Mental Health Post SHTF

[Scythe13]

This post is all about what, when, how, and did you think about....?

I have spoken about depression with the collapse, and about depression post and prior to TSHTF. There are many other mental health issues to think about, and some you may not be happy to either face, or know how to deal with.

Firstly, if you have no mental health issues, if there is a group of survivors, would you know how to adapt to a team member that had ADHD or something like that? What about Downs? What about Aspergers?

Would you know how to use the advantages that person would be able to provide? Would you even know what advantages they have?

What about the disadvantages? You would not want a dyslexic reading messages out to the group (I'm dyslexic, so I speak from a pretty well educated view point here), neither would you want a person, like my cousin, with Downs incharge of a hunting party.

Next up, if you have something like ADHD or are somewhere on the Autistic scale, or have any other mental health issue that could be considered an issue, do you know about how that could benefit you? Do you know the advantages it would provide? Also, do you know how to express your ability with the advantages?

For example, ADHD causes lots of energy but a very short attention span. However, there is hyperfocus, that means a person with ADHD can be 100% absorbed into an activity so much so they can forget to eat and sleep.

We, are preppers, understand that we cannot always choose the situations we face, nor the people we face those situations with.

But it does make sense to recognise that we are not all the same, and that the differences certain people have may seem negative, but can really be hugely advantageous. Also, if you feel you are different, recognise the good and bad, then focus and work on enhancing the good elements of what will help you survive.