These slides comprehensively defines the types of mental health and shares strategies to take care of your mental health

1. Mental Health
By: Wadhwani Nimarta, Mahnoor Naich, Saeeda Khoso & Tooba
Noor

2. Mental Health
• According to the World Health Organization
(WHO), mental health is “a state of well-being
in which the individual realizes his or her own
abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of
life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is
able to make a contribution to his or her
community”

3. Mental Health
• Mental health includes our emotional,
psychological, and social well-being. It
affects how we think, feel, and act. It also
helps determine how we handle stress,
relate to others, and make choices.
• Mental health is important at every stage
of life, from childhood and adolescence
through adulthood.
• Over the course of your life, if you
experience mental health problems, your
thinking, mood, and behavior could be
affected.

4. Causes of
Mental Illness
Biological factors, such as genes
or brain chemistry
Life experiences, such as trauma
or abuse
Family history of mental health
problems

5. Why we
chose this
issue?
A BURNING ISSUE AFFECTS ALL ASPECTS
OF OUR LIFE

6. Facts & Figures
 Around 20% of the world’s children
and adolescents have mental
disorders or problems
 Most low and middle income
countries have only one child
psychiatrist for every 1 to 4 million
people
 In Pakistan, there is only 1
psychiatrist for 2,50000 mental
patients. The total number of
psychiatrist is 500 and we need 9000
psychiatrists

7. Facts & Figures
 Mental disorders increase the risk
of getting ill from other diseases
such as HIV, cardiovascular
diseases, diabetes, etc.
 About 800000 people commit
suicide every year. Approximately,
90% of the suicide are committed
by people who have mental
disorders.

8. Types of Mental Health:
MOOD DISORDER ANXIETY DISORDER PERSONALITY
DISORDER
IMPULSE CONTROL
AND ADDICTION
DISORDER

9. Mood Disorder:
• Mood disorder are characterized by a serious
change in mood that cause disruption in life.
• Your general emotional state or mood is
inconsistent with your circumstances and
interfere with your ability to function.
• Some time you feel extremely happy or some
time you feel sadness.
• In some cases people show its bipolar nature
Neither extremely happy nor sad.

10. Types of Mood Disorder:
Depression: (Feeling too
sad and become silent)
Bipolar: (neither happy
nor too sad)
Mania: (too much
happy but dead inside)

11. Symptoms:
DEPRESSED MOOD
MOST OF THE TIME.
LACK OF ENERGY OR
RESTLESSNESS.
LOSS OF PLEASURE
IN NORMAL FUN
ACTIVITIES.
FEELING OF
HOPELESSNESS OR
WORTHLESSNESS
DIFFICULT TO
CONCENTRATE
DISTURBANCE IN
EATING AND
SLEEPING
SUICIDAL THOUGHTS

12. Anxiety Disorder:
People with anxiety
disorder respond to
certain object and
situation with fear and
dread.
Avoiding social
situation for fear of
being judged,
embraced or
humiliated

14. Personality Disorder:
• A personality disorder is a way of thinking,
feeling and behaving that deviates from the
expectations of the culture, causes distress
or problems functioning, and lasts over
time.
• Personality disorders are long-term patterns
of behavior and inner experiences that
differs significantly from what is expected.

15. Types of
Personality
Disorder:
Antisocial personality disorder: a pattern of disregarding or violating the rights
of others. A person with antisocial personality disorder may not conform to
social norms, may repeatedly lie or deceive others, or may act impulsively.
Avoidant personality disorder: a pattern of extreme shyness, feelings of
inadequacy and extreme sensitivity to criticism. People with avoidant personality
disorder may be unwilling to get involved with people unless they are certain of
being liked, be preoccupied with being criticized or rejected, or may view
themselves as not being good enough or socially inept.
Borderline personality disorder: a pattern of instability in personal relationships,
intense emotions, poor self-image and impulsivity. A person with borderline
personality disorder may go to great lengths to avoid being abandoned, have
repeated suicide attempts, display inappropriate intense anger or have ongoing
feelings of emptiness.
Dependent personality disorder: a pattern of needing to be taken care of and
submissive and clingy behavior. People with dependent personality disorder may
have difficulty making daily decisions without reassurance from others or may
feel uncomfortable or helpless when alone because of fear of inability to take
care of themselves.

