Introduction
to Mental health.
Mental health
is part of us just like physical when things are good but if things are bad for
us a lot, which gives us bad mental health, which can increase mental illness.
We tend to react to life differently from how we would normally. Really, we need to
take care of mental health as much as what we do with physical health but for
those of us who face is easy said than done. I don’t know anything, any more than anyone but even though it is
hard, it makes sense why there can be misunderstanding between those who face
mental illness and professions.
This not to
try and scar anyone, sorry if it does but mental illness can be unknown. Please
do not worry when I say this, it is not the person’s fault or yours, but anything
is possible. However,’ you are seriously
doing an amazing job, you can only do your best and I am not just saying it. Just that no matter what, mental illness can
drain a person at any time. All the same, suggest positive coping skills,
it is something for them to bear in mind even if, they don’t consider them
straight away or not at all, even some people tend to find their own coping
skills, where they don’t always realize that are making effect to help
themselves, whereas some don’t but they shouldn’t blame you either, which I
guess is easy said than done, when you come across so many people in this
field, where like I said a while ago, it’s not always easy for sure to know how
much with what you work with is and isn’t mental health, which we don’t always
know one way or the other. When I faced counseling for the first time twenty–five years ago, I was given no coping skills whatsoever, the counselor was just
listening to what my situation was to what I remember. Completely by accident,
I discovered poetry, as a student, I was inspired by John Keats, which inspired me
to write my own because he was writing
about similar to what I was facing at the time.
It is hard to know what was facing at the
time, very negative but very strange time. I must admit, I always considered at the point in my life I had a nervous break but whether I did or not, I have to be
honest when I think about it now, I am not sure. I guess this is because it was
twenty years and the fact I am naturally not in the state of mind I was then.
No matter how
hard I tried to not react as I did, it took ages, maybe even a number of years
to snap out of it. When my ex-partner went off with someone else, at the time
it just turned my world upside down, I think nothing of it now of course. I don’t
think I can even explain anymore like I probably could have at the time, where
now I wouldn’t give him the time of day.
The only way
I can explain is at no one and nothing else mattered other than him.
Everyone could see what was happening other than myself and yet he cheated but
I was dam fool to be still in love with him, at that point I admit, I would have
had him back if he would have changed his mind. In fact, I had him back four
years later, then it last seven years till he did again, the second time though
I was slightly stronger, then he tried to get me back another few years but
that was it, I had enough, and the answer is no, and it still is.
However,’
it was a lot more than just a relationship break in all the time, I knew him
because he never knew what he wanted and didn’t want one day to the next, to the
point he played mind games, where over the years my one counselor had said
for what I had told her about him, I was facing mental abuse
Each time your patient or the client leaves
the door of your workplace, no matter what you say, do, what they say to you, do, etc,
you have no idea how that person is going to think, feel, etc. This doesn’t mean
you are doing right or wrong, and it doesn’t mean it is any fault of yours, but
mental illness can have hold of a person at any time, even if the session has turned
out successful.
This could
depend on the situation, and how it makes us think, feel, react or even
interact. However,’ there doesn’t need to be a reason
to think, think good or bad, jolly, happy, sad, angry, etc but there also can
be. Thoughts and feelings can happen when they are going to. The negative can encourage
most people to behave and react as they may do, although mental illness is not
necessary, the cause of everything. The hardest thing is knowing the strengths,
types, etc of people’s behaviors, reactions, etc.’ No matter what take care of
your own safety as well there’s. It’s
hard because it wouldn’t be right for us to judge one way or the other.
Situations could be family history, trauma, abuse,
relationships, friendship, family fall outs, break ups rows etc, deaths of
people we know, money problems, housing problems, money problems, stress in
work, study etc. A-Z mental health - Mind
When thinking and feeling
ourselves as we may do, there are risks,
we may be a safety risk to ourselves or to others.
I think possibly more so in
the early years, I was facing some form of Depression, where I found, I couldn’t
stand staying in the house, wanted to be out drink a lot but then sit alone
just watching the world go by. There were
sure thoughts of suicide at the time, and while each day started, I never thought I
was going to make the end. Couldn’t focus on anything. In those days, there was no
real understanding of mental health, mainly in the workplace, colleges, etc. I
did work experience for Beacon for the Blind, where I was turning up for work
late, all I was doing there was filing and folding up lea fits but somehow, I
got through college, now sure how to mind you.
One day, my Mother tried
to wake me up to go to Beacon, she tried to open my bedroom door to find she
couldn’t hand, I was right by the door I fainted so she called Beacon to let
them know and said I may be back or I may not, I wasn’t for twenty – four years
later to find myself doing a different role from home as a trainee counselor
for the Befriending serve.
With all mental illnesses, no
one is said they are right in everything but there is a difference in what experts
and professions know. Professions are to learn to understand, try to help those
who face mental illness through what they are facing, while those who facing
mental illness are facing the mental illness. I myself, although I face Anxiety
and Depression, in terms of trying to help others I am very much a beginner,
but I know what is like to face Anxiety and Depression.
I am pleased to know that
there are more awareness than there used to be, but we still have a long way to
go, and it will always be the case because there’s always something to learn.
No one should judge how long
or short someone is going to think, feel etc because nobody knows only the
person themselves, it’s just a case of being there for someone when they need
someone’s support. When trying find out, let them know they don’t have to
answer you if they don’t want, but trying to find out how long they may think
and feeling as do etc, is showing your concern. Show your concern, suggest
things but don’t force them to do things or not, their choice. If they answer,
that may help you to try and help them, if not let them know your there as long
as they want you to be. Do not chase information out of them, let them tell you
if it is going to be said. If they wish to tell you if they are getting help
else where or and someone else that’s their choice to say, don’t make them tell
you, let them tell you off their own bat if they are going to. However,’ major
concerns always report to your manager or and someone who works with you and
tell the person that you will have to tell he or she and reasons why but don’t tell anyone else
unless they say you can. Types of Depression: Chronic, Episodes, and More
(healthline.com)
Types of mental illness.
Depression
Depression is a mood
disorder, which can affect different people in different ways, which in some
people they cannot forces on things, or for others they don’t feel at ease
unless they are doing things, but others it can change to one to the other. Depression
can make you feel sad, moody, angerly etc at any time with or without a reason
but not everyone who faces it, faces it the same way, it can vary from person
to person.
What depression is feeling sad and empty, feeling hopeless.
Loss of interest in things, feeling wanting to do things all the time in order
to feel at ease with oneself, very little engry or none, feeling guilty and
worthless, running oneself down a lot, feeling to want to, or and end one’s
life. It can vary how depression affects
people for eg, f No matter one’s life is
mental illness is there in those us who face it, whether we are poor, well off
or rich. If someone is seen with a flash car, looking under the weather. Most
people think of them being ungrateful to life, you think, feel etc when it
happens and no matter what is happening. It doesn’t mean you are ungrateful or
not interested etc in however’ life is treating you and doesn’t mean someone is
blaming someone for something etc either.
rom not focusing on things, not able to cope unless
something is going on in one’s life, or and in some people, it can change from
one to other.
Types of Depression, Bipolar, (sad) Season affected disorder,
Clinical depression
When not feeling and thinking good, we tend to do, or and
not do too much, or and too little of things, for eg, eating, sleeping etc. What Is Mental Health? | MentalHealth.gov
