Interduction. My
name is Sara Jane Gorman, I am fifty – three years old. I am a Visiting Lecture
of Learning disability and Mental health for the University of Wolverhampton
for Thursday 29th November 2022, 1.30pm – 3.00pm for the Paramedic
students. In this handout I am going to
talk about what a learning disability
is, when it happens, how it happens, types of disabilities and mental health,
what causes them and how they affect lives and how they should be supported.
A learning disability
is an injury, damage, accident, illness, etc, before, during, or after birth in
the body or and brain. Before birth any birth can mean any time after birth
whether is a day after or years after etc, it could be to do with the mother’s
health as well as the baby's health, which more so than not links to mental
illness too. More so frustrating for the person because they are on the whole
having to ask for support more than other people.
Example
What it may be. Mental illness
is such mental illnesses as Anxiety, Depression, etc, which affect the emotions
of how the person feels, thinks behaves, etc even more so, whatever mental
illness they may face is likely to be more sensitive to the situation than what
other people maybe. Where it drives them to behave in ways others may not
accept or and understand for eg, self-harm, thoughts of suicide, a lot of
alcohol, a lot of drugs, etc. Reasons could be emotional reasons for
example relationships, friendships, family full outs, break ups, deaths, money,
housing, stress, loneliness, etc, or no reason at all. This is where a person can
feel negative at any time, how it affects the person can vary to the person and
why. For eg, no reason could be the mental illness it’s self-making the person
feel very unhappy, angry, stressed, etc, if there is a reason may depend on what
that reason is and the person themselves, etc.
Learning disabilities and difficulties can slow people in a lot if not
more ways than other people. This could affect home skills, and health for eg,
speaking to professionals, getting to appointments, education, employment,
social lives, and more but different people in different ways, which may depend
on the disabilities, mental health, and the people who you support.
People with disabilities and mental illness have strengths and
weaknesses but there are most limits to what can do and how long for etc. For eg,
with the benefits we are on if we are lucky to do some works there are limits
to the number of hours we can work and
the money we can earn.
Mental health is emotional well-being, how to cope with the way life
treats us whether it is some from years, today or whenever it was whether it is
but if the person faces too many negatives, it becomes Mental illness.
Mental
illness is feelings and thoughts about life around us, which affects we also
react, interact even, and the way we behave.
Mental health is emotional well-being to how we think, feel, behave, react,
and interact. Mental health problem is the situation, the problem the person is
facing whether it is money, the relationship breaks up, deaths of people they know,
etc. For many of us, this is hard to understand even for those who go through
it, believe it or not, it is even possible to feel negative for no reason at
all, which really when it comes to the cause is Mental illness the person's
faces, which in some cases if it's anything could be down to loneliness, doing
things too much, not doing things enough, such as sleep, eating, etc or it
could no reason all. Many would say snap out of it, this is not easy for
everyone, and is not someone else place to tell someone to do that, this is
something they work on in their own, time but ask for help if or when they
choose to. However, there is no wrong in trying to offer the person
positives such as asking them what they enjoy, which may be hobbies, careers,
study, favourite music, band film, etc, no matter why they may be feeling
negative, may work for some not others, depending on them, the situation, etc.
Only cause it may not work for them, doesn't mean you have failed, they just
may find their own way of coping, etc, the best is all you do. My advice
is, what do with my clients, often, raise awareness, suggest things,
etc; but don't do anything unless they ask.
You can advise someone to
do something or and not to, but you cannot them to do and don't do something. Motivation
is a hard thing and yet from my experience, what professionals were saying to
me, I admit it is, comment sense but most things are easy said than done, if
you are the person facing the problem, therefore never tell someone to stop or
start doing something, which is likely makes them stressed, do it or don't do
it more. Not the case in everything but most things are hard to take on board
if no one came up with it in their childhood etc. Try to show
empathy by taking an interest in finding out what the person enjoys, whether it
is not only to help their mental health but to help their hobbies, education,
career, etc. The idea of trying to support someone with mental illness is to
try and bring positive lives, where the choices are theirs, not yours, bring in
what they enjoy for them is bringing in more negative when we should be here to
try and help them to see positive, what makes them happy.
They may someone may advise them to get support, could
be getting in touch with a mental health charity or service, etc. Mental health - NHS (www.nhs.uk) Mental health is not an easy subject, it's always best
to let a person know you are looking out for them, you hear to talk to if they
want to talk, don't them to talk or some people may not want to put on other
people whether they know them or, which can be very concerning, where what is
bothering them could increase, etc, then no one should force them to talk
either. What is concerning is for whatever reason of their own, most people
struggle to open up for whatever reason, they may choose to talk to someone
they know, or don't know, and it can be concerning whether or not they talk to
anyone. It is hard to know what people are thinking and feeling, even if
they seem happy etc. Concerning thing is as well we never know with some people
for those mainly who seem to feel okay but doesn't necessarily mean to say that
they are okay, which is not easy to know when to say anything or when not to,
in case we make things worse, we only know if they say but they shouldn't be
forced to either. About mental health problems | Mental Health Foundation
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