Health 5

1. Mental and
Emotional Health

2. How do you
describe
yourself?

3. Mental or Emotional
health refers to your
overall psychological
well-being.

4. Characteristics of a Mentally and
Emotionally Healthy Person
1. A sense of
satisfaction and
contentment

5. 2. A passion for living
and the ability to laugh
and have fun

6. 3. The ability to deal
with stress and recover
from difficulty

7. 4. Self-realization and
participation in life to the
fullest extent possible
through meaningful
activities and positive
attitude.

8. 5. Flexibility to learn
new things and adapt
to change

9. 6. A sense of balance on
one’s life – between
solitude and sociability,
work and play, sleep and
wakefulness, rest and
exercise

10. 7. A sense of well-
roundedness – with
attention to mind, body,
spirit, creativity, intellectual
development, health, etc.

11. 8. The ability to care for
oneself and for others.

12. 9. self-confidence and
high self-esteem.

13. 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.

14. 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

15. Roadblocks to Mental Health
■ All or Nothing Thinking
■ Expecting the Worst
■ Being a Perfectionist
■ Letting your actions or words betray
your values

17. Emotions

18. What are Emotions?
■ Signals that tell your mind and body how
to react. They are neither good nor bad

19. Identifying Emotions
■ http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind
■ Mixed Emotions-
■ Mixed Emotions

20. 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.

21. 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

22. Empathy
■ The ability to imagine
and understand how
someone else feels
■ “walk in someone
else’s shoes”
Anger
■ A strong feeling of
displeasure

23. 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.

24. Guilt
■ An emotional response when you think
you have done something wrong.

25. 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.

26. 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.

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. ■ Displaced Aggression: taking anger out
on another person or object that was
not involved.