Antisocial Personality Disorder & Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Project - Health - Hurumanu

In health, we have finished the topic of "Discovery" we had choices which kind of discovery we can make a presentation about, this presentation is important because it is an assessment. I worked with 2 people in this project, Shiela and Rieya. We were given options of how we can do our assessment to show our learning; a documentary, art, song, poster, etc. 

Firstly, we had to plan out how we are going to present our chosen topic and how we are going to include those answer to our 5 big questions. We brainstormed different ideas of our own and also told the members in our group our opinions such as pros and cons. 

After deciding on a presentation, we have decided to create a film, showing the symptoms and causes of having ASPD.  

Roles:

• Skyler (me) as Scarlette Vasquez - The psychopath 
• Shiela as Ms Alliano - The police and therapist/psychiatrist 
• Rieya as Rachael Norris - Amateur News Reporter 

(I did the editing at home)

5 Big Questions & Answers: 

Why is ASPD (Antisocial Personality Disorder) Harmful? ASPD has negative effects not only on the individual but also on their family and friends. You can hurt or kill other people if you are experiencing this disease. ASPD can also lead them to do things like smoking, using drugs or being addicted to alcohol. The person who has ASPD also has a higher risk of physical health problems than others. These people also don’t like to talk to others, even their family/friends, some of them are less likely to have friends.

When should you ask for help? You should seek help immediately because if you wait longer then the symptoms will get worse and it may become dangerous for the people around you and for yourself. 

How do you know when you have ASPD? The symptoms of ASPD are disregarding for the right and wrong, persistent lying, being disrespectful of others, using one's vulnerability to manipulate others, extremely opinionated, breaking laws, violating the rights of others, impulsiveness, hostility, lack of empathy, poor and abusive relationship with others, failure to identify the consequences, being irresponsible, aggression towards people and animals, destruction of property, deceitfulness, theft, violation of rules. 

How does society affect a person's brain before having ASPD? Genetic and environmental factors such as abuse are believed to contribute to the development of ASPD. If abuse is continued more than 3 months (long term) then there is a risk that the person being abused will have aspd even though the symptoms may not show. But if it’s stopped or prevented before 3 months then the person that’s being abused can still recover from it.

How is it passed down from generation to generation? ASPD is not inherited but it can be passed down if you are abusive to a relationship and acting out on the symptoms of the disorder to a person, most especially a young family member. 

Strategies to help people with ASPD

Strategies	What the strategies are	What areas of wellbeing the strategy will improve and how	Short term and/or long term
Strategy 1	I will try to communicate with other people especially with my friends/family.	Taha Whanau because you will have good communication with them and they can help you to improve yourself. Taha Hinengaro because you will feel better by talking and telling them the things that you were worried about.	LT
Strategy 2	I will go seek help from an adult or someone I trust.	Taha whanau because it means that you are building more connection and trust with the person you told you had ASPD on.	ST
Strategy 3	I will go to the doctor or a psychologist	Taha Hinengaro because they are the people who can help me the most with my condition and it will improve my mental and emotional health especially when the symptoms are not severe yet. It will give me reassurance.   Taha Tinana because when my mental and emotional health have improved it will also improve my physical because it will prevent me from harming anyone nor myself and it might even inspire me to have a healthy body and wellbeing.  Taha Wairua because my values and beliefs will get stronger especially if I believe in God. My devotion to God will enhance.  Taha whanau because it will help me build a much stronger and deeper connection with my relationship with others.	LT

We didn't really have a hard time or found anything difficult but of course, we did struggle on the filming part because we're not really experts with films or professionally good so we had a few giggles. But we, as a group, are able to manage ourselves; be serious and mature. After all that hard work and large amount of effort, we have finally finished the film. For some reason, it won't upload here on my blog but here is the link (Click)

Hurumanu - Positive Thoughts and Self-talk

For health, I finished my presentation about the "Positive Thoughts and Self-talk" topic. I've explained the definition of both of them and the importance of having these. I have also written down the benefits of having them. I used "Canva" for my presentation, I researched online as well.

This is the link to my presentation: https://www.canva.com/design/DAD7WJI3lTI/Hdbi488SlzStit8nDTd16w/view?utm_content=DAD7WJI3lTI&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=sharebutton

Hurumanu - How to stay mentally healthy?

Today, my friend Rieya and I worked together on a health activity. There's a slide of topics we can pick on about health. We chose "Staying Mentally Healthy", and in that slide, there were topics about staying mentally healthy, we picked stress since we are already familiar with it. The first thing we did was we put all our answers; what we have found out after we researched and after that, we put it on a google slideshow for our final presentation.

