the field of medicine concerned with the maintenance or achievement of such

well-being and adjustment” (Dictionary.com). In other words, mental health is

the way people deal with their feelings and how they act throughout their day.
Mental diseases, such as depression, could cause people to think of going
through the day as a chore and could become really upset at the idea of having to
continue to get up and do the same thing over and over again. Mental illnesses
cause people to look at life differently or see good things through a different eye.

Physical health and mental health are both important…show more content…
This means that over a span of five months, students cannot exceed a ten day
absence. Mental health can cause students to overthink and overanalyze
situations at any moment throughout the day. If a student with depression has an
episode, they can become numb, which makes it harder to attend school (Sack).
Most schools around the world focus on physical health more than they show
concern about how their students are doing mentally. If a student with any
mental disorder needs longer than ten days a semester, they need to seek their
doctors approval for a chronic illness form. This states that a student officially has
a disorder, and they can now exceed the ten day absence but can not exceed
twenty absences in school. Although some may say that physical health is more
important than mental health, doctors stress the importance of someone's
mental health as well as their physical well being (Reid). Being gone from school
for more than twenty days could negatively affect students grades but with
today’s technological advances, students can now work at home off of any
electronic device