How disability, Autism and more problems, conditions and more can affect mental health

 Firstly, let us think about what Autism is and how it can affect those of us who face Autism. Well Autism itself can be easily misunderstood as a mental illness, but is it? Neurodiverse is a pattern of thought or behaviour. Autism is a spectrum and a devolvement condition that affect people’s everyday life, in different people in different ways. This can cause such conditions as ADHD and Anxiety, meltdowns even Depression. ADHD is a condition, and Anxiety and Depression are mental illnesses. Anxiety is a feeling of worry, panic, stress, nervousness, anger, etc.

Whereas Depression is a feeling of sadness.

We all have to put up with negative situations, what we are not happy about one way or another but with mental illness and other conditions, disabilities etc, there is not always a reason other than the disabilities etc, they face, but if or and when there is a reason that just adds on top of them but then there is a reason, which is the disability, conditions they may be facing whether it is Autism or whatever it is, where they can affect a person’s life, where they may need more help from others than other people.

This can make the person feel negative because the condition or disabilities may not make the person feel equal to other people.

When they feel negative to a point, they may not feel independent, mainly if they are needing a lot of support, whereas they may feel the same if they get no support at all or the amount of support they need for example.  

How can Autism affect lives? Autism is a lifetime condition but with the right support, some difficulties can be over- combed. Autism can affect communication, friendships, relationships, and socializing. A person can be misunderstood, because of the way the person can or may seem to others which can cause misunderstanding between the person and others, because may seem odd to most people, they wouldn’t expect the person to behave in certain ways or see them at all if they don’t know them. For example, behaviours, the person may not be aware of the topic of people’s chat.

The person may either be or feel left out of the chat or and others may not bring them in, the person may interrupt or say something that is nothing to do with what the people around them are talking about without being aware of and understanding. If others do not know they may misunderstand the person to be someone they are not intentionally, where this may make the person feel left out, where is neither the person’s fault nor the people around them, mainly if whoever they are don’t know the person has Autism. Most may just say they have Autism, while others may fear embarrassment for themselves, worry how people may react to them etc. There many people will be thinking that there is no need to worry etc, yet there are some people with Autism, and disabilities who won’t be afraid etc to tell people, but others will, really either way is part of disabilities, mental illness and more.

 They may run up and down the room, rock backwards and forwards, spin etc, which may seem odd to most people.

What can increase mental health?

Struggling to interact with others. For eg, friendships, relationships, also how they may get on or not get on with people in school, college, University, family, home etc.  Emotional support

Home support, cooking, cleaning, shopping etc.

Health, education, and employment support etc.

Sensory needs such as sense, smell, sound, taste, feel and more.

Change of route, whether is positive or negative, also may take time to get used to the changes.

 You may wonder. Why would someone get Anxious about positive? We all like to create positives for ourselves and for others but a lot of things take time and work, not all if any happiness comes out of the sky, is good in one way and bad in another. If you create that happiness yourself, you have the right to be pleased with yourself but also some things are not necessary all the build-up can be stress and hard work, but it shouldn’t be and or doesn’t have to be, mainly if you have people to help who you get on with etc. This could be, for example, studying, exams, driving lesion, tests etc, which may be arts crafts and more. With exams for example there can be a build-up of Anxiety during studying time, for exams etc, which is natural for everyone because we are working hard to pass. Just to say that it is not just people with Autism who face mental illness but people with or without other disabilities etc too, where those who face Anxiety don’t only face it if they are facing an exam for example but a lot of times with many of us with or without a reason at any time.  

 Mental health (autism.org.uk)   When a mental health condition becomes a disability - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)  What's the difference between a learning disability and a mental health problem? | Mencap Mental health conditions - NHS (www.nhs.uk)

Most mental illnesses are within most disabilities, the cause of mental illness is not only within disabilities, but in families, emotional situations such as deaths of people we know, animals we had or and animals of people we know, relationship, friendship, fall outs, break ups, housing, money problems and more.

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