Disability
What is disability?
Persons with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual, or sensory impairments, which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.
How does disability affect mental health?
People with a physical disability or physical health problem are more likely to experience a mental health problem. In contrast, people with mental health problems are more likely to experience physical health problems.
- More than 15 million people - 30% of the UK population - live with one or more long-term conditions, and more than 4 million of these people will also have mental health problems.
- People with long-term physical conditions are likelier to have lower well-being scores than those without.
- People with cancer, diabetes, asthma and high blood pressure are at greater risk of a range of mental health problems such as depression, anxiety and PTSD.
- Of people with severe symptoms of mental health problems, 37.6% also have long-term physical conditions. This compares with 25.3% of people with no or few symptoms of a mental health problem.
Support
There a plenty of organisations that can help those with disabilities. If you know of any organisations that are not listed here and would like them to be, click here.
If you would like to see some national organisations that can help too, click here.
Choices & Rights
Originally set-up in 1994, as a small campaigning group with funds of only £150, Choices and Rights have become the leading organisation of disabled people in the Hull and East Riding area and have a growing regional and national reputation.
One of our key roles is to support disabled people, and their families, to employ Personal Assistants, so they can live independent lives. We also run and manage the Hull and East Riding Centre for Independent Living (CIL), providing information, advice and a range of services for disabled people, their families, and service provider.
Contact Point - Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
We are a team of experienced clinical team in mental health and learning disability who provide a single point of access for emotional and mental health referrals. The team will help to find the right service for a young person and family to ensure that they get the right support, at the right time and in the right place.
Who can refer?
Any professional working with young people can refer – we would ask them to complete the on-line referral form found here
We also take telephone referrals from parents/carers of a young person of any age under 18 years and from young people themselves if they are 16 years old and above.
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