Background on Resilience
Background on resilience
Resilience is being able to get back up after falling down and carry on with life. Life is full of ups and downs and when your life is at a down point resilience will help you to bounce back again. Resilience is important for mental health because if you are not able to bounce back from times of adversity an individual runs the risk of poor mental health turning into a mild mental illness. Nick Wall’s showed he was a resilient person after the tragedy of the February 22nd Earthquake as he showed us clearly that he was able to bounce back after a traumatic situation in his life. Nick’s resilience helped him to be mentally stable and cope with the stressful situation he was in. Nick was pinned from the waist down in the P.G building and was trapped for ten hours. All of his muscle tissue on his bottom had to be cut away along with a crushed sciatic nerve. Nick showed real resilience by thinking positively and getting through every procedure to ensure he got better. He never once gave up on going to his daily physio sessions and persisted on using his special brace to walk. Nick believes that attitude is everything and tried to maintain positive throughout. When the building collapsed he thought great I’m alive, when he was in hospital he thought it was the best place for him and that he was going to be treated well. If Nick had a negative attitude he would not of been able to cope and been able to bounce back and carry on with his life as he did.
Change event identified
On Tuesday the 22nd of February at 12.52pm a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch. Nick Walls was currently at work in the P.G building when it struck. His first instinct was to dive under his desk and he remembers seeing many others do the same. In his office there were 12 people that worked there on level 2 of the building. The whole building just ‘pancaked’ you couldn’t tell which floor was which, there was no distinction. The company director who was standing
Resilience is being able to get back up after falling down and carry on with life. Life is full of ups and downs and when your life is at a down point resilience will help you to bounce back again. Resilience is important for mental health because if you are not able to bounce back from times of adversity an individual runs the risk of poor mental health turning into a mild mental illness. Nick Wall’s showed he was a resilient person after the tragedy of the February 22nd Earthquake as he showed us clearly that he was able to bounce back after a traumatic situation in his life. Nick’s resilience helped him to be mentally stable and cope with the stressful situation he was in. Nick was pinned from the waist down in the P.G building and was trapped for ten hours. All of his muscle tissue on his bottom had to be cut away along with a crushed sciatic nerve. Nick showed real resilience by thinking positively and getting through every procedure to ensure he got better. He never once gave up on going to his daily physio sessions and persisted on using his special brace to walk. Nick believes that attitude is everything and tried to maintain positive throughout. When the building collapsed he thought great I’m alive, when he was in hospital he thought it was the best place for him and that he was going to be treated well. If Nick had a negative attitude he would not of been able to cope and been able to bounce back and carry on with his life as he did.
Change event identified
On Tuesday the 22nd of February at 12.52pm a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch. Nick Walls was currently at work in the P.G building when it struck. His first instinct was to dive under his desk and he remembers seeing many others do the same. In his office there were 12 people that worked there on level 2 of the building. The whole building just ‘pancaked’ you couldn’t tell which floor was which, there was no distinction. The company director who was standing