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TOPIC : MENTAL HEALTH
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John G.Robinson (Fr) - Edinburgh |
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Thank you for the TV programmes and advertisements on this matter around this time.
I was particularly empathising with the fireman? who found that those closest to him providied no support - indeed did something worse - isolated him! From my own expeience of mental Illness and especially (what I allege and will contend in court) was inappropriate detention by Police (sect 118) and 5 days in Psychiatric Hospital - is that Family need lots of info and support to better understand what is going on for their member. In my own case little was on offer. Many find that it is so easy to suggest someone is "off their head" or has had/is having a"nervous breakdown" - this is a rather convenient way of individuals/organisations/institutions (even the Church!) dumping their responsibility to investigate why the person concerned is having some mental health difficulties. No one at the hospital ever asked me why I was there - no one asked what had been going on in my life! While medication is very useful, and some distance kept from stressful situations / workplaces is useful, there can be no remedying of the original cause unless someone asks - and double checks that they have got it right. Then the Mental/Health Professionals might even facilitate at least a beginning of some resolution of the issues! A task for......? who? Mental Welfare Commission? Lawyers?
For me this area needs speedy attention. That then runs alongside whatever a patient can do for him/herself, especially when he/she has thereby been deprived of their job, even house - as I was!! Glad to know that some work on mental health issues is being / will be dealt with in Schools - can't start too early.
Also, Churches need to be agents of better understanding about mental health lest they continue that sad tradition of giving the impression that there is some spiritual lack fault in the person! Often such an occasion of mental illness is in fact an opening to seeing life in a very different way, and to spiritual growth - not from more praying - but from a facing of ones-self deepdown and drawing on new knowledge about the human condition. Also from caring for one's physical self by way of exercise and e.g. therapeutic massage.
Thank you for what others have shared, and thank you for this opportunity to share. John R. Thank you |
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Anon |
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My brother was diagnosed with Bi ploar a year ago. Its affected our whole family, and everyone seems to be finding it very difficult to cope with. My brother is still very ill, he has been on several types of medication and nothing seems to be helping. My family feel like there is very little help available. id love to hear from people with similar problems, and how you and your families came through this terrible time. |
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Anon - Edinburgh |
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Clinical Depression: "Pull your socks up"
I told my employer that my work may be suffering due to low motivation and morale over two years ago. This was intended to be an informal "heads-up", in case anyone should observe, and be concerned, about a deterioration in my work output. Some weeks later, after obtaining medical opinion from my GP, I was referred to a psychiatric unit and my conditions were diagnosed to be clinical depression, BDD and Social Anxiety Disorder. I was prescribed Paroxetine and advised to take two weeks off work, while the initial side effects of the medication subsided. I briefed my employer, but suggested that I would remain at work for the two weeks as it may have been better than "skulking around at home with nothing to do". When the initial symptoms peaked, I decided to take a couple of days off on holiday during that two week period. In spite of some bad press which this medication has received over recent months, I have found, since then, that the improvements to morale and lifestyle easily outweigh the unpleasant side-effects which occur only occasionally. Shortly after the end of the fiscal year (May 2004), my employer launched a "capability procedure" against me. While, in my mind (and with the help of the NHS), I believe my symptoms have improved since the initial assessment, the procedure was described as a "pull your socks up" warning. This was insulting enough in my opinion, considering the personal improvement in my mental health and clear improvement in my work, and had an immediate detrimental impact on my condition, specifically BDD. Just to be clear at this point: the procedure was launched because of 9 days illness over 1 year, all of which appeared to be either encroaching symptoms of my condition, or the side-effects of the medication (flu-like symptoms, "electric shocks", nausea etc). Last week (08/10/04), I made a complaint regarding a fairly personal comment from a director, and directed at myself regarding professional competence over the past year (in the middle of a meeting with the director AND my colleagues and peers). I was then told by a manager that any inability on my part, regarding a mental health issue, "is not the company's responsibility" and that dismissal from the job would be a valid course of action, with "a duty to the shareholders". I have always been impressed with the Scottish Executive's awareness campaigns, particularly with respect to the normally "non-mainstream" issues, such as depression. My employer is an English-based company, with a small, branch office in Edinburgh. I am confused: if a company is based in England, do their own rules apply across the border?! |
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scott mckinnon - kilwinning |
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I was diagnosed with a mixed anxiety depression disorder about six months ago. i agree that the main thing to go was my confidence mainly due to episodes i suffered whilst in company. I have been doing well recently but now find that getting back to work is a problem, not for me but on application forms having had more than a year off sick. Even to go onto college where i would like to become a nurse the form emphasises how fit you are for the course. I could tackle anything but will someone give me a chance because so far it has been no.
