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Mental Health: Community Impact

Mental health refers to one's cognitive and behavioral well-being and their ability to cope with stress and maintain healthy relationships. It affects how one thinks, feels, and acts. Maintaining good mental health involves connecting with others, physical activity, helping others, adequate sleep, and a positive outlook. Mental illness disrupts one's mood, thinking, and behavior and can cause issues like depression, anxiety, and impaired functioning. Treating mental illness may involve therapy, counseling, or medication administered by mental health professionals. Resources for mental health vary globally but developed countries provide more programs and support.

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Mental Health: Community Impact

Mental health refers to one's cognitive and behavioral well-being and their ability to cope with stress and maintain healthy relationships. It affects how one thinks, feels, and acts. Maintaining good mental health involves connecting with others, physical activity, helping others, adequate sleep, and a positive outlook. Mental illness disrupts one's mood, thinking, and behavior and can cause issues like depression, anxiety, and impaired functioning. Treating mental illness may involve therapy, counseling, or medication administered by mental health professionals. Resources for mental health vary globally but developed countries provide more programs and support.

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Aylle A.

Frando
11- Integrity
APP 1: Educational Essay

Mental Health in Our Community


Mental Health includes one's psychological, emotional, and social well-being to one's
mental health. It can affect how they think, feel and act. It also helps in determining how one
handles stress, makes choices and relates to others. Indeed, mental health can affect one's
daily life activities, relationships and physical health. It refers to the condition of cognitive
and behavioural well-being. Sometimes the term 'mental health' is used to determine the
absence of a mental disorder. It is the condition of well-being whereby each person realizes
their potential and can deal with life changes and uncertainty. Proper mental health results in
the proper mental functioning that results in being productive in activities, healthy and
fulfilling relationships with other people and having the ability to cope and adapt to adversity.
Throughout a lifetime, an individual can experience mental health issues at any point. This
affects not only their mood and behaviour but also changes their way of thinking, of looking
at life and facing challenges. (Barry M. Jenkins R. 2006)

For a long time, mental health has been defined as the absence of mental illnesses
such as anxiety and depression. Mental illness typically refers to all the diagnosable mental
disorders, health conditions that are characterized by alterations in mood, thinking and
behaviour associated with impaired functioning or distress. People suffering from mental
health issues show various symptoms such as little or no energy, pushing away people and
pulling themselves back from regular activities, loss of sleep or the will to eat, smoking,
drinking or doing drugs, feeling helpless, yelling and fighting, losing temper very quickly,
harming themselves and many more (Creek J. Lougher L. 2006)

Taking care of mental health not only involves getting help from professionals when
needed but also connecting with others, getting involved in physical activities, helping others,
getting enough sleep and staying positive that there is a way out. Positive mental health
allows people to realize their full potential, cope with stress in life, work productively and
make meaningful contributions to the community. Various factors in people’s lives such as
intrapersonal relations, physical factors, childhood trauma and many other conditions can
disrupt mental health conditions. Taking care and looking after one’s mental health preserves
an individual’s ability to enjoy life. (Jackson-Triche M., Wells K.B., Minnium K., 2002)

The person struggling with their mental state may know that because of tension,
sadness, depression, anxiety, dying of beloved ones, suicidal thoughts, grief, addiction,
ADHD, various mood disorders, or other mental illnesses of varying degrees, also us teaching
disabilities. (Kitchener, Betty&Jorm, Antony, 2002) Therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists,
social workers, nurse practitioner or doctors can help administer mental disease with
interventions, e.g. therapy counselling, or therapy. (Guntrip H. 1964)

Mental health resources in every country are different. At the same time, developed
countries of the western world provide mental health programs for every age group. In third
world countries where it becomes a struggle to find the basic need of the families, not much
importance is given to providing proper mental health aid. (Cappeliez P. & Flynn R.J. 1993)

Reference(s): Kitchener, Betty; Jorm, Antony (2002). Mental Health First Aid Manual
st
(1 ed). Canberra: Center for Mental Health Research, Australian National University. p, 5,
ISBN 978-0-7315-4891-0. OCLC 62228904
Text structured used: Definition/ Elucidation

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