for all professions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp4PW17U_h8
Watch this video to find out what you have learned and missed how people with disabilities and health problems do communicate!

For Accessible Information and Communication https://www.mencap.org.uk/about-learning-disability?gclid=CjwKEAjw1Iq6BRDY_tK-9OjdmBESJABlzoY7qA1zUG7gdV00JMBxMWmecoqorTcDHEyhjOix1uA4ehoCAkvw_wcB

Aspect of Active listening. 

Body language.

It's important to be interested in what the person is trying to say. You should give the person a nod to show that you are listening to them. The way you look at the person is very important, which then shows the patient you are honest with them.

Body movement and posture is important for the patient to understand.

Gesture is more hand movements, speaking and expressing.

Knowing when to used open and close question. For example.

" What do you think of the video?" Open question

" Did you like the video?" Closed question


Parroting/Mirroring. 

Mirroring is coping what the person does, echoing their body language and other verbal communication, including sound, voice, tone and so on.

Mirroring has a sidedness; if the person does something with their right hand you can do something with your right hand.

Mirroring can be exactly at the same time as the client shows any sign of body language and non verbal communication. For example if the person crosses their legs you do the same.

It's important to know the different forms of communication because everyone's needs are different. 43% of adults with moderate severe learning difficulties,  Cerebral Palsy, Autism and other learning disabilities. Multi - useful where auditory messages are none processed quickly. Encouraged eye contact & concentration.

More about communication. https://www.mencap.org.uk/about-learning-disability/information-professionals/communication/communicating-people-learning-disability
http://www.nwas.nhs.uk/media/206250/eps_pic_book_v7a_final.pdf
http://www.nwas.nhs.uk/media/208795/pts_pictorial_handbook.pdf

Making information accessible. 

We need to make sure the information is right, easy for the person to read and understand. Those who can't read and write may benefit by pictures but then print must clear enough to stand out for those who can read and write plus pictures could be helpful too. Always ask the person or and anyone that may be with them who knows them before lay out their information. It's important to be honest to the person about positive and the negative of whatever the information is about and let them have their opinion. Tell them any consequences if they decide one way or the other on whatever the situation is.
For eg;  " If you don't agree to have this injection this is what happens. "  then tell them the consequences.

You need to make sure the person understands the information.  Here are some examples

• Easy read
• Clear written / audio information
• No Jargon!

The way you can help the person with understanding information is by making the information accessible to the person's wants, needs, understand,  type of disabilities and health problems. https://www.mencap.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/2008-04/RCN_meeting_the_health_needs_of_people_with_learning_disabilities.pdf
Research reference the internet, University library, public libraries. Books, DVDs and etc.

Please feel free to join Face Book if you want my new Disability group 'Always Learn About Disability + Never Judge Disability'.

Long term conditions and stress.

What is Long term conditions and stress? 

Anyone with long term conditions can easily get upset with or without a reason. However' this can be in circles, it can be different for different people so do except the unexpected. It is very common that people with long conditions worry twice as much and we are more sensitive other people. However other can have as much to worry about and do worry. Everyone knows how confusing this is because one can't and shouldn't judge a person one way or the other. What know for sure though no one is as had as nails and we shouldn't take people's feelings and emotions for grand-it. None of us made of wood or steel but some of us can worry more than we should but we can't help that. Worrying more than we should can be in one long - term condition what is it? Like I said we can never judge a person. We all worry more than we should at times but how often do we worry more than we should? There's sure people with certain conditions who are not aware and probley not even people their lives know either.  http://www.nhsinform.co.uk/mentalhealth/wellbeing/long-term-health-conditions/  http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/pages/understanding-stress.aspx
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/workplacehealth/Pages/workplacehome.aspx
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Yourchildatschool/Pages/Longtermconditions.aspx
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/anxiety/Pages/Introduction.aspx
http://www.gov.scot/resource/doc/274194/0082012.pdf


The purpose of this report is giving examples of what could be on people's minds that could worrying them such as keeping payments up to date so they don't get into debt, Benefit cuts and changes, lack of support for those people who need it, who can't get it because of the cuts, studying, work and etc. Can you think of anything else that could be worrying people? Try even think about the things that worry you through everyday life.

Long term conditions can be confusing because some people are better having a lot of things going in their lives, others can that can be too much for. Other people can feel different everyday for eg; if they don't have anything to do they can become depression one but their depression affect them the opposite was the next. For other people it's one way or the other everyday. This could work the same with people with Anxiety. For example the most people have been put into the wrongs situations such as work. Some people are limited to what they can do. For example me doing the job I am doing now, I am safe, I feel confidence, I am well supported and I get along with people. If was working in a factory for example would be completely the opposite where problems would be happening and you would be wondering why I was working there.

Examples of long term conditions that can be affect by stress such as Anxiety, Depression and Epilepsy, too much stress on those conditions, there could be a risk of a possible stroke, heart attack or and even death.  Can you name any more Long term conditions and what are the risks if people have too much stress?

Here are the links off my website from the first session I did when I saw you in February.
http://sararevealed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/mental-health-month-2016.html
http://sararevealed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/more-cuts-to-fight-now-tories-have-won.html
http://sararevealed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/stress-of-benefit-cuts-on-patients.html
http://sararevealed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/awareness-of-disability-and-talent.html
http://sararevealed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/there-are-lot-of-changes-and-cuts-to.html
http://sararevealed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/httpswww.html
http://sararevealed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/handout-1.html
http://sararevealed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/reminder-of-accessible-information.html
http://sararevealed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/more-understanding-with-mind.html
http://sararevealed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/more-awareness.html


Due to people's disabilities and health problems,you may not find they will communicate and understand which is hard other people in everyday life when coming into contact with people with disabilities and health problems. This can be even hard when the person with disabilities and health problems is unwell. Here are some communication and accessible information links. http://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/accessible-information-standard/open-access-sessions/ https://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/patients/accessibleinfo/
http://www.accessibleinfo.co.uk/information/ https://www.mencap.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/2008-04/RCN_meeting_the_health_needs_of_people_with_learning_disabilities.pdf
http://www4.shu.ac.uk/_assets/pdf/cpod-Learning-disability-evaluation-report-Part2.pdf
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/59157/4/59157.pdf
http://www.learningdisabilities.org.uk/help-information/learning-disability-a-z/c/communication/

It's your chance to have your say about the EU.

I am sorry to say up until the 23rd June 2016, I could well drive you all mad about the EU sorry about that. I know and I agree that it's confusing, a pain and hard to understand. I guess for each and everyone of us whatever we vote and whatever vote comes in we are going to face good and bad in our lives both sides. Despite of how hard and confusing it is to understand, I guess it will make a good difference and a bad difference on our lives one way or the other. For those of us don't understand like me, it's just knowing what is for what. However' if we don't vote at all we could have a lot to lose but we could well hit good and bad whatever happens whether we vote or not but that doesn't necessary mean I advise people not to vote, it's just so hard and confusing that's all.

I have wrote this report so those who understand this EU can help those who don't understand it. This is a change for you to have your say and give your opinions. A chance even to say what you understand and don't understand if it is a bit of both and the same if you understand but support those who only so much and not at all. I think we will find that even a lot of people without disabilities and health problems will find it hard to understand the EU not just those of us with. http://www.inspiredservices.org.uk/Information%20for%20all.pdf https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/inclusive-communication/accessible-communication-formats

Yes I know it makes it confusing anyway it what has been going the past five year with a lot of of cuts having happened, a lot of jobs, business that have gone, buying and selling houses have been hard for people so have mortgages. Which way of voting the EU is going to make it better and which is going to make it work?

Same question for the benefit system and how it's going to improve the lives of disabled people and the elderly whether we are in or out the EU.  

A lot of us spend years fighting for our career.

Most of us have worked hard to get where we are today?

Due to my Dyslexia this needs to be put in a shorter way, it's just an idea for a journal anyway.

I left school at the age of 16 not really knowing what I was good and bad at. Due to a poor education at school I was totally unsure what I wanted to do. This left me feeling useless for everything and wondering why I was on the planet if that's the case but no one should have to feel that way.  Little could I see in a matter of a month or two I achieved my first certificate  RDA, Riding For The Disabled Grace 1 when I started at the Camnant Center New Town Powys Wales, which was a living in riding stables where I did my work and education all in one. I liked some parts of it but not others and all rest was history. Not all parts of my career has been black and white but it's never been as positive as it's been for the past nine years which I don't want to lose it.

I was sent on a lot of placements through such government schemes as Y.T.S and put on the wrong work placements with very little no support. 

Employers and staff had very little or no knowledge and understanding of learning disability and health problems.

It took from when I was 16 till I was 37 the career what was right for me, which was Royal Wolverhampton Mencap at the time. I was a member the Our Shout Public Advocacy from 2007 to 2011. Mencap used to sent us the University Of Wolverhampton Walsall Campus to act out our experiences of health care to the Student Learning Disability nurses. In 2011, the government cut the funding on the Our Shout project and sadly I was out of a career for 12 months, which was a huge affect on my Anxiety and Depression to a point my GP referred me to Healthy Minds because I felt as if I wasn't go to get through it.

In March 2011, I started working for 1 Voice, which a private Advocacy group for people with disabilities and health problems, I did a bit of basic Admin before I became an Advocate but during that time I was starting to work with the University by taking part with the interview and been part of the Expert Patients with the Success group and then three years later I became a Visting Lecture with the great support of Lynne, Steve, Mick, Jim and Sean who are not just great support to me but great people to work with so are the people I work with with the success group as well as the Learning Disability Team. 

With all what's going on the EU, I and many others like me are worried about losing my jobs they have because of being disabled and even our education as well. I and many others like me don't find this voting with the EU accessible can someone tell me honesty whether do we vote in or out in hopes of keeping my job?

We want move forward in time not back.

Many would say people with disabilities and health problems are a health and safety hazard in the work place.

If we are in the jobs we enjoy, what we are good at and what we can manage less support are going to need and less of a health and hazard we are. We are more of a health and safety hazard to our selves if we are at home just look at the four walls than we are having a career. However due to the fact that there are so many disabilities and health problems, I understand most people could disagree with me because everyone's thought are different.

There must be many of you who can share the same if not much experience as me, if so please feel free share your story and experience with me. How many of those with disabilities, health problems and so many people are different. Most people like me are hoping the EU will not cause us to lose our job.

About my career.

I am not saying everyone with disabilities and health problems should have same job as me just because the idea is to help other people understand from a person with learning disability's point what it like. Everyone should have their own choice of career so should people with disabilities and health problems. However' I am not saying this because it's the job I enjoy and that it is important to raise awareness and speak up for the rights of disabilities and health problems. We know that even other people cannot get their rights met either but people with disabilities and health problems do not get our rights met mostly because of our disabilities and health problems. Without the Awareness and Advocacy society would only see the weak part of us not the strong because we probley wouldn't have a chance to prove our strong parts so therefore thanks to Awareness and  Advocacy that proves people with disabilities and health have stenghts and weaknesses in us just like everyone. This job means so much to me so I can make the best difference to learning disability and health problems the best way I possibly which mostly doesn't work because of how much work the government can be but that doesn't stop me wanting to do the job I doing though, which is why my job means so much to me.  

http://greatbritishcommunity.org/resources/disability/?gclid=Cj0KEQjw9tW5BRDk29KDnqWu4fMBEiQAKj7spxwLyqoCawWg9Es7BtvoYKbVrzT-JcKoCepazZ5ybp8aAuj68P8HAQ

Why is it important for people with disabilities and health problems to keep or and career we are good at, we can manage and we are safe to do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc_K9c24R5o

Awareness of disabilities, health problems and the EU for Always Learn About Disability + Never Judge Disability and my work.

