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Sunday, 14 February 2016

About the cuts and changes.



·       No one should be forced into situations that are not right for them without support.
·       Vulnerable people should have as much rights as other people.
·       Vulnerable people should be able to ask others for support they want it and need it.
·       Vulnerable people hate been a Burrton to others.
·       Vulnerable people hate being a centre of attention.
·       Vulnerable people hate been hard work or and costing others a lot of money.
·       Vulnerable people shouldn’t be made to feel they are to blame for everything.
·       With the right support vulnerable people should have equal lives to other people.
·       These cuts are making times move backwards instead of forwards.
·        These cuts are likely to affect other areas of life if the Tories stay in power.
·       Social events
·       Health
·       Education
·       Employment
·       Housing
·       Care/support in the home


 Epilepsy, Anxiety and Depression worry and stress can affect.
Epilepsy.This may not be epilepsy, if not what is it?
It may well be Anxiety panic attacks.
Why come back after twenty years?
Why haven't felt well for the last mouth?
Headaches, shakes and the room moving round and round.
The tablets cure one thing and bring another thing on.
I feel shaky and tired.
I am not looking forward to a brain scan, flashing lights and electric stick glue wires in my hair.
It's like a big storm inside my head.
It causes your nerves to be bad mainly when you have waiting to see if you pass or fail. 2001 onwards.


 The risk of post-traumatic seizures increases with severity of trauma (image at right) and is particularly elevated with certain types of brain trauma such as cerebral contusions or hematomas.[22] As many as 50% of people with penetrating head injuries will develop seizures.[20] People with early seizures, those occurring within a week of injury, have an increased risk of post-traumatic epilepsy (recurrent seizures occurring more than a week after the initial trauma).[23] Generally, medical professionals use anticonvulsant medications to treat seizures in TBI patients within the first week of injury only [24] and after that only if the seizures persist.

Emotional and behavioural problems [edit]
TBI may cause emotional or behavioural problems and changes in personality.[15] Emotional symptoms that can follow TBI include emotional instability, depression, anxiety, hypomaniamania, apathy, irritability, and anger.[9] TBI appears to predispose a person to psychiatric disorders including obsessive compulsive disorder, alcohol or substance abuse or substance dependencedysthymia,clinical depressionbipolar disorderphobiaspanic disorder, and schizophrenia.[16] About one quarter of people with TBI suffer from clinical depression, and about 9% suffer mania.[17] The prevalence of all psychiatric illnesses is 49% in moderate to severe TBI and 34% in mild TBI within a year of injury, compared with 18% of controls.[18] People with TBI continue to be at greater risk for psychiatric problems than others even years after an injury.[18] Problems that may persist for up to two years after the injury include irritability, suicidal, insomnia, and loss of the ability to experience pleasure from previously enjoyable experiences.[17]

Behavioural symptoms that can follow TBI include disinhibition, inability to control anger, impulsiveness, and lack of initiative, inappropriate sexual activity, and changes in personality.[9] Different behavioural problems are characteristic of the location of injury; for instance, frontal injuries often result in disinhibition and inappropriate or childish behaviour, and temporal lobe injuries often cause irritability and aggression.[19]

Worry and stress can affect people with Epilepsy as much as it can affect people with Anxiety, Depression and other health problems.
 In many cases most people have most health problems; therefore they are more likely to find the stresses of life harder to manage than other people.




 UNDERSTANDING ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION.

·       Anxiety and depression can be linking all kinds of disabilities and other health problems.
·       Anxiety and Depression be on its own.
·       Most of us feel scared and tense with or without a reason.

·       Most of us can think we fail in everything but we don’t because Anxiety is a sense of panic and fear.

·       We can feel nervous about an exam, interview, doctors, dentist and hospital appointment.

·       Most of us find it hard to have faith in ourselves.

·       Some of us find it hard to believe that employers will take us on many of us believe that employers will sack us.

Society makes us feel like a health and safety hazard.


 UNDERSTANDING ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION.

·       Anxiety and depression can be linking all kinds of disabilities and other health problems.
·       Anxiety and Depression be on its own.
·       Most of us feel scared and tense with or without a reason.

