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There is a broad variety of Mental problems. It’s fascinating and scary at the same time. Often the idea goes trough my mind, how would a mental problem feel like? Or: Is this mental or fantasy?I was also searching for this online, and found some interesting mental problems, such as the psychotic disorders. What I understood is that Psychotic disorders involve issues regarding one’s awareness and thinking. Which can be: hallucinations, hearing voices, delusions, and even Schizophrenia is an example of a psychotic disorder.I also found helpful suggestions in a mental health treatment plan is a document that contain and outlines the details of a client's current mental health issues and outlines the goals, targets and strategies that will assist the client in overcoming mental health issues. To obtain the information needed to complete a treatment plan, a health worker must interview the client. The information gathered during the interview is used to write the a complete treatment plan.Steps to proceed when setting up plan:A: Mental Health AssessmentGather information. A psychological evaluation is a fact-gathering session in which a mental health worker (counsellor, therapist, social worker, psychologist or psychiatrist) interviews a client about current psychological problems, past mental health issues, family history and current and past social problems with work, school and relationships.Follow the sections of the evaluation. Most health facilities provide the mental health worker with an template or form to complete during the interview.Note behavioural observations. The counsellor will conduct a mini-mental-status exam which involves observing the client's physical appearance and his or her interactions.Make a diagnosis. The diagnosis is the main focus. Sometimes a client will have multiple diagnoses such as both Major Depressive Disorder and Alcohol Use. Diagnoses must be complete before a treatment plan can be completed.B: Define goalsDetermine signNowable goalsOnce you have completed the initial assessment and made a diagnosis, you will want to think about what interventions and goals you might want to create for treatment.Think of interventions. The interventions are the meat of change in therapy. Your therapeutic interventions are what will ultimately evoke change in your client.Discuss goals with the client. After the initial assessment is conducted, the therapist and client will collaborate to create appropriate goals for treatment.Make concrete goals for treatment. The goals are also what make up a large component of the treatment plan. Use the SMART methodC: Setup the treatment planRecord the treatment plan's components. The treatment plan will consist of the goals that the counsellor and therapist has decided on. Many facilities have a treatment plan template or form that the counsellor will fill out. Part of the form may require that the counsellor check boxes that describe the client's symptoms.Write down the goals. Your goals need to be clear defined. Remember the SMART goals plan and make each goal specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-limited.Express specific interventions you will use. The counsellor will include treatment strategies the client has agreed to.Sign the treatment plan. Both the client and the counsellor sign the treatment plan to show that there is an agreement on what to focus on in treatment.Review and improve as needed. No plan in perfect. You will be expected to complete goals and make new ones as the client progresses in treatment. The treatment plan should include dates in the future that the client and counsellor will review the progress the client is making. Decisions to continue the current treatment plan or to make changes will be made at that time.Hope this was all interesting for you!Source: Mental Health Treatment Plan

Thanks for A2A.Do you personally prefer a male or female doctor? What experiences have lead you to this preference?My current GP is female (Ob/Gyn in fact). Over my long history of chronic illness, I have found that female doctors are generally better listeners, and less inclined to be dictatorial toward the patient.While at Uni, the students’ doctor was male and noticed a tab of skin on my inner thigh. When queried, I answered that it had always been there since childhood. He asked me about sexual activity. “What’s that? There’s obviously none of it in my life,” but he still insisted on sending me to a sexual health clinic in case it was a genital wart! After something like 30 years, I very much doubt it would have remained alone. Eventually, I went to a totally different practice and had all potentially embarrassing skin tabs “burned off”.I know there’s a potential for racism in what follows, so I shan’t mention the specific race, but I’m deathly afraid of having to attend our local A&E when a certain female doctor is on duty. She is scatty and unfocused. She needs to be nailed to the desk or chair to get a proper consultation. “I’m here because I’ve damaged my ribs. I don’t care what you think about my blood pressure—for me that’s in the normal range. FFS! Can you even stay in the same room for 30 seconds?” A friend of mine has a mother of the same race, and her behavior is nearly identical.Obviously, that is all very general. There have been male doctors in my history whom I’ve found to be very helpful, and there have been females who were stand-offish and dictatorial.I have to admit a bias toward male chiropractors. After tearing T5/6, it simply won’t adjust in a prone position and requires what is called a wing-lift of such vigor that most women are simply not muscular enough to accomplish.

According to statistics revealed on February 28, 2018, every year, almost 42.5 million American adults or 18.2% of the entire American adult population experiences some form of mental illness. The conditions include depression, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.Furthermore, the data indicates that about 9.3 million adults, or 4% of individuals ages 18 and above experience severe mental illness which hampers their routine tasks.

