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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

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Mental Health

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  1. Mental Health

  2. Definition of mental health Having a positive outlook, being comfortable with yourself and others, and being able to meet lifes challenges and demands.

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Emotions Empathy Understand how someone Else feels Love Affection, concern and respect Anger Reaction to Being hurt Fear Physical symptoms for Mind problems Guilt When you think You have done Something wrong

  6. 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 Common defense mechanisms

  7. 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

  8. Self- esteem • Definition - how you feel about yourself

  9. How does self-esteem development • Parents influence • Peer influence • Life experience

  10. What are four ways to raise self-esteem? • Use I statements • Think positive • Do not surround yourself with negative people • Reach for your goals

  11. Self-disclosure • Telling someone about your thoughts and feelings

  12. Media • TV • Magazines • Billboards • Newspaper • Music • Poems • Books

  13. Stress • Anything that causes a stress response.

  14. 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

  15. Stress Response Continued • Resistance • Completion of activity (fighting or running) • Stress hormones are released from the body • Fatigue • Physical, psychological, physiological exhaustion

  16. 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

  17. Type B personality Laid back, little stress, uncaring attitude

  18. Disorders Caused by Stress • Fatigue • Heart Disease • Cold/Flu • Hypertension • Cancer

  19. 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

  20. Five stages in the acceptance of death • Denial • Anger • Bargaining • Depression • Acceptance

  21. 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

  22. Suicide video clip • http://www.mytopclip.com/play.php?vid=5753

  23. 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

  24. Risk Factors • Depression • Previous suicide attempt • Family disruption • Psychiatric illness • Recent losses • Social isolation • Drug or alcohol abuse • Violence in the home

  25. Psychosocial Factors • Divorce • Change in friends • Change in activities • Moving • Dealing with death or personal tragedy

  26. Mental and Emotional Disorders

  27. Anxiety Disorders • FEAR!

  28. General anxiety disorders: feelings of anxiety with physical symptoms such as perspiration and increased heart rate Phobia - persistent fear of something Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - persistent recurring thoughts with the need to repeat some actions Panic Disorder - Intense feeling of terror without cause Anxiety Disorders

  29. Dissociate Disorders - personality changed • Multiple personality - having two or more personalities • Amnesia - loss of memory

  30. Mood disorders • Depression - Feeling of sadness, loneliness and hopelessness • Bipolar (manic depression)- exaggerated feeling of euphoria and depression

  31. Schizophrenia • Hallucinations, hearing voices that are often mean, seeing things that are not there

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