Disability is the experience of any condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or have fair access within a given society, such as money, household tasks, socializing, learning new skills, etc. It can affect people in different ways depending on the person and the problems they face. A learning disability can happen before, during, or at any time age, etc after birth caused by an accident that happened to the Mother, child, or both if before and or during birth, which could be damage injury, illness, etc, just to the person after birth. Different Types of Disabilities: List of 21 Disabilities (wecapable.com)
Disabilities may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, sensory, or a
combination of multiple factors. Disabilities can be present from birth or can
be acquired during a person's lifetime. Historically, disabilities have only
been recognized based on a narrow set of criteria—however, disabilities are not
binary and can be present unique characteristics depending on the individual. A
disability may be readily visible, or invisible in nature.
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disabilities, the difference between disability and mental illness, more Learning Disability - Down's Syndrome - Williams syndrome | Mencap Different types
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What is mental health?
An introduction to mental health 3 What is mental health? In many ways,
mental health is just like physical health: everybody has it and we need to
take care of it. Mental health is a continuum, ranging from good to poor. Good
mental health means being generally able to think, feel and react in the ways
that you need and want to live your life.
“ How do disability and mental health affect people?”
From my experience, Mental illness
can affect a lot of people in different negative ways. Everyone needs help and support one way or another but
when having a disability, mental health, and other problems you have no choice to
but depend on that help and support one way or another. ‘ However, there are
some things in everyone in different ways that we are all independent. We don’t
expect to be good in everything because no one is, but we don’t enjoy asking
others for help a lot but then a lot of that
support is really needed, it cannot always be possible but mostly not there,
which is something that can make someone feel useless, hopeless, guilty, shameful, etc because they don’t want to put on others.
We very often feel as if we are a burden to others, as if society blames
us, we need care, cost too much, etc, to the point most of us may feel as if life
is not worth living. Even areas where we are skilled that isn’t always
recognized for whatever reason.
The difference between learning
disability and learning difficulty, dis is the difficulty, and ability is the
strength. Meaning difficulty to learn and ability to learn.
This can add to the normal
negative situation such as money problems, housing, deaths, relationship,
family, friendships, full outs, break ups, job, business loss, etc. Depending on
the person, their disabilities, mental illness, their life, etc, the extreme how
things affect them.
Over the last ten years
and more, we have seen a huge increase in mental health in disability, when it
comes to misunderstanding over benefits, employment, etc.
As a person with
disabilities and mental illnesses myself, I understand that Anxiety can be
misunderstood by society. Having been on this earth for nearly fifty – three years I have seen many changes in how we have been treated as disabled
people etc but still not completely understood. Whether there will be a big
improvement in my lifetime, I have no idea, which would be surprised to see, if
not I would like to think this big change will happen when I have gone. I guess
some things have got better and others have not.
For example, One thing
that is not good for one’s health, physical health as well as mental health is
stress, and yet is something we can’t get away from it is the worse killer of
all. Why is this? This is really when we have too much to think and even nothing to think about, where the mind never stops when the mind goes blank. Why and
how is it bad for our physical health, where the brain drives us to think about
doing things for example and our bodies react to it if we let it. For eg,
cooking, cleaning, money, housing, work and so for.
We can all worry about, get
nervous, etc, such as taking an exam, driving lesson, test, etc, which is
positive when we pass but the build-up of achieving, we have to work on but for
eg, worrying about if you can afford to live, someone dying, and more is
completely different. Some problems only last for a certain length of time and get
sorted but others can last a long before getting sorted and others don’t as
they are going to get sorted at all. The longer whatever it is goings on more
effect it has on a person’s mental health.
There are concerns as to how much a
person can take depending on the person and situation but sometimes, there is
no reason for a situation, only that someone is feeling negative one way or
another, for eg, sad, mad, angry, etc.
These examples I have given about different things that may worry a person may
seem rather brief but really our thoughts and emotions can vary. What seems brief to one person may seem major to
another. One shouldn’t judge to the extreme a situation can affect someone.
This is despite mental health
awareness. Not everyone is not open, so much is known than used to be, but
we still have a long to go to fully understand the human mind to what it is or
might be, although
Mental health awareness has increased to what it used to be. Mental illness is a feeling and or thought of
negativity, sad, anger, mad, etc, which can be with or without a reason, the
concerning thing is that so many suffer in scient, which could be for all sorts
of reasons, being afraid of the reaction of others, fear of talking to strangers,
not wanting to worry, and upset others, being misunderstood, fear of being judged, etc.
These feelings or thoughts like most things can mild,
minor, or major, etc, but most situations in mental illness can be very serious
if not supported, sadly not everyone knows someone is struggling and
that person may not open up for many reasons of their own.
Not saying in
everyone but in most people, there are concerns that if there is no help or
help is left long enough, the person may struggle to open up, etc for whatever
reason, there may be only so much that person can take, which could build up to
sundial feelings, thoughts, etc, which is the most concern. Most people can be
afraid to open up because being afraid of people’s reactions, thinking they are
selfish, etc. Of course, true that it has a huge effect on family, friends, etc
but we need to try to find how someone is thinking and or feeling as they do.
