What is mental health?
What is your mental health?
The mental health of a human would be classified as our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Our mental health affects our daily lives from how we think, feel or act, to how we handle stress. https://www.mentalhealth.gov/basics/what-is-mental-health/
What is Stress?
Stress is how our body adapts to changes example being. You have many projects and assignments due in a relatively short amount of time and you haven't been able to start or even look at the project or assignment since you got it due to your school work or work itself. The feeling you get when you have to cramp to get the information for the project or assignment begins to be too much. You can not handle all of the work you have thrown on yourself. This is stress. Sometimes its not school or work related, it can just simply be how you are living. Stress happens in all of us at one time or another it really depends on how you handle it that affects your mood. https://www.stress.org/what-is-stress/
The mental health of a human would be classified as our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Our mental health affects our daily lives from how we think, feel or act, to how we handle stress. https://www.mentalhealth.gov/basics/what-is-mental-health/
What is Stress?
Stress is how our body adapts to changes example being. You have many projects and assignments due in a relatively short amount of time and you haven't been able to start or even look at the project or assignment since you got it due to your school work or work itself. The feeling you get when you have to cramp to get the information for the project or assignment begins to be too much. You can not handle all of the work you have thrown on yourself. This is stress. Sometimes its not school or work related, it can just simply be how you are living. Stress happens in all of us at one time or another it really depends on how you handle it that affects your mood. https://www.stress.org/what-is-stress/
Mental Illness
What is mental illness?
Mental illness is an illness that effects a persons mental health and well-being. Mental illness is a serious thing because an estimated 54 million Americans suffer from mental illnesses.
Mental illness is a disease that causes mild or severe disturbances in one's behavior or thoughts, normally resulting in the inability to cope with demands or routine seen as ordinary to a person.
Over 200 known classifications of mental illness is known. The most common are depression, bipolar disorder, dementia, schizophrenia and anxiety disorders. There are a few symptoms that can go with mental illness such as changes in mood, personality, personal habits or social withdrawal.
Symptoms/ Warning signs
If you or someone you care for have any of these signs please talk to them. Sometimes talking to a person helps more than hiding the information. http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/recognizing-warning-signs
In Adults, Young Adults and Adolescents:
Mental illness is an illness that effects a persons mental health and well-being. Mental illness is a serious thing because an estimated 54 million Americans suffer from mental illnesses.
Mental illness is a disease that causes mild or severe disturbances in one's behavior or thoughts, normally resulting in the inability to cope with demands or routine seen as ordinary to a person.
Over 200 known classifications of mental illness is known. The most common are depression, bipolar disorder, dementia, schizophrenia and anxiety disorders. There are a few symptoms that can go with mental illness such as changes in mood, personality, personal habits or social withdrawal.
Symptoms/ Warning signs
If you or someone you care for have any of these signs please talk to them. Sometimes talking to a person helps more than hiding the information. http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/recognizing-warning-signs
In Adults, Young Adults and Adolescents:
- Confused thinking
- Prolonged depression (sadness or irritability)
- Feelings of extreme highs and lows
- Excessive fears, worries and anxieties
- Social withdrawal
- Dramatic changes in eating or sleeping habits
- Strong feelings of anger
- Strange thoughts (delusions)
- Seeing or hearing things that aren't there (hallucinations)
- Growing inability to cope with daily problems and activities
- Suicidal thoughts
- Numerous unexplained physical ailments
- Substance use
- Substance use
- Inability to cope with problems and daily activities
- Changes in sleeping and/or eating habits
- Excessive complaints of physical ailments
- Changes in ability to manage responsibilities - at home and/or at school
- Defiance of authority, truancy, theft, and/or vandalism
- Intense fear
- Prolonged negative mood, often accompanied by poor appetite or thoughts of death
- Frequent outbursts of anger
- Changes in school performance
- Poor grades despite strong efforts
- Changes in sleeping and/or eating habits
- Excessive worry or anxiety (i.e. refusing to go to bed or school)
- Hyperactivity
- Persistent nightmares
- Persistent disobedience or aggression
- Frequent temper tantrums