The Essay Highlights Mental Health And Recovery Methodology's Significance.

Sandy Jeff's Discussion

Discuss about the Mental Health for Journal of Medical Research.

For alignment of mind and body mental health is a core component. In this report mental health is a priority and novice ideas are formulated for recovery. Sandy Jeff, one of the eccentric community educators alleviates the people suffering from mental illness. She promotes several steps for specific individuals to overcome from stress, depression, inequalities or discrimination in the society. In this report emphasis is done on National health framework that showcases the basic principles required to avoid mental illness. Sandy deliberately shares the live experiences and ensures how recovery can be achieved through her stories and poetry. Main ideas are described from the National framework for recovery-oriented mental health service and the guidelines are suggested for the practitioners. Thus this report deals with the issues of mental health, its recovery methodology and how sandy has contributed to mental illness in empowering the society.

Sandy’s video typically stated the necessity of supporting amass group of people and individuals in the society who are prone to mental illness to not only to eradicate the stigma but also to alleviate the suffering from the root level. As a society it is the duty to provide people with right opportunity, as they suffer from mental illness due to variety of reasons like lack of employment, stress or depression.  A mental disorder can be due to depression, anxiety or fear.  In the video Sandy Jeff’s focused on the reflection of live experience and policy for recovery.  Sandy depicted many live experiences outlining Sally’s story that is not able to live a normal life as she is not very much socialized in her job as well as have family stress (Health.gov, 2018). Due to such reasons she suffered from depression and from mental illness. Sandy used to discover the recovery frameworks to outline the mental health services. Recovery from mental illness is possible but it requires a support from family, peers as well as professionals. It requires new and innovative ideas for recovery. There are various stages of mental illness, initially the normal activities start differing and there are no social connections. Mental illness makes the people unstable and Sandy Jeff’s mentioned that goal is to maintain stability (Scholarwork, 2017).  The important factor which helps in recovery is right environment, satisfying work, and good relationship. Sandy stated that there exists a link between recovery phases as well social inclusion to help people to regain their place in the community. Sandy suggested that for recovery the patient should be involved in educational, training as well as volunteering opportunities so that it supports an individual.  It increases the sense to control the mental illness, as there are four dimensions to recovery like health, home, purpose and community. Sandy’s focuses on life recovery by making everyone informed about the healthy lifestyle by supporting physical and social well-being (Thisismyreality, 2018). She stated that engaging an individual in daily activities help in reducing the mental stress.

National Framework for Recovery

It is an important policy that is developed to improve the delivery of mental health services. It collaborate all the services related to mental health recovery approach. This framework helps in guiding the patient to resolve their mental illness. It describes that there are various networks to support mental illness. Network starts from home, community to work places. They design recovery oriented services which helps in facilitating the connections to gain maximum benefits (Isaacs, Sutton,  Dalziel & Maybery, 2017). It has designed various recovery plans to remove the uncertainty, loss and stress. This framework focuses on principals that provide them with growth experience. One is uniqueness of an individual that make sure that every individual is been recognized. This helps an individual in gaining health focus by empowering the personal care. This framework allows an individual to make correct choices, to ensure that balance is maintained between the support and duty of care so that risks are avoided.  It describes the rights and attitudes of an individual by properly listening to the issues and taking actions accordingly (Jacob, Munro, Taylor & Griffiths,  2017). It protects the individual from all human right by promoting the support provided by social and vocational activities. The national framework of recovery ensures that evaluation of recovery strategies continues and quality services are provided for improvement (Naslund, et. al, 2017).

Sandy described some lived experience by depicting poetries and stories as lived experience of people suffering from mental illness and the issues faced by family members are the key concern of this framework. It focuses on the people suffering from this experience rather than focusing on organizational priority for delivering better services (Sandy , 2018).  Concerning the lived experience helps in offering them with new opportunity that enhances them in transforming the framework for better delivery of services (Newman, O'Reilly,  Lee  & Kennedy, 2017). It looks to the challenges and offer the transformation by expertise.

The sole purpose of this framework is to range the health professional by setting hospitals, care centres as well as public service centres (Loos, et. al, 2017).  The recovery in the experience of mental illness includes empowering everyone in the society by being sure that they are getting proper care as well as assuring that every individual as unique recovery plans.  It supports every individual by making by taking their personal decisions without any inferences from the society. It promotes all the legal right of citizenship among individual that will support every individual in terms of social, occupational as well as recreational activities (Hancock,  Scanlan, Gillespie, Smith-Merry, & Yen,  2017).  This part of principal deal with the fact that every individual gets dignity and respect from the community. This can be done by removing the discrimination from the sort and treating everyone with the same perspective (Hancock,  Scanlan, Gillespie, Smith-Merry, & Yen,  2017).   It acknowledges that every individual is unique and it practices all the positive ways to helps an individual to know their own potential and goal (Hancock, Scanlan, Gillespie, Smith-Merry, & Yen,  2017). 

Lived Experience via Stories and Poetries

Sandy Jeff implement recovery orientated practice by its poetries and stories as it directly showcase the real life experiences of people suffering from mental illness by providing them with hope and motivation to support better mental health. She provides guidelines for self-recovery to cope up with mental illness (Frost, et. al, 2017).

One of the live experiences described by Sandy was about old women who were all alone as her parents died when she was very small. She managed her daily expenses by working in a grocery store but it was very difficult as she suffered from many hardships and suffered from mental illness and no proper treatment was provided to her. Sandy suggested in her poetries that first step should be focusing on the actions to be undertaken. She explained that recovery is personal and should be acknowledged during the journey (Denneson, Cromer, Williams, Pisciotta & Dobscha, 2017). Thus she described in her stories about various people and their challenges. She analysed to overcome from mental illness the brain should adapt to positive hope and is essential to recover. It was researched that hope plays a nominal role in recovery of mental illness. Sandy suggested that everyone surrounding the patient that is the family members and other supporting people should keep hope for betterment. She always provided the motivation in her poems to endure the strength required to confront the challenges faced by mental health problems and illnesses (Acu, 2018). The recovery journey of mental health is not difficult it just understands the necessities of their lives. There are various issues in the community, family or culture. By using an appropriate recovery approach it support people in learning how to make their own path by involving family members and society (Australian government, 2010). This helps in identifying the illness and focuses on strengthening the social network. Sandy in her stories states that families play a crucial role in betterment of mental illness by providing emotional, social as well a material support (Sandy Jeff’s, 2018). They can support by expressing them with ways of hope and building them with strength to sustain in the community. Sandy discussed about various government policies that produce innovative ideas for protective security among women as well children’s for healthy development. Government has launched various plans to ensure that welfare systems works according to the promotion strategies and opportunities are engaged regarding the policies (Parker, Dark, Newman, Korman, Rasmussen & Meurk, 2017). 

Recovery in the Experience of Mental Health

Conclusion

Thus it can be concluded that mental illness is a common issue in the society now a days and to avoid that Sandy Jeff promotes and shares her ideas in schools and at community level. She discussed the basic root cause and other relevant factors which lead to development of mental illness through her poems and stories. She emphasizes the core concern which relates to madness, domestic violence, inequality as well as discrimination in the society. It can also be concluded from this report that national framework has played a vital role in recovery and improvement of mental health services. This report defines experiences of an individual and their mental health issues, emotional distress and the drastic impact and upcoming consequences of mental health issue. Various measures and necessary steps are defined by Sandy and major focus is laid on personal recovery to entirely resolve the mental health issue.

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