Mental and Emotional Health

1. Mental and Emotional Health

2. Mental Health • The feeling you have about yourself and your abilities to deal with problems

3. Emotions • Normal • Everyone has them • Express them in a positive way (not negative)

4. Emotions Examples • Love – strong affection or caring for someone. • Happiness – feeling of joy and well being or contentment.

5. Optimism – feeling that life experiences will be positive. • Humor – a way of expressing some negative emotions in a more positive way.

6. Fear – feeling of danger • Managing your fears – • Self talk – saying things to yourself to view the fear more realistically. • Environmental planning – rearranging the environment to reduce your fear.

7. Anger – strong feeling or irritation. • Managing anger – • Channel emotions appropriately, so that they are positive • Recognize your feelings and the source of the anger

8. Guilt – feeling that you have done something wrong or are responsible for something bad happening. • Jealousy – feeling of wanting something that someone else has or of losing something you have

9. Loneliness – feeling of isolation or alienation • Shyness- being timid or bashful

10. Depression – feeling of sadness loneliness and despair. • Family History • Major life stressors • Physical illness • Substance abuse • Gender

11. Managing depression • Try to identify your source of depression • Put things into perspective • Focus on the positive things • Talk to someone you trust

12. Self ideal - your mental image of what you would like to be • Self concept – the current mental image you have of yourself.

13. Defense Mechanisms • Techniques people use to protect themselves from being hurt. • Page – 160

14. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs – focusing on the positive aspects of human behavior. • He organized human need by priority

16. Types of Mental and Emotional Disorders

17. Organic disorder – mental and emotional disorders resulting from a physical cause. • Physical illness- brain tumor • injury – blow to the head • chemical imbalance – drugs to destroy brain cells

18. Eating Disorders – deep emotional problems related to self – image and self-esteem • Required psychiatric treatment • Increased among teens

19. Anxiety disorder – a condition in which fear or anxiety prevents one from enjoying life and completing everyday task. • Most common • Phobias most well know • More women then men

20. Dissociative disorder – a condition in which someone’s personality changes to the point that the person believes he or she is someone else • Amnesia • Multiple personality disorder

21. Mood Disorder – a condition in which one mood is experienced almost to the exclusion of other feelings • depression

22. Personality Disorder – an emotional condition in which a person’s patterns of behavior negatively affects that person’s ability to get along with others. • Antisocial

23. Somatoform Disorder – emotional condition in which there are physical symptoms but no identifiable disease or injury, physical symptoms are caused by psychological factors. • Hypochondria

24. Seeking Help IF You • Have prolonged feeling of depression or hopelessness • Feelings that life is out of control • Inability to concentrate or make decisions. • Difficulty getting along with others

25. Cont. • Intense fears • Persistent difficulty sleeping • Emotional problems coping with a physical illness • Inability to stop destructive behaviors

26. Types of Treatment • Psychoanalysis – examines unresolved conflict from the past. • Behavior therapy – focuses on the persons behavior now rather then the underlying problem.

27. Cont. • Group Therapy- meetings of people with similar problems. • Chemical Therapy – the use of drugs to treat mental and emotional disorders. (can be dangerous and addictive)

28. Self –Esteem – pride in and acceptance of yourself; feeling good about yourself and your abilities. • Begins at Birth

29. Body Image – the view a person has on his or her body • Positive self talk – talking in a positive way to yourself about yourself. • Self – disclosure – telling another person meaningful info about yourself

30. 10 Steps to Improve Self-Esteem 1. Think about what you are good at, and build on those abilities 2. Select supportive and encouraging friends 3. Practice good health habits

31. 4. Exercise!!!!!!!!! 5. Think positive • Write down 3 things that make you happy everyday • Set goals, be realistic • Beware of perfectionist

32. Make a difference in the world, help others *Volunteer • Reward yourself Have fun !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

33. Self – Esteem more than any other factors has a direct effect on all 5 aspects of your health

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