ShopDreamUp AI ArtDreamUp
Deviation Actions
Suggested Deviants
Suggested Collections
You Might Like…
Featured in Groups
Description
A NOTE FROM KATE
Today (october 10th) is National Mental Health Day.
Mental Health issues are taboo - ignored and faceless. Today I am taking the chance to express my thoughts, to bring a face, and a voice, to mental health issues.
I suffer from depression, suicidal tendencies, mood dysthymia, paranoia, acute low self esteem, anger issues, general anxiety and social anxiety disorder.
I have been house bound for 3 years, have attempted suicide more times than I'd like to mention in many feeble pathetic ways.
I self harmed for 7 years on a cycle of giving up and relapsing, and I'm happy to say that I am now a year clean (including slip ups. Not including slip ups I have been mostly-clean for 3 years now. It is possible.)
I am a real person - many of you read my poetry and know me that way, know intimate thoughts and feelings that I have, respect me as an artist, as a person, as a friend, as a member of this community.
Well here I am, taking tiny step by tiny step to piece my life back together and live a 'normal' life. Some parts of my mental illnesses I love - being able to touch others with similar problems being one of them... and some parts I hate - hurting the ones I love being one of them... but like it or lump it, its part of my life that I cannot control.
I strive every day to survive until the next one and every day is an achievement.
If you are suffering from mental health issues, you don't have to make some big public confession - but take today to think of the positive things you have done, steps you may have taken simply to survive.
and if you are in that darkest of places, that I remember very well - then just try to survive til tomorrow... and if you need me, send me a note.
GET FEATURED
Please respond with any artwork, past or present, that is about your mental state. Photography, art, poetry, prose, anything. I will do a news article with them all tonight. Doesn't matter if you made them years ago or today, show them to me.
I will feature them all AS LONG AS you include one sentence, thanking someone for their support, something theyve done, their friendship - something that made a difference to you. Big or small...
SOME FACTS
Between 5 and 10 per cent of the population are suffering from depression, in some form, to some extent, at any one time.
Over a lifetime you have a 20 per cent, or one in five, chance of having an episode of depression.
In community surveys, 2 per cent of the population suffer from pure depression at any one time. Some have a mild form of the illness, some moderate and some severe, in roughly equal numbers. Another 8 per cent of the population suffer from a mixture of anxiety and depression at any one time.
The lifetime rate of depression is 8 per cent for men and 12 per cent for women, and these figures seem to be rising... Fast.
There are extremely high rates of self injury, with as many as 1 in 100 young women being admitted to hospital at least once with self inflicted, deliberate, injuries.
For women, it is the most common cause of acute medical admission, while for men it’s second only to heart disease.
The seriousness of self-harm should not be underestimated. One to two per cent of people who deliberately self-harm go on to take their own life within two years.
There are around 4000 recorded suicides per year in the UK, but it is estimated that suicide is under-reported by 30 to 50 per cent.
It is among the 10 most common causes of death, and the fourth most common for young adults.
One in six people who take their own life leave a note.
Overall, 15 per cent of people with depression, schizophrenia or alcohol problems will commit suicide.
Suicidal ideas are expressed by 68 per cent of people before they act.
Samaritans 08457 90 90 90
THE IMPORTANT STUFF
Stockist | ~F2FStocks
Manipulation By | Me, `Flutterings
Dedicated To | Anyone who bothered to read any of this stuff, or think about it. Thanks.
Today (october 10th) is National Mental Health Day.
Mental Health issues are taboo - ignored and faceless. Today I am taking the chance to express my thoughts, to bring a face, and a voice, to mental health issues.
I suffer from depression, suicidal tendencies, mood dysthymia, paranoia, acute low self esteem, anger issues, general anxiety and social anxiety disorder.
I have been house bound for 3 years, have attempted suicide more times than I'd like to mention in many feeble pathetic ways.
I self harmed for 7 years on a cycle of giving up and relapsing, and I'm happy to say that I am now a year clean (including slip ups. Not including slip ups I have been mostly-clean for 3 years now. It is possible.)
I am a real person - many of you read my poetry and know me that way, know intimate thoughts and feelings that I have, respect me as an artist, as a person, as a friend, as a member of this community.
Well here I am, taking tiny step by tiny step to piece my life back together and live a 'normal' life. Some parts of my mental illnesses I love - being able to touch others with similar problems being one of them... and some parts I hate - hurting the ones I love being one of them... but like it or lump it, its part of my life that I cannot control.
I strive every day to survive until the next one and every day is an achievement.
If you are suffering from mental health issues, you don't have to make some big public confession - but take today to think of the positive things you have done, steps you may have taken simply to survive.
and if you are in that darkest of places, that I remember very well - then just try to survive til tomorrow... and if you need me, send me a note.
GET FEATURED
Please respond with any artwork, past or present, that is about your mental state. Photography, art, poetry, prose, anything. I will do a news article with them all tonight. Doesn't matter if you made them years ago or today, show them to me.
I will feature them all AS LONG AS you include one sentence, thanking someone for their support, something theyve done, their friendship - something that made a difference to you. Big or small...
SOME FACTS
Between 5 and 10 per cent of the population are suffering from depression, in some form, to some extent, at any one time.
Over a lifetime you have a 20 per cent, or one in five, chance of having an episode of depression.
In community surveys, 2 per cent of the population suffer from pure depression at any one time. Some have a mild form of the illness, some moderate and some severe, in roughly equal numbers. Another 8 per cent of the population suffer from a mixture of anxiety and depression at any one time.
The lifetime rate of depression is 8 per cent for men and 12 per cent for women, and these figures seem to be rising... Fast.
There are extremely high rates of self injury, with as many as 1 in 100 young women being admitted to hospital at least once with self inflicted, deliberate, injuries.
For women, it is the most common cause of acute medical admission, while for men it’s second only to heart disease.
The seriousness of self-harm should not be underestimated. One to two per cent of people who deliberately self-harm go on to take their own life within two years.
There are around 4000 recorded suicides per year in the UK, but it is estimated that suicide is under-reported by 30 to 50 per cent.
It is among the 10 most common causes of death, and the fourth most common for young adults.
One in six people who take their own life leave a note.
Overall, 15 per cent of people with depression, schizophrenia or alcohol problems will commit suicide.
Suicidal ideas are expressed by 68 per cent of people before they act.
Samaritans 08457 90 90 90
THE IMPORTANT STUFF
Stockist | ~F2FStocks
Manipulation By | Me, `Flutterings
Dedicated To | Anyone who bothered to read any of this stuff, or think about it. Thanks.
Image size
644x952px 79.11 KB
Comments71
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
I feel this on a spiritual level 💚