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Mental Health Awareness Presentation
Mental Health Awareness Presentation
Workshop Aims: Describe what is Stress and the impact it may have
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Prevalence in the UK
Mental Health in the UK costs the economy
approx. 19 billion a year
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Prevalence in Wales
can cope with the normal Mental illnesses are associated with
Friedl, 2004
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Mental Umbrella Term
Health
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Mental Health Continuum
HEALTHY REACTING INJURED ILL
• Calm and steady • Easily agitated • Persistent anxiety and • Excessive anxiety, fatigue
• Normal fluctuations in • Angered sadness and sadness
mood • Frustrated and tired • Angry reactions • Regular panic attacks
• Fit • Difficulty focusing • Noticeable fatigue • Angry outbursts
• Fed • Decreased interest in • Poor concentration • Sever memory lapses
• Rested activities • Inability to enjoy activities • Cannot concentrate
• In control physically, • Nervous • Excessive distrust and • Cannot perform daily
mentally, emotionally • Impatient resentment routine
• Performing well • Unusual sadness • Sleep disturbance • Significant sleep
• Behaving ethically and • Difficultly sleeping • Hyper vigilance disturbances4loss of
morally • Vigilance • Persistent physical symptoms control
• Socially active • Problems with daily (aches and pains) • Avoiding or withdrawal
• Sense of humour functioning at home, work • Severe deterioration in daily • Significant change in
• Relaxing and recreating or school functioning in home, work or behaviour
• Confident in self and school • Indications of suicidal
others thoughts, intensions
• Symptoms get worse over
time instead of better
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Maximum Mental Health
• No fixed state
Has a serious,
No illness or disorder
diagnosable illness but
and positive
copes well and has
mental health
Maximum positive mental health Minimal
Mental Illness/ Mental Illness/
Disorder/ Disorder/
Problem Problem
Has a diagnosable No diagnosable illness
mental illness and or disorder but has poor
has poor mental health mental health
Right now :
1 in 6 workers are
experiencing depression, anxiety
or stress.
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Stress
The degree to which you
feel overwhelmed or
unmanageable.
(Covid 19)
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Stress is not a psychiatric diagnosis, but it's
Stress closely related to your mental health as:
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Fear
Fear is one of the most powerful emotions it can
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Fear is something that we consider is a bad thing and makes us
make bad decisions.
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Short-term Anxiety Everyone - even those that don't
have anxiety - can get anxiety when confronted with a
situation that causes nervousness. People get anxious
between
experience, but one that is disruptive nonetheless.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) When someone
Anxiety and has GAD, their fight or flight system is firing all
throughout the day at low levels, and occasionally can
GAD pick up at random times. This may cause shaking to
occur for what seems to be no reason.
You're most likely to be diagnosed with GAD if you
have had symptoms for 6 months or more
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Panic Attacks
A panic attacks create a feeling of
sudden and intense anxiety.
Panic attacks can also have physical
symptoms, including shaking, feeling
disorientated, nausea, rapid, irregular
heartbeats, dry mouth, breathlessness,
sweating and dizziness
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It is also possible to experience panic attacks
during a stressful life event then never
Difference experience them again. For example, a
person who is a victim of a crime or
between experiences a natural disaster – COVID 19
may have a panic attack during that event.
Panic attack
and Panic To be diagnosed with panic disorder, a person
would need to have recurrent and
disorder unexpected panic attacks
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Social Anxiety
Depression
disorder
Typical
co-occurring Generalized
anxiety
Specific
phobia -
conditions disorder
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Depression
Depression is a common mental
disorder, characterized by persistent
sadness and a loss of interest in
activities that you normally enjoy,
accompanied by an inability to carry
out daily activities,
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Depression
Statistics
Causes
Common types of
depression
Psychological
symptoms
Physical symptoms
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Depression
Some
Dysthymia
Depressive Episode
common Bipolar Disorder
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Depression affects 1 in 10 people during their
lifetime
3 million people are diagnosed in the UK
( this exceeds the amount of people living in Wales)
Statistics
Women are twice as likely as men to develop
depression
A depressive episode last about 6-8 months on
average
Working days lost in the UK due to depression is
approximately 9.8 million
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Black dog
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Providing appropriate support
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Recovery
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Self Care /Self
Assessment Self care
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Define Mental Health – Mental Ill Health
Workshop Aims: Describe what is Stress and the impact it may have
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