I’m not aware of a list where they keep track how many people currently suffer from what. But I can present a few disorders that don’t occur very often compared to the well known ones like Depression. The two below are my “favorites”, as far as you can have favorites.Cotard’s Syndrome: This is a freaky one, also known as walking corpse syndrome. Here the patient believe (s)he is dead or doesn’t exist, yet still walks the earth. Some also experience that they are in an advanced state of decomposition or have lost all of their blood and organs. Strangely some also think they are immortal.Consequences of this delusion is that they disregard personal hygiene and health, which may lead to dangerous situations. It may sound familiar to people who watched Scrubs, they had this one in an episode as a side-joke.It’s still a bit of a mystery, but it has been linked to severe depression, sleep deprivation, and certain drug psychosis. But none have proven reliable.Capgras syndrome is another delusion. Here the patient firmly believes that everyone (s)he holds dear have been replaced by impostors (or aliens or demons). It’s strongly linked to schizophrenia but also occurs as the result of brain injury, dementia, and even things like diabetes. Curiously these patients are able to recognize loved ones on the phone, it is purely limited to facial recognition.What most likely happens is that the face is recognized by the patient, but the accompanying emotional response does not occur. So you see a face but you don’t feel the same type of familiarity, it feels cold and distant, not the person you know. This naturally leads to the idea that its an impostor, “something is not right”.There are more curious mental conditions, but they don’t really fit the category of mental illness. Things like Pica syndrome where patients eat things not meant for eating. Alien hand syndrome is incredible too, it’s a phenomena where the hand of split brain patients does its own thing, often working against the persons intention. But these are usually temporary symptoms and not full fledged mental illnesses.

We have tried gun control, more gun control, and then even more gun control, and it hasn't accomplished anything. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. How about we try a different approach by adding some physical security in schools like we have in government offices and workplaces?Restricted entranceMost shooters bring guns in through back doors after the school day has started. After classes have started, everyone has to enter through a main entrance. People can leave, but cannot enter through secondary doors. Visitors need to be buzzed in or escorted to enter the classroom area. Many schools already implemented this policy to prevent parents from abducting their children during custody disputes.Metal detectorsWe don’t need those full body scanners like they have at the airports, or x-ray machines for backpacks, but why not add those simple walk-through metal detectors like they have at government offices? Is protecting government employees more important than protecting our kids? For crying out loud, they sell them on Amazon! Metal detectors would not just detect guns, but will also detect knives and improvised explosives. Inner city schools have metal detectors, and you don’t hear about a lot of school shootings in inner city schools.Metal detectors in schools: Boston's success storySafety glassHardened reinforced glass on first floor doors and windows. You can shoot a hole through them, but you can’t kick them in and enter through them. After one shot, the glass prevents someone from seeing in, which would allow people to escape.Electronic door locksDoors held open with electromagnets. If in lockdown mode (which can be triggered electronically by any teacher), the doors are released and close automatically. When on lockdown, only staff or first responders can unlock doors. People can exit, but cannot enter. Shooters will be stuck in hallways without any victims.Man trapsAnyone entering from a secondary entrance must pass through two doors. This will require 2 people to assist someone coming in, which will prevent lone gunmen. Alarms sound when both doors held open unless disabled with a staff badge.Add to the above school resource officers, security cameras, ShotSpotter in common areas, rules against bringing backpacks to assemblies and wearing trench coats.A combination of the above could completely eliminate school shootings. Yes, it will cost money, but how much are the lives of your kids worth? Banks, government offices, and many workplaces already have this kind of physical security and they have been proven to reduce shootings. If it’s good enough for where adults work, it should be good enough for where our kids go to school.The NRA worked with FBI, the Secret Service, other law enforcement experts and school superintendents to put out a series of recommendations on how to protect children from school shootings. Over 100 schools have implemented these protections.National School ShieldIn addition to the above, we need to give Law Enforcement the tools to prevent these tragedies, while still protecting people’s Constitutional rights..Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPO)These are also called Gun Violence Restraining Orders. If an immediate family member or LEO has a good reason to believe they pose a threat to themselves or others, they should have their guns taken away. As long as the target is allowed Due Process, they are for a limited period, and these orders expire automatically unless renewed, it can prevent shootings, while protecting people’s rights at the same time. It may not be appropriate to notify the target on the initial order because that could prompt an unstable person to react violently, but they should be able to have legal representation and call witnesses for any renewals. In extreme cases where the courts decide the target is still a threat, a judge could order the firearms be confiscated indefinitely until the target can present evidence that he/she is stable. A judge may require the target to complete anger management classes, rehab, or attend counseling. The Parkland shooter reportedly made many threats verbally and on Facebook that he was going to kill people and that he wanted to be a school shooter. There was plenty of evidence that he was unstable and if law enforcement had confiscated his firearms, this shooting could have been prevented.Records Show Far More Calls For Sheriff's Deputies To Visit Suspected Florida Shooter's Home

