Understanding Mental and Emotional Health
What is the most complex organ in the human body?
The brain is the most complex organ in the human body.
Mental Health
What is positive stress called?
What is negative stress called?
Positive stress = eustress
Negative stress = distress
What is one healthy way to manage stress?
1) Track your stress
2) Identify the source of your stress
3) Practice mindfulness regularly
4) Be physically active
5) Practice deep breathing
6) Plan pleasant activities
This mental illness includes both depressive and manic episodes and affects about one percent of the population.
Bipolar Disorder
1) Mental distress
2) Mental health problems
3) Mental disorder
Symptoms of negative mental health can result in a number of different things. What are two examples of what negative mental health can result in?
Unexplained physical aches, pains, and tension
Mood swings
Substance abuse
Conflict with people in your life
Chronic worrying
Negative emotions and feelings like helplessness, fear, and anger
Difficulty carrying out basic daily functions
Thoughts of death, dying, self-hurt, or suicide
An event or situation that causes stress is called what?
When an individual chooses a healthy way to deal with stress, they will experience healthy consequences. What are two healthy consequences?
1) Resiliency - the skills and emotional strength to bounce back
2) A sense of hope
3) More energy
4) Feeling in control
5) Better balance in major life areas like school, emotions, health, family issues, and relationships
People who have this mental disorder are usually diagnosed in primary school but continue into secondary school and often beyond. The symptoms for this mental disorder fall into three different categories.
Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity-Disorder (ADHD)
What component of mental health must be diagnosed by a properly trained health professional?
What is a person's ability to accept and manage feelings through challenge and change, as well as their ability to express feelings based upon the information they have processed?
Emotional health
What are the three general types of stressors?
1) Major life changes
2) Everyday problems
3) Environmental problems
What is one unhealthy way to manage stress?
1) Get angry at people and bully them
2) Verbally or physically abuse someone else
3) Use alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs to escape the pressure
4) Sleep all the time
5) Overdo activities to avoid dealing with the stress
6) Spend more money than you can afford
7) Spend hours watching television, looking at social media, or playing video games
What are the two eating disorders we talked about in class and what does each eating disorder mean?
1) Anorexia nervosa - a severe weight loss caused by a person-self starving because they incorrectly think and feel that they are too fat
2) Bulimia nervosa - is the binge eating of large amounts of food in a very short period of time followed by self-induced vomiting
At what stage in life do many of the major mental illnesses begin to emerge?
Adolescence (a majority of them emerge around 15 years of age)
What is the term for an individual's ability to bounce back from disappointments?
Resilience
What is the biggest difference between stress and anxiety?
The biggest difference between stress and anxiety is the presence of a specific trigger.
Stress is typically tied to a specific situation - once that situation resolves, so does your stress.
Anxiety, by contrast, doesn't always have a specific stressor.
When an individual chooses an unhealthy way to deal with stress, they will experience unhealthy consequences. What are two unhealthy consequences?
1) Health problems
2) Anxiety
3) Depression
4) Suicidal thoughts
5) Feeling hopeless or worthless
6) Feeling guilty
7) Difficulties in major life areas such as school, emotions, health, family issues, and relationships
In class we talked about two examples of unfortunate outcomes of a mental illness. What were those two examples?
1) Suicide
2) Self-harming
The brain has six major functions. What are THREE of them?
1) Thinking or cognition
2) Perception or sensing
3) Emotion of feeling
4) Signaling
5) Physical
6) Behavior
How can an individual's self-concept, and self-esteem affect our mental and emotional health?
Low self-concept and low self-esteem can affect an individual's mental and emotional health by causing poor relationships, addictions, high stress levels, increased anxiety, and poor body image.
If an individual feels as though they can't manage stress and anxiety, what symptoms may they show to indicate they are at risk of a mental illness?
The stress and anxiety cause you to avoid doing things you would do regularly.
When stress and anxiety seem to always be present and never go away.
1) Time out - gives you a chance to cool down
2) Walk it out - releases natural chemicals that help you let go of tension
3) Talk it out - helps you understand the source of your stress and connects you with others
4) Write it out - helps you think through thinks and review your progress
5) Deep breathing - moves your focus from your stress to your breath, helps you release tension, and gets more oxygen to your brain for clearer thinking
6) Mindful movement - helps let go of unwanted thoughts, decreases your pulse rate, and changes your focus
What are three lifestyle changes that an individual can incorporate into their lives to enhance brain functioning and improve mental and emotional health?
1) Exercise
2) Memory training
3) Sufficient sleep
4) Good nutrition
5) Positive relationships