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Whenever is not quite normal and there’s reasons why instead of it being fun or some pointer or ridiculed or whatever or they’re not knowing how to deal with it as it’s part and parcel of everybody’s any day life, re not aware of diagnosis and helping people and they’re just not aware of things and it’s about, you know.

Even simple things like advertisements on the TV and stuff like that just to make people be aware of things.

We pass somebody in the street lying there who’s down and out or a vagrant or whatever, or somebody that’s eating out of a garbage bin or somebody that’s, you hear on the news -and that’s the time you only hear it on the news when people have mental health problems and have done something terrible and to think that there’s thousands and thousands of people who are coping with mental health problems and it’s only when the negativity arises that it’s addressed and this may be done and why wasn’t this person in proper care and that kind of stuff.

Loads of people are not aware of the majority of things that’s going on.

Loads of get better or manage fine, and they might be treated just like people with other illnesses. Now regarding the aforementioned fact… Know what, I thought how dare anybody question that when there was not anything there to look after people who are going through that, there’s nothing there for the carers, for myself and for other people that any day have to go through this system and try and be heard, there’s nothing there really. People agreed that And so it’s necessary to teach others that those with mental health problems, are not ‘mad’ but have an illness.

Loads of people don’t understand mental health problems and may have a negative view of people who have them. Therefore this can cause people with mental health problems to be treated badly or labelled the way that hurts their standing in the community. While making fun of them or ignoring them on the street, so this was shown in body language, by staying away, by staring. He said that, Therefore in case you go outside in the community people will still use words like, ‘mad’ and ‘nutter’, and all kind of derogatory terms. Such behaviour hurts people and affects social and family life and in as the Asian languages don’t have good ways, at least in England as, -because I’m also now really far from my own culture, back in India or wherever, that maybe it has changed. Therefore, I deliberately used the word, ‘mad’, a few times in my conversation as long as I think someone, a professional, not within mental health services but from outside said that, you know, as a mental health service worker I might say that, Oh the English language has changed and it’s got, -it’s way better at expressing people, you know, and not condemning people with mental health problems.

My concept is still similar, I don’t know about it, that maybe the community still consider everybody in the term of, ‘mad’, rather than somebody having mental illness really. Some said their whole family was treated with suspicion or as ‘untouchables’. – we will say ‘people with mental health problems’ rather than, ‘mad’, or whatever, as a worker. Like a little child or beauty,. Sometimes it’s, So if they feel, oh someone’s very wonderful and beautiful, or a little child’s so lovable, therefore they could cast that as well, you know, as a curse maybe. Another mentioned that her son didn’t look for to socialise with other people with mental health problems to avoid being labelled.

Others said they ‘pretend that things are different’, just like saying someone is ‘working from home’ rather than being unable to work. One woman said that her exhusband had decided their son shouldn’t go to a psychiatric hospital being that he was worried it could affect his future career.

If they’re jealous or envious or not happy with you, they can cast, you know, if you do something wrong to them by, maybe sometimes they come begging for food or something or the other, or whatever.

When mostly there’re certain people who have got the evil eye, one woman said that such beliefs ‘do not serve us any more’ being that they focus on blame and not on helping people who are ill. Yeah. You know. Indian thinking, thus to speak. Some were careful who they talked to and some did not even tell their close family about the problems. Carers sometimes protected themselves and their families by keeping to themselves or not telling others about mental health problems. To avoid gossip, loads of ‘kept it under the carpet’, or kept a ‘stiff upper lip’ when others talked about them. Hey, do not help and are misleading.