·       Most of us can think we fail in everything but we don’t because Anxiety is a sense of panic and fear.

·       We can feel nervous about an exam, interview, doctors, dentist and hospital appointment.

·       Most of us find it hard to have faith in ourselves.

·       Some of us find it hard to believe that employers will take us on many of us believe that employers will sack us.

·       Society makes us feel like a health and safety hazard when we should be given the right support in all situations to be equal to other people.

·       Anxiety and depression has its good days and bad.
·       When things get really bad many of us feel as if life is not worth living therefore it can cause us to have thoughts of taking our own lives.

·       Depression is a feeling of sadness whether there’s a reason or not.
·       Anxiety is a feeling anger whether there’s a reason or not.

·       When you have these fears and feelings society tends to treat you as if you need to be locked up.



·       Anxiety and depression is also a fear of everything being your fault.

 Yes I know it’s not always as bad as what it seems to a person with Anxiety and Depression but they don’t find it easy to relax until whatever the situation is, is over.

·       Even a person with Anxiety and Depression knows the world is not all black and white but when they feel how they feel, life seems black and white to them.

·       Anxiety works not much different to Depression like all people we all get good and days.

·       Like with Depression we don’t show sadness all the time, with Anxiety we don’t show anger all the time.

·       With having these health problems we learn how to manage them the best way we can.

·       We all manage our health problems in different ways.

·       Most of us live in fear of society misunderstanding us.
·       Some people find it hard to have trust in the system.
·       It’s hard to have faith in the country because of the cutbacks.
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·       There are so many people who sadly suffer alone.
·       People with Anxiety get scared, they panic and fear.

·       Many people who have been let down by services find it hard to have faith and trust in other services.

  People shouldn’t be made to feel guilty, ashamed and bad because of their health problems.

·       Health problems are so easy for people without them to misunderstand.
·       Smiling is our way of managing our health problems.


·       Hiding the sadness and anger can be the easiest way we can manage because our health problems are always there.
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·       We just manage our health problems the best way we can because there’s not always a lot of support out there.
·       Some people help themselves for others to help them but there are others who don’t.
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·       There are different forms of Anxiety and depression that affects different people in different ways from minor to major.
·       People who have got a lot of disabilities and health problems may be on a lot of medications possible advised by the GPs.
·       A lot of these medications cause side effects.
·        There’s a risk many medications bringing on more health problems through the side effects.

·       Some people may manage their health problems if they have a hobby, interest or even talent.
·       There are risks of people with major health problems committing crimes or behaviour problems or risk of them being a victim of crime themselves.


·       The causes may the side effects from the medications or the health problems themselves.
  Not all Health problems cause serious harm.
·       They can vary from health problem to health problem.
·       Person to person.

·       If that happens either they are in fear of what people think of them or they find it hard to manage their health problems.
·       Some people are aware of their health problems but others are not.


·       Most people don’t like crowds and queues, which give us a sheer of panic then we have to find a clear space to calm ourselves down.
·       Most of us will avoid packed places.

·       We may panic and worry over things that aren’t as bad as what they seem

I only forgot my money and phone once and had to travel from town back home to get, lucky I wasn't rushing off to work at the time.

It seems like the end of the world when someone in your life dies or when your relationship breaks down.

You feel as if the world is controlling you.
·       Some of us have fear of forgetting even if we getting everything together, then we are checking our bags halfway down the road even if we have check before we went out.

·       Many of us get upset very easily over negative situations whether it’s for example a death of a people we know relationship break ups, failed an exam or turned down or loss of a job.
·       We are likely to take longer to get over certain crises that what other people do.
·       Many of us find it hard to put the past behind us.
·       Some of us may take longer than others depending on the situation.
·       Some people even can have nightmares, flashback or both for years or even for life.

·       All my life I have tried to mange my Anxiety and depression the best way I can without realising I have those health problems to start with.
I need to have something going on in my life

·       I love reading and writing short stories, poetry, knitting as well as my career.
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Some people have anxiety, depression and epilepsy, which can link together.
If people get stressed very easily suffer Panic attacks it can bring epilepsy but it doesn't affect everyone the same.

·       I am an Advocacy work, Learning Disability and Mental Health Awareness trainer.

