Download Mental Health

Mental Health
Definition of mental health
Having a positive outlook, being
comfortable with yourself and
others, and being able to meet
lifes challenges and demands.
Five signs of good mental health





Are realistic about
strengths and
weaknesses
Are responsible for
personal behavior
Express emotions
appropriately
Avoid high-risk
behaviors
Invest time and energy
into good activities
Roadblocks to mental health

All-or-nothing
thinking
 Expecting the worst
in others or yourself
 Being a perfectionist
 Letting your actions
or works betray your
values
Emotions
Empathy
Love
Understand how someone
Affection,
Else feels
concern and respect
Fear
Physical symptoms for
Mind problems
Anger
Guilt
Reaction to When you think
Being hurt You have done
Something wrong
Common defense mechanisms




Compensation -making
up for weakness by
hard work
Daydreaming escaping reality with
your mind
Denial - Refusing to
believe something
Displacement - taking
an emotion out on the
wrong person




Rationalization - making
excuses rather then
taking responsibility
Regression - movement
of maturity
Repression - pulling
memories to the back of
the mind
Somatization - physical
symptoms for mental
problem
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Self-fulfilling
Best you can be
Aesthetic
Need to know and explore
Emotional
Need to belong and be loved
Need to achieve
Physical
Hunger, thirst, sleep, safety, and security
Self- esteem

Definition - how you
feel about yourself
How does self-esteem
development

Parents influence
 Peer influence
 Life experience
What are four ways to raise selfesteem?

Use I statements
 Think positive
 Do not surround
yourself with
negative people
 Reach for your
goals
Self-disclosure

Telling someone
about your thoughts
and feelings
Media







TV
Magazines
Billboards
Newspaper
Music
Poems
Books
Stress

Anything that
causes a stress
response.
Stress response

Alarm - “fight or flight” - provoked by the
nervous and endocrine systems
–
–
–
–
–
Eye sight improves
Hearing improves
Release of Adrenaline
Heart rate increases
Breathing gets shallow and quick
Stress Response Continued

Resistance
– Completion of activity (fighting or running)
– Stress hormones are released from the
body

Fatigue
– Physical, psychological, physiological
exhaustion
Type A personality
A person that is always on the go,
is in a hurry, and may be uptight.
Is more prone to heart disease
and cancer
Type B personality
Laid back, little stress, uncaring
attitude
Disorders Caused by Stress
Fatigue
 Heart Disease
 Cold/Flu
 Hypertension
 Cancer

Stress management techniques





Planning - Make sure you have
things planed and written down
Relaxation - Autogenic training
and progressive relaxation
Time management - not
scheduling yourself so much
that you are pulled in to many
directions
Rechanneling energy - yoga
and meditation (religion)
Support - always have people
who you can count on to help
with rough times
Five stages in the acceptance of
death





Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
Vocabulary

Living will - A signed contract to state that a
person does not want to live on machines
 Hospice - A peaceful place to live for those
terminally ill until they pass away
 Will - signed agreement about who will get
possessions
 Cremation - Alternative to burial, burn body to
ashes
Suicide video clip

http://www.mytopclip.com/play.php?vid=
5753
What is suicide?

When someone takes there own life.

Warning signs
–
–
–
–
–
Personality changes
Giving away possessions
Depressed mood
Withdraw from family or friends
Loss of interest in “normal” activities
Who can be helpful in a crisis? School counselor, teacher,
parent, police
Risk Factors








Depression
Previous suicide attempt
Family disruption
Psychiatric illness
Recent losses
Social isolation
Drug or alcohol abuse
Violence in the home
Psychosocial Factors





Divorce
Change in friends
Change in activities
Moving
Dealing with death
or personal tragedy
Mental and Emotional Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
FEAR!
Anxiety Disorders

General anxiety
disorders: feelings
of anxiety with
physical symptoms
such as perspiration
and increased heart
rate
 Phobia - persistent
fear of something

ObsessiveCompulsive
Disorder - persistent
recurring thoughts
with the need to
repeat some actions
 Panic Disorder Intense feeling of
terror without cause
Dissociate Disorders - personality
changed
Multiple personality - having two or
more personalities
 Amnesia - loss of memory

Mood disorders

Depression Feeling of sadness,
loneliness and
hopelessness
 Bipolar (manic
depression)exaggerated feeling
of euphoria and
depression
Schizophrenia

Hallucinations,
hearing voices that
are often mean,
seeing things that
are not there