floorbananamotherfucker:strawberries-in-december:star-anise:Real talk from the Mental Health First A
floorbananamotherfucker:strawberries-in-december:star-anise:Real talk from the Mental Health First Aid Canada manual.[text transcript]How Disabling are Mental Health Problems?Mental health problems can be more disabling for a person than many chronic physical illnesses. “Disability” refers to the amount of disruption that a health problem causes to a person’s ability to work, look after themselves and carry on their relationships with family and friends. Research in the Netherlands has looked at the amount of disability caused by a large number of both physical and mental health problems.It helps to understand the amount of disability that mental health problems can cause by comparing them to physical health problems that cause the same amount of disability. Here are some examples: - The disability caused by moderate depression is similar to the disability from relapsing multiple sclerosis, severe asthma, chronic hepatitis B or deafness.- The disability from severe post-traumatic stress disorder is comparable to the disability from paraplegia.- The disability from severe schizophrenia is comparable to the disability from quadriplegia.Mental illness can be a major cause of long-term disability. Of the 10 leading causes of disability worldwide, five are mental health problems: unipolar depression, alcohol [text continues in next column, which is cut off]i have to ask, and this question is not aimed at anyone in particular, how the hell did they measure that?So I don’t have my hands on the study but it sounds like they did disability determinations/a functional limits assessment. There are lots of standard skills and checklist that exist to asses how impaired someone is in terms of ADLs, etc, and that’s usually what’s used to assess ~severity~ if we’re not doing a medical exam. Obviously has a lot of flaws and limited uses, but. -- source link
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