Why should I pay for other people’s healthcare when I can barely my afford my own?The reason you can barely afford your own health care is due to the fact you don’t want to pay for other people’s.In subscribing to the idea that a ‘socialised’ health care system is simply you paying for ‘other people’s’ you allow and encourage the privatised health care monopoly which is existent in no other developed nation other than the US.In every other developed country it is common for people to check their list of symptoms before deciding whether or not to seek medical assistance.Only in the US is it common for people check their list of symptoms, then their insurance documents and/or bank balance, before deciding whether or not to seek medical assistance.Taking my own country as an example: In the U.K. we pay National Insurance. This is a proportionate percentage of our salary which goes towards funding the NHS - our health care service, in case we ever need it.In the US you pay, or have as part of your salary, a health insurance premium which goes towards funding your healthcare in case you ever need it.What’s different? We’re both paying for something called insurance each month that goes towards funding any healthcare we may need.‘What’s different, Paul, is that your premium doesn’t pay for just you, it pays for everyone else whether they work or not, to receive the same level of care as you. That’s unfair!’Is it? Let’s compare.Which am I more okay with? In System 1 the money I pay goes directly into a pot which funds the very same facilities I will rely on if I ever need them, and yes, funds the care of other people who will use the same facilities when I’m not doing.In System 2 the money I pay goes directly into a pot which will only fund the facilities I will rely on if I need them if and when I need them. The rest of the surplus cash goes directly into various shareholders’ pockets and funds the lifestyle of said parties.In System 1 I’m paying for a new MRI machine I hope I’ll never have to use but other people will see the benefit of in the meantime. In System 2 you’re paying for a new yacht you’ll definitely never get to use but a certain few other people will see the benefit of.Thanks for opting for the Chemotherapy, John!Image creditWhich is more unfair?In System 1 that premium I pay every month means I that I will receive a comparable [1] level of care without ever having to pay anything more than the equivalent of $10 for a course of medication. My premium is unaffected regardless of how much medical care I need in the long or short term.In System 2 I’d have to pay a cost up-front which would be (hopefully, depending on the plan) offset by the premium I pay, and face an ever increasing level of monthly premium depending on how much care I require. In terms of maximum cost there is theoretically no ceiling to how much I may have to pay.The worse my condition is, the more it’s going to cost me. The notion that the worse my condition the less capable I may be of working to fund this ever increasing cost to maintain a quality of life is, apparently, a ‘me problem’.All we’re saying Paul, is it’s only a few small deliveries and since you’ve now got your own personal transport…Image CreditContinuing in this vein, in System 1 I pay a flat percentage, or a tax if you will, of whatever my income is towards my healthcare. The more I earn the more I pay but this is proportionate. I’d miss 10% of a £1000 monthly income as much as I’d miss 10% of £10,000 monthly income. This amount won’t change regardless of how much care I or any of my family needs. As a result this is not a ‘perk’ of any particular job. It’s the same in any career. The right to this care is not something my employer can use as part of a negotiation when discussing remuneration for my work.Sorry, we can’t offer you any more money, but who needs food when clearly the dental on offer here is second to none, am I right?Image creditIn System 2 the amount I will pay towards healthcare is dependent on a number of factors including my profession, geographic location, current level of health or the health needs of my family. This is all subject to change depending on the fluctuations of the private market which has been constructed around it. A comparable level of cover will cost me the same if I’m on $1000 a month as someone who is earning $10,000 per month. The difference here is I’ll definitely miss that flat fee of, say $500 or 50% of my income more than the $10,000 per month person will miss 5% of theirs.System 1 means everyone can earn at least £162 per week without paying a penny, 12% of whatever you earn up to the next £730 per week on top of that goes towards your healthcare (and more but we’ll just stick to health here) and if you’re in a well-paid job where you earn over £892 per week just 2% of everything over that is taken towards National Insurance [2]. For this you get all the healthcare, doctor’s appointments, therapies, surgeries etc that you will ever need with no extra cost like co-pays or deductibles.System 2 is anyone’s guess. Depending on the insurance company, your employer, your medical history and needs and that of your dependents, where you live and what you do then the cost can vary quite wildly. And not everything is covered and there’s a good chance you’ll still need to pay towards