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Change can be a big thing for a lot of people with Autism.
People can have these conditions whether they have disabilities or not.

·        Health problems can link to disabilities or be without disabilities.
·       Anxiety and depression is bad for enough anyone.
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New things which are changes whether it's good or bad can make people nervous.
·        When some people get nervous it can cause them to be in risk of panic attacks.
·       Panic attacks can be bought on by stress or whatever the person is thinking and worry about at the time.
·       
 Change can be a big thing for of people whether they are nervous about something or someone.
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 Some people can’t sleep for worrying.
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Some people can find it hard to cope with too many things at once.
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Some people may worry more than they should.
·       With Anxiety it’s too easy to make a mountain out of a mole hill without meaning to.
·       You just need to be patient until the person sees life may not be as bad as what it seems.

·       Everyone suffers from Anxiety and depression one way or another.

Sadly there's not enough said about stress I think we need to raise Stress awareness for everyone, that includes people with LD and Health problems.

Some people don't know that some people suffer LD and Health problems together, that's what I have otherwise I wouldn't have known that.

Anxiety and depression are forms of stress in every ones' lives.

Many things can get on top of people like, paying bills, not enough work, too much work, marriage, relationships, children and even loneliness.

It's very hard to make a balance to keep healthily and happy.

This can be why a lot of people can turn to smoking, drugs and etc.

When you have learning disabilities there can be a lack of support from society.

·         We are seen as too slow for society.

·       We find it harder to cope with our lives and too much hard work for society to support.

·       Society needs to put themselves in our shoes

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Stress, Depression and Anxiety can last short term or for life.


If you think about it we can all suffer stress one way or another?

A lot of us worry more than we should.

·       Sometimes things aren’t as bad as what we thought.

·       A lot of people say Mental Health is just in the mind but then mind is hard to understand.

Even people themselves find it hard to understand their mental health.

You may learn what's, whys and how the Mind is or can be affected.

Tap Mind in the Google engine or whatever you have got.

WWW.mind.org.uk

Save it in your favourites or Bookmarks. 

·       Life is stressful enough without disabilities and health problems but we can’t do anything about it if we are made that way.

We understand for eg; that we have to pay our bills like other people.
·       We just may need more support to manage our lives compared to other people.

We may feel tense.

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·       I panic when I walk into services; lots of people give different answers to one question.
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·       One question can’t be a yes and no answer.



For eg; is this benefit right for me?

I can't cope with too much jargon a lot of information.

All staff needs to be informed by managers about the rules, changes and etc.
 Crowds can panic some people where there are too many people around me.



Update on Anxiety, Depression, Stress, panic, Attacks ADHD, Epilepsy.
All these mental health problems can get confused because they aren't much different to one another. I guess I could have either one to all of those as I have suffered from either one to all for forty-four years now, which is from birth.
Through the side effects of my medication Phenobarbitone I was put on as a baby and child, which caused me to be moody and hyperactive. The moods could come on any time due to the fact I found it hard to sleep at night I was overtired. Yet strangely the day time I was dreamy, in a world of my own and unaware of the world around me. For example even at the age of twelve I was a danger hazard to cross the road and I had no sense of any direction. I still have that problem now if a place is new to me it can take me a long time to get to know where I am going.
I couldn’t pay attention in my school work. I was always classed as thick, lazy and told I’d never get along in life.  I think at that point of my life I was suffering from ADHD.  I left school believing I wouldn't get anywhere in life. I left school believing at first I wouldn't get anywhere in life but then I was glad to leave school. Near enough every school I went to I faced bullying, rape and sexual abuse from a lot of children in the schools.  From after I left school twenty – seven years ago I have proved myself wrong by achieving the things I have said I have achieved like the exams I have passed  in college, the awareness of learning disability and mental health awareness, Advocacy, short stories and poetry which is all on my website sararevealed.blogspot.com/ email sarajgorman@gmail.com.


Never the less these health problems are not much different to one another. Anxiety is a feeling of anger, panic and fear whether a person has a reason to feel that way or not. Depression is a feeling of sadness whether a person has a reason to feel sad or not. Epilepsy and panic attacks are not that much different to one another either. Worry is connected to stress which is anxiety when a person gets upset easily.  Can all those health problems be linked or and even be misunderstood?  

