Bergerie Caroline

Watching short, informative mental health videos can help you understand what is happening to you. It can also give you knowledge so that you know what steps you need to take to feel better.

Sometimes, when you’re suffering from a condition that is causing you stress and anxiety, it can cause confusion as you ’sit on the fence’. You feel like you should do something, but you’re not sure exactly what.

A Video Can Provide That Push

Watching an informative video can provide you with that much-needed push. It can give you enough information and knowledge to help you make a proper decision.

When you are suffering, there is no reason to prolong it when you can actually do something to feel better. Educating yourself about your condition is a very good initial step to take.

You can watch videos on depression, anxiety medications, generalized anxiety disorder as well as menopause. Menopause can cause women to go into depression.

All women have to go through menopause. It affects women in different ways. Some women may not even know it’s started, while others will go through agony, physically and emotionally.

This can also cause them anxiety and even be a trigger for panic attacks. Watching informative videos will help you learn better since you can play them again and because it’s visual, you remember better.

There are also videos pertaining to children. Children are not immune to depression or anxiety. A concerned parent can learn and gain confidence by watching a quality video.

These Videos Are For Everyone

Another point worth mentioning is that these videos don’t have to be for the sufferer. They can be for anyone looking for fast, proper information, or someone who knows of someone who is suffering.

Someone who is suffering will take particular interest in these videos, but due to it’s short length, it’s not an imposition or a ‘chore’ for someone who is not a sufferer.

These mental health videos are only a few minutes long but provide quality information. Sometimes, watching something can be better than reading it. This is true in the case of these video clips.

Hopefully, these mental health videos will provide you or someone that you know with some fast and precise information.

The recent tragedy at Virginia Tech illuminates the colossal failure of government and public policy to all our citizens who have mental disabilities and are ignored, denied. blurred, blamed and are invisible. The Federal Government should lead in establishing an environment of reality and acceptance of treatment without the ignorant stigma of shame. Mental problems are just as legitimate as a cut needing stitches or a heart attack. Yet people who seek help for a psychological problem are still looked upon as flawed and blamed for not being able to handle their own problems.

We need public education to encourage individuals to go for help when they recognize feeling out–of-control or in a situation where they need counseling, support and advice. Some problems are chemical imbalances and often medications can reduce symptoms or stabilize the individual, if the person takes the medication. They don’t always take them because the medications have such uncomfortable side effects that the patient believes that the disease is easier to cope with than the drugs.

Other problems are situational and don’t need to be medicated but brought to the surface, worked out and resolved. The best way to do this is through “talk therapy.” There are many modalities that effectively work to educate and empower people to stop repeated patterns of destructive and self-deprecating behaviors. Being molested as a child is one example. There is no drug to resolve the damage done and continuing negative effects on adult relationships like trust issues, guilt, shame and sexual confusion and dysfunction. These issues need to be resolved by other means.

Medicating such a wound just exacerbates the dilemma and doesn’t resolve or heal the wound. Neither does behavior modification.

Grief is similar issue. Typically it isn’t pathological, yet it hurts like hell for a long time. Medication isn’t recommended. Talking about the pain and expressing the hurt is a healthier way to deal with grief. Knowing what to expect, the hot spots and the time frame is empowering. Just knowing that the immediate pain will heal itself is part of the healing process.

Historically, we as a nation have attached a stigma of shame on the individual suffering from a mental problem and on the family. I know because in 1956 my father was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and rather than go to a hospital and inflict shame on his family and himself he killed himself at 45 years old.

In the 1960’s we began systematically to empty out all our mental hospital. Often they were less than ideal, but rather than reform them we dumped the patients onto the street. Most homeless people have serious mental health problems and so do most inmates in jail. Today when a person is identified with serious mental problems there is no place to put him or her, few long-term beds and certainly not an adequate amount are available for the mentally ill. Half way houses substitute as a safe place to be housed, but they are rarely safe. And inmates in jail don’t get adequate mental health help to prevent recidivism, returning to jail after they are released.

Then in the 1990’s the Health Maintaince Organizations (HMO’s) appeared on the reimbursement stage and embraced short-term therapy with an emphasis on behavioral modification and limited psychotherapy to six or on occasion twelve sessions. Any additional sessions need to be approved by the HMO before they would be paid. This was the death knoll to effective therapy for the severely mentally ill.

Behavior modification is basically a band-aid type of therapy believing if you change your thoughts you heal any pain or problems from old wounds. Just sweep it under the carpet and it will fade away. This works for some minor problems and patients who can adjust in a very structured modality but is not realistic for more severely wounded people, some need months and even years of therapy. The most seriously disturbed patients may take months just to establish trust in their therapist before they even reveal what happened to them.

States don’t have enough money to adequately fund Community Mental Health Programs. Many people fall between the cracks even when identified and mandated to get out patient therapy. Mental health practioners are overloaded, overwhelmed and underpaid. It is a job with high burn out and high turn over. A patient may begin with one therapist, who moves on and the patient is transferred and has to start all over with someone else.

Private insurance limits the number of visits they will pay for through reimbursement and co-payments. They closely monitor the number of visits, that are regulated by HMO staff. A mental health professional literally has to beg for additional visits when deemed necessary. Additionally the HMO tells the practitioner what they will pay and it is rarely his or her regular fees, always less.

Mental health must become a higher priority in this country to prevent innocent people from becoming victims. All of society is responsible for this tragedy. We must demand more education, better treatment and prevention strategies to avoid similar incidents in the future.

This is a broken system and needs to be fixed. Now!

Obsessive personality compulsive disorder is something that you should not be ashamed of. There are tons of people who suffer from it. The main point about what I want to show you today is just how silly it really is when you think about it. These things would be laughable if only there were not so much fear behind them. I learned that from one of my clients. She knows that obsessive personality compulsive disorder is laughable and that it is just a fear of fear itself.

A vital step when it comes to obsessive personality compulsive disorder is the fact that it is something that comes in waves. It changes and morphs and if you’ve had it for any amount of time, you’ll find that some of the things that you used to ocd about don’t bother you as much anymore. You see, our brains get bored of things after a while. This is just something that happens. We can actually use that principle to our advantage. How we can do that is to over expose ourselves to the thing that fears us. This is called flooding and even though I don’t recommend it for most people. It is still effective for some individuals.

Now when you take a closer look at your obsessive personality compulsive disorder, you’ll find that this world would have to be a pretty messed up place for your fears to actually be real! Think about that for a second. What kind of world would this be like if your obsessive personality compulsive disorder was actually true! This can help you to calm down and to realize that it cannot be true because the world would not be able to function if your fears are true. Another thing that you can think about is, if this is true, than why does nobody else you know fear the things that scare you the most?

When I examine obsessive personality compulsive disorder, I can clearly see how it’s affecting the lives of the sufferers families. They care so much and they want to help any way that they can, but you have to realize that you have to make a choice to stop your OCD for your family. You have to do it for yourself. Give yourself any reason that you need to! The stronger the “why” you have, the more motivated you will be to actually follow through with the OCD program of your choice and get rid of your OCD for good!

The greatest fact about obsessive personality compulsive disorder is the fact that it is not a disorder or a disease. Even though it is part of it’s name, it’s really a habit and what you need to do to stop it is to first believe that you can. Then you want to have a strong enough reason why you want to get rid of it. If you don’t have a good reason, or the reason is not clear, then you’ll never shake it, I promise you. So make sure that you don’t shy away from your fear, but stand up to it and take action today!

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Derek J. Soto is an expert in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder who had it himself and beat it and now teachs others how to do the same.