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Depression

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If you are depressed, you may feel that nothing can help. But this is untrue. Deciding to do something is the most important step you can take. Most people recover from bouts of depression, and some even look back on it as a useful experience which forced them to take stock of their lives and make changes in their lifestyle.

Personally for me I’ve never been depressed, I have been borderline because when i left college i felt like abit of a failure and i had about five weeks of no college or work. Those five weeks where the worst weeks of my life, I felt down for so long because i left due to an overload of coursework I had no motivation and just couldn’t do anything. As soon as I became employed my spirit was uplifted and I wanted to do everything all the time :)
~Sam Rudd

 

I was abused by my birth father and my uncles up and till I was 6, I was then Adopted. After i was adopted i never felt the same and got very depressed I suffered from a type of depression known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This type of depression means you suffer from flash backs, nightmares and many more symptoms, I still to this day suffer from flashbacks and nightmares. To overcome this depression I had many forms of help from counselling, antidepressants but the most help I had was from family and friends. My one biggest piece of advice to people with depression would be dont try and cope on your own ask for advice and support and always remember you are strong enough to get through this.
~ Anonymous

 

We all go through spells of feeling down, but when you’re depressed, you feel persistently sad for weeks or months rather than just a few days.

Some people still think that depression is trivial and not a genuine health condition. They’re wrong. Depression is a real illness with real symptoms, and it’s not a sign of weakness or something you can ’snap out of’ by ‘pulling yourself together’.

There are also various specific forms of depression:

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)

If you usually become depressed only during the autumn and winter, it could be due to not getting enough daylight. You may benefit from spending time sitting in front of a special light box.

Postnatal depression

Many mothers have ‘the baby blues’ soon after the birth of their baby, but it usually passes after a few days. Postnatal depression is a more serious problem and can appear any time between two weeks and two years after the birth.

Bipolar disorder (manic depression)

Some people have mood swings, when periods of depression alternate with periods of mania. When manic, they are in a state of high excitement, and may plan and may try to execute grandiose schemes and ideas.

The good news is that with the right treatment and support, most people can make a full recovery from depression.

Treatment for depression involves either medication or talking treatments, or usually a combination of the two. The kind of treatment that your doctor recommends, will be based on the type of depression you have. What can you do to help your self

Read more about the treatment of depression.

Sources Taken from Mind.org.uk – NHS.uk

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Self Harm

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Self-harm is a way of expressing very deep distress. Often, people don’t know why they self-harm. It’s a means of communicating what can’t be put into words or even into thoughts and has been described as an inner scream. Afterwards, people feel better able to cope with life again, for a while.

237 children were victims of frequent bullying: 18 (8%) of them self harmed. Of the 1904 who had not been bullied, 44 (2 %) had self harmed.

A person who self-harms is likely to have gone through very difficult, painful experiences as a child or young adult. At the time, they probably had no one they could confide in, so didn’t receive the support and the emotional outlet they needed to deal with it. The experience might have involved physical violence, emotional abuse, or sexual abuse. They might have been neglected, separated from someone they loved, been bullied, harassed, assaulted, isolated, put under intolerable pressure, made homeless, sent into care, into hospital or to other institutions

Approximately one quarter of all school-children in the UK are bullied at some point during their school lives. Victimization is associated with behavioral problems during adolescence, but few studies have tested the assumption that exposure to bullying increases the likelihood that a child will self-harm. The authors hope this study will help to identify those at greatest risk of self-harm.

According to research, the majority are young women, although the percentage of young men seems to be on the increase. Self-harming behaviour is also significant among minority groups discriminated against by society. Someone who has mental health problems is more likely to self-harm. So are those who are dependent on drugs or alcohol, or who are faced with a number of major life problems, such as being homeless, a single parent, in financial difficulty or otherwise living in stressful circumstances. A common factor is often a feeling of helplessness or powerlessness with regard to their emotions.

Self-harm can be about trying to stay alive – a coping mechanism for survival, and to escape from emotional pain. The majority of people who self-harm are not suicidal, but a small minority will intentionally attempt suicide. Some suicides resulting from self-harming behaviour may be accidental, occurring when someone has hurt themself more than they
intended to.

Sources Taken from Mind.org.uk

Drugs

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Street drugs are substances people take to give themselves a pleasurable experience, or to help them feel better if they are having a bad time, or simply because their friends are using them. They include heroin, cocaine, cannabis, alcohol and some prescribed medicines.

All street drugs have effects on mental health: that is why people use them. They are all likely to affect the way you see things, your mood and your behaviour. Unfortunately, while they may give a short-lived burst of pleasure, or an exciting experience, many of them have longer-lasting harmful effects and, for some people, they may cause long-term mental health problems.