 How can these health problems be not much different to one another?
·       A fit and a panic attack are both to do with the nervous system, which people can very easily confuse one with the other.
·       This can also be confusing for the person who is facing the fit, panic attacks or even both. For example what I have faced.
·       Headaches

·       Dizziness
·       Choking or even a sense of choking, it’s a feeling as if someone has got their hands round my neck.
·       Electric shocks, pins and needles through my spine arms and legs.
·       Shaking
·       Going hot and cold
·       Fully aware of what’s going on.
·       This is an example of how all these things can get confused with one another.

Anxiety.  A sense of panic, fear and or anger whether there’s a reason or not. Like all health problems it can depend on how we manage the health problems.
Those of us like me who have had these health problems manage them in a different way than what we did to start off with.

·       Never the less these health problems are not much different to one another. Anxiety is a feeling of anger, panic and fear whether a person has a reason to feel that way or not. Depression is a feeling of sadness whether a person has a reason to feel sad or not. Epilepsy and panic attacks are not that much different to one another either. Worry is connected to stress which is anxiety when a person gets upset easily.  Can all those health problems be linked or and even be misunderstood?  

 How can these health problems be not much different to one another?
·       A fit and a panic attack are both to do with the nervous system, which people can very easily confuse one with the other.
·       This can also be confusing for the person who is facing the fit, panic attacks or even both. For example what I have faced.
·       Headaches

·       Dizziness
·       Choking or even a sense of choking, it’s a feeling as if someone has got their hands round my neck.
·       Electric shocks, pins and needles through my spine arms and legs.
·       Shaking
·       Going hot and cold
·       Fully aware of what’s going on.
·       This is an example of how all these things can get confused with one another.

Anxiety.  A sense of panic, fear and or anger whether there’s a reason or not. Like all health problems it can depend on how we manage the health problems.
Those of us like me who have had these health problems manage them in a different way than what we did to start off with.
·       Even if you have got things ready before hand you want to make.
·       You fear just in case you forget something important.
·       In fact people who suffer from Anxiety are likely to forget less time than people who don’t have Anxiety cause we are always worrying about forgetting. In fact what we have to remember is always on our minds until whatever event is over.
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·       You are saying to yourself, have I remembered it when you get there where you are going and whatever you need whatever for.
·       Anger is part of Anxiety.
·       Anger is a feeling you get whether there’s a reason or not. It can be a feeling of anger, worry, stress and tension yet all of those things can just happen.
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·       This is because those things are linked to Anxiety. This is where we need exercises to loosen our muscles up but this may not work for all of us.
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·       It’s possible that all these words like anger, worry, stress and tension get confused easy because there’s not much difference between the meanings of the words.
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·       When we face these feelings it tends to feel the same feeling. These feelings don't need a reason to happen from a clinical point of view. The evaluation of anxiety relative to actual, peri-ictal, and poetical states is described, and medical treatment options for anxiety disorders in patients with epilepsy are discussed, illustrating that their treatment extends far beyond seizure control.







Patients with epilepsy and anxiety disorders. Diagnosis and treatment].


Source
·       Department des Neurosciences, Centre Hospitalise de Luxembourg. beyenburg.stefan@chl.lu
·       Abstract
·       Up to 50-60% of patients with epilepsy may develop psychiatric complications, in particular depression, anxiety, and psychotic disorders.
·       Although this co morbidity has received a great deal of attention in recent years, the anxiety spectrum of psychiatric disturbances in epilepsy patients has not been extensively studied, although this co morbidity has a significant effect on the medical management and quality of life.
·       The aetiology is Multifactorial, including neurobiological and shared path physiological mechanisms as well as psychosocial and iatrogenic factors (e.g., influence of antiepileptic drugs, epilepsy surgery). Despite the high prevalence of comorbid anxiety in epilepsy, very little is known about optimal treatment strategies.
·       This article reviews the complex inter relationships between anxiety disorders and epilepsy
·       Sadly there aren't any straight answers to whether it’s possible to have Anxiety, Epilepsy or even both. Every website you go on will take you something different.
·        Not even the doctors know for sure and may be not even the hospitals.

