PERSONAL

DEVELOPMENT
(Week 6)
MENTAL
HEALTH
 MENTAL
HEALTH
includes our emotional,
psychological, and social
well-being.
 MENTAL
HEALTH

think feel act

 WHY IS
MENTAL HEALTH
IMPORTANT FOR
STUDENTS?
 EARLY
WARNING
SIGNS
 EARLY WARNING SIGNS
Eating or sleeping too much or
01
too little

02 Pulling away from people and

usual activities
03 Having low or no energy
Feeling numb or like nothing
04
matters
 EARLY WARNING SIGNS
Having unexplained aches and
05
pains
06 Feeling helpless or hopeless
Smoking drinking, or using drugs
07
more than usual
Feeling unusually confused,
08 forgetful, on edge, angry, upset,
worried, or scared.
 EARLY WARNING SIGNS
Yelling or fighting with family
09 and friends
Experiencing severe mood
10 swings that cause problems in
relationships
Having persistent thoughts and
11 memories you can’t get out of
your head.
 EARLY WARNING SIGNS
Hearing voices or believing things
12
that are not true
Thinking of harming yourself or
13
others

Inability to perform daily tasks

14
like taking care of your kids or
getting to work or school
 MENTAL
HEALTH
PROBLEMS
 MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
ANXIETY
DISORDERS
• a type of mental health
condition
• You may respond to certain
• obsessive- things and situations with
compulsive fear and dread.
disorder
• panic disorders • Pounding heart and
• phobias sweating.
 MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS

OBSESSIVE-
COMPULSIVE
DISORDERS
• features a pattern of unwanted
thoughts and fears (obsessions) that
lead you to do repetitive behaviors
(compulsions).
MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS

OBSESSIVE-
COMPULSIVE
DISORDERS
• for example, an excessive fear of
getting contaminated by germs.
To ease your contamination fears,
you may compulsively wash your
hands until they're sore and
chapped.
 MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
BEHAVIORAL
DISORDERS
• a pattern of disruptive
behaviors in children
that last for at least 6
months
• Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder
(ADHD)
• Conduct Disorder
• Oppositional-Defiant Disorder (ODD)
MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
EATING
DISORDERS
• are a type of serious mental
health condition
characterized by severe
disturbances in eating
behaviors and related
thoughts and emotions
MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
EATING
DISORDERS
• Eating disorders can
include anorexia and
bulimia
 MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS

EATING DISORDERS

ANOREXIA NERVOSA
is an eating disorder characterized by an
abnormally low body weight, an intense
fear of gaining weight and a distorted
perception of weight
 MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS

EATING DISORDERS
BULIMIA NERVOSA
is a serious, potentially life-threatening eating
disorder. People with bulimia may secretly
binge — eating large amounts of food with a
loss of control over the eating — and then purge,
trying to get rid of the extra calories in an
unhealthy way.
 MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS

PERSONALITY
DISORDERS
• is a type of mental
disorder in which you
have a rigid and
unhealthy pattern of
thinking, functioning and
behaving
 MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS

PERSONALITY
DISORDERS

antisocial personality
disorder and
borderline personality
disorder
 MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
PSYCHOTIC
DISORDERS
• are severe mental
disorders that cause
abnormal thinking and
perceptions.
SYMPTOMS: • People with psychoses
delusions and lose touch with reality
hallucinations
 MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
TRAUMA AND
STRESS
RELATED
DISORDERS
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
can occur after living through or seeing a
traumatic event makes you feel stressed and
afraid after the danger is over.
 WAYS TO
MAINTAIN
POSITIVE MENTAL
HEALTH
INCLUDE:
WAYS TO MAINTAIN
POSITIVE MENTAL
HEALTH INCLUDE:
1. Getting professional help if
you
need it.
WAYS TO MAINTAIN
POSITIVE MENTAL
HEALTH INCLUDE:

2. Connecting
with others.
WAYS TO MAINTAIN
POSITIVE MENTAL
HEALTH INCLUDE:
3. Staying
positive.
WAYS TO MAINTAIN
POSITIVE MENTAL
HEALTH INCLUDE:
4. Getting
physically
active.
WAYS TO MAINTAIN
POSITIVE MENTAL
HEALTH INCLUDE:
5. Getting enough sleep.
WAYS TO MAINTAIN
POSITIVE MENTAL
HEALTH INCLUDE:

6. Developing
coping skills
T H A N K Y O U