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Rethink Mental Illness

Someone you know has a mental health problem.

FACT.Think it’s about time you got clued

up?GO BACK. WE MESSED UP

EVERYTHING!

If your friend had a broken leg…

If your friend had a broken leg, or they had just come out of hospital after an operation, you probably wouldn’t think twice about asking how they were. Just because someone has a problem you can’t see, doesn’t mean it has to be scary, weird, or any less real than something visible.

• 1 in 4 people will experience some kind of mental health problem in the course of a year

• About 10% of children have a mental health problem at any one time

• Women are more likely to have been treated for a mental health problem than men

• Suicides rates show that British men are three times as likely to die by suicide than British women

• Self-harm statistics for the UK show one of the highest rates in Europe.

• Depression occurs in 1 in 10 adults in Britain at any one time (10%).

• Around 1.3% of the English population have obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) at any one time. Up to 3% of the population will experience OCD at some time in their life.

• Prevalence rates for anorexia might be around 1 –2%.

For bulimia it’s suggested a prevalence rate of 1-3%. BEAT suggests that as many as 1.5 million people in the UK might be experiencing some form of eating disorder.

• Adults experiences phobias: 2.6% in England; 7.7% in Canada; 13.3% in the USA.

• Studies give a lifetime prevalence of 1% for bipolar disorder.

• Most studies show a lifetime prevalence for schizophrenia of just under 1 per cent.

In general, men tend to experience an onset of symptoms between the ages of 15-24, and women between the ages of 24-35.

Let’s do the Maths…

• Those figures = 13.8 million

• That’s 22% - over 1/5th of the British population already…

• And we haven’t even discussed HALF of the disorders!

Myth: People with mental illness aren’t able to work.Fact: We probably all work with someone experiencing a mental health problem.

Myth: Young people just go through ups and downs as part of puberty, it’s nothing.Fact: 1 in 10 young people will experience a mental health problem.

Myth: People with mental health illnesses are usually violent and unpredictable.Fact: People with a mental illness are more likely to be a victim of violence.

Myth: People with mental health problems don't experience discriminationFact: 9 out of 10 people with mental health problems experience stigma and discrimination.

Myth: It’s easy for young people to talk to friends about their feelings.Fact: Nearly three in four young people fear the reactions of friends when they talk about their mental health problems.

Biochemical Theories - Depression• Depression occurs when there is a shortage in the

neurotransmitters (chemicals) noradrenaline and/or serotonin in the brain.

• They found this by observing the side effects of the drug reserpine.–When given to patients, this drug interfered with storage of

NA and 5-HT in synaptic vesicles. – This caused depression in mentally healthy patients.

= Artificial depletion of 5-HT and NA induced depressive symptomatology.

People can’t control what their brains do!

Medication Effects

Instead of passing on to the next neuron, some chemicals go back to the neuron from where they came. This means the ‘message’ carried by that chemical isn’t being passed along. Medication can now prevent the chemical going back into the 1st neuron, allowing the chemicals and ‘messages’ to be transmitted to the next neuron.

Schizophrenia

• NOT a ‘split-personality’

• Hear voices• See things that aren’t there• Thought disorder

• Losing interest in normal daily activities• Loss of concentration

Biological Theories - Schizophrenia

• In PET scans, the same areas that lit up during hallucinations, also lit up during ACTUAL sounds. The brains of people with schizophrenia are creating REAL sounds.

• Based on the structures that switched on during hallucinations, it seems that at least some of the roots of schizophrenia may lie in a wiring problem deep inside the brain.

People aren’t ‘normal’ or ‘mad’• Everyone is on a continuum, mental illness is not black

and white. For example, people who suffer from anxiety may experience it nearly all of the time and be unable to leave the house, whilst some people may be able to live their lives relatively functionally.

Can People Recover from Mental Illness?

• Recovery is usually quite a long process and nothing will happen overnight, but given the right treatments and support people CAN recover from mental illnesses.

• In an illness such as schizophrenia and depression, people may have episodes again later in their life but there are treatments that can help and people can live completely normal lives.

It will never be me…

ANYONEcan suffer from mental health issues. It’s easy to feel great now and say, “not me, never me” but

most people would have said that at some point. You can’t control everything your brain does.

Even 1 in 5 doctors have contemplated suicide and 1 in 4 has depression or a minor psychiatric

disorder.

Why me?

When something happens to someone that they can’t explain, it is one of the scariest times in

their lives: why is this happening to me? Just imagine how you would feel if these things happened to you – how would you want your

friends and family to react? Support is such a helpful thing in mental illness,

when people feel so alone, but there are still people around to help.

Whoever you look up to…

• Writers such as JK Rowling and Charles Dickens• Actors such as Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Carrie

Fischer, Catherine Zeeta Jones or Jim Carrey• Sports stars in cricket, swimming, football, American

football, boxing or martial arts• Musicians such as Kurt Cobain, Frankie Sanford or

Elton John • Mathematicians such as Nobel prize winner John

Nash• People famous throughout history such as Princess

Diana, Buzz Aldrin, Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill

Whoever you look up to…

• ALL of these people have had mental heath issues. So before people make fun of, or act cruelly towards, anyone with a mental health problem, or assume that it’s only certain people and not ‘big tough sports guys’ or ‘gorgeous cool actresses’ that can become ill, they must remember that anyone can suffer with a mental health disorder.

• You wouldn’t insult your role model, so don’t insult anybody else with the same problem. People are SO MUCH MORE than their illness.

Don’t judge a book by its cover…

• Just because people present themselves in a certain way does not mean they are not feeling something.

• Don’t assume that if people have a mental health disorder, such as depression, but appear to be happy, that they are trying to get attention – if you had a problem would you want everyone to know about it or do you think you’d try and hide it sometimes?

• Finding things funny and laughing are very different to being happy.

Bullying• If your friend came into school upset because they’d

broken up with their girlfriend/boyfriend, or their pet had died, or they were having problems at home, you wouldn’t make fun of them. We all want our friends to be happy.

• So why bully people if this feeling of sadness/anxiety is on-going?

• We need to support people that need help, not make their lives even worse. People with mental illnesses are human beings; they’re not making your life any worse, so if you don’t feel you can help them, at least don’t make it any worse.

Many people say that being discriminated

against in work and social

situations can be

a bigger burden than the illness

itself.

How can I help?

• You don’t have to be an expert on mental health, simply asking someone how they are or sending a

text and listening can make a big difference.• Try not to use clichés like “chin up” or “it’ll pass”,

just be open-minded and non judgemental.• Remember, don’t just talk about mental health!

Talk about the things you usually speak about, like TV or what you did last night, just try to be as

normal as possible, there’s more to a person than their illness.

If you get really worried:

• Try an encourage your friend/relative to seek help from a doctor like their local GP.

Doctors can refer people to specialists so they can get the proper help they need, and can also prescribe

medication if it is needed.

• Talk to someone you trust about the issue: a parent, a teacher, a doctor etc.

• View the websites detailed on the information sheet provided for more ways in which you can receive help.

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