@jessicadazzler wrote:
Thank you, but I have already been put down by a few other people. Thanks so much for your input too 😛
It's all very well saying that people like your daughters fiancé are able to seek professional help, but there are countless people who have had 'professional help' for months or years on end and they are feeling no better. Doctors, counsellors, psychiatrists and psychologists can't do much for them.
So perhaps it is also worthwhile acknowledging that what works for some people doesn't work for others.
Jessica, I think your poster could have a positive place in the life of young mental health patients. While bright catchy slogans are not my thing, they could help to remind young people about some basics which DO help. Going to bed earlier, stop and breathe when stressed, focus on the things you can control and ask for help are all important parts of mindfullness techniques, used by physchiatrists to treat many mental health problems. AND YES THEY DO HELP.
Our family has been to hell and back with our young teenage son the last few years. He has suffered terribly from serious mental health problems similar to schitzophrenia with major depressive elements. This has resulted in a police stand-off ( several cars ) in a hospital car park for two hours, 36 degree day, while trying to have him admitted, police and ambulances attending our house and hand cuffing our son while having an "episode" which involved smashing up the house and threatening self harm with glass shards from smashed picture frames and me having to restrain my son for twenty minutes on the side of a major, busy highway, waiting for police and ambulances to arrive during a "turn". This has resulted in several stays in secure hospitals and three years of weekly physciatry, plus numerous visits to specialists.
The good news is that the phsyciatry and medication have worked. He has left school early and found permenant employment at a fast food joint ( low status job for some, .....heaven on a stick for us ) . He has embraced work, winning awards for customer service and sales targets. He is being formally trained to move up the ladder as a team coach and shift manager and at sixteen has already been left in charge of the store for periods of a few hours when managers have been called away. He has stayed away from illegal drugs, got his learners permit ( a big challenge with mental health problems and learning difficulties ), saved for and purchased major items and is basically on track for a positive future..
Although very sceptical at first, I believe the physchiatrists slow but steady approach, of teaching our son to use mindfullness tecniques has been a major help in assisting him to manage his condition.
Jessicas poster contains many elements of mindfullness. It is a technique that has to be learned at a deep brain type level and actually lived by the participants, not just glanced at and glossed over. I would encouage others with mental health problems to take the time to learn mindfullness techniques if reccemmended by their health proffesionals.
Although challenging, People with mental health problems CAN HAVE POSITIVE AND FULLFILLING LIVES
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