whatever care you need on top of that.Yet there are those who would fight tooth and claw to keep System 2 over System 1. Because either:They would rather pay more and for any unused premiums to go to making shareholders richer rather than helping other people or improving healthcare facilities they may one day need when they don’t immediately need them, or…System 1 is ‘socialist’.Which brings me on to my next point. The concept of public healthcare is marketed to the people in the US as socialist healthcare.In every other country where it’s available it’s referred to as universal healthcare.This labelling here is important.Whilst everyone recoils from socialism as being anathema to the American virtue of working hard to provide a better life they view universal healthcare as a way of rewarding those who don’t want to work.But rewarding them with what exactly? The luxury of still breathing?God grandpa, it was your choice to retire. If you wanted to keep the heating on AND treat your arthritis you should have kept working at the factory. You’d already done 50 years - another 10 wouldn’t hurt. Now you expect us to help pay for you? What’s your fucking problem?!Image creditThis is where it gets confusing. In the US you have the god-given, inalienable right to freedom, liberty, and justice. You have the right to own a firearm and speak and walk freely without undue persecution or hinderance.But you want to actually be alive to excercise these rights?Sorry Joe, you’re gonna have to pay us for that.There’s the difference. Healthcare in other developed nations is seen as a right. The right to life and a quality of life. In the US it’s seen as a consumable, a product, a luxury that (and I’m aware of the ridiculousness of this statement) something you can maybe afford to live without?Universal healthcare is not some Marxist, socialist, communist nightmare. The rich are not ceaselessly punished for being successful. Take the figures I quoted earlier on the rates of contribution to national insurance. If you’re on a low income (less than £162 per week) then you need that money for things like food and shelter and other necessities. You pay nothing.If you’re earning over £162 up to £1000 you still don’t get charged anything on the first £162 of your weekly income, that’s yours. Then it’s 12% of whatever you earn between £162 and £892 each week. Most of us fall under this category [3].But whereas under the awful socialist construct the unwashed masses should then pursue the rich and successful for every penny to feed the poor and unwilling to work types, you are instead charged 2% (yes 2%, not 12% or 20% or 99% like some would have you believe the so-called dirty socialist model calls for) on anything you earn over £892 per week.I’ve heard about them golden eggs of yours, now share with the state you flappy bourgeois bastard!Image creditTo put this into context, the average US salary is $857 per week [4] or £656. In terms of national insurance for universal healthcare you would pay £59.28 or $77.53 per week. Taking a monthly salary on an income of $3,714 you would pay $335.18 each month. That’s for complete, comprehensive health cover for you and your family with no co-pays or deductibles apart from maybe $10 for a prescription - regardless what drug the prescription is for. Oh and if anyone in your family is under 16 and needs a prescription it’s free. And if you earn less than £162 per week the prescription is also free. And if your children are over 16 but studying then it’s free too.The average monthly US health insurance payment is $308 [5] . For an individual. Before co pay. Or deductibles. Regardless of your income.I’m fairly sure if I was to open an insurance company in the US that offered complete and totally comprehensive health insurance with no co-pay or deductibles ever that covered you and all your immediate family for a flat $335 per month I’d be inundated with applications.I told you we shouldn’t have gone for the 90,000 lumen signage, the electricity bill is going to be massive…Image creditI’m also fairly sure I’d be bullied and slandered into shutting down pretty quickly by the existing industry also who would lose an absolute fortune to me.And so we finally get to it.The reason so much time, money and marketing is railed against the idea of universal healthcare in the US: There are too many people who are making too much cash that can use said cash to preserve the industry they have made which profits from people’s unquestionable desire to continue to remain not-dead.But what about the cost? Won’t someone think of the deficit?The US government spends an average of $10,224 per year on healthcare for each person [6], roughly twice as much as most other countries spend. Yet the life expectancy of a US citizen is the same, and in many cases actually lower [7]than other countries who spend much less. Many of which have universal healthcare systems.Add to this the fact that the US is the only country in the world that also has a health insurance industry worth well over $800 billion per year [8] to further back it up and you have to wonder how exactly this money is being spent.Oh, it’s completely necessary for work, it gets me from A to B…Image creditSo, going back to our two system comparison. You have System 1 which would:Provide a comparable level of care to System 2.Cost around half that of System 2 to the country.Would mean that every individual has comprehensive health cover without the need for private health insurance from cradle to grave.Will cover everyone equally regardless of whether you have less money in the bank than the next person.Includes no co-pay or deductibles.Means the biggest charge you can be hit with is $10 regardless of treatment.Couldn’t be used by employers as a bargaining chip to offset actual liveable wages.Removes the shareholder and for-profit systems that opens up the system to abuse in pursuit of revenue over care.Or System 2 which will:Provide