The reason I am writing this report is, I don't know about you but I finding all this with the EU hard and very confusing. How many of you feel the same? To be honest I think it's confusing hard for a lot of people not just people with disabilities and health problems. I may understood this wrong because the way reports are written is too much jargon and not accessible for me so how many of you face the same way and forgive me if I say anything of hand here, which I have no intentions of upsetting anyone, it will just be certain things I don't understand. Those of who understand how it works please give your opinions! People with disabilities and health problems just like everyone want to be safe but we want want equal right as well with the rights support so is it best to vote the EU in or out? We are saying the country is going to get better but those of us who don't understand want to be making it worse by voting the wrong side. However' sorry to say I think the government do what they want whether public like it or not.

I have been emailing people I work with today who know how confusing and hard it is for a lot of people not only people with disabilities, health problems and the elderly to understand.

We need to remember not only for people disabilities and problems but for everyone, Britain is only a small country, it's not just down to money but size, it's a risk to have it over populated, we have only so many jobs and so many homes for everyone.

It may be whether we vote the EU in or out, it will be good and bad on both sides, if that's the case in my opinion that can make people fear whichever way they vote and to not to vote all. What is everyone else's views? Shall we look at the things what have been happening?

Lots of people with disabilities and health problems have lost their benefits and many have have lost their lives through lack of support as well. With Elderly pensions have been cut. A lot of cuts have been going on with different topics of life making it hard for other people to support as well as the vulnerable meaning people with disabilities, health problems and the elderly.

Work and education can be a tricky 1 people with disabilities and health problems because everyone's needs and wants are different. Different people have faced it in different ways.

Please feel free to have say on these matter, thank you.

Making you aware of possible changes.

Just to let you know everyone we have closed down all the old disability groups. Please feel free to join us on our new Face book group ' Learn About Disability + Never Judge Disability, which is all one group with all topics such as health, housing, careers, Social issues, Disabled Access,Advocacy and etc. Instead of having all topics in a lot of groups like we were before.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/666761230131452/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/432864113549188/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/456592097882491/

We will be doing some work on two of our old groups we have kept open,  Friends who like this remembers this ' and  Friends like I grew up in the 70s and 80s, we will let you know our plans to all two groups when we have had a chat about it. 

User Friendly part 1 and 2

Just to make you aware that Mental Health awareness month was in February but awareness of Mental should be raised all year round. People who have Mental Health problems will tell you life is an effect every day.

Depression is a feeling of sadness whether there is a reason not and Anxiety is a feeling of anger whether there is a reason or not. Like many things different people face Anxiety and Depression different this because some people suffer a mild form, others medium and others major. Anxiety is a sense of panic and fear. Anxiety is classed as Post Traumatic Stress.  Roughly 40 million Americans suffer from Anxiety in America.

See what you can learn about Mental Health problems.  http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/mentalhealth/Pages/Mentalhealthhome.aspx
http://www.theguardian.com/society/mental-health
http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/article/3328/Mental-Health
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35846352
http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=4849&p=0
https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/
http://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/a-z-mental-health/

How do you make assessments in easy read?

Can the person make themselves a hot drink without support? Yes or no. Does the person need support?

Can the person pour or even make a cold drink? Yes or no. Does the person need support?

Can the person warm up a hot snack? Yes or no. Does the person need support?

Can the person make a cold snack? Yes or no. Does the person need support?

Can the person cook a big hot meal? Yes or no. Does the person need support?

Can the person put a ready made meal in the microwave? Yes or no. Do they need support?

Can the person wash up? Yes or no. Does the person need support?

Can the person dry up? Yes or no. Does the person need support?

Can the person use a washing machine? Yes or no. Does the person need support?

Can the person dry their clothes? Yes or no. Does the person need support?

Can the person iron their clothes? Yes or no. Does the person need support?

Can the person hover? Yes or no. Does the person need support?

Can the person dust? Yes or no. Does the person need support?

 Can the person shop? Yes or no. Does the person need support?

Transport information. Some people have no sense of direction mainly those people with Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Epilepsy Anxiety and Depression. A map that stands out with different colours would be rather useful for most people whereas others it could be 123, ABC or and bullet points for example.

·       Turn left.

·       Turn right.

·       Straight on.

Some people may want that format in colours for example.

·       Turn left

·       Turn right

·       Straight on

Person centred planning.

http://www.learningdisabilities.org.uk/help-information/information-for-teachers/transition-to-adulthood/using-person-centred-planning/

https://www.mencap.org.uk/our-services/personal-support-services/advocacy/empower-me

http://www.batias.com/

Today’s health care for people with learning disabilities and health problems.

https://www.improvinghealthandlives.org.uk/uploads/doc/vid_7479_IHaL2010-3HealthInequality2010.pdf

https://www.improvinghealthandlives.org.uk/uploads/doc/vid_7479_IHaL2010-3HealthInequality2010.pdf

http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/article/24052/Disabled-people---specialist-equipment-home-adaptations-and-aids

https://osha.europa.eu/en/publications/factsheets/53

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Prime-Instant-Video/b/ref=dvm_uk_mer_site_prlpv2_6_14?ie=UTF8&node=3280626031&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=1QQ4VHKBH2MZXFVSYA6R&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=516424127&pf_rd_i=1000784693

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Prime-Instant-Video/b/ref=dvm_uk_mer_site_prlpv2_6_14?ie=UTF8&node=3280626031&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=1QQ4VHKBH2MZXFVSYA6R&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=516424127&pf_rd_i=1000784693

http://www.focusondisability.org.uk/links-1.html

http://classroom.synonym.com/signs-students-lacking-reading-comprehension-19964.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/readingdiffs.html

http://medvideos.org/video/166/developmental-coordination-disorder-dyspraxia

https://www.scope.org.uk/Support/Disabled-people/Disabled-People/Trendsetters/Confidence-and-Self-Esteem/What-is-confidence-and-self-

esteem?utm_campaign=trendsetters&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc

How can you help a person to learn easy?

These tips are not just there to help people with disabilities and health problems learn easy. Some may now have little support or no support at all now due to the cuts. Many services like the council, the benefit offices send out letters to people with disabilities and health problems. The letter are hard to understand, the print can be very small and a lot of jargon. These letters could be very important like the person may have had their benefits cut or the council may have wrote to tell them they need to start paying council taxi, this may not get found out for a long because the person has no one to ask them to support them to read the letter and they do, they could be owing a very big dept and their money have been cut or stopped.

Why is it important someone with disabilities and health problems to have clear information read and understand?

Also understand that some people can’t read and write either, what kind of problems is that likely to cause and how can you support that situation.

It can work different ways for different people because can have someone who can’t read and write but if something is read out to them some people are likely to understand.

Accessible information (Easy ready).

·       Broken down information meaning only so much information at a time.

·       Subheadings on paragraphs to show the person what each paragraph is about.

·       Instructions and directions 123, abc or bullets to the order the person needs to follow them.

·       People with Dyslexia are likely to need coloured paper and large print.

Making and getting phone calls.

Mainly when making an important call you can always get to speak someone right away. Nine times out of ten you get the answer and the person can talk too fast you. Please leave a message after the tone that is all well and good but not always when something is important, which can depend when that person can reply to your message in the first place. It can work the same with emails and texts. I find they talk too fast when they say press this number for that and that number for this.

 Without discriminating not many people with disabilities and health problems can understand foreign languages, mainly those of us who have problems with our speech which can make it hard for us to learn foreign languages. This can be very hard if we have made a call to a service and even harder if we get a call that we don’t except. 

Forms of communication.

· Give enough time to listen to your patient mainly if they haven’t bought anyone with them for support.

·       Mackinton

·       Pecks

·       Sign language

·       Flash cards

·       Brail

·       Touch

 ·       Body language

·       Eye pointing

·       Tap pack

·       IT Communication

·       Lip reading

·       Face expression happy face, sad face or and OK face.

·       Behavior

·       Symbol time table

·       Thumps up

·       Thumps down

Life stories and pictures

·       written communication

·       Play studies

·       ABC boards

·       Talking

·       Short form of communication

·       Health Passport

·                  Verbal

·                  Nonverbal 

·                  Visual

·                  Non-visual 

·                  ·        Sing-along for people with Autism

·                  ·        Talking mats

·                  ·        Widget

·                  ·        Symbol world

·                  ·        Clear For All

What disabilities and health problems would you use those forms of communication for?

We need to make sure the patient understands all the information, the information needs to be accessible.

·        Easy Read

·        Clear written/audio information

·        No Jargon!

https://www.mencap.org.uk/about-learning-disability/information-professionals/communication/communicating-people-learning-disability

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/speechandcommunicationdisorders.html

http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/pages/communication-problems-in-children-with-autism-spectrum-disorder.aspx

http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-9213/health.htm

What you need to know about disabilities and health problems.

These days guys there's plenty of reference such as the internet as well as books from the University library, here are some useful tips and what to research for your assignment.

1. What are disabilities, health problems and long term conditions?
2. What type of disabilities, health problems and long term conditions are there?
3. Communication
4. Accessible information


1.Assessments find out what kind of assessments to people with disabilities and health with disabilities and health problems have to go through all their live on all topics.
2.Most people may be sent to the wrong places after their assessments think about how you can see that the person is sent to the right places after you assessed them?
3. Most people have been sent to the wrong places because they have been given the wrong diagnosed or they haven't been diagnosed at all, how can you give the right diagnose?

What benefit are there? Your research

1. DLA changing to PIP.
2. What rate of benefit is the person on? For eg; high rate, middle rate or low.
3. The amount of income the person will get will depend on the rate and even level of disability and health problems they have got.
4. It may even depend on the amount of care and support the person needs, although a lot of people due to cuts don't get as much or no care at all compared to what they used to.
5. Independence such as getting around.
6. What kind of care and support? For eg; personal care. Support with house work, cooking and shopping.


Employment and Support.

1. Working related group where there is a limit of what the person can do.
2. Support group is where they can do the odd bit volunteer work.
3. Find out what people go through to claim and get benefits.
4. Find out what people go through to get assessed.
5. Even education and work support.
https://www.gov.uk/employment-support-allowance/overview
This may be out of date but it is just example of what you may be need to know or and useful to know in case you have to know. http://www.tameside.gov.uk/esa/wca
https://www.google.co.uk/search?site=&source=hp&q=esa+assessment&oq=esa+a&gs_l=hp.1.0.0l10.2995.9449.0.12926.6.6.0.0.0.0.122.569.4j2.6.0....0...1c.1.64.hp..0.5.445.0.ppJ1GZL1OBs

Your patient's health is your main concern to you mainly they have disabilities and health problems. The huge concern has been people with disabilities and health problems having their benefits cut and even stopped. If your patient has their benefits cut or stopped, it can have a huge affect to your patient's health why is that? Please find out on my 2015 post of this website sararevealed.blogspot.com/ there's a lot of information you need to learn and be aware of.

