mental health ppt

2. MENTAL HEALTH
Definition
 The successful performance of mental
function, resulting in productive activities,
fulfilling relationships with other people
and the ability to adapt to change and
cope with adversity.

3. MENTAL HEALTH
How a person:
1. Looks at own’s self.
2. Looks at own’s life and the others.
3. Thinks, feels, and acts when faced with
life's situations.
4. Evaluates those challenges and
problems, and explore choices. I.E.
Handling stress, relating to other people,
and making decisions.

4. MENTAL HYGIENE
 Developing, maintaining and promoting
necessary behavioral, emotional and
social skills to sustain good, effective and
efficient mental health.

5. BASIC STRATEGIES
1. Reality Contact
• Having a realistic appraisal of one’s
own reactions, emotions and abilities.
2. Impulse Control
• Being in complete control over your
impulse behaviors.

6. BASIC STRATEGIES
3. Self-Esteem
• Evaluative component of self.
• Also includes self-concept which is
the awareness about oneself.
4. Positive Thoughts
• Developing the power of positive thinking
which generates positive emotions.

7. Mental Health
Mental
Hygiene
Mental
Wellness
Mental status has two
possibilities: either health or
illness/disorder
are terms used
to describe the
absence of
mental illness

8. LACK OF MENTAL HEALTH AND
HYGIENE AWARENESS WILL LEAD
PEOPLE TO:
1. Stress
2. Problems relating to interpersonal
relationships.
3. Depression
4. Anxiety

9. LACK OF MENTAL HEALTH AND
HYGIENE AWARENESS WILL LEAD
PEOPLE TO:
5. Tension
6. Adjustment
7. Hassles (day to day
problems)
8. Family problems
9. Sexual problems

10. EXAMPLES OF MENTAL
DISORDERS
1. Depression/ Bipolar disorder
2. Anxiety Disorder
3. Schizophrenia
4. Obsessive-Compulsive
disorder

11. EXAMPLES OF MENTAL
DISORDERS
5. Stress disorder
6. Social phobia
7. Eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia or
over eating)
8. Addiction

12. BETTER MENTAL HEALTH FOR
ALL
1. To reduce stigma and discrimination
against people with mental
illnesses.
2. T
o achieve equity for mental health care
comparable to other health care.

13. BETTER MENTAL HEALTH FOR
ALL
3. To advance promotion, prevention and
early intervention services for children
and their families.
4. To increase public awareness worldwide
about mental health and mental illness
and to stimulate local actions to address
those issues.

14. BEHAVIORS WHICH SUSTAIN
GOOD HEALTH
1. Right Food (Ahara)
2. Right Routine (Achara)
3. Right Recreation (Vihara)
4. Right Thinking (Vichara)
According to Ayurveda, the Science
of Indian Medicine

15. DEFENSE MECHANISMS
Ways people deal with stresses in their
lives.
Used to try to solve problems, hide or
counter balance feelings or actions.
Do not usually get rid of the problem,
and are often negative or not a very
effective way to deal with stress.

16. 1. Direct Attack: Recognize the heart of
the problem
 Work to solve the problem
 The goals must be realistic
Ex. “If I look at this realistically,
I can set my goals and overcome
this problem”

17. 2. Sublimation: Redirecting bad or
unacceptable behavior/emotions into
positive behavior.
 We sublimate the desire to fight into
the ritualistic activities of formal
competition.
Ex. When I’m angry, I box at the gym.

18. 3.Daydreaming: Escaping from an
unpleasant situation by using your
imagination.
 Living in a fantasy world.
Ex. “I love animals so much, so even if
I fail biology, I can still be a
veterinarian”

19. 4. Denial: Failure to accept
reality.
Ex. “This is not happening. It
can’t happen to me.”

20. 5. Displacement: The transfer of
negative emotions from one person
or thing to an unrelated person or
thing.
Ex. “I did so poorly on my SAT, I’ll just go
home and kick my dog.”

21. 6. Projection: Blame other people or
things for your failure.
 Use a scapegoat
Ex. “It’s my math teacher’s fault I failed the
test”

22. 7. Regression: Using childlike ways
for expressing emotions.
Ex. Crying, name calling, throwing things,
swearing.

23. 8. Acting Out: Performing an extreme
behavior in order to express
thoughts or feelings the person feels
incapable of otherwise expressing.
Ex. Self-injury is expression through physical pain
of what can’t be
stand to feel emotionally.

24. 9. Reaction Formation: Is the
converting of unwanted or
dangerous thoughts, feelings or
impulses into their opposites.
Ex. A woman who is very angry with her boss
and would like to quit her job may instead
be overly kind and generous toward her
boss and express a desire to keep
working there forever. She is incapable of
expressing the negative emotions of anger
and unhappiness with her job, and instead
becomes overly kind to publicly
demonstrate her lack of anger and
unhappiness.

25. 10. Repression: Burying a painful
feeling or thoughts from your
awareness though it may resurface
in symbolic form.
Ex. A little girl’s memory of being molested when
she was a toddler might become a
repressed memory. The little girl will
completely forget about this experience,
until the memory might resurface years
later.

26. 11. Rationalization: Creating false but
plausible excuses to justify
unacceptable behavior.
Ex. A student stealing money from a
wealthy friend of his, telling himself
“Well he is rich, he can afford to lose it.”

27. Ex. Becoming good at a sport to
overcome insecurities in other areas.
12. COMPENSATION: People
overachieve in one area to
compensate for failures in
another.