a comparable level of care to System 1.Roughly consume twice the government budget spend on health care that System 1 would.Require everyone to pay into a plan whose cost fluctuates depending on your health, job or where you live, from cradle to grave.In many cases expect you to pay even more if you have the damn cheek to actually need to use the service on top of what you have been paying each month for the privilege of knowing that you can use the service.On top of any poor physical health may proceed to add insult to injury by bankrupting you if you or your child / loved one are unfortunate enough to need more care than you can afford.Can charge you whatever the market wants with by creating an entire private industry around treatments.Will give you a level cover which is intrinsically tied to whatever your financial worth is at that moment in time. Rest assured with this system you really can put a price on a persons worth.Will be used by employers as a tool of negotiation to pay you less in terms of actual salary each month in return for varying levels of cover.Has institutions who are run with the express intention of making money from you first, and offering care second. The rest are bound by the same market forces which are affected by such for-profit organisations and as such are likely to charge similarly compounded fees.So obviously, System 2, or the US Healthcare System as it is known to the rest of us simple minded folk is the right choice for the savvy consumer. If only the rest of the world could get out from under the heel of our socialist oppressors and see the light.Still, at least you’re not paying for other people right?That would be silly.Image creditFootnotes[1] List of countries by life expectancy - Wikipedia[2] National Insurance rates and categories[3] Earnings and working hours[4] The Average American Monthly Salary[5] Health insurance costs in the United States - Wikipedia[6] How does health spending in the U.S. compare to other countries? - Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker[7] List of countries by life expectancy - Wikipedia[8] Revenue of U.S. life and health insurance industry 2017 | Statistic

I have several issues here, with the concept of compromise, and how it is being presented.The first is about the subject matter. Too many people set up the straw-man that all Gun Owners care about is our guns, and that we are defending our guns, for whatever reason, and why would you do so in the face of so much tragedy and death.The straw-man is that this is about guns. Its not about guns at all. Its about individual rights. Protections against the actions of those acting on behalf of the greater good that might usurp the rights of the Individual.Guns are a Right. Not a novelty. Not a toy. Not an extension of our penises. They are a right. Some of us value that right. Some of us do not. The difference is that those who do not value that right as a civil and human right, are demanding of those who do value them, to give them up, or give them up piecemeal.Now that we’ve established what it is that we are effectively talking about, lets do some lateral comparisons.Would you like to sit down and discuss how your fifth amendment rights to due process obstructs law-enforcement? How you don’t need protections against search and seizure, because we could lock up and capture more criminals if police could just enter any home they wanted to? I think that you should be willing to compromise on those points in order to make our society safer. It’s for the greater good.I will not EVER start, engage in, or legitimize a debate on the basis of how much of my Rights that I can keep and how much I am willing to give away. There will never be a compromise on that point. I want to be a free man. Not somewhat free. Not “Free Enough.” All the way free.Secondly, I do not think that anyone on the anti-gun side wants a compromise. Compromise is just a weapon to gradually strip gun owners of their rights and their property.Compromise has two sides. Both sides usually get something in a compromise. For example: We sit down at the table, and you offer to de-regulate silencers (Supressors) and short-barreled rifles, or repeal the Hughes Ammendment, in exchange for comprehensive background checks. You get your background checks. We are able to buy new-manufacture machine guns. Or we are able to buy Suppressors and SBRs without having to go through regulatory BS.Both sides walk away happy.Nobody has offered to give us back any part of our rights. They’ve instead held a figurative gun to our head, and told us to pick which ones we want to live.Thirdly, this also assumes that guns are the cause of all this death and devastation. Or that Ownership is the cause. I just can’t abide that. There are root causes to this, and focusing on guns as the answer is intellectually lazy.We want to limit these types of issues for EVERYONE. Not just those who are would-be victims. But the broken souls shooting up these places too. Solutions that signNow to the core of the issues would have a longer lasting effect on society than ever taking guns away. Restricting guns is just the easy way out.There's a difference in discussing how we will compromise our rights, and how we can fix things moving forward.

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Just make sure you talk to SOMEONE. We don’t know you, so maybe you can’t talk to your parents for some reason. Maybe they are crazy! What you absolutely should NOT do, is bottle stuff up on the inside and try to deal with it yourself. When it comes to mental issues, that’s the definition of something you can’t handle yourself. Talk to a teacher, a school counselor or principal, a nurse, a doctor, a policeman. ANYONE. I think you’ll be incredibly surprised to find out how helpful other people can be. But it’s up to YOU to initiate that. If you don’t communicate what’s going on, the world can’t figure out how to help you.