" How would you support people with disabilities and mental illness?"

  Interduction

 

My name is Sara Jane Gorman I am a visiting lecturer in learning disability and mental health awareness for the Success group and Learning disability at the University Wolverhampton. My disabilities and mental health problems are Dyspraxia, Dyslexia, Autism, Epilepsy, Anxiety, and Depression.https://sararevealed.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-difference-between-having.html

 

Learning disabilities, mental health, mental illness, and other problems affect lives more so than other people for example health, home, education, work, social lives, friendships, relationships, and more.

 

Firstly, pretty much most disabilities are linked to mental illness. I cannot speak for all disabilities and mental illnesses I can only speak for the disabilities and mental illnesses I face. It is important to except anything from anyone as each person you come across is likely to have different strengths and weaknesses. I know me, that with having Autism, Anxiety levels can be high, which can be easily misunderstood by others around me, not just by people at work and in education but people socially and at home as well. 

In your career, you may come across a lot of people who people with disabilities and mental illnesses are in contact with such as teachers, tutors, managers, staff of people they work with, families, parents, carers, and support workers, health professionals, etc, which who you may come into contact with as well as the people themselves all or different ages, abilities, weaknesses, etc.

The idea of this lecture is to work on how can you support people with disabilities, mental health, and other problems with whatever they may be struggling with?  

People with disabilities, mental illnesses, and other problems do not enjoy asking for help from others, even though everyone needs help sometimes because having disabilities, mental illnesses, or other problems affects their lives more so than different people in different ways. We can feel as if society thinks we are hard work to the world, cost too, much money, and are a burden to others,  where it is as if society tries to make us feel guilty whether we should or shouldn’t, which can drive most of us to feel as if life is not living whether or not we show that to those we connect to one way or the other.

 Another example is whether should or shouldn’t most if not all of us may feel hopeless, useless cause of not being able to work, etc or work very little. However,’ may or may not be the case in everyone but don’t take it, it is not the case in anyone. It is a situation that is and isn’t aware of because, okay it is unknown whether or not people are struggling in silence, but we shouldn’t amuse we are right or wrong where most people may be afraid of the reaction of others or other reasons.

 Even though we know that is not our fault and is beyond our control, we can't help that we have no choice, which is depression at the same time, a lot of us have had good and bad experiences in our lives when it comes to supporting. However, the positive thing is having the right tools and aids to help us live as independently as possible, but naturally, it is not possible to have the tools, etc with everything we need help with, which is mostly due to funding and disability benefits only pay for so much. 

“Not all is possible because of the government and system but what could be possible to improve people's lives if the government and system will or and were to let it?”

 

  “What is a learning disability, mental health, and mental illness, what is the same and different between the two? “

This question is a yes and no answer, also there is and isn’t a difference between the two? Let us start with a learning disability. A Learning disability can be caused by accidents, illnesses, etc what happened to Mother or child during pregnancy, in the child, during or after birth affects the person’s brain, body, or both. Depending on the type of learning disability, how it can affect a person’s life, can vary. Which can be for example all, a few, some, or even one of these skills’ health, at home, education, work, social lives, or more. A person with disabilities has strengths and weaknesses.  Without the right support, some may take longer to learn than others to cope with everyday life compared to those without disabilities or other problems.

However,’ this can vary on those skills may be, the person themselves, which means they may not find it easy to learn new skills but not possible with the right support, depending on their capabilities and uncap abilities etc.

To learn and understand, you need to be learning about the types of disabilities, the causes, how to support us, and what to except of us, which could be anything as each person is different, depending on what they find easy and hard, what may be impossible for them, if not how much support they need, may vary depending on what they are doing.

Mental illness is emotional well-being is more thoughts, and feelings about how we react to life around us and why we do it. Things we may face such negative issues as money problems, house problems, relationship problems, family problems, deaths of people we know, etc.

What are mental health problems? In many ways, mental health is just like physical health: everybody has it and we need to take care of it. Good mental health means being generally able to think, feel and react in the ways that you need and want to live your life. But if you go through a period of poor mental health, you might find the ways you're often thinking, feeling, or reacting become difficult, or even impossible, to cope with. This can feel just as bad as a physical illness, or even worse. Mental health problems affect around one in four people in any given year. They range from common problems, such as depression and anxiety, to rarer problems such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. “I now know that if I felt there was something wrong, it's because there was, but I didn't understand mental health fully... it's a spectrum and you should feel able to decide where and when you [are] on that spectrum.”

 

any of a broad range of medical conditions (such as major depression, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or panic disorder) that are marked primarily by sufficient disorganization of personality, mind, or emotions to impair normal psychological functioning and cause marked distress or disability and that are typically associated with a disruption in normal thinking, feeling, mood, behavior, interpersonal interactions, or daily functioning