What is Mental Health?
How we live our lives, how we look
after ourselves and each other but those of us who face Mental – ill then life
becomes harder to manage.
Mental Health is a negative and positive
feeling people get at any time however their life is.
What we are thinking, how we
feel, how we are behaving, and how we react and interact with life.
It can make a person angry, moody, or sad,
happy, laughing, etc.
• Learning disabilities: Our definition
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A
learning disability is a reduced intellectual ability and difficulty with
everyday activities – for example, household tasks, socializing, or managing
money – which affects someone for their whole life.
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People
with a learning disability tend to take longer to learn and may need support to
develop new skills, understand complicated information and interact with
other people.
Help and support for disability and
mental health.
You need to take action to keep everyone safe. It’s not
easy to know what the serious risks are. If the person is having Suicidal
feelings and thoughts.
By all means ask
them why, don’t try to force them to talk, and don’t force them not to talk.
Let tell or not is their choice anything or everything, nothing.
If they choose not to tell what may be important or concerning, tell your manager or whoever else is in charge where you work that the person's health and safety may be at risk but make sure the person knows and it is important why your manager or someone over them should sort help out. If you can see this can't wait for call 999 or 111 then make your manager aware or whoever is over them etc.
Don’t judge, don’t
make them feel guilty for feeling the way they are feeling, make them feel free
to talk if they want and if they do, they will make it easy to try and help
them.
Feelings of people they know, family friends, etc, and they matter but focusing on why they are feeling enough is enough for them. Never say if you were going to do it, you would have done it without saying anything.
How long does a crisis or and a negative feeling last?
There is no time limit at all, time is a good healer.
Every life matters, suicide affects
the lives of people we know, which matter too but most things in our lives
affect us more so than people without, mental health, disability, and other
problems included.
How long can people cope for?
Some of us may feel unwell or and get better sooner if longer than others.
Where is the way forward, people cannot see the way forward, we just help to
see a way forward.
People find it hard to see if there’s an end of their problem or not, if when,
how etc will it end?
How will they cope live with if it does not end?
Do
they have a plan?
Do
they access pills, knives, etc, wherever they are?
Do
they plan to hurt themselves or end their life at any time?
However,’
finding out brief information may help you help them, but it may not fully
solve their problem.
However,’
it is possible to feel down and suicidal without a problem, do not judge, you
still need to take it seriously and do the same as you would if they were
facing a problem.
Do
not do anything you can’t manage to get help from others if needs be.
Let
the person know that what is said between you and them is private but if you
are concerned about their and or your health and safety you may need to involve
people from other services etc.
It may not fully make them feel fully okay with
what they were or may have before the problem happened.
They may be on the mend of starting
to feel better with further help from other services etc.
No
matter how major or minor the person may be stuffing, it’s even hard if you are talking to someone on the phone but you need to take it seriously, there is no
proof either way what is or and, isn’t happening, contact Stop suicide.
Most
common problems people face may affect them emotionally.
Benefit
problems
Relationship
breaks -ups
Family
problems
Money
Housing
Deaths
of people they know
Job
and business losses or and, more issuses.
How
can you try to help?
Steps in CBT
Identify
troubling situations or conditions in your life. ...
Become aware of
your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs about these problems. ...
Identify
negative or inaccurate thinking. ...
Reshape
negative or inaccurate thinking.
Go through things they like with them, hobbies, interests, careers,s and or, other positive things they may enjoy. Mental illness, emotional stress, etc we need to accept everything from for example depression one can even struggle to focus on the things the person does enough but never try to make them do things they don't enjoy because that won't improve things for them at all. Time is a good healer, some people may take their own time till they can focus, or in many cases in some not at all but that is neither your nor their fault. That is how Mental illness can affect some people so be patient. Try to empower them to try to focus on things they enjoy in hopes whatever that is becomes natural to them again. It might be to start with they may focus just five minutes or less but their other days, times, etc they could and in their own time it may increase. If they wish to try or and stop trying etc that is their choice. At least you have tried to help. Mental illness can be strange where it can affect concentration to a person struggling to cope without doing what they enjoy but it can vary from person to person where some people focus on their own time or not all.
o I need
to take action to keep myself and them safe.
o It is
not easy to know how serious the risk is.
o Is the
person if they are having suicidal thoughts/ ideas?
o Do they have a plan?
o Do they have access to weapons, pills in the house, etc?
o Do
they plan to hurt themselves at any time?
Possible emotions
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It is possible it may give counselors untrue hope of reassurance, and threats to end their own life.
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Substance abuse, too much, increasing, Anxiety state Anxiety, depression, other
mental illnesses, and mind.
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Struggling to sleep, thinking all the time, Feeling trapped in their
feelings and thoughts as if there is no way out.