Just to also remind you that this month will be Mental Health month so I will be raising a lot of awareness on my website and Facebook groups, which you are more than welcome to join if your on Facebook. I will advice you not to go on Facebook if you are student in college or university during class hours.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1039987746021742/?ref=bookmarks
https://www.facebook.com/groups/907563525994748/?ref=bookmarks
https://www.facebook.com/groups/264800150364109/?ref=bookmarks
https://www.facebook.com/groups/895482620570074/?ref=bookmarks

Read more information in the Disability Rights Handbook when it is updated in April or look online. Some the 2015 - 2016 information may still apply at the moment.

Just to let you know every April there is an update of the Disability Rights Handbook, which is update information on benefits, you may not need in your career but always useful to know just in case. This information is really for families, carers and advisers including disabled people themselves  but not everyone has those people in their lives.
http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/2402/disability-and-sen-needs-assessment-1792012.pdf

More to learn.

To be honest I wrote this report so many year ago since then many people have suffered losing their benefits. Many have been sighted for fit work by Altos without for example when they are not fit for work without support. Many people have lost their lives through not been able to affront to eat or may be and they have ended up owing a lot of money they can't affront. Update of this report now 13.2.2015
 http://www.learningdisabilitymadeclear.nhs.uk/toolkit/3-learning-disability-made-clear-toolkit
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-31445827

Now DWP have a lot to answer for.

  http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2015/03/09/dwp-to-claimant-if-you-dont-die-within-six-months-well-prosecute-you-same-difference/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jan/18/after-hated-atos-quits-will-maximus-make-work-assessments-less-arduous
https://www.disabilityonline.org.uk/2015/03/16/changes-to-employment-support-allowance-after-30th-march-2015/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/terminally-ill-face-being-forced-690027
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jan/18/after-hated-atos-quits-will-maximus-make-work-assessments-less-arduous
http://www.welfareweekly.com/uk-benefits-cap-is-lawful-but-breaches-un-childrens-rights-obligations/
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/food-bank-users-at-risk-of-developing-nutritional-problems-warns-expert-10118543.html

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/homelessness-up-more-50-per-5235998
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/abolishwca/455572934606129/?notif_t=group_comment
http://gu.com/p/46fcx/sfb
https://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/behind-the-benefit-bashing-headlines-lies-a-nasty-ideology-that-is-not-confined-to-the-daily-mail/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mike-holpin-jobless-dad-40-5447459?ICID=FB_mirror_main Cases like this can be one of the reasons why people with disabilities and health problems lose their benefits.

The Tories want people to get support with Anxiety and Depression.

Tories discuss stripping benefits claimants who refuse treatment for depression Senior ministers believe the rules should be reviewed in order to reduce the “huge” numbers of people who are declared unfit for work due to mental health problems 16K 5K 0 159 21K Email People enter a job centre in Folkestone in southern England. The number of people who have been out of work for two years has doubled since 2010 Photo: REUTERS/Luke Macgregor Sophie Ellis-Baxter’s confession 'After the clamour of the morning, enjoying my cup on the sofa in the newly calm house feels decadent' Sponsored by Starbucks By Tim Ross, Political Correspondent 10:00PM BST 12 Jul 2014 Hundreds of thousands of benefit claimants face being stripped of their state allowances if they refuse to undergo treatment for anxiety and depression, under radical plans being drawn up by ministers.

Existing welfare rules mean it is not possible to require claimants to have treatment, such as therapy or counselling, as a condition of receiving sickness benefits. Senior ministers now believe the rules should be reviewed in order to reduce the “huge” numbers of people who are declared unfit for work due to mental health problems. The first moves towards potential reform are expected in a series of pilot schemes to be launched within weeks. The trials, jointly designed by the Department of Health and the Department for Work and Pensions, will test ways of combining treatment for mental health problems with support to find work. Related Articles the 'mansion tax' waiting in the wings 12 Jul 2014 David Cameron plans to promote high profile women ahead of election fight 13 Jul 2014 People diary: Thatcher gazumped by Gandhi statue?

                 13 Jul 2014 Bullying MPs enjoy being 'named and shamed' 14 Jul 2014 Sketch: Ding-dongs versus democracy 10 Jul 2014 Taxes on holiday cottages would require 'Stasi-like police force' monitoring people's homes, Eric Pickles says 09 Jul 2014 Southampton property market yields results Sponsored by Property Crowd According to the Government, 46 per cent of benefit claimants receiving Employment and Support Allowance, the main benefit for ill and disabled people, have mental health problems.

 This means that the proposal to enforce treatment could apply to an estimated 260,000 claimants, who receive up to £101 per week each in ESA. Estimates based on government figures suggest the state spends up to £1.4 billion a year – more than £3.5 million per day - on ESA for these claimants with mental health issues. The reforms however, would apply only to those claimants judged to be capable of some work in future. Those who are judged to be incapable of work due to the severity of their conditions would not be targeted under the plans. Tory ministers hope to persuade senior Liberal Democrats to back the idea of mandating treatment for benefit claimants with common mental health problems. The proposal will raise ethical questions about whether the state should have the power to force patients to undergo treatment. It could lead to a fresh row with campaigners and charities who have claimed that the coalition’s welfare reforms already target vulnerable people with poor mental and physical health. Conservatives could include the proposal for mandatory treatments in the party manifesto next year as part of the next phase of reforms to the welfare state. A senior government source said “a huge number” of claimants on ESA who cannot work have treatable mental health issues such as “depression and anxiety”. “We know that depression and anxiety are treatable conditions. Cognitive behavioral therapies work and they get people stable again but you can't mandate people to take that treatment,” the source said.

But there are loads of people who claim ESA who undergo no treatment whatsoever. It is bizarre. This is a real problem because we want people to get better. “These are areas we need to explore. The taxpayer has committed a lot of money but the idea was never to sustain them for years and years on benefit. We think it’s time for a rethink. “At some point something has to be done. Right now it’s an open ended contract.” The source suggested that successful treatments could reduce the numbers of people with mental health issues claiming the benefits by up to 90 per cent. Benefit claimants receiving ESA, are typically paid up to £101 per week if they are deemed potentially capable of work and are placed in the so-called “work-related activity group” of welfare recipients. If they fail to abide by conditions such attending work-focused interviews, their ESA payments can be reduced as a sanction.

 No conditions are currently applied requiring claimants to undergo treatment for health problems. One trial began last month, looking at combining “talking therapies” with employment support. Four jobcentres are taking part. The intention of the scheme is to give benefit claimants early access to experts who can help them prepare for work while they are receiving treatment for mental health issues. Three further trials being launched this summer are intended to test different ways of linking mental health services with support for benefit claimants seeking work. One of these schemes is designed to analyse effectiveness of “group work” to help build the “resilience” of individuals who are out of work and suffering with poor mental health.

Another trial will see whether better results can be achieved by hiring specialist private organisations outside the NHS and welfare system to take control of providing a combination of psychological and employment support to claimants. A final pilot scheme will assess the effectiveness of offering online tests and therapies at improving individuals’ health and job prospects. Norman Lamb, the Lib Dem health minister, said mandating mental health treatment for benefit claimants would not work and was "not a sensible idea". "The idea that you frogmarch someone into therapy with the threat of a loss of benefits simply won't work," he said. "It is not a question of whether tough love is a good concept."You actually need someone to go into therapy willingly."

Things need to change for the better in all issues.

 I use to be a Wolverhampton Learning disability MP for the People's Parliament with many other people with disabilities as Learning Disability MPs.

We don't have the job compliantly the same as the Houses of Parliament. We have only just started our plan is to look out for people with learning disabilities in what they need and want. We have the understanding because have learning disabilities ourselves. In the future we would like to talk people with disabilities to find out their needs and wants, and then tell the government.

   Like all people the government hasn't got any idea of people's needs and wants, they don't make their to find out than voting, then half the time you don't what you're voting for or what you want to vote for isn't there. It's hard to explain because it's so much jargon.

 By finding out in a face to face contact is better than this voting is too much jargon so we want won't do our job until people with disabilities tell us their wants and needs, by giving people choice and control with the right support.

 If you have learning disabilities or and Mental Health Problems please email me your Learning Disability MPs about your needs and want on anything at all. sarajgorman@gmail.com only with your say so I will write on your behave to the Houses of Parliament MPs to make them aware of what you need or and want, I will do my best to make sure you get it.

Now many people with disabilities learned very easy at school, we had to catch up when we left and enrol on the same kind of courses at the colleges for years without jobs at the end of it; a lot of people are saying that this is still going on now. There wasn't enough support, as a Learning Disability Mp I would like to see a lot of support in schools and colleges but Mencap but bought out a report saying a lot of courses for people with disabilities are cutting back.

At the moment the Learning Disabilities MPs are working on employment we want would if you have learning disabilities or and Mental Health Problems we would like to hear about stories and experiences on employment. With your so say you email me on sarajgorman@gmail.com you can tell me and I will tell the other MPs only if you want, I won't if you don't want me to tell. How can we thing good for you if they are bad? How can we make things better if they are good? We are here for you if you want us to help you.

If you did read the report on this website that I wrote in 2008 about employment, which I deleted a few days ago. I was disappointed to know that not a lot has changed for people with learning disabilities able to work since then. This is why I want to find out how many people with disabilities are working in Britain. I wrote this 2008 report to tell to my readers that I wrote an Employment play telling people in who work Employment services about our experiences of asking, getting employment and how we have been treated in the work placement.

 We were told the play was a success but we didn't a great of feedback. Someone with disabilities and his employer even did a talk; this employer seemed to be very happy with this person's.

 This shows when it comes to talents society loses out. People with disabilities have been disbelieved for the things we are good at for so long; it's time for non disabled people to see the good in people with disabilities. Many of us can paint, draw, write and etc as much as you so it's time to create new jobs for people with these talents and other abilities too.

Open the doors to the working learning disability world with the right support wherever it is. If you have disabilities and you want to make a start of a creative career, please get in touch with this website called Working parts if you live in the Midlands and Black Country. 
WWW.workingparts.co.uk

  They can feel sad with or without a reason when any time, any place and anywhere with and without a reason. Sometimes that sadness turns into anger with or without a reason, which is called Anxiety, they can make feel ashamed and guilty without needing to because they can feel as if everyone or a lot of people are against them. Where your job comes in to is to help them overcome them feeling guilty and ashamed. If people are depressed without a reason then tent to feel embarrassed, guilty, ashamed and even silly if they feel sad for no reason. A lot of other people tend to think that people shouldn’t be upset without a reason; this is where misunderstanding comes in. It’s not normal for people without depression to see sadness without a reason because it doesn’t happen to them but that is how depression affects most people with depression.

 Depression is a fight for a person every day, they can take some steps to help themselves but not all people take all, it can vary from person to person.  Anxiety and depression can happen to anyone whether you have disabilities and other health problems or not.

  It can be most common for people with disabilities and health problems to feel guilty more so because due to the things they can’t do; other people can make them feel helpless, useless and bad about their selves.  Sadly mostly people with disabilities and health problems can feel lower because of others talking more negative to them than other people. Why are we born in the first place if we are made to feel hopeless, useless and worthless? No human being wants someone else doing things for them all the while. No human being wants to be made to feel they are no good for anyone, no one and their selves this is where a lot of people will feel as if life isn’t worth living.