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Moira Urquhart - Perth |
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More people with Mental ill health are becoming more isolated because of lack of resources.Services difficult to obtain public holiday's weekends |
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amanda - montrose |
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it can take minutes no create a mental health problem but years to even start to understand what the problem is then try to come to terms with it |
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Venerable K Sri Rewatha Thero - Glasgow |
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As a Buddhist monk I teach that the mind is the forerunner of all conditions. It is our relationship with our mind that affects our relationship with ourself and others around us. It is only by cultivating positive self regard that we can learn to respect others. The inner mental ecology is fundamentally connected to the outer environment |
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C - Edinburgh |
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I know i have a problem with my mental health but, i do get paranoid about going to the doctor to say i feel worse or that i doubt the medication is working.
There is a stigma attached and though people try and help it is embarrasing to explain these things to family.
My family wont even tell my relatives that i have a problem so i feel very uncomfortable being around them (my relatives) I just feel lost half the time and dont know how to explain whats wrong other than say im upset and i cant handle whats going on, i seem to get nervous in public now as well.
I dont know what to do as i am still embarrased to go to my GP because i fear that i will be seen as a hypocondriac due to my other medical problems.
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diane paterson - edinburgh |
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i have been in an out of hospital this year for depression...i have supposed to have a cpn and phychrists but they never bother getting in touch..i want to die i dont want to live anymore...but no one listens...so i know how lonely lots of people out there must feel..it took a lot to ask for help and now i have they dont care.. i feel bullied into staying alive because i have 3 kids...but i cant fill the hours in my life..i feel lonely and suicidal but no one listens.... |
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Yvonne Beattie - GLASGOW |
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Depression & drugs
My young brother was found dead on the 8th June age 35. We arent sure if it was suicide and its still being investigated. He had been a drug user on and off for the last 20 years. He had been in rehab 4 times and in and out of Crisis centres. All the centres were excellent but I strongly feel they are the 'poor relations' and dont get the support or funding they really desperately require - and unfortunately the end user suffers because of this - I feel that my brother could have been given more support and help - but the stigma attached to drug use and users is so bad that it isn't deemed a priority.
I hope that soon it will be recognise more as an illness - self -inflicted or not - it should be given more attention.
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joyce macrae - inverness |
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Mental Health
two years ago i did not think i would be in this situation my husband 57 went out to work kissed me goodbye and that was the last me i saw him alive he hung himself we had no money worries had a nice home life alovely family ow we haveto live with this every day always wondering if we should have noticed anything different i have since his death set up a charity called s.a.g. (suicide awareness group) we are based in inverness and we are just a support group who are able to say to people who have lost someone to suicide we do know how you feel our telephone number is 01463237314 and we are always on the end of the line. |
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Barry mackay - Inverness |
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Mental Health
I work for a charity supporting people with mental health issues into employment under the ethos of everyone is equal and employable,the charity has recently been awarded funding from jobcentre plus to work with more people and we are looking to raise awareness of our free service. |
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jim macdonald - hamilton |
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Mental Health
I AM A 40 SOMETHING! POLICE SERGEANT, WORKING IN GOVAN..HAVING SUFFERED FROM DEPRESSION FOR MANY YEARS..AND COPED! SEEKING ADVICE/HELP etc..I NOW HOLD MANY QUALIFICATIONS ON THIS ILLNESS. I BELIEVE I COULD HELP REACH OTHERS , HELP AND ENCOURAGE BY SPEAKING ON "TALKING SCOTLAND"..(WELL HOW OFTEN DO YOU HAVE A POLICE OFICER WHO CLAIMS TO BE HUMAN?..) REGARDS JIM MACDONALD.. |
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