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- Mental Health and Wellbeing Connect
Mental Health and Wellbeing Connect is a new service dedicated to those who are supporting people living with mental health and substance use challenges or psychological distress.
- Types of mental health issues and illnesses
Mental health issues and illnesses may impact on a person’s thoughts, perceptions, feelings and behaviours. Most people can manage their condition with medication, counselling or both.
- Rural issues - alcohol and depression
Self-medicating with alcohol doesn't solve the causes of depression, which is common in rural communities.
- Rural issues - coping with stress
Farming life and work can be hectic and stressful.
- Borderline personality disorder
People with borderline personality disorder may exhibit extreme behaviour, such as repeated self-mutilation or taking overdoses of medication.
- Dissociation and dissociative disorders
Dissociation is a mental process where a person disconnects from their thoughts, feelings, memories or sense of identity.
- Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)
People with body dysmorphic disorder constantly worry about the way they look.
- Schizophrenia
People with schizophrenia do not have 'split personalities' and they are not intellectually disabled.
- Paranoia
Paranoia is the irrational and persistent feeling that people are ‘out to get you’ or that you are the subject of persistent, intrusive attention by others.
- Substance misuse and mental illness – dual diagnosis
Dual diagnosis means someone has both a mental illness and a substance use problem.