 For example I would feel low and bad about myself if I wasn’t working and I have had times in my life I have had nothing which has made me very down in myself. What makes me feel better is to help others who feel as down as I have been through vary stages of Depression; with and without a reason.

  Its turns out my last counsellor said I was suffering from Mental abuse from my ex partner who made feel as if everything was my fault yet he could never make up his mind what he wanted.  

How does your counselling work out for you?

I must admit I have not had a bad experience with counselling but there are lots of people who have.

 There's a big certain that one day but then may be not that the government may cut the funding on these counselling services.

 This may mean that the hospitals may have their work cut out as far as mental health problems are curtained for eg; Anxiety and Depression mainly for those who lose their benefits when the stress of benefit cuts plays on their mental health problems.

 This is one of the reasons why we should be trying harder to save the NHS. 

Due to my work I hadn’t got time to attend my next four counselling sessions so they sent me a feedback form.

 There’s not all a dark side to

Anxiety and Depression, most people have some kind of talent.

 Never Say health problems are all negative, there are famous and talented people with health problems even or and disabilities.

 Robin Williams sadly took his own life last year.

Strangely there are even a lot of comedy actors with Depression.

 I also wrote to my counsellor to say thank you because she was the one who made me aware I had been going through Mental abuse with my ex partner for 13 and a half years and for a fair few years after we split for good, which had played a  lot on my Anxiety and depression.

  The last counselling service I used to go had they are having changes in their funding for counselling.

                                                                 

  I had told my counsellor that I am a learning disability and mental health awareness trainer and I told her in the letter how much counselling is needed when there's a lot of people who suffer from disabilities and health problems and there's a lot of people vulnerable to abuse, rape and etc. 

  I have had times wishing I wasn't born I have had times when I have felt so down. Silly really because more than likely most times without a reason but I have been lucky to fight through but not many are.

 No one is perfect but no one can be blame for everything. Just because you see someone smile it doesn't always mean they are happy but life goes on.

  If we all went along with long faces twenty – four hours a day we would be misunderstood for completely negative people.

People who suffer from Anxiety and Depression are not negative people; we are strong and brave people.

Society is weak by not having any faith in us by trying to make us negative people.

   I’m sad on the inside but happy on the outside.

 The world must be completely sad if we were to show sadness all the while.

  Life is a fight with the mind to get through this life.

 Different people who have Anxiety and Depression are and not affected in different ways.

 Some sleep for too long, others don’t get enough sleep and others don’t sleep all, with many it can all vary.

  The same goes for confidence and self – esteem.

 Some people can’t bear to not to have anything to look forward like hobbies, interests and careers.

 This February was Mental Health Awareness Week.2015. This can affect different kinds of people different ways.

Anxiety and Depression is most common in today’s world with the cutbacks.

 People can suffer Anxiety and Depression whether they have other disabilities and health problems or not.

Today’s cost of living and low paid jobs.

  Crisis http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/our-
most people with Mental Health problems have Learning Disabilities linked to them. http://www.wcvb.com/health/14414700 https://uk.pinterest.co.uk

 Yet those patients who have lost their benefits can't get counselling cause there's not any work/mentalhealthawarenessweek/

More-chill everyone who has Mental Health problems have different ways of managing our Mental Health for example many people with Mental Health problems have talents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christy_Brown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Left_Foot http://talentdevelop.com/mntlhlth.html http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/feb/25/how-to-cope-with-mental-health-difficulties-at-university

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 Most people with disabilities and health problems do their best to help themselves as well such as hobbies for example such as writing, drawing, painting and etc.

My certain is how long it until the government make cuts on the counselling services to a point even people on benefits can access counselling?

 Even though Depression awareness was February, this government still finds a way of making people very depressed whether we have disabilities and other health problems or not.

  For a least the last six years, there have been more bad news on say people taking their own lives than any other bad news from people losing their benefit to losing their jobs.

  Depression meaning sadness is more painful to go through pain the stomach.

   We are all aware that Depression a Mental health problems like Anxiety and many others. I am raising awareness of Anxiety and Depression because GPs are not trained on Anxiety, Depression and other health problems.

 When I was working for Mencap, we raised awareness to the Gaps back in 2008 about people with disabilities and health problems having yearly health checks ups but not all GP surrey's do them.

  Even the surrey that do don't do full health checkups, this is a huge certain because many people with disabilities and health problems die under the age of 50 some cases are for example through neglect and oar and communication. There’s a huge certain that GPs are doing more hours than what they are trained for.

 As hard as it is let's not let the government beat us but then that doesn't make the people who we have lost through taking their own lives cowards because are still as brave as they are. It's just some of us can take more than others.

  Most people like me find that working helps them to manage their Anxiety and Depression.

·       It's a long battle to find and get to full time work so you can get off benefits and get support for full time work.

·       It’s finding the right full time work for each person and right support.

·       Everyone’s needs are different.

·       I also find that poetry, drawing and painting helps me as well.

 http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/pages/mental-health-helplines.aspx http://www.carenity.co.uk/signup/epilepsy?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=pub_epilepsy&utm_campaign=all_landing. For example Dementia which I don't know a lot about myself but I know it can happen to all kinds of people. http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=103
http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/dementia/resources/dementia-links.asp
http://www.improvinghealthandlives.org.uk/uploads/news/vid_19037_RA%20Dementia1908Final%20LD%20edit%20docxPHE-2013179.pdfhttps://www.facebook.com/search/str/Disability%2C%20health%20problems%20and%20dementia/keywords_top?ref=eyJzaWQiOiIwLjIyNzMwOTk4NTU1MTk4MzEyIiwicXMiOiJKVFZDSlRJeVJHbHpZV0pwYkdsMGVTVXlReVV5TUdobFlXeDBhQ1

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m/danielomichael/famous-people-with-mental-health-learning-disabili/ http://namivirginia.org/assets/pdfs/Famous%20People%20with%20Mental%20Illness%20Powerpoint%20Presentation.pdf http://gu.com/p/45qcv/fb
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/feb/13/childhood-abuse-growth-brain-emotions
https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/dog-care/top-tips-overcoming- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q9QfRVB6HAseparation-anxiety

just watch as much you because it does goes a bit but I’d be grateful if would listen to at least 1 case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyqLFDetqBc
http://kyledavies.net/event-registration/
http://www.itv.com/news/2015-03-28/mental-health-issues-affecting-

The most common thing that is making peoples' disabilities and health problems worse are the benefit cuts, which is causing many to have suicidal thoughts and many have taken their own lives.

·       When people have had their benefits cut there's no money for counselling for those who really need it.

·       With the cuts the government has made it's surprising there are some Counselling services open but for how long for, even for those who haven't lost their benefits

 The cuts and changes to the benefits.

·       There are a lot of changes and cuts to the benefits in Britain.

·       The stresses of the changes are too much for people with disabilities and health problems.

·       This can make people worry.

·       This can make people ill.

·       This can even cause death, if it gets far too much for people.

·       It is so wrong of the government to take money off people who need it most.

·       No one wishes anyone to be homeless but people with disabilities find it hard to look after ourselves more than other people.

·       Back in 2011, I had got a letter off the Benefit office about my Incapacity benefit changing to Employment and Support Allowance.

·       The letter wasn't very clear to read.

·       There was far too much information for me to read and understand.

·       DWP shouldn’t send out unexpected letters or give people unexpected call, the Job centre staff make people aware of the changes face to face in the Job centre.

·       Days, months, years and time need to be made out clearer to when the Jobcentre wants us in to tell us about the benefit changes and so they can make other places they may have to be aware. 

  We could get a call or and letter any time to tell us our benefits have changed.

 It is hard to plan our support when we don't know when they are going to call.

  People are expected to work; they can't be expected to be sitting at home waiting for the Job Centre to call. 

 When something totally unexpected it can bring on a person's Anxiety and Depression so it's best for a person to know in plenty of notice even though that's not always possible.

 There's huge certain now with these cuts everywhere else that  more and more vulnerable people are in risk of having their benefits cut as the government is cutting the council's money. The worry is

 http://www.straitstimes.com/news/opinion/more-opinion-stories/story/my-friends-tragic-run-depression-20150313
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2015/03/21/suicide-isnt-painless/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/asda-knife-aisle-suicide-shopper-3285462#rlabs=2
http://ow.ly/KGu0Jhttp://www.buzzfeed.com/laurasilver/this-is-what-depression-really-looks-like

ttps://www.mencap.org.uk/news/article/further-benefit-cuts-will-evoke-fear-disabled-people

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coronation-street-actor-trevor-smith-5395327?ICID=FB_mirror_mainhttp://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/depression-isnt-what-you-think-it-is#.wwxPL46lM7

http://bit.ly/1Dvn4ru

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/anger-as-war-veteran-dies-with-no-apology-1-6695140

https://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2015/04/24/week-of-action-against-workfare-and-sanctions-begins-tomorrow-events-announced-so-far/

 How the cuts are affecting vulnerable people.

 Vulnerable people accessing friendships and relationships.

 Communication seems to be a big problem between vulnerable people and other people as a whole.

·       Despite of the communication barrier vulnerable people still have the rights to communicate with others the best way they can.

·       It’s important for vulnerable people to mix with other people otherwise they will lose self confidence.

·       Other people just need to make more effect to understand them.

About the cuts.

·       No one should be forced into situations that they don’t want to be in.

·       There again vulnerable people should have as much rights as other people.

·       Vulnerable people having to ask other people for support a lot.

·       Vulnerable people hate been seen as a centre of attention. 

·       Vulnerable people don't like been seen as hard work and costing a lot of money for others.

·       Vulnerable people don't like feeling as if we are blamed for the problems we have, we don’t like being made to feel guilty for the problems we have. 

·       Despite of the problems we have we should have the same rights as other people.

·       These cuts are making times go backwards instead of forwards. These cuts are likely to affect areas of life like.

·       Social events

·       Health

·       Education

·       Employment

·       Housing

·       not enough work

·       too much work

·       paying bills,

·       marriage

·       relationships

·       children

·    are/support in the home

  Epilepsy, Anxiety and Depression worry and stress can affect.

Epilepsy.This may not be epilepsy, if not what is it?

It may well be Anxiety panic attacks.
Why come back after twenty years?
Why haven't felt well for the last mouth? 
Headaches, shakes and the room moving round and round.
The tablets cure one thing and bring another thing on.
I feel shaky and tired. 
I am not looking forward to a brain scan, flashing lights and electric stick glue wires in my hair. 
It's like a big storm inside my head.
It causes your nerves to be bad mainly when you have waiting to see if you pass or fail. 2001 onwards.

The risk of post-traumatic seizures increases with severity of trauma (image at right) and is particularly elevated with certain types of brain trauma such as cerebral contusions or hematomas.^[22] As many as 50% of people with penetrating head injuries will develop seizures.^[20] People with early seizures, those occurring within a week of injury, have an increased risk of post-traumatic epilepsy (recurrent seizures occurring more than a week after the initial trauma).^[23] Generally, medical professionals use anticonvulsant medications to treat seizures in TBI patients within the first week of injury only 

Things need to change for the better in all issues.

 I use to be a Wolverhampton Learning disability MP for the People's Parliament with many other people with disabilities as Learning Disability MPs.

We don't have the job compliantly the same as the Houses of Parliament. We have only just started our plan is to look out for people with learning disabilities in what they need and want. We have the understanding because have learning disabilities ourselves. In the future we would like to talk people with disabilities to find out their needs and wants, and then tell the government.

