Mental Health
What is Mental Health
Mental Health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being.
Characterized by a persistent low mood, a lack of positive affect, and a loss of interest in usually pleasurable activities (anhedonia) that is different from the patient's usual self and causes significant distress or impairment for ≥ 2 weeks.
What is anxiety?
What are the factors that contribute to mental health conditions?
Biological factors, such as genes or brain chemistry.
Life experiences, such as trauma or abuse.
Family history of mental health problems.
What are some of the risk factors of depression?
A family or personal history of major depression
and/or substance abuse.
Chronic medical illness
Alcohol and substance use
Stressful life events including loss
(including bereavement or divorce)
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health disorder found in?
Children and Adolescents
Why should we care about mental health?
A person's mental health affects how they act, feel, and think and helps them determine how to handle stress.
What are some of the symptoms of depression?
Significant change in weight or appetite.
Insomnia or hypersomnia.
Psychomotor agitation or retardation nearly every
day (observable by others)
Fatigue or loss of energy.
Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or
inappropriate guilt.
Indecisiveness or decreased ability to concentrate
recurrent thoughts of death or suicide
What are the symptoms of anxiety?
Restlessness or feeling "on edge" or "keyed up“
Fatigue concentration difficulties
Irritability
Muscle tension
Sleep disturbances
Gastrointestinal symptoms
Headaches