Mental health support group

How are the mental health services in your area? My local psychiatric long-term ward ended up making me worse because I had to spend two days cooped up over the weekend, unable to concentrate on anything because of lack of exercise, because only the consultant could prescribe me leave.

Also, I feel alienated from the internet. I am unable to solve chess problems online; some flash incompatibility, which I don't understand. Sometimes I need the flesh of a chess problem to contrast with the softness of posting a poem. Often I become alienated to the extent that I become bored with being myself and just dive into maximum productivity!

UK - UK has improved my mood. It's more difficult than Danger Money, but more more rewarding.

I wish that I could say that this thread is surprising, but it's not. I don't know anything about mental health or how to help someone like you. I wish I could.

condor wrote: Also, I feel alienated from the internet. I am unable to solve chess problems online; some flash incompatibility, which I don't understand. Sometimes I need the flesh of a chess problem to contrast with the softness of posting a poem. Often I become alienated to the extent that I become bored with being myself and just dive into maximum productivity!

I'll say this much: we are in a millennial mental health crisis. As of 3 years ago, Canadian emergency department visits by patients aged 15-25 suffering from depression and anxiety had gone up 70% in a decade. Yes, SEVENTY percent--imagine if that was cancer or heart disease; we'd be freaking out as a society, and demanding to know what was causing it!

At colleges and university campuses (I teach at a college) most students registered with Accessiblity (disability) Services departments are now there for depression and anxiety (until recently it would be things like ADHD and learning disabilities).

I won't get into what is driving this huge increase in mental health problems among young people, but the problem is very real and frightening. Anecdotally, I can tell you that I and fellow college teachers are seeing more and more students come to us in serious crisis. Attendance and focus is well down, along with communication and interpersonal skills (like empathy) and the situation seems to be worsening each year. People are increasingly isolated.

Meanwhile, the resources are overstretched or non-existent, and we continue to discriminate against those who suffer from mental illnesses.

I wish the author of this thread, and all who come here to share, well, but we need to do better than that.

Edited by Peter - January 23 2018 at 21:47

Peter wrote: I'll say this much: we are in a millennial mental health crisis. As of 3 years ago, Canadian emergency department visits by patients aged 15-25 suffering from depression and anxiety had gone up 70% in a decade. Yes, SEVENTY percent--imagine if that was cancer or heart disease; we'd be freaking out as a society, and demanding to know what was causing it! At colleges and university campuses (I teach at a college) most students registered with Accessiblity (disability) Services departments are now there for depression and anxiety (until recently it would be things like ADHD and learning disabilities). I won't get into what is driving this huge increase in mental health problems among young people, but the problem is very real and frightening. Anecdotally, I can tell you that I and fellow college teachers are seeing more and more students come to us in serious crisis. Attendance and focus is well down, along with communication and interpersonal skills (like empathy) and the situation seems to be worsening each year. People are increasingly isolated. Meanwhile, the resources are overstretched or non-existent, and we continue to discriminate against those who suffer from mental illnesses. I wish the author of this thread, and all who come here to share, well, but we need to do better than that.

I think the evidence of crisis is clear throughout the UK too, and I'm sure, for all the same reasons as in Canada and the US, and all of western Europe.

I'd be fascinated to know the plethora of reasons behind it, and there will be reasons; dark, complex sociological reasons. I feel the twitch...the need to write down why I think it is, but it would be armchair social psychology at its worst, so I'll resist the temptation.