Wednesday 9 June 2021

Suicide awareness and support part one

 According to the World Health Orgaizine, there is about 1 million people have died each year from Suicide. What causes this is unknown and why this happens, only those who face Mental health ourselves. This may not be always life around one.

 This is where Mental health can be misunderstood for people being ungrateful to life. Whether you have everything or nothing at all, it's hard to understand those of us who may feel sad, angerly, etc at any time, any place, anywhere.  Not even we ourselves know why, we just feel as we do no matter what, which most times has nothing to do with what is going on around us and with and without a reason for us to feel how we feel. 

Like I said in past posts there was a time, if you were down, sad, angerly, moody, etc for no one reason, most people would see you as behaving purposely and intentionally, moody, nasty, naughty, attention-seeking, etc. Pretty much you were made to feel ashamed, guilty, etc. This shouldn't be the case.

 We wonder why so many may not go for help, sadly there can be loads of reasons why not. Bearing in mind we are considering people of all ages. Sorry to sound outdated but as crazy as it sounds it's true, those of us who were alive in the 70s, 80s, even before then, and even in the 90s say the start 2000s. The reason why I say this is because I would say gladly that awareness of Mental health I think has raised in the last 10 years. 

 Most of them were around before the 70s to say early 2000s, we lived in a time there was no help and support, although I would say through the 90s there was just starting to be. 

Many probley still are sadly used to struggling alone somehow because they were told and knew nothing else from childhood to learn to live with whatever to a point when counseling was possible many of us feared in case whoever we were talking to thought we were nuts, which is what I worried about when it was often to me in my late 20s. 

Others may fear judgment, stigma, discrimination, which was very much the case for years, mainly if a lot of young people have told off their parent what they may have faced, etc what they faced when they were their age, etc. This is where we need to keep on improving and thinking about how we word things to our clients by not making them feel ashamed, guilty, etc of however they feeling about whatever it may. 

Loss of life is always the heart of breaking for people who know people or a person, mainly when it comes to family.

 The hardest thing is most don't always open up, which may be depending on what they are facing in their lives etc.

 This is not an easy one because if they don't open up to tell anyone what they are facing, it's impossible to understand why the person is feeling the need to feel they just cannot live anymore. 

However' Depression for example can vary to different people and it's never easy when there is no reason why the person feels as they do and not really even the person themselves know why. 

Therefore can it be that there can be a risk of an increase of the way people are feeling to the risk of suicide without a reason? 

I may be wrong but I would guess so the reason for that is when there's nothing to tell anyone and they may feel embarrassed ashame, guilty etc even more so worrying they may put others through any trouble, which is the most concerning one because they have nothing to feel bad about and we shouldn't make them feel that way. 

This I would say is the most worse depression of all with there been nothing to tell, it's most likely we are not going to know people are facing this, even those we are aware most people could be, which is not easy to save people if they feel at that stage, cause we don't know who is feeling this way. 

However' we can let them know we understand that we are not going to know why they feel as they do those that do but we are here to help or and we are willing to find help, and they don't have to go through this alone. They don't need a reason to feel as they do. 


People can feel these emotions with or without reason, which may be both some people or one or the other in others at different times. We shouldn't judge this and we shouldn't make them feel negative as do already, it's not always easy but we need to look to reasons why they feel as they do if there is a reason and how we can suggest things to them, this could be whether there's a reason or not by talking to them about things they may enjoy. 

 I am rasicing awareness to hopefully put a stop to this as much as possible. People feeling down, sad, angerly, etc a lot not just now and then are possible signs of Mental health. Don't get me wrong, there are concerns that there are behaviors that may affect people themselves and others around them but there should be a help, treatment support, counseling, theory, etc to people manage their Mental health. 

Everyone needs a voice no one should be afraid to talk to anyone they choose to. Some people may feel comfortable talking to counselors, thepest, friends, family, etc, this may vary depending on what people are wanting to talk about. It should be a two-way give-and-take situation between the person who is facing mental health and the person to who they are talking to.

 Don't get me wrong we all know Mental health can be very serious if not supported but also not all can be left them to the person who is supporting, counseling, etc. The person is facing whatever' they facing needs to do as much as they can do to help themselves and that means trying things that the counselors, thepest, etc suggestions. However' that cannot be excepted in everything but if every way the counselor is trying to help the person is not doing so etc, there's no need for them to carry on the sessions. However, this can depend on the person receiving help, the situation, etc. The counselor, thespst, etc isn't there to do things for the person but to empower them. By suggesting things that may improve things for the person. The choice is down to the person themselves if they try what is suggested or not. https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/nhs-voluntary-charity-services/nhs-services/


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