·       Many people say people who have fits are out cold and not aware of what’s going on around them but some say not necessary yet people can face synonyms that are not much different to panics attacks, such as headaches, dizziness, shaking, pin and needles electric shocks, choking or even a feeling of choking.

·        (May be not being able to breathe). 
·       Epilepsy, anxiety, and depression are all common disorders. It is therefore not surprising that the conditions are hard to understand because there’s not much difference between the one another.https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1603382066545036&set=gm.1557599871185769&type=1




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Introduction to changes and cuts in Britain.

There are a lot of changes and cuts to the benefits in Britain.
The stresses of the changes are too much for people with disabilities and health problems.
This can make people worry.
This can make people ill.
This can even cause death, if it gets far too much for people.
It is so wrong of the government to take money off people who need it most.

 No one wishes anyone to be homeless but people with disabilities find it hard to look after ourselves more than other people.

 Back in 2011, I had a letter DWP telling my Incapacity benefit was changing to Employment and Support Allowance.


The letter was full of jargon and there was too much information to understand.


There was far too much information for me to read and understand.



DWP shouldn’t send out unexpected letters or give people unexpected call, the Job centre staff make people aware of the changes face to face in the Job centre.



 Days, months, years and time need to be made out clearer to when the Jobcentre wants us in to tell us about the benefit changes and so they can make other places they may have to be aware. 


It is hard to plan our support when we don't know when they are going to call.

  People are expected to work; they can't be expected to be sitting at home waiting for the Job Centre to call.

 When something happens people don’t except this can bring their Anxiety and Depression so people should know in plenty of notice.



 The cuts are risks to lives of vunable people.




 There are worries for no reason other to save money that jobcentres will cut a lot of peoples’ benefits.




http://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-news/2015/02/18/wolverhampton-city-council-cash-crisis-more-jobs-and-services-to-go/


https://www.facebook.com/MSSociety/videos/10153588996953664/?fref=nf

riends-tragic-run-depression-20150313
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2015/03/21/suicide-isnt-painless/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/asda-knife-aisle-suicide-shopper-3285462#rlabs=2
http://ow.ly/KGu0J
http://www.buzzfeed.com/laurasilver/this-is-what-depression-really-looks-like
ttps://www.mencap.org.uk/news/article/further-benefit-cuts-will-evoke-fear-disabled-people

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coronation-street-actor-trevor-smith-5395327?ICID=FB_mirror_main
http://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/depression-isnt-what-you-think-it-is#.wwxPL46lM7

 How the cuts are affecting vulnerable people.

 A lot of vulnerable are on a lot less money to socialise which stops many getting out and meeting people to access friendships and relationships of their choice.

  It's important to vulnerable people to access friendships and relationships as much as it is for other people. A lot of vulnerable people have lost a lot of their social events through the cuts.

 Communication seems to be a big problem between vulnerable people and other people as a whole.
·       Despite of the communication barrier vulnerable people still have the rights to communicate with others the best way they can.
·       It’s important for vulnerable people to mix with other people otherwise they will lose self confidence.
·       Other people just need to make more effect to understand them.


Tuesday, 9 February 2016

Revision guide for the 2nd year student's assignment,


These days guys there's plenty of reference such as the internet as well as books from the University library, here are some useful tips and what to research for your assignment.

1. What are disabilities, health problems and long term conditions?
2. What type of disabilities, health problems and long term conditions are there?
3. Communication
4. Accessible information


1.Assessments find out what kind of assessments to people with disabilities and health with disabilities and health problems have to go through all their live on all topics.
2.Most people may be sent to the wrong places after their assessments think about how you can see that the person is sent to the right places after you assessed them?
3. Most people have been sent to the wrong places because they have been given the wrong diagnosed or they haven't been diagnosed at all, how can you give the right diagnose?

What benefit are there? Your research

1. DLA changing to PIP.
2. What rate of benefit is the person on? For eg; high rate, middle rate or low.
3. The amount of income the person will get will depend on the rate and even level of disability and health problems they have got.
4. It may even depend on the amount of care and support the person needs, although a lot of people due to cuts don't get as much or no care at all compared to what they used to.
5. Independence such as getting around.
6. What kind of care and support? For eg; personal care. Support with house work, cooking and shopping.