   Like all people the government hasn't got any idea of people's needs and wants, they don't make their to find out than voting, then half the time you don't what you're voting for or what you want to vote for isn't there. It's hard to explain because it's so much jargon.

 By finding out in a face to face contact is better than this voting is too much jargon so we want won't do our job until people with disabilities tell us their wants and needs, by giving people choice and control with the right support.

 If you have learning disabilities or and Mental Health Problems please email me your Learning Disability MPs about your needs and want on anything at all. sarajgorman@gmail.com only with your say so I will write on your behave to the Houses of Parliament MPs to make them aware of what you need or and want, I will do my best to make sure you get it.

Now many people with disabilities learned very easy at school, we had to catch up when we left and enrol on the same kind of courses at the colleges for years without jobs at the end of it; a lot of people are saying that this is still going on now. There wasn't enough support, as a Learning Disability Mp I would like to see a lot of support in schools and colleges but Mencap but bought out a report saying a lot of courses for people with disabilities are cutting back.

At the moment the Learning Disabilities MPs are working on employment we want would if you have learning disabilities or and Mental Health Problems we would like to hear about stories and experiences on employment. With your so say you email me on sarajgorman@gmail.com you can tell me and I will tell the other MPs only if you want, I won't if you don't want me to tell. How can we thing good for you if they are bad? How can we make things better if they are good? We are here for you if you want us to help you.

If you did read the report on this website that I wrote in 2008 about employment, which I deleted a few days ago. I was disappointed to know that not a lot has changed for people with learning disabilities able to work since then. This is why I want to find out how many people with disabilities are working in Britain. I wrote this 2008 report to tell to my readers that I wrote an Employment play telling people in who work Employment services about our experiences of asking, getting employment and how we have been treated in the work placement.

 We were told the play was a success but we didn't a great of feedback. Someone with disabilities and his employer even did a talk; this employer seemed to be very happy with this person's.

 This shows when it comes to talents society loses out. People with disabilities have been disbelieved for the things we are good at for so long; it's time for non disabled people to see the good in people with disabilities. Many of us can paint, draw, write and etc as much as you so it's time to create new jobs for people with these talents and other abilities too.

Open the doors to the working learning disability world with the right support wherever it is. If you have disabilities and you want to make a start of a creative career, please get in touch with this website called Working parts if you live in the Midlands and Black Country. 
WWW.workingparts.co.uk

  They can feel sad with or without a reason when any time, any place and anywhere with and without a reason. Sometimes that sadness turns into anger with or without a reason, which is called Anxiety, they can make feel ashamed and guilty without needing to because they can feel as if everyone or a lot of people are against them. Where your job comes in to is to help them overcome them feeling guilty and ashamed. If people are depressed without a reason then tent to feel embarrassed, guilty, ashamed and even silly if they feel sad for no reason. A lot of other people tend to think that people shouldn’t be upset without a reason; this is where misunderstanding comes in. It’s not normal for people without depression to see sadness without a reason because it doesn’t happen to them but that is how depression affects most people with depression.

 Depression is a fight for a person every day, they can take some steps to help themselves but not all people take all, it can vary from person to person.  Anxiety and depression can happen to anyone whether you have disabilities and other health problems or not.

  It can be most common for people with disabilities and health problems to feel guilty more so because due to the things they can’t do; other people can make them feel helpless, useless and bad about their selves.  Sadly mostly people with disabilities and health problems can feel lower because of others talking more negative to them than other people. Why are we born in the first place if we are made to feel hopeless, useless and worthless? No human being wants someone else doing things for them all the while. No human being wants to be made to feel they are no good for anyone, no one and their selves this is where a lot of people will feel as if life isn’t worth living.

 For example I would feel low and bad about myself if I wasn’t working and I have had times in my life I have had nothing which has made me very down in myself. What makes me feel better is to help others who feel as down as I have been through vary stages of Depression; with and without a reason.

  Its turns out my last counsellor said I was suffering from Mental abuse from my ex partner who made feel as if everything was my fault yet he could never make up his mind what he wanted.  

How does your counselling work out for you?

I must admit I have not had a bad experience with counselling but there are lots of people who have.

 There's a big certain that one day but then may be not that the government may cut the funding on these counselling services.

 This may mean that the hospitals may have their work cut out as far as mental health problems are curtained for eg; Anxiety and Depression mainly for those who lose their benefits when the stress of benefit cuts plays on their mental health problems.

 This is one of the reasons why we should be trying harder to save the NHS. 

Due to my work I hadn’t got time to attend my next four counselling sessions so they sent me a feedback form.

 There’s not all a dark side to

Anxiety and Depression, most people have some kind of talent.

 Never Say health problems are all negative, there are famous and talented people with health problems even or and disabilities.

 Robin Williams sadly took his own life last year.

Strangely there are even a lot of comedy actors with Depression.

 I also wrote to my counsellor to say thank you because she was the one who made me aware I had been going through Mental abuse with my ex partner for 13 and a half years and for a fair few years after we split for good, which had played a  lot on my Anxiety and depression.

  The last counselling service I used to go had they are having changes in their funding for counselling.

                                                                 

  I had told my counsellor that I am a learning disability and mental health awareness trainer and I told her in the letter how much counselling is needed when there's a lot of people who suffer from disabilities and health problems and there's a lot of people vulnerable to abuse, rape and etc. 

  I have had times wishing I wasn't born I have had times when I have felt so down. Silly really because more than likely most times without a reason but I have been lucky to fight through but not many are.

 No one is perfect but no one can be blame for everything. Just because you see someone smile it doesn't always mean they are happy but life goes on.

  If we all went along with long faces twenty – four hours a day we would be misunderstood for completely negative people.

People who suffer from Anxiety and Depression are not negative people; we are strong and brave people.

Society is weak by not having any faith in us by trying to make us negative people.

   I’m sad on the inside but happy on the outside.

 The world must be completely sad if we were to show sadness all the while.

  Life is a fight with the mind to get through this life.

 Different people who have Anxiety and Depression are and not affected in different ways.

 Some sleep for too long, others don’t get enough sleep and others don’t sleep all, with many it can all vary.

  The same goes for confidence and self – esteem.

 Some people can’t bear to not to have anything to look forward like hobbies, interests and careers.

 This February was Mental Health Awareness Week.2015. This can affect different kinds of people different ways.

Anxiety and Depression is most common in today’s world with the cutbacks.

 People can suffer Anxiety and Depression whether they have other disabilities and health problems or not.

Today’s cost of living and low paid jobs.

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most people with Mental Health problems have Learning Disabilities linked to them. http://www.wcvb.com/health/14414700 https://uk.pinterest.co.uk

 Yet those patients who have lost their benefits can't get counselling cause there's not any work/mentalhealthawarenessweek/

More-chill everyone who has Mental Health problems have different ways of managing our Mental Health for example many people with Mental Health problems have talents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christy_Brown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Left_Foot http://talentdevelop.com/mntlhlth.html http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/feb/25/how-to-cope-with-mental-health-difficulties-at-university

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 Most people with disabilities and health problems do their best to help themselves as well such as hobbies for example such as writing, drawing, painting and etc.

My certain is how long it until the government make cuts on the counselling services to a point even people on benefits can access counselling?

 Even though Depression awareness was February, this government still finds a way of making people very depressed whether we have disabilities and other health problems or not.

  For a least the last six years, there have been more bad news on say people taking their own lives than any other bad news from people losing their benefit to losing their jobs.

  Depression meaning sadness is more painful to go through pain the stomach.

   We are all aware that Depression a Mental health problems like Anxiety and many others. I am raising awareness of Anxiety and Depression because GPs are not trained on Anxiety, Depression and other health problems.

 When I was working for Mencap, we raised awareness to the Gaps back in 2008 about people with disabilities and health problems having yearly health checks ups but not all GP surrey's do them.

  Even the surrey that do don't do full health checkups, this is a huge certain because many people with disabilities and health problems die under the age of 50 some cases are for example through neglect and oar and communication. There’s a huge certain that GPs are doing more hours than what they are trained for.

 As hard as it is let's not let the government beat us but then that doesn't make the people who we have lost through taking their own lives cowards because are still as brave as they are. It's just some of us can take more than others.

  Most people like me find that working helps them to manage their Anxiety and Depression.

·       It's a long battle to find and get to full time work so you can get off benefits and get support for full time work.

·       It’s finding the right full time work for each person and right support.

·       Everyone’s needs are different.

·       I also find that poetry, drawing and painting helps me as well.

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http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/dementia/resources/dementia-links.asp
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http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/feb/13/childhood-abuse-growth-brain-emotions
https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/dog-care/top-tips-overcoming- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q9QfRVB6HAseparation-anxiety

just watch as much you because it does goes a bit but I’d be grateful if would listen to at least 1 case.

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http://kyledavies.net/event-registration/
http://www.itv.com/news/2015-03-28/mental-health-issues-affecting-

The most common thing that is making peoples' disabilities and health problems worse are the benefit cuts, which is causing many to have suicidal thoughts and many have taken their own lives.

·       When people have had their benefits cut there's no money for counselling for those who really need it.

·       With the cuts the government has made it's surprising there are some Counselling services open but for how long for, even for those who haven't lost their benefits

 The cuts and changes to the benefits.

·       There are a lot of changes and cuts to the benefits in Britain.

·       The stresses of the changes are too much for people with disabilities and health problems.

·       This can make people worry.

·       This can make people ill.

·       This can even cause death, if it gets far too much for people.

·       It is so wrong of the government to take money off people who need it most.

·       No one wishes anyone to be homeless but people with disabilities find it hard to look after ourselves more than other people.

·       Back in 2011, I had got a letter off the Benefit office about my Incapacity benefit changing to Employment and Support Allowance.

·       The letter wasn't very clear to read.

·       There was far too much information for me to read and understand.

·       DWP shouldn’t send out unexpected letters or give people unexpected call, the Job centre staff make people aware of the changes face to face in the Job centre.

·       Days, months, years and time need to be made out clearer to when the Jobcentre wants us in to tell us about the benefit changes and so they can make other places they may have to be aware. 

  We could get a call or and letter any time to tell us our benefits have changed.

 It is hard to plan our support when we don't know when they are going to call.

  People are expected to work; they can't be expected to be sitting at home waiting for the Job Centre to call. 

 When something totally unexpected it can bring on a person's Anxiety and Depression so it's best for a person to know in plenty of notice even though that's not always possible.

 There's huge certain now with these cuts everywhere else that  more and more vulnerable people are in risk of having their benefits cut as the government is cutting the council's money. The worry is

 http://www.straitstimes.com/news/opinion/more-opinion-stories/story/my-friends-tragic-run-depression-20150313
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2015/03/21/suicide-isnt-painless/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/asda-knife-aisle-suicide-shopper-3285462#rlabs=2
http://ow.ly/KGu0Jhttp://www.buzzfeed.com/laurasilver/this-is-what-depression-really-looks-like

ttps://www.mencap.org.uk/news/article/further-benefit-cuts-will-evoke-fear-disabled-people

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coronation-street-actor-trevor-smith-5395327?ICID=FB_mirror_mainhttp://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/depression-isnt-what-you-think-it-is#.wwxPL46lM7

http://bit.ly/1Dvn4ru

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/anger-as-war-veteran-dies-with-no-apology-1-6695140

https://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2015/04/24/week-of-action-against-workfare-and-sanctions-begins-tomorrow-events-announced-so-far/

 How the cuts are affecting vulnerable people.

