Monday, August 20, 2012
Helping Disaster Victims
Sean brought up a great question when Mr. Navarro came to class to talk about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder last week - what do you do if someone you know is suffering but won't do anything about it? There is often a stigma in society against seeking treatment for mental health issues. How can we eliminate the stigma that might prevent disaster survivors from seeking help? What might someone say to you, or do, that would convince you to get help if you needed it?
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I would be convinced by someone to get help If they made me realize that it was a natural disaster and what happened was not my fault and that there really wasnt anything i could do about it. If someone came up to me and said that i would probably seek help to end my PTSD.
ReplyDeleteWe can probably eliminate it by actually seeing a professional. If that person refuses to go see any anybody for help all you can do is wait and hope that he/she will soon get help. If someone came up to me and said that, I would want to ask for help to treat this mental illness.
ReplyDeleteIn order to eliminate the stigma that might prevent a natural disaster survival from seeking help is to normalize the situation. If I was a disaster survivor the easiest way to convince me is to show how common it is to get help for mental issues. Usually people who survive disasters are not afraid to get help but to be the only one who needs help. This world is built around a lot of individuality where we humans don't need help from anyone but that is not true. The human race depends on each other when in need. I depend on my parents just like any kid and adults depend on their spouses and friends. It’s human to depend on each other and there is nothing wrong with it.
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ReplyDeleteThere is always a stigma in society when it comes to doing the right thing, like seeking help or treatment for mental issues such as traumatic stress disorder. People with traumatic stress disorder don’t seek help because they are to worry about what other people may think or say about them if they do. We can help eliminate this stigma in society by education them about traumatic stress disorder, If i was going through traumatic stress disorder you would be able to convince me to get help by offering me emotional support and understanding which they will eventually lead realization that I need help and I will seek treatment for my disorder .
I believe that the best way to eliminate the stigma that prevents a disaster survivor from getting help is to tell them the consequences of what might happen if they kept all that guilt inside. Some people tend to hurt themselves, result to suicide or do something they will definitely regret. They need our help and being there for them is important. Someone would have to hear me out so I can be convinced to get help. It is always best to have someone you can trust at times like this.
ReplyDeleteThe best way for someone to get me to get help for PTSD is telling me how this would affect my family. If someone told me that my family could possible get depressed or hurt by me not seeking treatment, I would then definitely go seek help. Because I would have enough on my plate, another way to help is to tell me where I would be able to get help. This would make it easier. It would be possible that I would give up on searching for help; therefore telling me where I would be able to receive treatment would lighten the load on my shoulders.
ReplyDeleteOne way we can eliminate the stigma is by giving people who have PTSD comfort and by educating them about getting help. Alot of americans are sensitive about talking to people they don't know or about thinking they are the only one in need of help. If we can convince people that they are not alone and there are people going through the same thing they are, they might actually think about getting help. We should convince people with PTSD to go to group sessions. They might be nervous when they first go, but when they see how open and comfortable other people are talking about their problems will make the new comers feel comfortable too. If i had PTSD this would help me to go and get help.
ReplyDeleteTo eliminate the stigma that keeps disaster survivors from seeking help is very hard. We, as a community, would have to stop associating getting mental help with being crazy. I believe if people stopped thinking like that victims wouldn't be afraid of getting help. For me to realize I needed help someone close to me would have to tell me that they where worried about me or just tell me straight up.
ReplyDeleteI think the best way to get rid of the stigma that prevent diaster surviver from gett help are giving them reasons why. You could tell them that if they dont get they will really hurting themsleves because they will go crazy and fall into depression. If I needed help I would want someone to tell me that admiting the that I have a problem and it needs to be sloved. Once I could admit that I could get help.
ReplyDeleteSome people might be suffering from different things such as PTSD. From my perspective, the best way to eliminate stigma that might prevent disaster survivors from seeking help is to help them open their eyes to reality. One way that I can open a person’s eyes to reality is by staging an intervention. An intervention is to improve a situation, esp. a medical disorder. I will get everyone that loves the person and supports the person to gather around the person with the illness so he could feel loved and make them convince him to get help because in the most serve states, it PTSD can lead to suicide. Another was I would get him to seek mental treatment is by having him help others who are suffering from the same thing. By doing this I will hope that what he sees in this person, he will see in himself, therefore, he would want to help himself as well.
ReplyDeleteTo help persuade someone into getting help I would tell them all the good benefits that could happen if they went to go get help instead of having to suffer. But before they get help I would help them realize that what ever happened that caused there PTSD wasn't there fault. It could've been the fact that they were in the wrong place at the wrong time or just for the simple fact that they couldn't help what was going on. That's how I'd try to persuade someone into getting help to make there life better for them.
ReplyDeleteTo eliminate this stigma you can try to relate with that person or talk to them. Also convience them that there is nothing wrong with seeking help in situations like this because the hardest step is admitting there having a problem. Statistics that 1 out of 10 women develope PTSD, but 70 percent of adults in America have had some sort of traumatizing event in there past. African-American an Native-America's have higher rates of this disorder than Caucasians in the USA.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, the only way to help somebody that doesn't want to be helped is make them face the reality of their situation. You can attempt to provoke/or if they are having an attack you can record it and present it to them. It might be a little insensitive but its better than letting them fall apart from letting the disorder control them. You can also introduce to other people with PTSD. I'm not saying the people they meet even have to have remotely the same situations, but I know I would feel better knowing there are other people out there like me.
ReplyDeleteI think the best way to eliminate the stigma of PTSD is to educate people. The reason why people stigmatize PTSD is most likely due to the fact that they do not know about the mental symptoms and onset of PTSD, but they only know about the physical symptoms they see. The best way to convince me to get treatment would probably be asked by a loved one, like an immediate family member to get help. Also, by telling me that my case would be treatable, I probably wouldnt believe that PTSD can be treated
ReplyDeleteIf someone I know refuses to treat their mental health issues I listen and observe to try and understand why they refuse. Most people at first refuse help because of fear & neglect. By comforting someone & letting them know there's others with signs of PTSD they might be more open to it. You can educate the person on the topic which may help the realize that it's normal & not out of the ordinary to seek help.
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ReplyDeletePeople are very ignorant when it comes to them having a problem. Even though I’d think I didn’t have a problem, it would be stupid if me to think that there is nothing wrong with me, but If someone told me that I had PTSD it would be a bit hard to convince me. The only way to convince me, I think, is to tell me the syndromes that I have while I am committing them. This would show me that even though I think I don’t have there is proof to show me that I have PTSD. No one could ever be sure that they have it, which is why you need same one to show you yourself.
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