How mental illness can
lead so suicide
Suicide is a mental illness that is talking over America. We need to come up with solutions that we can stop this from happening to families.
Suicide is a mental illness that is talking over America. We need to come up with solutions that we can stop this from happening to families.
This ad is speaks
volumes about the pandemic that’s silently sweeping through our nation. Mental health is something that many people
have but none really want to admit to dealing with because we all want
ourselves and family to look like the good perfect family. Many people would rather suffer in silence
than to seek the help that is desperately needed because no one wants to be
singled out for being different even though all of us are different. Mental health problems are in every family,
all most every household (if not every household), and spans every culture on
the face of the earth. Mental health has
is the oldest disease in the world, it has been documented on every continent
on the earth and where ever there are people there will be mental health
issues.
There is a trend sweeping
the nation and it’s called “don’t tell anyone”, don’t tell about anything
you’re dealing with, you’re struggling with, especially anything that would
cause anyone to people to look down upon you.
Too many times people deal with things, on a daily basis, that they wish
they could just talk to someone about, they are literly crying out within
themselves wishing someone could see them and recognize the signs that
something is going on with them. Mental
illness is kind of like being in an abusive relationship, things may have
started out find in the beginning but somewhere along the way little things
happen. Little things happen for a while
and always compound to bigger things later and can lead many down a road that
there is no return from. So many times I
hear that “if I were rich I wouldn’t have any problems”, but the fact is that
regardless of your race or economic status, you can deal with a mental
issue.
This ad encourages young
adults to reach out to their friends who may be struggling with a mental health
disorder. Young adults can be a great asset to their friends by helping them
seek the help they need. It also encourages them to be aware of any mental
health changes in their friends. Suicide is one of the major causes of death
among this age group. Suicide happens
when pain exceeds the resources for coping with pain. Ending your life is the wrong choice for your
problems. Suicide changes a family
drastically. Some young adults have experienced physical and sexual abuse. Many are in DHS custody due to choices their
parents made. This age period is very
crucial because they are transitioning into adulthood. Any time you are
transitioning, it brings along stressors. Some stressors they experience are
graduating from high school, going off to college, and starting a new era in
their life. This ad offers resources on how to get your friends to open up who
are experiencing mental health issues. It also encourages us on how to minimize
the social awkwardness in order to help our peers seek the help they need. The
ad mentions the website SeizeTheAwkward.org, as a resource to help us recognize
the warning signs. The reason to mental health stigma is the lack of education.
The ad is also talking about helping a friend, and talking to them to see where
there head is.
Some of the warning
signs are feeling hopeless, expressing having no
reason to live, isolation, giving away personal belongings, being a burden to
others, depressed mood, and loss of interests in activities. Many people feel
like killing themselves is a way out of their present problems. They don’t feel
like they have any another options to deal with problems. They lack important
coping skills for everyday problems. Many seek other methods to deal with their
problems like drugs and alcohol. This ad
encourages us to recognize the signs so our peers can get the help they need.
It is my belief if more people were
educated about suicide, the warning signs, and who is at risk to help decrease
the suicide rate in the United States.
This ad brings just that to the light. The need for suicide prevention is quite
obvious because suicide is such a common dilemma in the United States. Suicide affects people from all socioeconomic
backgrounds, races, and different cultural groups. This is a common thing that is current thing
that is happening in young adults as the ad mentions.
This ad gives up to information on who to
contact if you witnessed someone displaying the behaviors that were previously
discussed. I believe that even though the treatment of
mental illness has progressed, we still have a long way to decrease the stigma
attached with getting help. The ad
mentions about young adults helping their peers because they are least likely
to turn to their parents for help. That
why our role is very important and crucial in helping others, but if we never
reach out to someone, want help or even believe we have a problem there can
never be any help for us. It always
comes down to everyone paying attention to our friends and neighbors to
recognize the signs of something happening with someone, even our own
family. I have found out that the use of
substances can move someone from sane to questionable in a heartbeat. Many people just try something when they are
young not believing there could be any lasting effects. Try a little weed, a little coke, a few sips
to be like everyone else, to deal with some issues, to take the pain away, but
this can magnify any mental illness that you’re dealing with, taking from a
level two to a level 6 in no time. We
all are dealing with something, we are all lacking in some area of our lives,
but how can me reach for our dreams when the one thing we are lacking is that
connection, that can get you to the state of being that regardless of what I
have to go through and no matter my issues there is someone to help me to come
out of everything I’m in.
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