 Vulnerable people accessing friendships and relationships.

 Communication seems to be a big problem between vulnerable people and other people as a whole.

·       Despite of the communication barrier vulnerable people still have the rights to communicate with others the best way they can.

·       It’s important for vulnerable people to mix with other people otherwise they will lose self confidence.

·       Other people just need to make more effect to understand them.

About the cuts.

·       No one should be forced into situations that they don’t want to be in.

·       There again vulnerable people should have as much rights as other people.

·       Vulnerable people having to ask other people for support a lot.

·       Vulnerable people hate been seen as a centre of attention. 

·       Vulnerable people don't like been seen as hard work and costing a lot of money for others.

·       Vulnerable people don't like feeling as if we are blamed for the problems we have, we don’t like being made to feel guilty for the problems we have. 

·       Despite of the problems we have we should have the same rights as other people.

·       These cuts are making times go backwards instead of forwards. These cuts are likely to affect areas of life like.

·       Social events

·       Health

·       Education

·       Employment

·       Housing

·       not enough work

·       too much work

·       paying bills,

·       marriage

·       relationships

·       children

·    are/support in the home

  Epilepsy, Anxiety and Depression worry and stress can affect.

Epilepsy.This may not be epilepsy, if not what is it?

It may well be Anxiety panic attacks.
Why come back after twenty years?
Why haven't felt well for the last mouth? 
Headaches, shakes and the room moving round and round.
The tablets cure one thing and bring another thing on.
I feel shaky and tired. 
I am not looking forward to a brain scan, flashing lights and electric stick glue wires in my hair. 
It's like a big storm inside my head.
It causes your nerves to be bad mainly when you have waiting to see if you pass or fail. 2001 onwards.

The risk of post-traumatic seizures increases with severity of trauma (image at right) and is particularly elevated with certain types of brain trauma such as cerebral contusions or hematomas.^[22] As many as 50% of people with penetrating head injuries will develop seizures.^[20] People with early seizures, those occurring within a week of injury, have an increased risk of post-traumatic epilepsy (recurrent seizures occurring more than a week after the initial trauma).^[23] Generally, medical professionals use anticonvulsant medications to treat seizures in TBI patients within the first week of injury only .

Emotional and behavioural problems [edit]

TBI may cause emotional or behavioural problems and changes in personality.^[15] Emotional symptoms that can follow TBI include emotional instability, depression, anxiety, hypomania, mania, apathy, irritability, and anger.^[9] TBI appears to predispose a person to psychiatric disorders including obsessive compulsive disorder, alcohol or substance abuse or substance dependence, dysthymia,clinical depression, bipolar disorder, phobias, panic disorder, and schizophrenia.^[16] About one quarter of people with TBI suffer from clinical depression, and about 9% suffer mania.^[17] The prevalence of all psychiatric illnesses is 49% in moderate to severe TBI and 34% in mild TBI within a year of injury, compared with 18% of controls.^[18] People with TBI continue to be at greater risk for psychiatric problems than others even years after an injury.^[18] Problems that may persist for up to two years after the injury include irritability, suicidal, insomnia, and loss of the ability to experience pleasure from previously enjoyable experiences.^[17]

Behavioural symptoms that can follow TBI include disinhibition, inability to control anger, impulsiveness, and lack of initiative, inappropriate sexual activity, and changes in personality.^[9] Different behavioural problems are characteristic of the location of injury; for instance, frontal injuries often result in disinhibition and inappropriate or childish behaviour, and temporal lobe injuries often cause irritability and aggression.^[19]

 UNDERSTANDING ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION.

·       Anxiety and depression can be linked to learning disabilities.

·       Most of us feel frightened our muscles can tense up whether we have a reason to do so or not.

·       Most of us can think we fail in everything but we don’t.

·        We can feel nervous for example when are about to take an exam or even have an interview for a job.

·       Most of us find it hard to believe in ourselves and many of us find it hard to we will get the support we need in whatever we need it for.

·       Some of us find it hard to believe that employers will take us on many of us believe that employers will sack us.

·       Anxiety and depression has its good days and bad.

·       When things get really bad many of us feel as if life is not worth living therefore it can cause us to have thoughts of taking our own lives.

·       Depression is a feeling of sadness whether there’s a reason to be or not like Anxiety is a feeling of anger whether there’s a reason to be or not.

·       When you have those feelings you have a fear of society thinking you have gone so mad, that they think you need to be locked up.

·       Anxiety and depression is also a fear of everything being your fault. Yes I know it may not be as bad as it seems but if you haven’t got these health problems you don’t understand.

·       There’s no need to see the world as black and white.

·       We are not completely sad and angrily people.

·       We have our good and bad days just like you do.

·       Some of us can manage our own health problems, others need help to do so and others can be bothered.

·       Others live in fear of what society thinks because Mental Health can be so misunderstood.

·       Some people find it hard to have trust in the system. Mainly when it comes to the cutbacks British is having, you may be shocked to find how many people may be suffering on their own.

·       A lot of people with Mental Health problems get frightened and they fear things.

·       Making people aware help is out there but not forcing help.

·       This may not make sense to people who don’t have Mental Health problems but we shouldn't be made to feel ashamed and guilty, mainly those of us who try to help ourselves.

·       Many of us may appear alright to you if you see smiles on our faces but what we feel inside can be very different.

·       This can be because we don’t want to be hard work to anyone and that we want to help ourselves.

·       Hiding the sadness and anger can be the easiest way we can manage our health problems.

·       Yes I know that there are some that can’t be bothered to help themselves.

·       There are different forms of Anxiety and depression which affects different people in different ways from minor to major.

·       Some people mainly when they have got other health problems and disabilities a lot of medications can make them worse than what they are mainly when they are on too many.

·       A lot of side effect can bring on other health problems.

·       Another way some people with Mental Health problems manage their illnesses or and conditions is by expressing talents that many can have like poetry, short stories, drawings and paintings for example.

·       By managing their lives like that is better than committing crimes but not everyone manages that way.

·       They either find other ways or nothing at all. For most people, they may become a victim of crime, commit crimes or even both.

·       Some people are danger to themselves, to others or both.

·       If that happens either they are in fear of what people think of them or they just can’t be bothered to manage their health problem and get help.

·       Some people are even aware they have these problems but other people notice they are there.

·       Most of us don’t like crowds and queues, which give us a sheer of panic then we have to find a clear space to calm ourselves down.

·       Most of us will avoid packed places.

·       Some of us have fear of forgetting even if we getting everything together, then we are checking our bags halfway down the road for example.

·       It’s hard to know how we get through day after day.

·       Many of us get upset very easily over negative situations whether it’s for example a death of a people we know relationship break ups, failed an exam or turned down by a job.

·       We understand that these things happen but it takes us longer to come to terms with than other people we never do.

·       Many people find it hard to put certain things that have happened in their past behind them.

·       Some it may take a long time to put behind them and others never get over whatever it is. Some people even can have nightmares, flashback or both for years or even for life.

·       All my life I have tried to mange my Anxiety and depression the best way I can without realising I have those health problems to start with.

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Some people have anxiety, depression and epilepsy, which can link together.

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If people get stressed very easily suffer Panic attacks it can bring epilepsy but it doesn't affect everyone the same.

·       I am an Advocacy work, Learning Disability and Mental Health Awareness trainer.

·       About panic attacks.

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Change can be a big thing for a lot of people with Autism.
People can have these conditions whether they have disabilities or not.

·       Health problems can link to disabilities or be without disabilities.

·       Anxiety and depression is bad for enough anyone.
New things which are changes whether it's good or bad can make people nervous.

·       When some people get nervous they can have Panic attacks but Panic attacks can be brought by other things like for example; stress other reasons or no reason at all like depression.  

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 Change can be a big thing for of people whether they are nervous about something or someone.

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Whatever is going on in peoples' lives and minds some people can't sleep for thinking all the while others sleep all the while to avoid the situations whether it's a good bad change in their lives?

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Some people can find it hard to contrite on other things they only cope with one thing at a time.
Some people may worry more than they should, which is part of their condition what seems a mole hill to you feels like a mountain to them.

·       You just need to be patient until the person realises that things may not be as bad to what it seems to them.

·       Everyone suffers from Anxiety and depression one way or another.

Sadly there's not enough said about stress I think we need to raise Stress awareness for everyone, that includes people with LD and Health problems.

Some people don't know that some people suffer LD and Health problems together, that's what I have otherwise I wouldn't have known that.

Anxiety and depression are forms of stress in every ones' lives.

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It's very hard to make a balance to keep healthily and happy.

This can be why a lot of people can turn to smoking, drugs and etc.

When you have learning disabilities there can be a lack of support off society because we are slow and find it harder to cope with our lives than other people yet we are easier ill than other people.

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Stress, Depression and Anxiety can last short term or for life.

If you think about it we can all suffer stress one way or another?

It's so easy to worry about things that you didn't need to but with some things you. We are right doing so.

If you would like to have more understanding with what’s on the Mind.

·       A lot of people say Mental Health is just in the mind.

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Save it in your favourites or Bookmarks. 

·       Whatever Health problems and disabilities are we have enough stress with that on its own.

We understand for eg; that we have to pay our bills like everyone else but with the problems we have already, we have double stress.

You feel tense.

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You panic and worry about things that aren't as bad as they seem.

You feel as if the world is controlling you.

I panic when I walk into services, load of people give me different answers to one question.

For eg; is this benefit right for me?

For eg; is this benefit right for me?

I can't cope with too much jargon and too much information.

To be truthful the answer is either yes or no not both.

Managers need to inform all staff on what the rules are otherwise it confuses people.

Sometimes crowds can panic me where there are too many people around me.

I am a bit better than I used to be.

It can depend where I am and how many people there are.


When I really worry about things, it causes me to have Petite Mal fits.

I am easy misunderstood mainly when I am accessing services, when information doesn't seem straight forward to me.

I always have to have things going on in my life; otherwise I get very angry, depressed and bored.
My Gran died in 2007 and my last relationship broke down for the last time.

If it hadn't of been for Employment Pathways getting me on to Mencap, I don't know how I would have coped with my life now.

The first longest my relationship broke up at the end of 1996, which was two and a half years.

Now when I think about it wasn't that long yet after been apart 4 years, I gave him a second chance that lasted seven years.

Now there's no going back.

I couldn't stand sitting in the house alone but I wasn't in the mood to talk to people either. http://www.straitstimes.com/news/opinion/more-opinion-stories/story/my-friends-tragic-run-depression-20150313
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2015/03/21/suicide-isnt-painless/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/asda-knife-aisle-suicide-shopper-3285462#rlabs=2
http://ow.ly/KGu0Jhttp://www.buzzfeed.com/laurasilver/this-is-what-depression-really-looks-like

ttps://www.mencap.org.uk/news/article/further-benefit-cuts-will-evoke-fear-disabled-people

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coronation-street-actor-trevor-smith-5395327?ICID=FB_mirror_mainhttp://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/depression-isnt-what-you-think-it-is#.wwxPL46lM7

http://bit.ly/1Dvn4ru

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/anger-as-war-veteran-dies-with-no-apology-1-6695140

https://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2015/04/24/week-of-action-against-workfare-and-sanctions-begins-tomorrow-events-announced-so-far/

 How the cuts are affecting vulnerable people.

