On Monday 9 October 2017, Oakwood Solicitors, along with many other organisations across the county, held an event to raise awareness and for World Mental Health Day. Mental Health can affect anybody and everybody. According to the website for Leeds Mind, a charity who support people with mental health problems, “1 in 4 people experience mental health difficulties at some point in their lives. Whether that be depression, anxiety, stress, self-harm, personality disorder, bereavement or any other negative mental health experience”. The Mental Health Foundation advise that, every year in the UK 70 million workdays are lost due to mental illness, including anxiety, depression and stress related conditions.
Victims of abuse can often suffer from Mental Health illness, whether it is physical abuse, emotional or sexual. Mental Health explains that the vast majority of dissociate disorder sufferers have been abused and a high proportion of serious mental illness sufferers have also experienced abuse. Of course not all victims of abuse suffer from mental health illness, as not all people who suffer from mental health illness have been abused, but the likelihood increases with victims of abuse.
According to the NSPCC, fifty-eight thousand children in the UK were identified as needing protection form abuse in 2016, whilst statics from living without abuse show that one in four women and one in six men are victims of domestic abuse. Shockingly their statics also show that, on average, a victim of domestic abuse will suffer 35 assaults before calling the police and approximately 400 people commit suicide each year who have attended hospital for domestic abuse injuries in the previous six months.
Victims of abuse may find it difficult to deal with the memories and feelings that can affect them long after the abuse has ceased, leading to anxiety, blocks to intimacy, distressing memories and trust issues among many other affects.
Treating metal health illness can be a complicated and timely but there are many types of treatment that can offer support and guidance to abuse victims and other mental health illness sufferers, such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, counselling and psychotherapy. The Counselling Directory can help match up victims of abuse with an appropriate treatment provider, depending on the location of the victim.
Oakwood Solicitors have successfully pursued claims on behalf of victims of all kinds of abuse and helped them find the right treatment and support needed to help them. If you wish to discuss this further with our experts, contact us today for a free consultation.
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