Mental health refers to maintaining productive daily activities and relationships, while adapting to change and coping with stress. Mental illness occurs when the brain is not functioning properly, disrupting one of its six functions. Teenagers often feel stressed and under pressure from social, school, home, and life decisions, which is normal, but feeling very sad, hopeless or worthless could indicate a mental health problem requiring treatment. The causes of mental illness are complex and result from abnormal brain functioning rather than poor parenting, stress alone, or personal weakness. Many mental illnesses begin and persist into adolescence, such as ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, and generalized anxiety disorder.

2. • Mental health refers to the maintenance of
successful mental activity.
• This includes maintaining productive daily activities
and maintaining fulfilling relationships with others.
• It also includes maintaining the abilities to adapt to
change and to cope with stresses.
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3. • Mental illness can occur when the brain (or part of
the brain) is not working well or is working in the
wrong way.
• When the brain is not working properly, one or more
of its 6 functions will be disrupted
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4. • It is definitely NOT easy
being a teenager!
• Sometimes it’s tough to avoid
feeling stressed, and pressure
can build up in many areas of
life (socially, in school, at
home, and while making big
life decisions
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5. • Worrying about these
pressures is NORMAL.
• But feeling VERY sad,
hopeless or worthless
might be a sign of a
mental health problem
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7. • When these symptoms significantly disrupt
a person’s life, we say that the person has a
mental disorder or a mental illness.
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8. What are the
of mental illness??
Well, the causes of mental illness are
COMPLICATED!!
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9. • The symptoms of mental illness are a result of
abnormal brain functioning.
• Mental illness is a brain disorder.
• Mental illness is rarely if ever caused by stress
alone
• It is not the consequence of poor parenting or
bad behavior.
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10. • It is not the result of personal weakness or
deficits in personality.
• It is not the manifestation of malevolent spiritual
intent.
• Only in exceptional cases is it caused by
nutritional factors.
• It is not caused by poverty.
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11. • Many mental illnesses begin during
and persist into
adolescence.
Some of these include:
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(ADHD)
• Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD 11

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14. • If you feel sad, stressed or worried, it
might help to talk to someone about how you
are feeling
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