The effects that drugs may have on you depend on:

  • the type of drug
  • the amount you take
  • how often you take it
  • your previous experience of it
  • what you want and expect to happen
  • the environment or social situation in which you take it
  • your mental state.

You may react differently to the same drug at different times or in different situations. If you are used to taking a drug in the same place and in the same way, a dose which is safe in that situation may become extremely dangerous if you take it somewhere else, unexpectedly, with no preparation.

Drugs may cause symptoms that are similar to those that lead to a psychiatric diagnosis. In the worst cases, drug use may trigger serious conditions such as schizophrenia or long-term depression.

You may become tolerant of some drugs, which means your body gets used to having them, so that you need higher doses to get the same effect.

Withdrawal effects are the body’s reaction when it doesn’t get a drug it has adapted to. They can be stopped, either by taking more of the drug, or by stopping using it completely; this may make you very unwell in the short term, and it may take a week or so – or sometimes much longer – to recover.

Click Here to View a Chart on Effects of Drugs

If your Finding everything a Little over whelming Click Here to find out extra information about help available to you

Sources Taken from Mind.org.uk

Low Self Esteem?

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Low self-esteem is associated with many mental health problems. They can feed off each other in a vicious circle; the more depressed or anxious you become the lower your opinion of yourself and your abilities, the more you avoid activities that could help to build-up esteem and address depression or anxiety. Even if you don’t have a mental health diagnosis, you will recognise the impact that your view of yourself has on your mood and nerves.

Body Image

To have a negative or bad opinion of yourself isnt going to help with your self esteem, and i cant be one to judge i use to dislike my face during my teens as i had a bad spate of acne but everyday i managed to find something to take my mind away from it. i tried creams and a number of different ointments but never really got very far.

Well when I 1st wanted the operation was because I hated my foot, I was so ashamed of it. I avoided wearing anykind of shoe that would expose it. I hated if I was at someone else’s not wearing shoes because you could clearly see it, eventually I did overcome it but I still always had it covered when wearing shoes. I just thought people would call me a freak for having a bunion since I was about 5 so I was bit scared of what people would think but past year it was hurting and they gave me the operation and one more week and maybe I won’t be scared to wear sandals and flip-flops again

~ Anonymous

 

Well before my dad died I was a lovely just right weight girl but after he died I turned to food and comfort ate and ate. I use to think I was such a pretty girl and wasn’t shy one bit! But I put weight on and I was ashamed of myself, but never stopped being depressed so I carried on eating and eventually I was a bloody hippo in my likings! The more I looked in the mirror the more I ate because of the depression eventually my mum realised I was getting fat and stopped all junk food and made me walk our dog every day! I lost a bit but not enough. But now I’m at my average weight but I still hate my body. Getting pregnant made it worse and I hate it  trying to get the motive to lose weight again but I don’t  yea came out shell of not being shy but my muffin tops I hate, I can’t ever hide them no matter what I wear  tried losing them but so hard I just think I’ll always be ashamed of my body no matter what any future partners will say, I’ve started wearing tops for sex and in the dark

~ Anonymous

Unintelligent

Thinking that your not as brainy or intelligent as someone else just because you didn’t finish that course or degree… Your don’t actually need the best education to get the best opportunities. Although i went to college and studied for two years when i had the opportunity to to do a third year but i decided to drop out. look at what im doing now… Click Here for more info

Try and do something that is positive once or twice a day, have a laugh go and chill out with your friends spend time with your family and the people that love you,  ultimately you want to work towards that goal, as achieving goals will help you feel better as a person. If you feel i have missed something here please don’t hesitate to comment, if you would like to keep it private Click Here to drop me a private email. Do you like these kinds of posts? i would like to know what you think

Where do Teenagers sit in Society

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Whether you are in Europe, US, Russia or anywhere in the world. Teens being on the streets are a world wide problem, But why? We need to provide places for teens to go, a place to sleep, somewhere to get something to eat, or someone they can go and talk to and a place for them to just chill-out with each other. You may walk past a teenager in the street with some kind of prejudice but really you don’t know the half of it… maybe that person was kicked out, abused, ran-away from home or just couldnt cope in his home environment… You never know, but why should we stand by and let this go on? its not their fault maybe they have been miss-lead or brought up in the wrong environment, The youth of today will be like us in the future, We may need to give them some positive guidance but with the right help and a push in the right direction anyone and i mean ANYONE can and WILL achieve anything if they put there heart and mind to it. What are your thoughts on this matter? Leave a Comment below