 Vulnerable people accessing friendships and relationships.

 It's important to vulnerable people to access friendships and relationships as much as it is for other people.

Communication seems to be a big problem between vulnerable people and other people as a whole. Despite of the communication barrier vulnerable people have that doesn't mean we shouldn't have the same rights as other people. That is to mix with other people and those same if not much different to us. Other people just need to learn to communicate and get along with us. 

About the cuts.

No one should be forced into situations that they don’t want to be in. There again vulnerable people should have as much rights as other people. Vulnerable people having to ask other people for support a lot.  Vulnerable people hate been seen as a centre of attention. Vulnerable people don't like been seen as hard work and costing a lot of money for others. Vulnerable people don't like feeling as if we are blamed for the problems we have, we don’t like being made to feel guilty for the problems we have. Despite of the problems we have we should have the same rights as other people. These cuts are making times go backwards instead of forwards. These cuts are likely to affect areas of life like.

·       Social events

·       Health

·       Education

·       Employment

·       Housing

·       Care/support in the home

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  Epilepsy, Anxiety and Depression worry and stress can affect.

Epilepsy.This may not be epilepsy, if not what is it?

It may well be Anxiety panic attacks.
Why come back after twenty years?
Why haven't felt well for the last mouth?
Headaches, shakes and the room moving round and round.
The tablets cure one thing and bring another thing on.
I feel shaky and tired.
I am not looking forward to a brain scan, flashing lights and electric stick glue wires in my hair.
It's like a big storm inside my head.
It causes your nerves to be bad mainly when you have waiting to see if you pass or fail. 2001 onwards.

The risk of post-traumatic seizures increases with severity of trauma (image at right) and is particularly elevated with certain types of brain trauma such as cerebral contusions or hematomas.^[22] As many as 50% of people with penetrating head injuries will develop seizures.^[20] People with early seizures, those occurring within a week of injury, have an increased risk of post-traumatic epilepsy (recurrent seizures occurring more than a week after the initial trauma).^[23] Generally, medical professionals use anticonvulsant medications to treat seizures in TBI patients within the first week of injury only ^[24] and after that only if the seizures persist.

 Emotional and behavioural problems [edit]

TBI may cause emotional or behavioural problems and changes in personality.^[15] Emotional symptoms that can follow TBI include emotional instability, depression, anxiety, hypomania, mania, apathy, irritability, and anger.^[9] TBI appears to predispose a person to psychiatric disorders including obsessive compulsive disorder, alcohol or substance abuse or substance dependence, dysthymia,clinical depression, bipolar disorder, phobias, panic disorder, and schizophrenia.^[16] About one quarter of people with TBI suffer from clinical depression, and about 9% suffer mania.^[17] The prevalence of all psychiatric illnesses is 49% in moderate to severe TBI and 34% in mild TBI within a year of injury, compared with 18% of controls.^[18] People with TBI continue to be at greater risk for psychiatric problems than others even years after an injury.^[18] Problems that may persist for up to two years after the injury include irritability, suicidal, insomnia, and loss of the ability to experience pleasure from previously enjoyable experiences.^[17]

Behavioural symptoms that can follow TBI include disinhibition, inability to control anger, impulsiveness, and lack of initiative, inappropriate sexual activity, and changes in personality.^[9] Different behavioural problems are characteristic of the location of injury; for instance, frontal injuries often result in disinhibition and inappropriate or childish behaviour, and temporal lobe injuries often cause irritability and aggression.^[19]

 UNDERSTANDING ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION.

Anxiety and depression can be linked to learning disabilities.

Most of us feel frightened our muscles can tense up whether we have a reason to do so or not.

Most of us can think we fail in everything but we don’t. We can feel nervous for example when are about to take an exam or even have an interview for a job.

Most of us find it hard to believe in ourselves and many of us find it hard to we will get the support we need in whatever we need it for.

Some of us find it hard to believe that employers will take us on many of us believe that employers will sack us.

Anxiety and depression has its good days and bad.

When things get really bad many of us feel as if life is not worth living therefore it can cause us to have thoughts of taking our own lives.

Depression is a feeling of sadness whether there’s a reason to be or not like Anxiety is a feeling of anger whether there’s a reason to be or not.  When you have those feelings you have a fear of society thinking you have gone so mad, that they think you need to be locked up. Anxiety and depression is also a fear of everything being your fault. Yes I know it may not be as bad as it seems but if you haven’t got these health problems you don’t understand.

There’s no need to see the world as black and white. We are not completely sad and angrily people. We have our good and bad days just like you do. Some of us can manage our own health problems, others need help to do so and others can be bothered.

Others live in fear of what society thinks because Mental Health can be so misunderstood. Some people find it hard to have trust in the system. Mainly when it comes to the cutbacks British is having, you may be shocked to find how many people may be suffering on their own. A lot of people with Mental Health problems get frightened and they fear things. Making people aware help is out there but not forcing help.

This may not make sense to people who don’t have Mental Health problems but we shouldn't be made to feel ashamed and guilty, mainly those of us who try to help ourselves.  Many of us may appear alright to you if you see smiles on our faces but what we feel inside can be very different. This can be because we don’t want to be hard work to anyone and that we want to help ourselves. Hiding the sadness and anger can be the easiest way we can manage our health problems. Yes I know that there are some that can’t be bothered to help themselves.

There are different forms of Anxiety and depression which affects different people in different ways from minor to major. Some people mainly when they have got other health problems and disabilities a lot of medications can make them worse than what they are mainly when they are on too many. A lot of side effect can bring on other health problems.

Another way some people with Mental Health problems manage their illnesses or and conditions is by expressing talents that many can have like poetry, short stories, drawings and paintings for example. By managing their lives like that is better than committing crimes but not everyone manages that way. They either find other ways or nothing at all. For most people, they may become a victim of crime, commit crimes or even both. Some people are danger to themselves, to others or both.

 If that happens either they are in fear of what people think of them or they just can't be bothered to manage their health problem and get help. Some people are even aware they have these problems but other people notice they are there.

Most of us don’t like crowds and queues, which give us a sheer of panic then we have to find a clear space to calm ourselves down.

Most of us will avoid packed places.

Some of us have fear of forgetting even if we getting everything together, then we are checking our bags halfway down the road for example.

It’s hard to know how we get through day after day.

Many of us get upset very easily over negative situations whether it’s for example a death of a people we know relationship break ups, failed an exam or turned down by a job. We understand that these things happen but it takes us longer to come to terms with than other people we never do. Many people find it hard to put certain things that have happened in their past behind them. Some it may take a long time to put behind them and others never get over whatever it is. Some people even can have nightmares, flashback or both for years or even for life.

·       All my life I have tried to mange my Anxiety and depression the best way I can without realising I have those health problems to start with.

·       My Anxiety and Depression work both ways to a point I can’t manage my life without having something going onto a point I have lost interest in things that I am normally interested in.

·       I love writing short stories and poetry. I even knit and read once in a while.

·       
Some people have anxiety, depression and epilepsy, which can link together.
If people get stressed very easily suffer Panic attacks it can bring epilepsy but it doesn't affect everyone the same.

·       I am an Advocacy work, Learning Disability and Mental Health Awareness trainer.

Change can be a big thing for a lot of people with Autism.
People can have these conditions whether they have disabilities or not.

·       Health problems can link to disabilities or be without disabilities.

·       Anxiety and depression is bad for enough anyone.
New things which are changes whether it's good or bad can make people nervous.

·       When some people get nervous they can have Panic attacks but Panic attacks can be brought by other things like for example; stress other reasons or no reason at all like depression.  

·       
 Change can be a big thing for of people whether they are nervous about something or someone.
Whatever is going on in peoples' lives and minds some people can't sleep for thinking all the while others sleep all the while to avoid the situations whether it's a good bad change in their lives?
Some people can find it hard to contrite on other things they only cope with one thing at a time.
Some people may worry more than they should, which is part of their condition what seems a mole hill to you feels like a mountain to them.

·       You just need to be patient until the person realises that things may not be as bad to what it seems to them.

·       Everyone suffers from Anxiety and depression one way or another.

Sadly there's not enough said about stress I think we need to raise Stress awareness for everyone, that includes people with LD and Health problems.

Some people don't know that some people suffer LD and Health problems together, that's what I have otherwise I wouldn't have known that.

Anxiety and depression are forms of stress in every ones' lives.

Many things can get on top of people, paying bills, not enough work, too much work, marriage, relationships, children and even loneliness.

It's very hard to make a balance to keep healthily and happy.

This can be why a lot of people can turn to smoking, drugs and etc.

When you have learning disabilities there can be a lack of support off society because we are slow and find it harder to cope with our lives than other people yet we are easier ill than other people.

 When I really worry about things, it causes me to have Petite Mal fits.

I am easy misunderstood mainly when I am accessing services, when information doesn't seem straight forward to me.

I always have to have things going on in my life; otherwise I get very angry, depressed and bored.
My Gran died in 2007 and my last relationship broke down for the last time.

If it hadn't of been for Employment Pathways getting me on to Mencap, I don't know how I would have coped with my life now.

The first longest my relationship broke up at the end of 1996, which was two and a half years.

Now when I think about it wasn't that long yet after been apart 4 years, I gave him a second chance that lasted seven years.

Now there's no going back.

I couldn't stand sitting in the house alone but I wasn't in the mood to talk to people either.

I just used watch the world go by.

At that point I used to drink very heavy, which lasted six to twelve mouths.

I then worked it that couldn't go on like this forever yet I was still having a break down and even feeling as if I wanted to end my life.

Never the less I cut the drinking down and I started writing poetry to get things off my chest.

Update on Anxiety, Depression, Stress, panic, Attacks ADHD, Epilepsy.

·       All these mental health problems can get confused because they aren't much different to one another.

·        I guess I could have either one to all of those as I have suffered from either one to all for forty-four years now, which is from birth.

·       Through the side effects of my medication Phenobarbitone I was put on as a baby and child, which caused me to be moody and hyperactive.

·        The moods could come on any time due to the fact I found it hard to sleep at night I was overtired.

·         Yet strangely the day time I was dreamy, in a world of my own and unaware of the world around me.

·        For example even at the age of twelve I was a danger hazard to cross the road.

·       I couldn’t pay attention in my school work. I was always classed as thick, lazy and told I’d never get along in life.

·       I think at that point of my life I was suffering from ADHD. 

·       I left school believing I wouldn't get anywhere in life.

·       I left school believing at first I wouldn't get anywhere in life but then I was happy to leave school.

·       Near enough every school I went to I faced bullying, rape and sexual abuse from a lot of children in the schools.

·        From after I left school twenty – seven years ago I have proved myself wrong by achieving the things I have said I have achieved like the exams I have passed  in college, the awareness of learning disability and mental health awareness, Advocacy, short stories and poetry which is all on my website sararevealed.blogspot.com/ email sarajgorman@gmail.com.

·       Never the less these health problems are not much different to one another.

·        Anxiety is a feeling of anger, panic and fear whether a person has a reason to feel that way or not.

·        Depression is a feeling of sadness whether a person has a reason to feel sad or not. Epilepsy and panic attacks are not that much different to one another either.

