MENAL HEALTH IS IMPORTANT

1. MENTAL ILLNESS
By Shamekia Smith

2. MENTAL HEALTH
• Mental health is a state of well-being in which
an individual realize his/her own abilities, can
cope with the normal stresses of life, can work
productively, and is able to contribute to
his/her community

3. MENTAL HEALTH
It is the state of balance
between the individual
and the surrounding
world, a state of harmony
between oneself and
others, a co-existence
Between the realities of
self and that of other
people and environment

4. MENTAL HEALTH
• Mental health refers to cognitive, behavioral,
and emotional well-being It is all about how
people think, feel, and behave. People
sometimes use determined to help to mean
the absence of a mental disorder
• Mental health can affect daily living,
relationships, and physical health

5. ROLES OF MENTAL HEALTH
Adequate
contact with
reality
Control of
thought and
imagination
Efficiency in
work and
play
Social
acceptance
Positive self-
concept
A healthy
emotional
life

6. CHARACTERISTICS OF MENTALLY
HEALTHY PERSON
• Ability to make adjustments
• Sense of personal worth and feeling worth while, and important
• Solves problems by own effort and make own decisions
• Personal security and has understanding of other people problems and motives.
• Sense of responsibility
• Give and accept love
• Live in a world of reality rather than fantasy
• Shows emotional security in behavior

7. MENTAL ILLNESS
• Mental illness is a maladjustment in living. It produces a disharmony in the person’s
ability to meet human needs comfortably and effectively and function within a
culture.
• A mentally ill person loses his ability to respond according to the expectations he
has for himself and the demands that society has for him.
• In general, a person may be considered mentally ill if
• The person behavior is causing distress and suffering to self and/or others.
• The person behavior is causing disturbances within his day-to-day activities, job, and
interpersonal relationships.

8. DEFINITION
OF MENTAL
ILLNESS
• Mental and behavioral disorders are understood
as significant conditions characterized by
alterations in thinking, mood [emotions] or
behavior associated with emotional personal
distress or impaired function.
• A mental illness is a medical condition that
disproves persons thinking, feeling, mood,
ability to relate to others, and daily functioning.
A mental illness or medical condition that often
result in diminished capacity for coping with the
ordinary demands of life

9. • Mental illness is a condition in the brain that can severely affect a person's ability to
form the normal day-to-day activities alike means illness is literally an illness of the
brain a biological change occurs in the brain of a person which disrupts diminishes
the thinking ability move behavior and overall normal function of abilities.
• Mental illness can have very adverse effects on person with the illness and their
loved one's mental illness can have extremely severe effects on persons
employment financial management personal care and relationships.
• There are different types of mental illness and different levels of severity and those
with a milder severity of milk illness it may not be very evident that they are ill on
the other hand others may show obvious signs of mental illness such as secluding
themselves extreme agitation and confusion fortunately whatever type mental
illness or level of severity there is treatment that can help

10. CHARACTERISTICS OF MENTAL ILLNESS
• Changes in one’s thinking, memory, perception,
feelings and judgment resulting in changes in talk and
behavior which appear to be deviant from previous
personality or from the norms of community.
• These changes in behavior causes distress and
suffering to the individual or others or both.
• Changes and the consequence distress caused
disturbance in day-to-day activities work and
relationships with important others social and
vocational [dysfuncion]

11. MOST COMMON TYPES
• Bipolar Disorder
• Major Depression
• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Schizophrenia
• Panic Disorder
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

12. CAUSES OF MENTAL ILLNESS
• Scientists to this day still have not been able to determine the exact
cause of mental illness research studies are ongoing to discover the exact
cause because doing so will most likely lead to earlier detection methods
better treatment less severity of illness and perhaps even the possibility
of a cure studies today seem to indicate that mental illness is most likely
caused by a combination of factors including
• genetic traits certain inherited genes can increase the risk factor for
acquiring mental illness although inheriting genes from blood relatives
with mental illness does not always result in one acquired it themselves
there is more likelihood
• chemical imbalance neurotransmitters are responsible for sending
messages throughout the brain if this chemical is not working properly or
is imbalanced such a biochemical change in the brain can affect mood
and be a factor in mental illness
• psychological negative life experiences and their accompany
• psychological anguish and stress can be a contributing factor in

13. TREATMENT FOR MENTAL ILLNESS
• Mental illness treatment has evolved significantly over the years the very
early methods of treating mental illness although well intended were very
crude the methods used in the very early attempts at treatment were not
very effective in hindsight some would even say early attempts at treating
the mental illness were very cruel.
• People who became afflicted with mental illness can be clearly seen to be
suffering because of the obvious signs of affliction doctors have attempted
over the years to help today the attempt at helping the mentally ill has vastly
improved
• However, doctors today continue trying to improve outcome of their
treatments because of the efforts doctor's peoples with mental illness have a
much better chance at leading a normal life