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Anger feeling out of control,
easily irritated, recklessness, safety in risk, they may be in a danger or and
a crisis.
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Mood changes, mood swings.
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The person may need to talk to try and get things off their mind so give
them a chance to do so.
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If the problem has lasted a long time, they may not know how long they
will be strong enough to cope.
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If you are concerned the person may be in danger such as self–harm,
overdose etc options could be to call the police, signpost them to the
Samaritans, local mental health crisis lines such as for example Black country line 0345 –
6460827, or see that they get to A&E. Think of your personal safety.
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Avoid putting
yourself at physical risk, mainly if the person is in distress and is
threatened.
More ways to support people, what to look for.
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There is no
proof, no suicide or no “contract” “stop suicide”.
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It is possible it may give
counselors untrue hope of reassurance.
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Threats to end their own life.
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Substance abuse, too much,
increasing.
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Anxiety state Anxiety and
mind.
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Struggling to sleep
thinking all the time.
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Feeling trapped in their
feelings and thoughts as if there is no way out.
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Anger feeling out of
control, easily irritated, recklessness, safety in risk, they may be in danger or and crisis.
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Mood changes, mood swings.
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call
a GP – ask for an emergency appointment. call 111 out of hours – they will help you find the support
and help you need. contact your mental health crisis team – if you
have one.
STRESSES OF BENEFIT CUTS.
Vulnerable peoples’ lives matter as well as yours. Stress can
be the biggest killer of all.
What professions
need to be aware of is that 10’600 probably more people with disabilities
and health problems died last year due to the benefit cuts.
The lives of disability,
mental health, or any other problems were affected by the last Tory government
from 2010 to 2016, David Carmon, Ian Duncan Smith, then by Covid 19 lockdown,
affects everyone way or another.
Risk of people
being forced into things they can’t manage.
Many people have
been forced into situations they cannot cope with without support
due to the benefit cuts such as DWP and Altos signing them off fit
for work.
I’m not saying
people with disabilities and health problems can’t work but health, safety, and
support need to be considered, and the right support is needed.
With the cuts the
government has been making, a lot of
people haven't been getting the support they need.
The benefit cut
is people's risks of injury and accidents at work if they are not supported.
Risks of as I
said dying of hunger.
Risks of taking
their own lives.
Risks of being in big debt.
Risks of people being more unwell. ATOS KILLERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3mGZZ4TmEGA
How do these
things come into a nurse's job?
I understand that nursing and other health professions, it can be very tricky
of jobs but in all fairness, most things are private these days.
1. Describe how and why
you will build trust with the client.
• Build Rapport, introduction,
welcome, client offer them a drink, go through health and safety, etc.
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Study the problem. Trying to find out how long they have been facing the
problem, cause, level of problem, stress, cause of the emotion, and why; what, how, and why they are thinking as they do?
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Empower the client to set goals to move them forward.
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Build on goals and skills.
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Come to a solution.
2. Explore feelings
• Why do you
need to explore how the person is feeling at this moment?
• Active
listening by paying your full attention to the person.
• This could
mean you need to explore the person's feelings, thoughts, and reactions to the situation that they are t try, to learn why they feel emotional as they do to what they are facing whatever you may think, feel, etc, and why they react as they do, to what they are
facing.
Their thoughts, feelings, reactions, and options matter.
• Paraphrasing
by checking with the client what I have picked up is correct.
• Mirror back
what you heard, let them know you listening, I am here, I can hear you, and ask
open and closed questions.
• Safeguard
issues see that they are safe.
3. Generate coping strategies and options
Address and study the problem, find, and study the data, clarify, and work the problem out, set a goal for each solution, monitor the situation and research how things could improve, help to solve any other problem the person may have, and refine the old problem, considering the person's safety and yours, finding support, examining the person's likes and dislikes, thinking about making plans, Making appointments, Positive empowerment. Raise options and suggests to what the person may feel comfortable with or what they think. Tell me what the outcome may be. Give them chance to think for themselves, if at any time how they feel and what they want to do, whether they change their mind or not. They may have their own options and or try suggestions to try or go along with yours at any time.
4. Restore function
through an action plan https://triggered.edina.clockss.org/ServeContent?rft_id=info:doi/10.1093/brief-treatment/mhi030
5. Follow-up, booster sessions, and additional support
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Follow what has and hasn't been happening in the person's life in the time you have been supporting them and review with them what happens next by their choice at but let them know what the outcome could be. At this point you may need
to offer the personal support services links etc, there may other people in your workplace
or elsewhere who might be trained in areas the person need support if you are
not, or and you may need to speak to your manager where she or he may be trained in
the support the person needs or and you may be concerned about your or and the
person’s health safety for whatever reason.
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