·        Worry is connected to stress which is anxiety when a person gets upset easily.  Can all those health problems be linked or and even be misunderstood?  

 How can these health problems be not much different to one another?

·       A fit and a panic attack are both to do with the nervous system, which people can very easily confuse one with the other.

·       This can also be confusing for the person who is facing the fit, panic attacks or even both. For example what I have faced.

·       Headaches

·       Dizziness

·       Choking or even a sense of choking, it’s a feeling as if someone has got their hands round my neck.

·       Electric shocks, pins and needles through my spine arms and legs.

·       Shaking

·       Going hot and cold

·       Fully aware of what’s going on.

·       This is an example of how all these things can get confused with one another.

Anxiety.  A sense of panic, fear and or anger whether there’s a reason or not. Like all health problems it can depend on how we manage the health problems.

·       Those of us like me who have had these health problems manage them in a different way than what we did to start off with.

·       As it’s possible I may have had ADHD as a child it could be possible it could be a major form of Anxiety.

·       Most children pull a screaming and kicking temper paddies in town for example at times but it can depend on how often.

·       If this happens to your child a lot and I mean a lot then they may need to get checked and diagnosed.

·       Something may be happening your child may not be able to explain also they may be in fear that you may not understand. May be they don’t know themselves, which can be very frustrating this can alsobe fearful and scary whether there’s a reason to be or not.

·       ADHD can be some form of Autism as well.

·       A mild form Anxiety can be the same as major fearing things are worse than what they are but can be in different ways. 

·       For example different people you different thing on one thing a person may want to know so that person may get easily get confused.

·       Most people may get upset easily upset caused by negative situations such as a death of people they know or they may a relationship break up which we all have to face but we all get affected in different ways.

·       Some people come to terms with these things quicker than others but people with health problems and disabilities mostly tend to be more sensitive and tend to be slower to come to term with these kinds of issues.

·       Some people can be also nervous of exams and even taking their driving test for example. This can depend on how often a person is nervous and may be depending what situations they are nervous of. People can get nervous over negative and positive things which can be a sense a fear, excitement and exams for eg;

·       Some people have fears of forgetting things mainly when it comes to important things.

·        Even if you have got things ready before hand you want to make. You fear just in case you forget something important.

·        In fact people who suffer from Anxiety are likely to forget less time than people who don’t have Anxiety cause we are always worrying about forgetting. In fact what we have to remember is always on our minds until whatever event is over.

·        You are saying to yourself, have I remembered it when you get there where you are going and whatever you need whatever for.

·       Anger is part of Anxiety.

·       Anger is a feeling you get whether there’s a reason or not. It can be a feeling of anger, worry, stress and tension yet all of those things can just happen.

·       This is because those things are linked to Anxiety.

·       This is where we need exercises to loosen our muscles up but this may not work for all of us.

·       It’s possible that all these words like anger, worry, stress and tension get confused easy because there’s not much difference between the meanings of the words.

·       When we face these feelings it tends to feel the same feeling. These feelings don’t need a reason to happen.

 Depression.  It’s the same with depression a feeling of sadness that comes on whether there’s a reason to be sad or not.

  It’s hard to know whether these health problems are illnesses or conditions, I don’t anyone knows for such.

One always says that’s it best to keep the mind and body busy but that works for some people not for others.

Many people tell people who suffer from Anxiety and depression that it’s all in the mind.

In my case I can go from losing interest in what I am normally interested in to climbing the walls when I have nothing going on in my life.

  I can feel angrily, sad, down, stressed, depressed, worried and etc for a reason and no reason at all.

 I have so many thoughts in my head I very rarely talk about or I don’t talk about them at all such as feeling as if life isn't worth life.

  I try very hard to fight those thoughts, which isn’t easy.

  It could be for the silliest reasons or yet again no reason at all.

  Professions advice this that and the other but these things are there to try.

 What works for one person doesn’t for the other.

 That could mean exercises, diet and many things that may keep the mind and body busy.

 Like for example for me and for those of you who have read my website will know my poetry helps my Anxiety and Depression in the sense of anger and sadness, when comes to relationship break ups for example or someone who I know who has died.

·       The slightest little negative thing for most people can bring on person Anxiety, depression or and even cause them to have fits.

·       It’s surprising how many people who are sensitive to stress even though no one can avoid stress and negative things going on in their lives.  

·       Sadly there aren't any straight answers to whether it’s possible to have Anxiety, Epilepsy or even both. Every website you go on will take you something different. Not even the doctors know for sure and may be not even the hospitals.

·       Many people say people who have fits are out cold and not aware of what’s going on around them but some say not necessary yet people can face synonyms that are not much different to panics attacks, such as headaches, dizziness, shaking, pin and needles electric shocks, choking or even a feeling of choking.

·       (May be not being able to breathe). 

·       Epilepsy, anxiety, and depression are all common disorders. It is therefore not surprising that the conditions are hard to understand because there’s not much difference between the one another.

·       https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1603382066545036&set=gm.1557599871185769&type=1

 Patients with epilepsy and anxiety disorders. Diagnosis and treatment].

Source

·       Department des Neurosciences, Centre Hospitalise de Luxembourg. beyenburg.stefan@chl.lu

Abstract

·       Up to 50-60% of patients with epilepsy may develop psychiatric complications, in particular depression, anxiety, and psychotic disorders.

·       Although this co morbidity has received a great deal of attention in recent years, the anxiety spectrum of psychiatric disturbances in epilepsy patients has not been extensively studied, although this co morbidity has a significant effect on the medical management and quality of life. The aetiology is multifactorial, including neurobiological and shared path physiological mechanisms as well as psychosocial and iatrogenic factors (e.g., influence of antiepileptic drugs, epilepsy surgery).

·        Despite the high prevalence of co morbid anxiety in epilepsy, very little is known about optimal treatment strategies.

·       This article reviews the complex inter relationships between anxiety disorders and epilepsy from a clinical point of view.

·       The evaluation of anxiety relative to actual, peri-ictal, and poetical states is described, and medical treatment options for anxiety disorders in patients with epilepsy are discussed, illustrating that their treatment extends far beyond seizure control.

 What are Learning Disability and Mental Health problems?

·       Learning disabilities are caused by the way the brain develops.

Here are some forms of disabilities.

·       People with profound disabilities need a lot of help with their daily lives.

·       They find it hard to communicate.

·       People with Severe disabilities need help with daily lives.

Some people may have physical disabilities and find it hard to communicate.

·       People with Moderate disabilities mostly need a small amount of help. They mostly need help in social and emotional issues.

  

Causes of Learning Disability and Mental Health.

·       The causes of learning disability and mental health can happen before, during and after a child is both.

·       Things can happen to the Central system.

·       The brain and Spinal cord.

·       Gene is chemicals in the bodies that contain information about us like we look.

·       Many say that not all disabilities and health problems run in the family.

·       A child can be born lack of oxygen during birth or too early.

 Learning disabilities and mental Health affects the body and mind.

·       People with Mild learning disabilities need a small amount or no help.

·       People with disabilities and health problems find it hard to be believed and understood.

·       Most people don't understand disabilities and health problems.

·       We would like to help you to understand learning disabilities and mental health.

There are different disabilities and mental health problems.

·       For eg; hidden disabilities are mostly misunderstood because no one can see peoples' disabilities or and mental health problems.

·       When people can walk and talk it's too easy to think they can learn as quickly as you.

·       Accept anything off anyone, never think that they can learn has quickly as you just because they can walk and talk.

·       Never think they can cope with their lives like you just because they can walk and talk.

·       Many peoples' disabilities and health problems haven't been diagnosed because they have lived with it for so long.

·       For eg; if you are 40 or over it's hard get diagnosed because they didn't diagnosed in the past.

·       The best time to get diagnosed is a baby or child so people get an understanding of their disabilities and health problems from day one.

·       People who have their disabilities and health problems after birth should get diagnosed as soon as possible the same as people who have disabilities before and after birth.

·       Asperser Syndrome is a mild form of Autism for eg; of a hidden disability linked with other disabilities such as Dyspraxia, Dyslexia, Epilepsy, Anxiety, Depression and ADHD.

Most disabilities and health problems affect the way people communicate.

·       There are different disabilities and different health problems.

·       Disabilities and health problems affect different people in different ways.

·       Expect anything from disabilities and health problems.

·       For eg; not everyone with the same disability and health problem needs the same help.

·       Disabilities and health problems affect the brain, body or and both.

·       Society sees people with disabilities and health problems as a Health and Safety hazard.

·       We can't work or think as fast as other people.

·       People with disabilities and health problems are good and not good at different things just like you.

·       We are mostly seen for the things that we can't do rather than what we can do.

·       We achieve our goals quicker if we are given the right support.

·       Britain has very little money now; the help for people with disabilities and health problems is getting very little because of the cuts the governments are making.

Please learn more about learning disability and mental health  
 ·       on this website sararevealed.blogspot.com/ WWW.mencap.org.uk WWW.rethink.org and WWW.mind.org.uk   https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152779904689403&set=a.10151162503564403.462446.673079402&type=1

My email sarajgorman@gmail.com

Understanding Anxiety and Depression.

·       Anxiety and depression is very hard to understand if you don't face it yourself. Anxiety is when life seems harder than it is.

·       Anxiety can be a fear of things going on when they are not.

·       A person could be worrying more than they should.

·       Even though they may be right, they need to be you to understand why you worry like you do.

·       The world seems big when it is small.

·       As mad as it sounds to you a person may feel lonely even when they are not.

·       It seems hard to believe when people tell you have nothing to worry about or not that much to worry about.

·       Anxiety and depression can be linked into learning disability.

·       Anxiety and depression is bad for enough anyone.

·       Everyone suffers from Anxiety and depression one way or another.

·       Sadly there's not enough said about stress I think we need to raise Stress awareness for everyone, that includes people with LD and Health problems.

·       Some people don't know that some people stuffier Learning disability and Health problems together, that's what I have otherwise, I wouldn't have known that.

·       Anxiety and depression are forms of stress in every ones' lives.

·       Many things can get on top of people, paying bills, not enough work, too much work, marriage, relationships, children and even loneliness.

·       It's very hard to make a balance to keep healthy and happy.

·       This can be why a lot of people can turn to smoking, drugs and etc.

·       When you have learning disabilities there can be a lack of support off society because we are slow and find it harder to cope with our lives than other people yet we are easier ill than other people.

·       Stress, Depression and Anxiety can last short term or for life.

·       If you think about it we can all stuffier stress one way or another.

·       Anxiety and depression is linked into my learning disability.

·       Anxiety and depression is bad for enough anyone.

·       Everyone suffers from Anxiety and depression one way or another.

·       Sadly there's not enough said about stress I think we need to raise Stress awareness for everyone, that includes people with LD and Health problems.

·       Some people don't know that some people stuffier LD and Health problems together, that's what I have otherwise, I wouldn't have known that.

·       Anxiety and depression are forms of stress in every ones' lives.

·       It's very hard to make a balance to keep healthily and happy.

·       This can be why a lot of people can turn to smoking, drugs and etc.

·       When you have learning disabilities there can be a lack of support off society because we are slow

·       Stress, Depression and Anxiety can last short term or for life.

·       If you think about it we can all stuffier stress one way or another.

·       It's so easy to worry about things that you didn't need to but with something you were right doing so.