LIFELINE

Abstract

Behind this project comes a tremendous amount of love and caring for my sisters and my family, many of the things I saw and experienced when I was younger led me to undertaking this final study. So that others don’t have to go through the same experiences and can have a chance to get mental health support before a crisis. Preventing someone entering the criminal justice system before they can get real mental healthcare. Typically, behavioral, and mental disorders are discovered, and treatment for the disorders begins from a young age, however, many more go undiagnosed. Either their symptoms are misinterpreted as being hormonal or because of a person’s age, they have an unstable home life that doesn’t allow them to get proper care, or it can overall go unrecognized for an entire person’s lifetime should they not seek mental healthcare, or they develop other ways of coping with it. Some ways positive and others leading to life changing decisions. Unfortunately, some turn to illicit drugs and alcohol to deal with their emotions, and how they feel overall inside. Others even turn to self-harm, and this can eventually lead to a person losing their own life, either by overdosing, alcoholism, or suicide. It also doesn’t have to be that a person dies to lose their life either, but they might end up getting put in jail long before they are able to be diagnosed and treated properly, leading to issues getting jobs and functioning normally in society. BLOOD CAN BE WASHED AWAY, BUT THE SCARS WILL REMAIN; LET’S HEAL OTHERS BEFORE THEY DEVELOP SCARS TOO