Suicide (supportline.org.uk)
What is concerning is that not everyone tells anybody one is feeling at a turning point because they may be afraid of the reaction of others. No one is a mind reader, but we can’t always know whether someone feels at a turning point or not, only may be that the way they behave may have changed, they may not be seeming, being, and or feeling themselves but that is neither we are right nor wrong unless they say. We cannot force them to tell us things, but we can let them know we are here for them to talk if they wish to. What is concerning is not knowing whether they are telling anyone else or not, but it is not our business, but our concern is important.
What to look for. Eg, trying to
avoid people and spending a lot of time, not seeming happy as they
were, wanting to die, feeling guilt and shame, when / if out leave without saying goodbye,
sadness, feeling as if they are a burden to others, empty, hopeless, helpless,
trapped, sad, anxious, emotional. Not all are necessarily shown but it may be
possible for the ones they do show. They may make plans, research, etc about
suicide, give away important items, make a will, etc, try to take
dangerous risks, have a lot of mood swings, eat, sleep more or less, using a
lot of drugs or alcohol.
1.
If someone does open up to you about suicide, take them very seriously,
having suicidal feelings or and thoughts are just as serious as if someone has
taken their own life.
2.
Never say if you were going to do it, you would have done it by now.
3.
Do try to ask them why they feel or and think as they do but don’t force
them to.
4.
Even ask if they want anyone else involved in their support, never involve
anyone without their permission.
5.
Listen to what they have to say if they tell you, never talk over them, if
you need to raise something important, ask if you can speak, etc.
6.
Never tell them what to do, but you can suggest things, it is up to them
whether whatever happens or not.
7.
Remember really it is not their life they want to end, it is their pain,
it seems to them there is no other way out.
·
If you are still concerned about the person encourage
them to talk about their feelings
· encourage
them to seek treatment
and support
· offer emotional
support
· offer practical support
· help
them think of ideas
for self-help
· help them to make a support plan
Getting to the point, when I was younger at
Job center appointments etc, I was
misunderstood for not wanting to work when I did. This was because the type of jobs that were offered to me weren’t in my capabilities. Like other people disabled people have strengths
and weaknesses, we just may take longer to train, learn and even duplicate things compared to other people. Most
things we need to train, learn, and qualifiable, we cannot in everything. We
cannot always get what we want and like but too much of what we can increase
our mental health levels. Everyone needs help at times, but even more so when facing disabilities, mental health, etc.
We understand benefit
system is there for a good reason but if there’s anything I have learned the
most vulnerable people get stressed, and misunderstood for being those who we are
not. If anything, we would love a proper career as much as the most society but
have no choice but to understand that it is not completely possible and even if it
is, there is only a limit of hours and money we can do and earn, we understand
why even though we don’t like it. However,’ for what and how much and what we
can do, we deserve the right support in our career and to be treated as equally
as possible the same as other people.
Reasons for writing this
report, when David Cameron was in power, I did a few lectures on PowerPoint on the benefit cuts and how benefits for Student learning disability
nurses a few years before Covid. Mental health to people with disabilities as much
as other people if not more, I held these sessions roughly when I was made Visiting Lecture Learning Disability and Mental health for
the University Of Wolverhampton, which I still do today. During
Lockdown, I became a trainee Counselor voluptuary from home for Beacon Centre
For The Blind Befriending service, phoning up valuable clients wanting a social
chat, support with emotional situations etc.
Although this link says
cancer, which is part of the list, there are list of problems people face that
you may or not need to deal with in your career. Cancer
(supportline.org.uk) https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/a-z-mental-health/
What is concerning is that not
everyone tells anybody one is feeling at a turning point because they may be
afraid of the reaction of others. No one is a mind reader, but we can’t always
know whether someone feels at a turning point or not, only may be that the way
they behave may have changed, they may not be seeming, being, and or feeling themselves
but that is neither we are right nor wrong unless they say. We cannot force
them to tell us things, but we can let them know we are here for them to talk if
they wish to. What is concerning is not knowing whether they are telling anyone
else or not, but it is not our business, but our concern is important.
What to look for. Eg, trying to
avoid people and spending a lot of time, not seeming happy as they
were, wanting to die, feeling guilt and shame, when / if leave without saying goodbye,
sadness, feeling as if they are a burden to others, empty, hopeless, helpless,
trapped, sad, anxious, emotional. Not all are necessarily shown but it may be
possible for the ones they do show. They may make plans, research, etc about
suicide, give away important items, make a will, etc, try to take
dangerous risks, have a lot of mood swings, eat, sleep more or less, using a
lot of drugs or and alcohol.
1.
If someone does open up to you about suicide, take them very seriously,
having suicidal feelings or and thoughts are just as serious as if someone has
taken their own life.
2.
Never say if you were going to do it, you would have done it by now.
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