4. What is Mental Health
■ Generally having a positive outlook, being
comfortable with yourself and other, and
being able to meet life’s challenges and
demands.
5. Self-Esteem
■ The confidence and worth that you feel
about yourself
■ How is it formed?
■ Feedback-messages from others that indicate
what they think you are or what they think you
are like
■ Self-Talk – feedback from yourself
6. Roadblocks to Mental Health
■ All or Nothing Thinking
■ Expecting the Worst
■ Being a Perfectionist
■ Letting your actions or words betray your
values
16. Personality
■ A complex set of characteristics that makes you
unique and sets you apart from everyone else.
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Heredity
Environment
Personal Behavior
■ Two personality types:
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Type A- Competitive, High Achievers
Type B- Laid-Back
21. Changes Emotions Cause
■ Endorphins can be triggered causing “fight
or Flight” mechanism
■ Release of chemicals that cause good
feelings and promote mental health
■ Increase in HR, perspiration, tightening of
stomach muscles.
22. Love
■ All humans need to give and receive (Maslow)
■ Includes strong affection, deep concern, respect,
supporting growth & individual needs, and
respecting that persons boundaries and values
■ Ways to express:
■ Words, Actions, Facial Expressions, touch, and good
deeds
■ Forms:
■ Caring for family/friends, loyalty to siblings, deep
connection to your country
23. Empathy
■ The ability to imagine
and understand how
someone else feels
■ “walk in someone
else’s shoes”
Anger
■ A strong feeling of
displeasure
24. Fear
■ Physical reaction to a life-threatening
situation.
■ Can be rational or irrational (phobias)
■ Can be inherited or instilled
■ Sympathetic Nervous System-reacts by
preparing your body for necessary actions.
26. Handling Emotions
■ Ask yourself: What is this feeling really
about? Do I have any control over the
cause?
■ Consider whether or not this feeling or
situation will really matter tomorrow, next
week, or next year.
■ Remind yourself that feelings are just
feelings.
27. Handling Emotions
■ Use positive feelings to inspire you and
upsetting ones to motivate you to change.
■ Remember that you are not alone.
■ If the feeling doesn’t go away, seek help
from a parent, trusted adult, or professional.
28. Defense Mechanisms
■ Repression- Involuntary, unconscious
pushing of unpleasant feelings below the
surface and out of conscious thought
■ Suppression- Conscious, intentional
pushing of unpleasantness from one’s mind
29. Defense Mechanisms
■ Rationalization- Making excuses to try to
explain a situation or behavior rather than
directly taking responsibility
■ Regression- Turning back to behaviors
more characteristic of an earlier stage of
development rather than dealing with
conflict in a mature manner
30. Defense Mechanisms
■ Denial- Involuntary lack of
acknowledgement of something in one’s
environment that is obvious to others
■ Compensation- Wanting to cover up
weaknesses and mistakes by making them
through gift-giving, hard work, or other
extreme efforts
31. Defense Mechanisms
■ Idealization – Seeing someone else as
perfect or more ideal or worthy, than
everyone else.
■ Projection- Being unaware of attributing
one’s own feelings or faults to another
person or group even when these attributes
do not apply