I would love to have your feedback so that I can work on my next step :)

Hurumanu - Taha Hinengaro/Mental & Emotional Wellbeing - Stress

What causes stress?

• Work
• Finance
• School
• Being pressured
• Fear/Being in trouble
• Having to adjust to a new environment 
• Significant other
• School
• Overthinking
• Thoughts

What can stress physically do to the body?

You will have high blood pressure, you could get heart disease, heart attacks, strokes, abnormal heart rhythms, you get sicker easily. For mental health problems; you could get anxiety, depressions and personality disorders. 

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How does stress affect the 4 areas of wellbeing? 

For physical wellbeing: 

• You often get headaches
• Chest pain and rapid heartbeat
• Low energy
• Diarrhoea, constipation, and nausea
• Aches, pains and tense muscles
• Insomnia
• Frequent cold and infections
• Dry mouth and having a difficult time swallowing
• Nervousness; shaking, ringing in the ear, cold or sweaty hands and feet
• Clenched jaw and grinding teeth

For mental wellbeing:

• You're easily agitated, frustrated, and moody (angry, sad, fearful)
• Overwhelmed
• Having a difficult time relaxing your mind
• Low self-esteem; worthless, loneliness, and depressed
• Avoiding others
• Difficult time focusing

For spiritual wellbeing: 

• Difficulty praying because there's too much in our mind (that's why we need to relax when doing this)
• Hard time meditating when our mind is all over the place

For social wellbeing:

• Avoiding people (we tend to shut people out, afraid we might hurt them or we don't want them to worry)
• Having fights about little things
• We hurt/bully people to make ourselves feel better about ourselves (online or not)
• We lie more than we think we do

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How can we overcome stress?

• Set a goal - a goal which can improve your health and the 4 dimensions of wellbeing
• Do the things that you love 
• Meditate - Meditation helps your brain relax and it stops your mind from going all over the place
• Exercise - You live happier, improve your ability to sleep
• Surround yourself with great people; people who can help you to be a better person, people who make you happy, who accepts you (real/genuine  people)
• Stop comparing yourself to others, always remind yourself that you're you, you have your own weirdness, things you are good at.
•  Learn to accept yourself because there's nothing greater in this world than self-love, before you love others, learn to love yourself first. 
• Forgive yourself -  Move forward, apologies to people you've hurt including yourself, if you make mistakes, that's okay, learn from it, that's life. Everyone has made mistakes at some point. Mistakes make us human, mistakes help us to be a better person, mistakes are how we grow as people. Don't focus on the end result, you should be proud yourself that you made it, give yourself credit for the amazing work you've done and all the accomplishments you've achieved "Don't let the fear of failure get in the way of doing something new" - Cristel Carrisi 
• Breathe - Calming down your breathing makes you more relax and it stables your mind. 

Hurumanu - Experiencing mental and emotional issues?

Having problems with handling your emotions? Need someone to talk to with your problems or experiencing issues around mental health?

That's what this blog post is about, helping you, helping everyone with mental health. This is all about mental and emotional health issues and ways do deal with it.

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Agencies the could support people with mental health issues:

Canterbury District Health Board  - They improve, promote and protect the mental health and well being of the Canterbury community. They give advice and they help those who have needs.

Mental Health Education & Resource Centre - They provide health support such as psychiatrist, psychologist, psychotherapist, counsellor, etc.

Asking help is really hard, it takes a lot of courage but it's one of the most important steps to help you get better, to improve your health. Because mental health includes our emotional, psychological and social wellbeing, therefore, it affects how we think, feel and act.

These agencies I have listed are capable of improving your life because sometimes, you can't always do things by yourself, you can't always keep things by yourself. They support you and help you with your needs, they improve the relationship as well as your social life, they help you to have a good performance whether you are at school or at work, they encourage you and help you to be a better person than you're already are, they improve the quality of life, they prevent suicide and prevent one from killing someone.

Not only that it helps your mental and emotional wellbeing, but it also helps the rest of the 4 dimensions of wellbeing which is your physical wellbeing, social wellbeing and spiritual wellbeing.



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For the people in my school:

If someone needs help in our school, they can go to the counsellor (Mrs K), they can also ask staffs like the teachers; staffs who they trust, they can also go to the nurse if they need help with their physical wellbeing, if they're hurt, they can also go to the nurse if they need helps regarding puberty.