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Mental Health: Don’t beware…BE AWARE AND CARE!!!
Hello. We all can live a great, purposeful life managing Bipolar Condition or any mental health situations.
The social stigma of mental illness used to bother me to no end…and contribute to my problems! I’m over that now, but I prefer to call it Bipolar Condition vs. “Disorder”. I also prefer to discuss Mental Health vs. “Illness”.
My story in general:
Matthew’s Mental Health Poems (continued)
Poem 33 Voluntary Work Helps My Life
VOLUNTARY WORK HELPS MY LIFE
I have been doing Voluntary Work for Many Years now.
My Mental Health Problems which are Also,
Mentioned about in my Poetry Book,
“SOME OF THESE MAKE SENSE, SOME OF THEM DONT,
BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT LIFE IS.”
Post Traumatic Stress, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder,
Depression not Clinical and Schizophrenia.
Pricing Books for a Local Hospice and working on the Till,
Another Charity Shop Pricing Dvd’s, Computer Games and CD’s.
Welcomer at a Cathedral, telling History,
from Roman Times to the Present.
18th Century Church near my Address, again talking History,
Which is what my Degree was in.
Mental Health and the Worker
No one ever lives a perfect life and we struggle with our own battles. At times it can overwhelm us and it becomes too late for those who not seek help. Lives are affected and changed forever. The start of my depression is unknown but my life is always in the look for meaning. After graduating college and trouble finding job I became involved in the mental health system. My battle with depression resurfaced as old issued reappeared with my daily clients. I am fortunate enough in my life to have support to have people who love and care for me. They give me strength and courage. With that strength and courage I was able to admit and begin to heal the wounds of depression. I continue now with therapy and continue with medication. There is no stigma in terms of mental disorder and no shame. You can carry on live a normal life. Believe in yourself seek the help you need and receive the help you need. Only thing I can ask as I see the day to day workings of the mental health system is more can be done. With growing violence, bullying, increased suicide rates, and deaths from substances more can be done. Day to day work there is success, but it is little. We are a revolving door for our clients giving them little resources and few chances to survive. Only hope is to continue to return or to continue to fail once they leave the hospital. If anything we need programs for long term hospitalizations.
Diana’s Story
My name is Diana I am a Consumer of Mental Health & thank you for listening to me. I will be talking about how Mental Health & Substance abuse programs have helped me get to this point in my life.
Starting at the age of 5, I suffered many traumas in my life starting with abandonment including sexual, incest, emotional and physical abuse along with forced drug use. As a result of those traumas I was afraid of everyone I thought what happened to me that everyone else would do it to me. At 15, I quit school, I was addicted to psychoactive drugs, I was in & out of jail and became homeless most of my life until 1998.
Living Life With Mental Health
Mental health is real. From depression to Autism, I’ve experienced some of things today in my everyday life. I was born with an mental health condition, Autism. It never easy for me to adjust. Fitting in with people, understand the world around me and having emotional issues, It took time and years for me overcome those struggles.
Poor Behavioral Mental Healthcare
In 1992 I was diagnosed a rapid cycler and mixed episodes. I was put on 14 different meds in 21 years. Mental Health ruin my life. In 2013, I was put on the right meds. In July 2013, I moved to a new town. I had to wait 4 months for a psychiatrist and social worker. I’ve never been without mental health care, since I started in 1987. I was able to see a psychiatrist a month early. I did the research and was able to get the help. When it comes to my Mental Health, I never take no for an answer.
Mental Health Poems- I Treat My Mental Health Problems as an Adventure
These poems cover 20 years of Matthew’s life up until the present day. Matthew wrote the poems and Beth, his wife, edited them. We are sending 4 poems today- Crash ( 3 verses), Mental Melt Down(5 verses)My stupid Decision Playing teh Ouija Board (4 verses) Very Likely Happening Before my Birth (5 verses)
poem1
CRASH
Two seconds to react,
screams are trapped in one’s throat.
The car and ourselves seem weighted by chains,
as time dies before car-car contact.
My eyes shut down to kill the haunting scene,
but dream time imagery will conjure up
? ? ?
Reality returns, strange forces emerge
swarming around the car, it’s the living dead!
I yell,
“have any passengers left this earth”?
everybody’s ok,
ordeal’s over and we can now just walk away.
Walking Down the Borderline
My name is Tyrene Casha. I am writing my story about how I recovered from mental health illness. I have recovered from numerous mental health disorders but the one I am discussing today is the disorder that haunted my existence for most of my life and caused me much pain and heartache; a borderline personality disorder.
I was not diagnosed till I was about 20 years old. When I was first diagnosed I laughed in my psychiatrist’s face and walked out. I didn’t even care if it was true or if it wasn’t, I was so high and life was great; what did it really matter? I can’t even remember why I was there in the first place to be honest. I spent most of my life on an impulse; using drugs and alcohol and craving danger. I had so much rage in me as well that if I was provoked, I became the danger. I was depressed at times but it meant very little because I was always on drugs. I spent ten years drinking and drugging to keep my disorder suppressed; re traumatizing myself and being traumatized in various ways that almost took my life till one day, I had enough. I decided to get sober and the breaking point for me was when I overdosed for the second time on methamphetamine; the first time was on ecstasy. This particular overdose brought me to the huge realization that there was something extremely wrong within me and I needed help.
My Life. I’m Living with Mental Health Issues.
Hi my name is Sarah h Baggett. I’ve had mental health issues in since I was 17. I have severe depression, severe anxiety, and Ptsd. I also suffer with paranoid thoughts with the severe depression. I take medication for these mental health issues. And the medication has helped me SO much. I’m thankful that there is medicine I can take for the depression and the other mental health issues. I am a human being. I’m not defined by my mental health issues. I do not call myself crazy. I call myself Sarah. I’m thankful I had the chance to get help with my mental health. Before my time in this world is done. NAMI was there in my life before when I needed them. Thank you Nami. I feel a deep hopefulness and love.
Aspiring Mental Health Professional
I suffer from a dual diagnosis of alcoholism and depression. I am now in recovery for alcoholism and am being treated for depression with an antidepressant and therapy to deal with life long issues. I now work in the mental health field and am going to school to be a mental health counselor. I very much feel that I have much to offer others who suffer from addiction and mental health issues, although honestly, some days feel I am worse off than those with whom I am working. I struggle daily with thoughts low self esteem and worthlessness and relapsing into alcohol usage! However, I realize that this will be a daily challenge for possibly the rest of my life. I want to encourage and inspire others who are also in recovery for addiction and mental illness to find help and support. There is hope for you if you just take the first steps.