Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being and affects how we think, feel and act. It is influenced by biological factors, life experiences, and family history. Stress is a normal reaction to challenges and can be either positive or negative. Negative stress becomes a problem when one faces continuous challenges without relief. Common stressors for adolescents include school, parents, peer pressure, and lack of life skills. Coping strategies include social support, stress management techniques, and healthy lifestyle habits. Grief is a natural response to loss that allows one to process the emotion and reinvest energy elsewhere. Common mental disorders involve changes in thoughts, feelings and behaviors and include mood disorders, psychotic disorders, obsessive compulsive

1. PERSONAL HEALTH
Grade7 – 3rd Quarter

2. Content Standard
The learner…
demonstrates understanding of mental health as a
dimension of holistic health for a healthy life.

3. Performance
Standard
The learner…
consistently demonstrates skills
that promote mental health.

4. MENTAL HEALTH
An Introduction

5. What is Mental Health?
It 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.

6. Factors that contributes to Mental Health
Problems:
• Biological factor, such as genes or brain chemistry;
• Life experiences, such as trauma or abuse;
• Family history of mental health problems.
Take note that:
Mental health problems are common but help
is available.

7. UNDERSTANDING
STRESS

8. What is Stress?
It is simply a reaction to stimulus that disturbs our
physical or mental equilibrium. In other words, it is an omnipresent
part of life. A stressful event can trigger the “fight-or-flight” response,
causing hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol to surge through
the body.

9. TWO
CATEGORIES
OF STRESS
Eustress “good stress”
Distress “bad stress”
The human body is designed to experience
stress and react to it. Stress can be positive ("eustress")
-- such as a getting a job promotion or being given
greater responsibilities -- keeping us alert and ready to
avoid danger. Stress becomes negative ("distress")
when a person faces continuous challenges without
relief or relaxation between challenges. As a result, the
person becomes overworked and stress-related tension
builds.

10. Is Stress Normal and Inevitable?
Yes! Stress is normal and inevitable
Everyday we experience different
kinds of stress. Some are good and some
are not, that no one is spared from
experiencing stress because it is part of
our lives.

11. What are Stress and Anxiety?
Highlights
:• A certain amount of stress is a normal part of life. You can use some simple
techniques and strategies to help you cope.
• There are diagnosable medical conditions that describe stress and anxiety
that affect people beyond the normal and manageable amount.
• Unmanageable stress and anxiety can be unhealthy both physically and
psychologically. It’s important to seek help if you’re unable to control your
worries and stress is impacting your daily life.

12. Situations that cause feelings of
anxiety or stress:
 Moving
 Starting a new school or job
 Having an illness or injury
 Having a friend or family member who is ill / injured
 Death of a family member or friend
 Getting married
 Having a baby

13. COMMONAREAS OF
STRESSORTHAT AFFECT
STRESS

14. Common stressors that affect
adolescents:
 Schools
 Parents
 Peer Groups
 Lack of Life Skills
 Personal thoughts

15. School
People have different
learning styles, interests and
strengths. Unfortunately, school is a
standard structure that doesn’t take this
differences into consideration.

16. Parents
a. High expectations are a big stress
and challenge for young people.
b. After school activities are important
but become a stressor if parents
expect their teens to be involved
in too many.
c. Stressed parents can transfer their
stress on to their children.

17. Peer Groups
Peer pressure, not getting
along with friends, and worrying about
fitting in causes stress.

18. Lack of Life Skills
Skills such as organization and time
management are important stress preventers.
Likewise, an absence of these valuable skills can
make life more hectic and chaotic.

19. The Effects of Stress in your Body
Stress is any change in the environment
that requires your body to react and adjust in
response. The body reacts to these changes with
physical, mental and emotional responses.

