554 - Mental Health Emergencies
Tiny Leaps, Big Changes
Gregg Clunis
4.3 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, look at mental health emergencies.
Recognizing an Emergency:
Any time a person is an immediate danger to others or themselves, experts say.
Quote:
"In many ways, issues related to suicide are similar to having chest pain: This is an emergency, and it should be taken seriously," Borenstein says. In other words, if someone around you is threatening violence, call 911 or take the person to the nearest emergency room yourself, he says.
Other situations that warrant quick care include people who show signs of psychosis that affect their functioning such as delusions, paranoia or fear, Borenstein says. People who are extremely agitated, wild, overly active and unable to calm down should also raise red flags – particularly if they don't respond to verbal interventions like saying, "Hey, can we sit down and talk?" Lieberman adds.
Sudden behavior changes should be taken seriously, too. "If something evolves rapidly, it's probably not psychiatric," Lieberman says. It's probably something really, really serious like poisoning, and they just need to be taken to the closest emergency room immediately." If you have a choice, head to an academic medical center, since clinicians there tend to be up-to-date on the most effective procedures and treatments, he says."
When to Ask For Help if its Not an Emergency:
- Feeling sad, angry, or otherwise “not yourself.”
- Abusing drugs, alcohol, food, or sex to cope.
- You’ve lost someone or something important to you.
- Something traumatic has happened.
- You can’t do the things you like to do.
Resources:
https://www.mhanational.org/finding-help-when-get-it-and-where-go
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode we talk about mental health emergencies get excited because this is tiny leaps big changes. Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps. Big changes where I share simple strategies |
| 0:29.4 | you can use to get more out of your life. My name is Greg Klunis and in this episode we are talking |
| 0:37.0 | about an important topic, one that I don't think gets enough coverage, enough conversation around. |
| 0:47.8 | We're talking about the idea of a mental health emergency. |
| 0:52.6 | Now if you have never experienced one, |
| 0:55.2 | a mental health emergency is probably not something |
| 0:57.6 | you've ever really thought about, right? |
| 0:59.6 | We always talk about mental health, |
| 1:01.6 | we always talk about sort of preventative measures, meditating, journaling, trying to improve |
| 1:08.3 | our day-to-day, trying to improve our relationship to our mental health. |
| 1:12.8 | We're always looking at it from a preventative point of view. |
| 1:16.0 | How can we avoid things getting bad? |
| 1:20.0 | But what do you do if things are already bad? Well, this is what's called if things are already bad. |
| 1:23.6 | Well, this is what's called a mental health emergency. |
| 1:26.3 | This is a reactive state and the only solutions |
| 1:29.7 | that help are reactive. |
| 1:32.2 | So in today's episode, I want to dive into recognizing an emergency |
| 1:35.8 | so that if it ever happens to you or someone else you're able to see what is going |
| 1:41.1 | on and I also want to talk about when to ask for help if it's not |
| 1:47.5 | yet an emergency but some of the signs that could lead to an emergency. So this is less of a how to fix your life |
| 1:56.9 | episode, less of a focus on the daily progress episode, more of a mental health and mental health awareness |
| 2:05.0 | episode. And I think it should be super valuable. So if you know someone who |
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