16. Symptoms of
personality
disorder
FAILURE TO SUSTAIN
RELATIONSHIP.
IMPULSIVE ACTION LOW TOLERANCE TO
FRUSTRATION
TENDENCY TO
CAUSE VIOLENCE
LACK OF GUILT

17. Impulse Control
Disorder
• Are psychological disorder characterized by
the repeated inability to retain from
performing a particular action that is
harmful either for oneself or for others.
• Individual fail to resist performing harmful
act.

18. Symptoms:
• Experience an impulse to
pull, set fire or steal.
• Look tense.
• Shoe pleasure from the act
• Relief from having done the
act.
• Sometime show guilt

19. Cures for Mental Illness

20. Mental health
keeping a positive
attitude
staying physically active helping other people
getting enough sleep eating a healthy diet
asking for professional
help with your mental
health if you need it
socializing with people
whom you enjoy
spending time with
forming and using
effective coping skills to
deal with your problems

21. Diagnose
A physical exam Lab tests
A psychological
evaluation
Questionnaire

22. Treatment
Medications Substance
misuse
treatment
Psychotherapy
Community
support
programs/supp
ort group
Hospitalization Brain-
stimulation
treatments

23. Medications
significantly improve symptoms
• Antidepressants (sadness,
hopelessness, lack of energy, difficulty
concentrating and lack of interest in
activities)
• Anti-anxiety medications (panic
disorder, reduce agitation and
insomnia)
• Mood-stabilizing medications (bipolar
disorders, mania)
• Antipsychotic medications
(schizophrenia)

24. Substance misuse
treatment
• substance use commonly occur
along with mental illness
• can't stop using drugs or
alcohol on your own

25. Psychotherapy
• Talk therapy
• provided by a trained mental
health professional
• Psychotherapy explores
thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors
• one-on-one, in a group or with
family members.

26. Community support programs
• Understanding and acceptance by
the community.
• This support may include
• Information
• accommodation
• help with finding suitable work
• training and education
• psychosocial rehabilitation
• mutual support groups.

27. Hospitalization
• Severity of mental illness
• immediate danger of harming
yourself or someone else
• 24-hour inpatient care
• partial or day hospitalization

28. Brain-stimulation treatments
• Reserved for situations in
which medications and
psychotherapy haven't worked.
• Electroconvulsive therapy
• Repetitive transcranial
magnetic stimulation
• Deep brain stimulation
• Vagus nerve stimulation

29. Electroconvulsive
therapy
• used in patients with severe
major depression or bipolar
disorder
• ECT involves a brief electrical
stimulation of the brain while
the patient is under anesthesia.
• ECT seems to cause changes in
brain chemistry that can quickly
reverse symptoms of certain
mental health conditions.

30. Repetitive transcranial
magnetic stimulation
• Use of magnetic field to
cause electric current at a
specific area of the brain
through electromagnetic
induction.

31. Deep brain
stimulation
• neurosurgical procedure
• involves the placement of a
medical device called
a neurostimulator which sends
electrical impulses, through
implanted electrodes to specific
targets in the brain

32. Vagus nerve stimulation
• Delivers electric impulses to the left
vagus nerve
• Use for the types of
intractable epilepsy and treatment-
resistant depression

33. Strategies teachers can
implement in schools
and classrooms

34. Encourage good
physical health

35. Make sure teachers know how to help

36. TRANSFORMING
STIGMA
DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE
SCHOOL MENTAL
HEALTH PROGRAMS
CREATE SAFE SPACE

37. Support for all Move from reactive to proactive

38. Thanks