Mental health involves a balanced development of personal and emotional attitudes for harmonious living. Good mental health includes feelings of confidence, adaptability, acceptance of criticism, moral and social values, and good relationships. Mental illness can be caused by nervous system damage, heredity, social/environmental factors, and prolonged emotional reactions like anxiety or fear. Some types of mental disorders are neurosis, personality disorders, amnesia, anxiety, depression, somnambulism, schizophrenia, manic depression, mood disorders, and attention deficit disorders. Treatment for mental disorders includes shock therapy, psychotherapy, chemotherapy, and social therapy through attention and care from others.

1. MENTAL
HEALTH

2. MENTAL HEALTH
WHO 1984 – Health is a state of
complete physical, mental, social
and spiritual wellbeing.
Mental health – Balanced
development of personal and
emotional attitude for harmonious
living.

3. CHARACTERS OF GOOD MENTAL HEALTH
Feelings of confidence, reasonably secure
and adequate.
Great adoptability in all situations.
Acceptance of criticism, understanding
other’s emotions, helpful, consideration &
courteous.
Having moral, social and spiritual values.
Having good self-control and negotiation
of stress and strain.
Having good relationships with relatives,
co-workers and fellowmen.

4. TYPES OF MENTAL ILLNESS
Neurosis / Psychoneurosis – It is mild, caused
by prolonged emotional reactions as anxiety,
fear, sadness, tension etc. victim is aware of all
these and secure help. Usually develops
phobias.
Personality & Character Disorders – It
include childlike behaviours, epilepsy and
mental retardation. Epilepsy is recurrent
attacks of loss of consciousness with localised
and generalised convulsions due to abnormal
discharge of nerve impulse from over reactive
neurons of brain.

5. CAUSES OF MENTAL ILLNESS
Nervous Damage – Injury, accidents,
tumour, toxins or infections in NS,
deficiency of oxygen, vitamins,
nutrients in NS, addiction, exposure of
radiation during early neural
development.
Heredity – Tend to about 40 % illness.
Social & Environmental Factors –
Worries, frustration, emotional
reactions, stress, pollution etc.

6. SOME MENTAL DISORDERS
Amnesia – Loss of memory.
Retrograde Amnesia – Complete loss of
past memories.
Anterograde Amnesia – All that
happened after mental injury or
emotional shock are forgotten.
Anxiety – Constant tension and emotional
catastrophe.
Anxiety Hysteria – Baseless phobias for
darkness, height, water etc. cured by
psychologists.

7. Depression – Victim remains unhappy,
indifferent & lacks interests.
Somnambulism – Sleep walking and
forgetting all when wakes up.
Hysteric Somnambulism – Same in case of
hysteric persons.
Schizophrenia – Have distorted thoughts,
laugh, cry and shout without reason,
indifferent to pleasure, diet, pain etc.,
experience auditory hallucinations.

8. Manic Depression – Mania and depression
due to weak perception, wrong and
defective decision, hallucination, extreme
emotional reaction and self-irritation.
Mood Disorders – Occasional high and low
mood may be due to emotional shocks.
Attention Deficit Disorders – Dud to deficit
in attention by parents and near and dears.
Borderline Personality Disorder (BDP) –
Unpredictable moods, emotional outburst,
quarrelling and often attempts of self-
injury.

9. TREATMENT OF MENTAL DISORDERS
Shock / Electro Convulsion Therapy – In
case of severe depression for dramatic
improvement.
Psychotherapy – By professional doctors
in mild cases.
Chemotherapy – Blocking actions of
nerve stimulators as dopamine by
medicines.
Social Therapy – Attention and care by
near and dear, co-workers and
fellowmen.