20. How Does Stress Affect
Health?The human body is designed to experience stress and react to it. Stress
can be positive ("eustress") -- such as a getting a job promotion or being given
greater responsibilities -- keeping us alert and ready to avoid danger. Stress
becomes negative ("distress") when a person faces continuous challenges
without relief or relaxation between challenges. As a result, the person becomes
overworked and stress-related tension builds.
Distress can lead to physical symptoms
including headaches, upset stomach, elevated blood
pressure, chest pain, and problems sleeping.
Research suggests that stress also can bring on or
worsen certain symptoms or diseases

21. COPING WITH
STRESS

22. People who can Provide Support in Stressful
Situations:
 Family
 Friends
 Guidance Counsellors
 Teachers
 Barangay Workers

23. Advantages of Social Support Network
Stress can be better managed when your social support
network is as strong as it can be. Here are the reasons why you should
strive harder in strengthening your relationship with each identified
member of your social support network:
 Sense of Security
 Source of Strength
 Feeling of Belongingness

24. Healthful Ways in Coping with Stress
 Think that you can manage and control everything
 Do something you enjoy everyday
 Get all the restful sleep you need to feel your best
 Make a positive face-to-face connection with people a priority

25. COPING WITH DYING
ANDDEATH

26. What is Grief?
Grief is a normal and natural
response to loss. Though we often expect to
grieve the death of a family member or friend,
many other significant losses can also trigger
grief. Examples include:
 The end of a relationship
 A move to a new community
 A much anticipated opportunity or life goal is suddenly closed to us
 The death of a pet
 Someone we love contracts a potentially life-threatening illness

27. The Importance of Grieving
Grieving such losses is important because
it allows us to ‘free-up’ energy that is bound to
the lost person, object, or experience—so that
we might re-invest that energy elsewhere. Until
we grieve effectively we are likely to find reinvesting
difficult; a part of us remains tied to the past.
Grieving is not forgetting. Nor is it drowning in tears. Healthy
grieving results in an ability to remember the importance of our loss—but
with a newfound sense of peace, rather than searing pain.

28. TYPES ANDMANAGEMENTOF
COMMONMENTAL
DISORDERS

29. Mental Disorder
It is a psychological disorder of
thought or emotion.

30. Triggers and Warning Signs of Common
Mental Disorders
Research shows that people living with
mental illness often experience a specific
series of changes in their thoughts, feelings
and behaviours.
Recognizing early signs and being
proactive can help prevent or minimize a
relapse.

31. Thoughts / Perception
 Difficulty concentrating and/or making decisions
 Becoming forgetful
 Racing thoughts
 Irrational thoughts or beliefs
 Fear of being left alone

32. Feelings
 More tense / anxious
 Depressed / low
 Restless
 Irritable
 Fearful
 Feeling threatened
 Disgusted with oneself
 Suicidal
 Mood swings

33. Behaviour
 Withdrawal from family and friends
 Lost of interest / motivation
 Difficulty sleeping or change in sleeping habits
 Neglecting one’s appearance
 Alcohol / drug use
 Extreme anger outbursts
 Preoccupation with calories, dieting or weight loss
 Extreme anxiety over separation from parents
 Changes in school grades or performance

34. Types of Mental Illness
There are many different
conditions that are recognized as
mental illnesses. Consider the
following:
 Mood disorders
 Bipolar
 Psychotic Disorder
 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
 Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
 Personality Disorder

35. Mood Disorder
These disorders, also called affective
disorders, involve persistent feelings of sadness or
periods of feeling overly happy, or fluctuations from
extreme happiness to extreme sadness. The most
common mood disorders are depression, bipolar
disorder, and cyclothymic disorder.

36. Psychotic Disorder
Psychotic disorders involve distorted awareness and thinking. Two
of the most common symptoms of psychotic disorders are hallucinations -- the
experience of images or sounds that are not real, such as hearing voices -
- and delusions, which are false fixed beliefs that the ill person accepts as true,
despite evidence to the contrary. Schizophrenia is an example of a psychotic
disorder.

37. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
People with OCD are plagued by
constant thoughts or fears that cause
them to perform certain rituals or
routines. The disturbing thoughts are called
obsessions, and the rituals are called
compulsions. An example is a person with
an unreasonable fear of germs who
constantly washes his or her hands.

38. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(PTSD)
PTSD is a condition that
can develop following a
traumatic and/or terrifying
event, such as a sexual or
physical assault, the
unexpected death of a loved
one, or a natural disaster.
People with PTSD often have
lasting and frightening thoughts
and memories of the event, and
tend to be emotionally numb.

39. Personality Disorder
People with personality disorders
have extreme and inflexible personality
traits that are distressing to the person
and/or cause problems in work, school, or
social relationships. Examples
include antisocial personality disorder,
obsessive-compulsive personality
disorder, and paranoid personality
disorder.