Employment and Support.

1. Working related group where there is a limit of what the person can do.
2. Support group is where they can do the odd bit volunteer work.
3. Find out what people go through to claim and get benefits.
4. Find out what people go through to get assessed.
5. Even education and work support.
https://www.gov.uk/employment-support-allowance/overview
This may be out of date but it is just example of what you may be need to know or and useful to know in case you have to know. http://www.tameside.gov.uk/esa/wca
https://www.google.co.uk/search?site=&source=hp&q=esa+assessment&oq=esa+a&gs_l=hp.1.0.0l10.2995.9449.0.12926.6.6.0.0.0.0.122.569.4j2.6.0....0...1c.1.64.hp..0.5.445.0.ppJ1GZL1OBs

Your patient's health is your main concern to you mainly they have disabilities and health problems. The huge concern has been people with disabilities and health problems having their benefits cut and even stopped. If your patient has their benefits cut or stopped, it can have a huge affect to your patient's health why is that? Please find out on my 2015 post of this website sararevealed.blogspot.com/ there's a lot of information you need to learn and be aware of.

Just to also remind you that this month will be Mental Health month so I will be raising a lot of awareness on my website and Facebook groups, which you are more than welcome to join if your on Facebook. I will advice you not to go on Facebook if you are student in college or university during class hours.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1039987746021742/?ref=bookmarks
https://www.facebook.com/groups/907563525994748/?ref=bookmarks
https://www.facebook.com/groups/264800150364109/?ref=bookmarks
https://www.facebook.com/groups/895482620570074/?ref=bookmarks

Read more information in the Disability Rights Handbook when it is updated in April or look online. Some the 2015 - 2016 information may still apply at the moment.

Just to let you know every April there is an update of the Disability Rights Handbook, which is update information on benefits, you may not need in your career but always useful to know just in case. This information is really for families, carers and advisers including disabled people themselves  but not everyone has those people in their lives.
http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/2402/disability-and-sen-needs-assessment-1792012.pdf

Wednesday, 3 February 2016

Plan for the Disability Hate crime presentation and handouts.


Introduction. What is Disability Hate Crime?  The purpose of the presentation is about Disability Hate Crime.
Why am I creating this presentation? I am creating this presentation because People with disabilities and health problems face hate crime more so that other people because they are more likely to be understood and disbelieved by others. Many people with disabilities and health problems can’t communicate in a way others understand. For that reason people who commit hate crime know that most people with disabilities and health problems are less likely to report them.
Mostly evidence can be very hard to prove as there cannot be CTTV cameras everywhere. A lot of people who commit crime can be less likely to get caught because they can find a place to target their victims where there are not any people around or very few. Since the government have bought in the cuts, most people can find it hard to accept being poor then they can take it out on their victims. Most people relate to drugs, break into buildings, shoot or and stab their victims.
It is unknown to how many people report hate crime as it is so high today. At least thirty – two percent of people who have faced hate crime disabilities, crimes have been reported to Mencap in 1999, these cases have likely to have risen since then. https://www.mencap.org.uk/search/apachesolr_search/Hate%20crime%20cases
How can we prevent crime? One way to prevent hate crime is. It would be better if there were more places for young people to go and more things to do such as hobbies, interests and careers but not all hate crime is down to young people. Not everyone who is poor takes it out on others.

Creating the Disability Hate Crime handout.
Anti – Social behaviour is a form of bullying and Hate crime. There are different types of Anti – Social behavior that can affect different victims in different way.
1.   How can hate crime affect your patience’s physically and mentally?
2.   What kind of disabilities and health problems have your patience’s got?
3.    Learn about disabilities and health problems off these links http://www.mind.org.uk/  https://www.rethink.org/  https://www.mencap.org.uk/?gclid=CL3C3M6o-qsCFcRO4QodcRHSlQ such as Anxiety and Depression, Epilepsy, Autism, Dyspraxia and etc.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tories-take-rape-victim-supreme-7256632