mental health research

2. WHAT CONTRIBUTES TO MENTAL HEALTH
• School pressures
• Childhood abuse, trauma, or neglect
• Social isolation or loneliness
• Experiencing discrimination and stigma
• Social disadvantage, poverty or debt
• Bereavement (losing someone close to you)
• Severe or long-term stress
• Having a long-term physical health condition
• Homelessness or poor housing
• Being a long-term carer for someone
• Drug and alcohol misuse
• Domestic violence, bullying or other abuse as an adult
• Physical causes – for example, a head injury or a neurological condition
such as epilepsy can have an impact on your behaviour and mood. (It's
important to rule out potential physical causes before seeking further
treatment for a mental health problem).

3. STATISTICS
• 10% of children and young people ages 5-16 have clinically diagnosable mental
health problem. Yet 70% of children and adolescence who have experienced
mental health problems have not had appropriate intervention at a sufficiently
early age.
• 20% of adolescents may experience a mental health problem in any given year.
• 50% of mental health problems are established by age 14 and 75% by age 24.
• 11% of youth have a mood order
• 10% of youth have a behaviour or conduct disorder
• 8% of youth have an anxiety order
• Rates of depression and anxiety among teenagers have increased by 70 per cent
in the past 25 years.
• The number of children and young people turning up in A&E with a psychiatric
condition has more than doubled since 2009 and, in the past three years,
hospital admissions for teenagers with eating disorders have also almost
doubled.
• In a 2016 survey for Parent Zone, 93 per cent of teachers reported seeing
increased rates of mental illness among children and teenagers and 90 per cent
thought the issues were getting more severe, with 62 per cent dealing with a
pupil's mental-health problem at least once a month and an additional 20 per
cent doing so on a weekly or even daily basis.
• Suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death in youth ages 10-24
• 90% of those who committed suicide had an underlying mental illness

4. SCHIZOPHRENIA
• Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental disorder that affects how
a person thinks, feels, and behaves. People with schizophrenia may
seem like they have lost touch with reality. Although schizophrenia is
not as common as other mental disorders, the symptoms can be very
disabling
• Symptoms of schizophrenia include:
- Hallucinations – hearing or seeing things that don't exist
- Delusions – unusual beliefs not based on reality
- Muddled thoughts based on hallucinations or delusions
- Changes in behaviour
• How to treat it:
- With a combination of medication and therapy tailored to each individual.
The main character within our trailer has mental illnesses, one being
schizophrenia and therefore I decided to find a little more information about
it.

5. DEPRESSION
Depression affects people in different ways and can cause a wide variety of
symptoms.
• They range from lasting feelings of unhappiness and hopelessness, to losing
interest in the things you used to enjoy and feeling very tearful. Many people
with depression also have symptoms of anxiety.
• There can be physical symptoms too, such as feeling constantly tired, sleeping
badly, having no appetite or sex drive, and various aches and pains.
• The symptoms of depression range from mild to severe. At its mildest, you may
simply feel persistently low in spirit, while severe depression can make you feel
suicidal, that life is no longer worth living.
• Most people experience feelings of stress, unhappiness or anxiety during
difficult times. A low mood may improve after a short period of time, rather than
being a sign of depression. Read more about low mood and depression.
• Treatment:
Can involve a combination of lifestyle changes, talking therapies and
medication. Your recommended treatment will be based on whether you have
mild, moderate or severe depression.

6. WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY
• The World Health Organisation recognises World Mental Health Day on
10 October every year.
• The day provides an opportunity "for all stakeholders working on
mental health issues to talk about their work, and what more needs to
be done to make mental health care a reality for people worldwide". This
year's theme set by the World Federation for Mental Health is mental
health in the workplace.

7. There is also a national children’s mental health day which is a
different date each year.

8. COLOUR OF MENTAL HEALTH
I have found that green is the colour of mental health awareness.

9. MENTAL HEALTH POSTERS
• There are a variety of different mental health posters online. I have
found that most of term have something to do with a hand as a way of
helping and joining together and becoming one to try and fight against
the mental health issues.