MENTAL HEALTH

What is Mental Health?

Mental wellbeing describes your mental state - how

you are feeling and how well you can cope with
day-to-day life.

Our mental well-being is dynamic. It can change

from moment to moment, day to day, month to
month, or year to year.’
What does good mental health
look like?
If you have good mental well-being, you are able to:

Recognize the good in yourself, such as the positive attributes and

achievements you have made.
Feel and express a range of emotions.
Feel engaged with the world around you.
Live and work productively.
Cope with the stresses of daily life and manage times of change
and uncertainty.
MENTAL HEALTH CONTINUUM
 WHAT IS STRESS?

“Stress is the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressure

or other types of demand placed on them”

STRESS VERSUS GOOD PRESSURE

 TYPE OF MENTAL HEALTH
PROBLEMS
Anxiety
Depression
Eating problems
Schizophrenia
Phobias
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Bipolar disorder
Personality disorders
PTSD
 PSYCHOSIS

Psychosis is when you perceive or interpret reality in a very

different way from people around you.

Can take the form of:

Hallucinations
Delusions
Disorganized thinking and speech
What are mental health
problems?
If you have good mental well-being, you are able to:

Recognize the good in yourself, such as the positive attributes and

achievements you have made.
Feel and express a range of emotions.
Feel engaged with the world around you.
Live and work productively.
Cope with the stresses of daily life and manage times of change
and uncertainty.
 Self-care
HOW CAN I HELP Treatment
MYSELF OR options
SOMEONE ELSE? Recovery
Peer support
MANAGING CONVERSATION
 How might you start
a conversation?
Show your support

Ask how you can help

Be open-minded
Don’t just talk about mental
health
Show trust and respect
Look after yourself
Be patient
Mental well-being is
just as important as
physical well-being,
and you need to
maintain both in
order to stay fit and
healthy
How you
can look
after
your
well-
being?
Thank You
for listening