Mental Health Care: Beginnings
A person who admits weakness or has a number of mental-related issues is someone who may be willing or wanting to seek help. Some people, though, do not know where to start or who to look to. Not everyone can deal with any sort of mental pain on their own. If a call for help is requested, it is best to try to get the needed help any way possible to avoid being broken down substantially and progressively in the future. It is therefore a big issue to try to help certain individuals who may be ailing in the mental health department.
When I say "mental health issues," those issues in question can range from comical matters to more serious ones. Someone may simply be having some bad times and some bad days as an example of mental health issues. One person may have episodes of depression that lead to lowered self-esteem or being unable to think positively. That too can be a sign of some mental ailment(s) a person may be facing. If someone doesn't feel right mentally, it can lead to a number of problems that can range from poor health habits (such as overeating) or even increased hostility and anger. Some people admit they need help; some others may actually need help even if they do not show or want to be helped. It is best to try to get people to turn things around in time before it is too late.
Certain mental problems have certain levels. Even something comical can lead to someone being mentally unstable. For example, someone may be upset his/her favorite sports team lost a game or let a significant lead get choked away to a loss. This can be quite comical to many people. However, some may take even the smallest negatives too seriously to where someone starts breaking down mentally. The smallest and most insignificant things can lead to someone potentially heading down a path of poor mental health. Likewise, someone may have more serious mental health matters- such as having post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). If you or someone/something else does not intervene, there could be a great deal of trouble down the road for that person. So begins the process to try to help someone heal in such tough times.
Starting the Mental Healing Process.
The first thing to note is that anyone with any sort of mental issues are NOT failures. The last thing someone who is already ailing is to feel even worse- as if the specific person is any failure in life or society. People who are down in such senses should not be laughed at or regarded as lesser life forms because of their status of having poor mental health. These are people who want to become (for lack of a better term) the best version of themselves. When people do not feel like garbage or be treated like garbage, people can feel better about themselves regardless of whatever circumstances they may face. Henceforth, the first step in trying to help others feel better is to simply take in what a person is going through and try to offer your assistance where you can.If certain mental health issues further fester, people can start to becoming either truly depressed or even be reluctant to harm themselves or other people. Some people with certain mental health issues may become hostile and want to either injure or kill oneself or other people. Even some individuals responsible for incidents of mass shootings or any sort of mass violence have had certain mental health issues that led them to hurt or kill many people. Mental health is therefore a very serious subject. People who may be suffering mentally could have only so long before something disastrous could happen to themselves or to others. It is therefore critical that intervention of some kind must materialize before any worst-case scenario occurs.
It is time I offer piece-by-piece advice to help aid in people getting help with their mental issues. Please go to the next section...
Mental Health Care: Key Concepts
To help with the process of helping others feel better about their mental health, I have broken down my own advice into a few key pieces. It takes all of the following to really help people who may be suffering mentally. The prerequisites here include a mentally ailing person who must first admit to having such mental health issues, and a person willing to help must be able to provide facilities and care to try to help a mentally ailing person out to live better and happier. So please follow each heading and heed the advice to help make others' lives better.
Mental Health Care: Acknowledge.
The first step in helping someone feel better is to acknowledge someone is having some issues or may have some issues. Even a person who doesn't directly say he/she has some mental health issues, at least sensing someone is even remotely having such troubles should at least be recognized for it. Even if the person does not ask for help or feels like he/she needs help, at least recognize help is needed for someone.Mental Health Care: Listen.
Communication is important in a situation involving helping someone with mental health issues. If someone honestly has any sort of mental health issues impacting his/her life, let this person share what has happened or is happening in his/her life. One's ability to open up is a showing of strength, as that person is letting go of a burden that is hampering one's life. Make sure to hear out what someone is going through. If possible, even ask questions to try to get the whole story.Mental Health Care: Understand.
A person may actually be hurting and turns to you for advice and guidance. Rather than look at a person as a failure or as someone incredibly weak, understand this person is in a down state and is seeking any sort of help on offer. Try to understand a person's issues to hopefully offer something valuable in helping someone feel better. Do not try to complicate one's issues further being being generally mean and fussy at someone- these actions just makes a person's problems greater. I always like to say, "you do not solve problems by adding to them." So if you don't feel qualified or understanding enough to help someone out, then do not attempt to offer solid advice or provide anything useful or helpful. If you really do care about someone and want someone to be better, you have to work with that person and understand what one is going through and how that person is dealing with some situations in life.Mental Health Care: Care.
The next element is in the care itself. Once a person admits to having certain mental health issues and once that person's issues are understood, then begins the process of trying to care for that person. It does not have to be constant contact and continuous contact, but regularly be attentive and aware of what a person is going through. Try to offer advice or try to help a person feel better any way you can. Even if you are not the most capable to help someone with their mental health issues, at least try. Someone is better off getting some sort of decent help rather than having no help at all. Everyone deserves to live happily and feel good. Offer anything you can to try to get people to feel better mentally.Mental Health Care: Patience.
Finally, and most importantly, it takes patience to help those with mental health issues. The patience comes from not only the person suffering, but also from the person/people who help out such individuals. It is not likely one's mental health issues will be resolved overnight. Someone's issues may take seconds, days, or even years to be resolved. You still need to be in it for the long haul to get someone to feel better mentally.There are the key concepts: acknowledge, listen, understand, care, and patience.
Mental Health Care: Final Thoughts
If someone is having certain mental health issues, you can do a lot to help someone get back on track and feel better. The process may take some time, but anything to help people feel better while in such a weakened mental state is certainly worth trying to help. A person can ultimately feel better if that person is willing to want help, and also if you are capable enough to try to help someone feel mentally better. I defined the healing process under five concepts: acknowledge, listen, understand, care, and patience. Everyone deserves to feel better and live happier. You can do a lot to help people who may be facing some sort of mental health issues. Even if you are not the best at giving advice or offering sufficient help, you can at least play a part in helping someone overcome their issues rather than let those mental health issues fester into something toxic and dangerous. Everyone deserves to live the best possible life and enjoy all life has to offer. One would rather get the needed help rather than have to live with mental pain for the rest of his/her life.
Having said all of this. I wish all of you well in trying to help people overcome various mental health issues.
Mental health. Make the discussion.
One thing I haven't mentioned, though completely obvious, is that people with more serious cases of mental health or in crisis should seek help from healthcare professionals or certain qualified individuals. That is the information I put in my disclaimer here on "John's Life Space." All I can do is offer advice to help people deal with certain situations. While my advice may not be the best, it is far from being the worst. I can only do so much to try to provide hope and promise in the darkest of times. I hope you can appreciate my efforts nonetheless. On this note, I will end this blog post. Good luck to you trying to help other people as well as helping certain mentally ailing people get the needed help to turn their lives around for the better. Thank you for reading! Take care and be well.
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