What are your opinions on people with "mental health"

[Kim]

Everyones got a mad mental friend.

Think people r 2 quick to label instead of understanding their life n wot they have been thru i mean people use this shit as an excuse if ur different frm everyone else ...unique..i dont kno any depressives

[Kim]

Cant get back to sleep now, i am thinking of the time my bestmates little sister came knocking my door for a place to stay after getting abused all her life, she was desperate but i had to turn her away cus my mom was ill.. She became a prostitute before her own mom sectioned her for lying about the abuse so fuckd up shes still in mental hospital to this day.....makes me angry it does!

[Guest babatundestacks]

Is making attention seeking topics a sign of mental weakness/health issues?

 

How is it an attention seeking topic.

We all know mental health is a taboo subject and plenty people have differing opinions.

[QPR Dee]

Mental sickness is very real 

 

However you have to question it sometimes. I believe a lot of it is a product of the environment that we are in

This is pretty much it

[QPR Dee]

Mental sickness is very real 

 

However you have to question it sometimes. I believe a lot of it is a product of the environment that we are in

 

See this is what im saying.

Go back 50 years ago or to your grandparents generation im pretty sure mental health weren't some big thing like it is now.

This mental health phenomenon has grown and a lot of the time it is self inflicted

 

I'll bite.

How is it self inflicted?

 

Obviously if you keep being negative,abusing substances or feeling sorry for yourself your gonna feel like sh*t.

Yeah you have no clue what you're talking about

Being negative, "feeling sorry for yourself" and substance abuse are consequences of mental health issues.

[dom dom bullets]

 

Is making attention seeking topics a sign of mental weakness/health issues?

 

How is it an attention seeking topic.

We all know mental health is a taboo subject and plenty people have differing opinions.

 

 

Was I talking about you though? Stop trying to make this about yourself smh. Any attention seeker

[Mongy]

How can the title be 'people with mental health'?. Everyone has mental health, some have mental health ISSUES. Nothing annoys me more than people who say 'has he/she got mental health?'.

 

Anyway, I work in the community mental health team in Salford (city next to Manchester) and have worked in a forensic hospital (prisoners with mental health problems), so I come across people with paranoid schizophrenia, bipolar, personality disorder and PTSD. So I will give you a non-qualified view of the conditions.

 

Paranoid Schizophrenia - There are different severities of this. This is when you can hear voices (they are not in the head, they are as if someone is in the room talking to you). I would say 90% of my clients that have this have used drugs in the past, or currently do. Most of the clients are quite independent and live alone but socialise with people with similar conditions. Most will not talk about what the voices say to them, as they are usually threatening harm to them or others. Sometimes people act on the voices and harm themselves or others. When a client becomes 'unwell' (starts responding to voices and becomes seriously affected by them), this is known as psychosis.

 

Bipolar - Again, different severities. This is where your mood is either low or high, rarely inbetween. Mood stabilizers are used to try and get you into the 'inbetween' but I have seen that these are largely ineffective. The low mood is quite simply depression, same symptoms etc. The high mood is quite amazing to watch really. You can hardly sit still, confidence is super high, you do things that you wouldn't normally do. The worst part of this condition is the slump after the high period when going into depression. Phases of low or high can be anything between a week and years but it is usually the same length of time for each person (if a person has 6 months of low, they will have around the same time high. Its rare that they will have a day of low then a year of high). Bipolar is hereditary. Unfortunatley my father has bipolar and I have some breakthrough symptoms but obviously with awareness, it can make it a bit easier to handle (never easy though, just easier).

 

Personality Disorder - This is a newer diagnosis. If you speak to older mental health nurses, they all believe that this isn't a mental health condition. In a way it is similar to bipolar but the person is narcissistic, the world revolves around them. So for example, a man with PD goes into the shop to buy milk, the shop attendant gives him short change, the reason that happened was to get at the man with PD, he was targeted (that's what the man believes). Its very very hard to describe this condition. I worked with a paedophile with PD, and without knowing his forensic history, you would say that he was a horrible man. He was also classed as a psychopath. Nearly all psychopaths have PD.

 

Personality disorder and personality 'issues' are on the rise RAPIDLY. Personally I blame social media and the internet. I can recognise traits in almost every teenager I come across in work.

 

Nowadays, sadly, paedophilia is classed as a mental health condition. I don't think this should be in the same bracket but it is, so sometimes we do have to deal with this clientele.

 

Anyway working in the forensic hospital was fun, every day you get someone swinging at you or verbally abusing you, but you have to be quite reserved to do the job, you cant take it to heart. Ive worked with some SERIOUS criminals, from murderers to arsonists. The way I worked was by talking to them as a normal everyday person, and not judging them by their crime. If you looked at their crime before meeting them, you automatically have an opinion.

 

I've just woke up so this post might be a bit all over the place or ive missed out some simple information, so just ask if you want to know any more!

[ag.]

c/s mongy 100%

[QPR Dee]

Ah personality disorders

That narcissistic shit grinds me

Few girls I was in hospital with had that, I understand why the old school nurses wouldn't agree, cause they're basically big kiss having tantrums stomping their feet in the way they act. They can be fuckin difficult and constantly vying for attention.

[Meticulous]

topic title annoys me so much

[Barney Stinson]

Everyone has some degree of "mental health" you mean "mental health issues" you nincompoop.

[QPR Dee]

Mental health is like physical health, everyone has it

It's just whether you fall into the desirable or undesirable side of the line and how far away you are from said line

[Niall Ferguson]

tarded thread

[Guest babatundestacks]

Let me just leave this here.

Its hard being depressed when your starving to death

[james00]

i agree with you that first world depression can seem petty relative to the rest of the world.

 

But a diagnosis of "kick up the backside and told to man up" is terrible.

 

 

even though the cause maybe relative the mental health damage is objective and needs to be treated accordingly. 

[Niall Ferguson]

 

 

But i diagnosis of "kick up the backside and told to man up" is terrible.

 

True.

[Beavis]

OP is so fucking retarded it is scary. Keep forgetting people like that exist.