Saturday 23 September 2023

Interdiction to learning disability and mental health awareness

Interducing myself as a person and writer. Interducing the purpose of this writing. The idea behind the story is to introduce as much of life as person past and present as I am as possible, my learning disability, mental illness and my career, which is mostly based on my life experience. Also, to try help, students, workers and or more who involved in the field and people who face disabilities, mental illnesses and more. I have written this piece of work for those interested in the field of learning disability, mental health and other problems as well as for who face them themselves, and people who them, teach them support them care for them etc. No one can be forced to be interested in something if they are not but do get me wrong no one can be liked from everyone, I understand that but when it comes to learning disability etc, there is a lot of misunderstanding and unawareness. I think learning disability, mental health and all problems awareness needs to be raised, meaning for example; conditions, illnesses, diseases and more, which should be raised in schools, colleges, universities, workplaces and more. or It would interesting to what is like in other countries as far. https://www.open.ac.uk/health-and-social-care/research/shld/timeline-learning-disability-history A lot of long stay hospitals, resident homes etc closed roughly from 2007 to 2010 in the UK. In past to other people, people with disabilities seemed different to them. They were labeled, treated like babies and children even when they were adults. People used words like mentally handicapped instead of disabled, such other words as sub normal, mental, backward, eternal, a menace to society or and a burden to society. Over centuries, years, decades etc, there has never been a balance between support and independence, mostly it had been all or nothing. Most people have been neglected or support tends happen when it is too late they do not need it or someone is around all the time but again I am not saying this is the case with everyone. Attitudes have been getting better in the last so many years but we still have a long way to go. People who are not disabled were viewed as normal but what normal at the end of the day? Everyone is a human being. https://langdondownmuseum.org.uk/the-history-of-learning-disability/social-history-of-learning-disability/ https://lx.iriss.org.uk/sites/default/files/resources/NES_Unit3.pdf People were in institutions had no or very little contact with the outside world. This had a very big affect on people’s lives. I guess a lot people would have suffered with Anxiety and Depression. People with disabilities were misunderstood very much a lot for those who they are not as others thought they were in sane or mad. Even today there is a lack of awareness from society about disability, mental health and other problems. Society did not have confidence in people. We were treated unequally and we felt as if we were not part of society. Today society is starting to learn about learning disability and mental health. Most disabled people in those times begged for food and money off the streets. In Victorian times in the 1800s the 19th century were thought about as cripple, handicap, freaks, etc. Living conditions were hard for everyone in those times but disabled people struggled to look after themselves where they treated like babies and children or neglected. Most disabled people were in industrial ares, with say widows, orphans, alcoholics. Other people with disabilities were put in poorhouses or almshouses. In 19th century, the treatment for mental health was cure, incerlating and shocking. Some asylums were poor cared for in institutions with a lack of compassion. Disabled people were treated in the abbey a type of church and hospitals, they were made to say prayers and other religious things. people who faced Mania, dementia, melancholy, relapsing mania, hysterical, and idiocy, liege normally misunderstood, seen etc as drunk in the eyes and mind of society. In the middle age, it is believed that mental illness was used in religion. Negative attitudes were around the 18th century onwards in American, leading sigma towards those with mental illnesses. Warehouses we’re responsible for disabled people too. I guess the way society was back then it would have caused those facing disabilities, mental illness and other problems a lot of misunderstandings with others. Where society back then didn’t have confidence in those who were slow to work, react, response, etc. What type of disability depends on the cause, not that anyone would wish it anymore because disabilities affect lives but some cases can be life rick, which could depend on disability, what happened etc. Sorry there is no polite easy way of saying this. For those of us who are lucky to live, it is possible for us to achieve what we are capable of what we are interested in with the right support. https://www.mencap.org.uk/ A learning disability can affect the person coping with everyday skills such as home skills, education, work, social lives, relationships,friendships or and more but they can get by with the right support say goes for goals they capable of or and what they enjoy etc. According to Mencap there are 1.5 million people in the UK who have learning disabilities and how they affect people can vary from person to person so except anything from anybody when comes to learning disabilities etc. ‘However we are as human as anyone, we do not expect to be treated any different to other people but we need the right support when we need it and what need it for.

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