• Question: What mental health issue do you encounter the least?

    Asked by anon-216133 to Robert, Olly, Nicola, Jasmin, Dennis, Caroline on 12 Jun 2019.
    • Photo: Oliver Clabburn

      Oliver Clabburn answered on 12 Jun 2019:

      In my line of work I don’t really encounter some of the more extreme mental health issues (e.g. Schizophrenia, psychosis etc.)

    • Photo: Dennis Relojo-Howell

      Dennis Relojo-Howell answered on 12 Jun 2019:

      I curate mental health stories on my blog where a quarter of those people who wrote those mental health stories I’ve met in person. Most of them have depression or anxiety. I have also met a few people who suffered from schizophrenia but I have not met anyone yet who has a specific phobia.

    • Photo: Caroline Brett

      Caroline Brett answered on 12 Jun 2019:

      I rarely encounter students with mental health conditions that include an element of psychosis, such as schizophrenia, although in a previous job as an assistant psychologist things were different!

    • Photo: Jasmin Moon

      Jasmin Moon answered on 12 Jun 2019:

      I would say schizophrenia is the least common in the people I support, but that’s not to say we don’t support people with this diagnosis. I also don’t encounter many people with things like post-partum depression and psychosis (conditions that occur after childbirth), simply because I only support people who are working and women are usually on maternity leave after they’ve had a baby!

    • Photo: Robert Dempsey

      Robert Dempsey answered on 12 Jun 2019:

      There’s a lot really – I’ve not met someone who experiences ‘dissociative identity disorder’ (DID) (formerly called ‘multiple personality disorder’). I know there’s a lot of discussion about what DID is. It is quite rare to encounter someone experiencing dissociative identity.

    • Photo: Nicola Johnstone

      Nicola Johnstone answered on 13 Jun 2019:

      I work in emotion regulation research in typical populations, so do not encounter clinical diagnosed mental disorders, but try to find elements that might progress into health issues. Mostly I work with ideas around anxiety.

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