HEALTHY LIVING PROJECT

How Does Mental Illness Affect Your Social Life?

HOW DOES

MENTAL ILLNESS AFFECT YOUR

FRIENDS?

IT CAN AFFECT YOUR FRIENDS IN MANY WAYS

It could affect people having friends. By say if you had add you could get very angry atYour friends and if got to the violent stage whichMost of the people with add do you could causePhysical harm to people around you and then lose friends

HOW CAN MENTAL ILLNESS AFFECT YOUR

FAMILY?

HOW CAN IT AFFECT YOUR FAMILY

Mental illness can affect your family in many different ways in one way it can have a huge financial impact on the family because the treatment needed to help the mental illness.

In another way it can give their family mental problems to because of the stress cause by the illness

HOW DOES HAVING A MENTAL ILLNESS AFFECT YOUR

WORK?

THE ANSWER DEPENDS ON THE PERSON WHO IS AFFECTED.

It may or may not affect you and your workspace.

You will be aware if it affects your work This is what might happen if you get

affected: You get distracted a lot Short attention span Lack of stamina Can only do a certain amount of tasks at a

time Difficulty working in groups Harder to hear constructive feedback Difficulty with changes in working area.

HOW CAN HAVING A MENTAL ILLNESS AFFEECT

YOUR SCHOOL

LIFE?

THE EFFECTS CAN DEPEND ON THE SCHOOL, STUDENTS AND STUDENT AFFECTED.

 It depends from person to person of how it will affect you.

Bullying might happen at school but you will notice if it affects your school work

Ways it might affect you differ from disease and person:

Short attention span Lack of stamina Difficulty working in groups, etc And people may bully you and make

you depressed.

HOW DOES BEING

MENTALLY ILL AFFECT

YOU IN EVERYDAY

LIFE?

IT CAN AFFECT YOUR LIFE IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS DEPENDING ON

THE ILLNESS AND PERSON.

Fifteen year old Sarah and sixteen year old Michelle’s Story. (Anxiety and Depression)

OCD can cause paranoia. Fourteen year old John’s story.

CAN GETTING BULLIED

MAKE YOU MENTALLY

ILL?

YES, GETTING BULLIED CAN MAKE YOU MENTALLY ILL

Getting Bullied can affect a child’s physical and mental health.

Jax’s Story- Couldn’t face going to school

Eyewitness of bullyingEffects until adulthood.

Does Mental Illness

Affect Your Self-Esteem And People

Around You?

YES, MENTAL ILLNESS DOES AFFECT YOUR SELF-ESTEEM AND PEOPLE AROUND YOU.

Wouldn’t enjoy life and enjoy things that they used to like as much as before.

Drifting away from family and friends. Affects family members; live, work and

emotions. Mentally ill people feel isolated; cry

and complain a lot; question their own worth.

CONCLUSION

So in conclusion mental illness does affect your social life because it affects your family friend and work life as well as your social school environment, and if your school has bullying in it, it might create new forms of mental illnesses.

REFERENCES

Mancuso, L.L (2007) “How does mental illness affect my work performance?” Available http://www.bu.edu/cpr/jobschool/functemp.htm 24 June 2011

“Prevention Of Mental Disorders”(2004) Available: www.who.int/mental_health/evidence/en/prevention_of_mental_disorders_sr.pdf 27/6/2011