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The course material that pertains to this question has a list of 21 bullet points and only four sentences that are not bullet-pointed. However, I shall attempt to join it all up.

Individuals often do not access mental health services, advocacy, or support for a number of reasons, including: stigma; concerns about confidentiality; nervousness; language barriers; and a lack of understanding of where to go to get help or advice.

In discussion with a mature-aged person an individual with PTSD, that precluded him from intimacy with his family through having detached emotions, could not help but reply with ‘I have had no real or satisfying time with my family for years’, in response to the mature-aged person mentioning that the Covid-19 lock-down had prevented that person from seeing grandchildren for six months. The man was shocked that this person thought that six months of isolation is a long time. The lock-down would, of course, have been lifted, or a solution to isolation would have otherwise been implemented  (by secretly introducing herd-immunity at the expense and demise of the vulnerable).

World economics would have demanded it, otherwise the global population would have been driven into the stone-age and billions would have died. There is, however, no end to many mental ill-health issues, only management. As ruthless as it seems, handing out ‘homework’ to households would have been a good choice to cause a rudimentary mental stimulation through quite simple educational tasks. Instead, there is the panacea of television – that will never give people ideas on what to worry about next, will it?

Continuing with the formulaic format: - Providing information on where to find help and support for mental ill-health and what help is available for what mental health issue would assist in driving people toward seeking help. Within those places safe environments should be created and made clear to the public that they exist. 

The provision of help, assistance and support should be in languages other than the country’s national language as well as respect for different cultures. The training of individuals to spot mental ill-health is fraught with a nebulous miasma of problems; not least that ‘do-gooders’ tend to make snap decisions to suit their own agenda – to wit, to proactively seek out mental ill-health and force the discovery of it upon unsuspecting ‘sufferers’ who are ‘held hostage’ by their own mental aberration and downfall. There is nothing quite so annoying as someone who tells you that you have signs of mental illness when you already know it. 

I have PTSD. I was very functional until a Psychiatrist told me I have PTSD and then left me to my own devices. I had spent years sifting through my life forgiving other people and myself, using templates of behaviour to assess other people as ’enablers’, abusers, ‘clockwork ice-cream monkeys’, narcissists, and everything else. In doing so, I had to be isolated in order to gain a more objective perception. Well done! An isolated individual with PTSD who isolated himself further to understand why he is isolated. It didn’t matter though, the whole world was isolated shortly after and so I got the jump on everyone else. 

We find success wherever and whenever we can! Throughout my adult life I have been in continuous education (and I don’t mean with social interaction sites). Typically, social interaction, for someone like me, is a fragile and very high-maintenance pastime that has recognised rewards but are perceived to be solvents to clear and clean up mental anguish by introducing mentally stimulating interactions and environments – a bit like playing a video game or taking recreational psychedelics; fun but ultimately useless, except that social interaction prepares people for a relatively smooth existence in an homogenous or hegemonious society and its traditions, customs, and mores. In real terms, we know how to use a shop or a road, and understand what private possessions are, etc.