Mental Health Awareness Week

Mental Health Awareness Week
10th _ 16th May 2021

Winston Churchill suffered clinical depression and it is from him we got the expression ‘the black dog’ to describe the condition, it is still used to this day.

https://youtu.be/XiCrniLQGYc

There is now much more dialogue around the whole area of mental health and high profile people in the public eye like comedian Ruby Wax and the Royals are doing much to bring understanding of mental health issues into sharper focus.

Mental health problems affect 1 in 4 people
It comes in many forms and often goes unnoticed by others. The person suffering mild depression muddling through but feeling close to the edge. The sufferer of chronic anxiety and panic who worries constantly, who avoids all kinds of situations and feels exhausted by the fear and the avoidance tactics necessary just to get through the day.
It is essential to get the right non-judgemental professional help and talking therapy is recommended. It is also important to set boundaries and this is something carers to need to do but find hard; equally the ‘pull yourself together’ or overly sympathetic approaches are not the best way forward. Although hypnotherapy is not recommended for psychosis, certainly in the case of the neurotic mental health problems organisations like Mind do recommend hypnotherapy among other interventions.

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/anxiety-and-panic-attacks/self-care/

Living with mental health issues can have a dramatic impact on the person suffering them but also on those around them, so public awareness of the sheer exhaustion felt by carers as well as those living with metal health is very helpful. This is why campaigns like Mental Health Awareness Week that create debate and highlight possible helpful interventions are so valuable.

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