WHAT IS MENTAL HEALTH & WEL-BEING?

 Is a positive concept related to the social and emotional well-being of individuals and communities.
 Having a good mental health or being mentally healthy, it is more than just the absence of illness rather
it’s a state of overall wellbeing.
 It concludes our emotional, psychological and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel and act.
 It helps determine how stress, related with the others, and making choices.
 Mental health is about the wellness rather than illness.
 All about what’s going on? Rather than what’s the problem?

The concept is influence by culture, but it generally relates to:

 The employment of life
 Having the ability to cope with and bounce back from stress and sadness.
 Being able to set and fulfil goals
 Having the capability to build and maintain relationship with others.

INFLUENCE ON MENTAL HEALTH

It is influence by several factors: BIOLOGICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, SOCIAL and ENVIRONMENTAL
FACTORS which interact in complex ways;
1. STRUCTURAL FACTORS
 Safe living
 Education
 Access to economic resources
 Freedom from discrimination
 Employment
2. COMMUNITY FACTORS
 Positive sense of belonging
 Community connectedness
 Activities to highlight and embrace diversity
 Social support
 Participation in society
3. INDIVIDUAL FACTORS
 Ability to manage thoughts and cope with stressors and having communication and social skills
to support connection with others.
TIPS FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
 Get enough sleep and rest
 Take time out for things you enjoy
 Be active and eat well
 Nurture relationship and connect with others
 Learn to manage stress
 Build your confidence
  Be comfortable with your own skin
 Set a realistic goals and deal with things one at a time
 Reach out for help when you need it.

MENTAL HEATH AND HYGIENE

HEALTH is often used to refer a state of physical, mental, and social well-being of individual.
MENTAL HEALTH is broad concept of health concerned with an optimum level of emotional and behavioral
adjustment of the individual.
MENTAL HYGIENE refer to keeping oneself and once living and working areas neat and clean in order to
prevent illness and disease.

TO HAVE AN EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT MENTAL HEALTH, MUST FOLLOW THIS TIPS;
 REALITY CONTACT – it is good to have a realistic appraisal of one’s own reaction, emotion and
abilities. May avoid disappointments and frustrations.
 IMPULSIVE CONTROL – a healthy adjustment would have a good control over his/her behavior and
impulsive. Should be completed in control over your impulsive behaviors.
 SELF-ESTEEM – the evauate component of self. It could be positive or negative.
 POSITIVE THOUGHTS – mental health depends on whether we direct our thoughts in positive or
negative ways.

MENTAL ILL - HEALTH

Degine as the absence of qualities of positive mental health in the individual.
MENTAL ILLNESS
Is a broad term concludes almost all the disorders of behavior.

INDICATORS / SIGNS OF POOR MENTAL HEALTH

 Haphazard and disorders daily routine.
 Short – tempered and irritating behavior
 Anger and aggressive behavior
 Restlessness
 Increased or poor appetite and indigestion
 Irregular sleeping patterns
 Poor interpersonal relationship
 Anxiety and worry
 Negative attitude towards self and others
 Withdrawing from relationship
 Irregular and abnormal physiological conditions
 Excessive use of drugs
 Cigarrete smoking and use of tobacco in any forms.
BEHAVIORS WHICH SUSTAIN GOOD HEALTH
- Ayurveda, the science of Indian Medicine deals with these four (4) aspects of lifestyles;

 FOOD (AHARA) – most important aspect of life.

 ROUTINE (ACHARA) – consist of three (3) kinds of activities to complete the routine
o RITUCHARA – taking food and doing activities in accordance with season.
o DINCHARA – day routine
o RATRICHAYA – night routine
 RECREACTION (VIHARA) – doing exercise and morning walk are the most important components
of recreation. It takes body light and strong.
 THINKING (VICHARA) – sound and positive mental health can only be maintained w/ right kind
thinking. Has self-satisfaction, accommodative intellect, ability to accept criticism.

MENTAL HEALTH DIFFICULTIES AND PROBLEMS

- Refers to the broad range of cognitive, emotional and behavioral issue that may cause concerns or
distress. It affects how a person thinks and behaves.
MENTAL DISORDERS
- Is a disease that cause mild to severe disturbance in thought and/or behavioral resulting on inability to
cope w/ life’s ordinary demands and routine.
When does a mental health difficulty becomes a mental health problem?
- The point at which mental health difficulty become a mental health disorder can be difficult to
distinguish.
- The distinction can be specifically difficult in adolescents.
What causes mental health disorder?
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL
o Disability o Poor coping skill
o Poor Physical health o Poor social skills
o Genetic vulnerability o Low self worth
o Drug effects o Difficult temperant
o Difficult Temperant o Low IQ
o Low IQ o Family conflict
SOCIAL o Trauma
o Bullying / discrimination
o Family disadvantage
o Trauma
o Disengaged from school
o Family conflict
o Drug effects
DEPRESSION - Focusing on food can be a way of disguising
these problems even from self.
- Is a feeling of low mood that last for a long
time and affects your daily life. Most common eating probems
- It makes everything harder to do and seems
Anorexia
less worthwhile.
o Not allowing yourself to eat
- Can make you suicidal and life threating
enough to get the energy and
ANXIETY nutrition you need.
o Connected to very slow self-
- Strong feelings of unease, worry and fear.
esteem, negative self image and
- Because occasionally anxiety is normal
feelings of intense distress.
human experience, it is sometimes hard to
BULiMIA
know when it is becoming a mental health
o Finding that you eat large
problem.
amount of food in all one go,
 YOU MIGHT EXPERIENCE
feeling guilty and ashamed, then
 Constant worrying – about things
taking rid of the food you eaten.
that aren’t likely to happen.
BINGE EATING DISORDER
 Unpleasant Physical Symptoms –
o Feeling that you can’t stop yourself
such as sleep problems, panic
from eating even when you want to.
attacks, an increased heartbeat, upset
Sometimes called as food addiction
stomach, muscle tension or feeling
or compulsive eating.
shaky.
EATING DISORDERS NOT
 A specific anxiety disorders.
OTHERWISE SPECIFIED (EDNOS)
OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER o This diagnosis means you need some
of the criteria for one of the above
- A type of anxiety disorder disorders but not all of them
- Has two main parts
o OBSESSION – intrusive thoughts BPD (BORDERLINE PERSONALITY
ideas or urges that repeatedly appear DISORDER)
on your mind
- Changeable moods, a overwhelming fear of
o COMPULSSION - repetitive
abandonment, unstoppable sense of identity.
activities that you feel have to do
- Emotionally unstable personality disorder.
PHOBIAS
ASP (Anti-Social Personality disorder)
- Extreme form of fear or anxiety triggered by
-
a particular situation or object even when
there’s no danger.
- A fear becomes a phobia if it last for more
than 6 months and has a significant impact
on how you live your day – to – day life.
- You may begin to organized your life
around avoiding the things that you fear.
EATING PROBLEMS
- Are not just but they could be about difficult
things in life and painful feelings. Which
you may be finding hard to express, face or
resolve.