What is depression and Anxiety?

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What is depression?

•        Stress is the biggest killer of all, which can give us Anxiety a sense of worrying, panicking and anger.

•        The purpose of this power point is to raise awareness of Anxiety, stress and Depression.

•        Mental health awareness needs to be raised all year round not just once a year.

•        The way the Tory government has treated people for the last six years is enough to make the most poor and most vunable depressed.

•         In February we had mental Health and Depression week.

•        We all know that Depression is a mental health and it needs to be understood.

•        We feel sad and angrily.

•        There are other Mental Health problems like Anxiety and stress.

Therefore without knowing we all could suffering from Anxiety, Depression and stress when

•         Understanding Anxiety and depression.

•        Depression and Anxiety is a feeling of sadness and anger whether you have a reason to feel depressed or not.

•         Depression and Anxiety makes you feel alone whether you are or not.

•         You are not alone if you mix with others who suffer from Anxiety and Depression but raise more understanding to those who don’t suffer from it.

•         We shouldn’t make a person with Depression feel bad if they feel sad for no reason.

•          No one should be made to feel bad about them.

  We can be so easily be misunderstood by others for someone we are not.

  This is because depression is a hidden mental health problem.

  Signs and symptoms of depression.

• you can’t sleep or you sleep too much
• you can’t concentrate or find that previously easy tasks are now difficult
• you feel hopeless and helpless
• you can’t control your negative thoughts, no matter how much you try
• you have lost your appetite or you can’t stop eating
• you are much more irritable, short-tempered, or aggressive than usual
• you’re consuming more alcohol than normal or engaging in other reckless behaviour
• you have thoughts that life is not worth living (seek help immediately if this is the case)

·        Verb (used with object), misunderstood, misunderstanding.

·        1.

·        To take (words, statements, etc.) in a wrong sense; understand wrongly.

·        2.

·        To fail to understand or interpret rightly the words or behavior of.

·        Origin Expand

·        1150-1200; Middle English misunderstanding. See mis-¹, understand

·        Related forms Expand

·        misunderstand, noun

·        Synonyms Expand

·        1. Misconstrue, misapprehend, misinterpret.

·        Everyone in the world has faults we are all to blame for something but not everything but then having disabilities and health problems doesn’t help or excuse us for and with everything either.

·          We may not always be aware of the way we may say or and do things to how it may sound to others.

·         This can make us misunderstood.

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·         Others may find it hard to understand if you are feeling down for no reason.

·         If we have depression it’s part of us whether we like it or not. Naturally those without Depression don’t understand us.

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·         Most of us may find it easy to be alone so others don’t misunderstand them and don’t make them feel bad about ourselves.

How can depression be understood?

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

  When I say depression is a feeling of sadness it doesn’t mean we always showing sadness.

  A lot of comedy famous actors who make us laugh suffer from Depression as well.

·       A lot of people find it hard to understand how people who can make us laugh can feel so sad.

·       Robin Williams took his own life in 2014 last year.

·       People with Anxiety and Depression have to hide so much of everything it’s the easiest way for us to cope without being misunderstood.

·       It doesn’t mean that everyone with Anxiety and Depression despite of how hard it is there are most people who can fight it.

·       That doesn’t make people who have taken their own life as losers.

·       Society is a loser because of the way it treats and misunderstands us.

 People with Anxiety and Depression have a fight with our minds because we don’t stop thinking.

   It takes a long fight with the mind for us to be truly happy.

  For others life is too much to stay alive.

 For most of us we don’t know our strength, we are strong than we think.

 Crises like broken down relationships or the death of someone a person knows can play a big part on someone’s Anxiety and Depression.

·       These things happen to everyone but everyone deals with it in different ways.

·       I even found for years after my last relationship broke up I put the blame to all myself.

·       I wondered whether or not I did or said anything I was unaware of that seemed wrong unfair to him, even though he was just as bad.

·       In nearly eight years of our break after 13 and half years I have had at least six lots of counselling.

·       I am please to say now I had four sessions left, which I have cancelled due to my work and my new partner I don’t them.

·       Now I am all for helping other who is going through not much different to me.

  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.

·       Due to the fact GPs are not trained in mental health, counsellors, Health centres and hospitals have their work cut out.

·       People with mental health problems once something is on the mind it’s on the mind until it is sorted.

·       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.

 I wrote to my counsellor to thank her.

·       She  made me aware that I suffered 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.

·       I wrote to my counsellor to tell her counselling is needed mainly for vunable people who have gone through rape or and abuse.

·       There are certain issues that vulnerable people find hard to overcome compared to other people. 

  I used to wish I wasn’t born.

·       My ex made me feel as if everything was my entire fault.

·        I had to stop putting all the blame on me.

·       I use to blame myself a lot.

 No one is perfect but no one can be blame for everything.

  Just because you see someone smiles doesn’t mean we are happy, this is our way of fighting our health problems.

 We don’t show sadness all the while because learn to live with our health problems.

 Most of us have good days and bad days like other people.

 It can be a long fight with the mind for someone with Anxiety and Depression to make them truly happy.

  If we all went along with long faces all the time none of us would get through our health problems.

 People who suffer from Anxiety and Depression aren’t all negative all the time.

 Every day and night is a fight with the mind for people with mental health problems.

  We do our best to be strong minded people.

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

·       We shouldn’t have to be negative all the while to prove we have health problems.

·       Society fails to understand us.

    Inside our smiling faces we feel sad but not necessary all the while.

  Different people who have Anxiety and Depression and other health problems are affected in different ways.

  Some of us under sleep.

·       Others over sleep.

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·       Some of under eat.

 Others over eat.

 The same goes for confidence and self – esteem.

 Some people can’t bear to not going to work or college where at others like to say at home.

  For a least the last six years, there’s has been a lot of job losses due to the credit crunch.

 Anxiety and Depression affects you on and off through your life, it’s more stress because it’s there for you long term.

 We mustn’t let the government beat us despite of how hard they make life for us.

Different people cope with life in different ways.

  GPs are not trained to do a lot of work but they are doing more hours than what they are trained for.

  People with disabilities and health problems have been having health checkups since 2008.

·       Not all surreys do health checkups.

·       Not all surreys that do checkups do full health checkups.

·       They say there’s not enough funding but it doesn’t make sense to why GPs are working a lot of hours.

 It's a huge certain that Gaps are not trained to treat Mental health problems this is why they referral patients to Counselling services and clinics.

  Patients who have lost their benefits can’t get counselling because benefits pay for counselling.

·       This is a huge worry because if they lose their benefits there’s more of a need for counselling.

·       Everyone who has Mental Health problems have different ways of managing our Mental Health for example many people with. 

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·       Funding needs to keep coming for Mental Health services.

·       How long is going to be until the government make cuts on the counselling services to a point even people on benefits can access counselling?

·         I find working helps me manage my Anxiety and Depression better so do many others like me.

·       You can only work a certain amount hours on top of benefits but it’s better than doing nothing all.

·       Other people may find working makes their Anxiety and Depression worse.

·       People with disabilities and health problems can be talented.

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·       The stress of the benefit cuts are making people with disabilities and health problems unwell.

·       Many people have had 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.
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