Understanding Mental Health and Mental Illness
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Understanding Mental Health and Mental Illness
- 1. Understanding Mental Health & Mental Illness
- 2. What is Mental Health?? Mental health refers to the maintenance of successful mental activity .
- 3. What is Mental Health?? 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 .
- 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)
- 5. Worrying about these pressures is NORMAL. But feeling VERY sad, hopeless or worthless might be a sign of a mental health problem.
- 6. Mental illness can occur when the brain (or part of the brain) is not working well or is working in the wrong way.
- 7. Thinking When the brain is not working properly , one or more of its 6 functions will be disrupted Perception Emotion Signaling Behavior Physical
- 8. Symptoms can include Sleep problems Extreme emotional highs and lows Thinking difficulties or problems focusing attention
- 9. When these symptoms significantly disrupt a person’s life, we say that the person has a mental disorder or a mental illness .
- 10. So, what are the CAUSES of mental illness??
- 11. Well, the causes of mental illness are COMPLICATED!! Genetics Environment + -> Brain Disorder
- 17. Mental health problems can be treated! If you feel VERY sad, stressed or worried, it might help to talk to someone about how you are feeling.
- 20. Sun Life Financial Chair In Adolescent Mental Health For more information visit WWW.TEENMENTALHEALTH.ORG
- 21. Image Credits Slide 1: Paulo Correa aka Nookiez - http://www.sxc.hu/profile/nookiez Slide 14: mohsen rasoulov - www.moosville.com/photoblog Slide 15: Paulo Correa aka Nookiez - http://www.sxc.hu/profile/nookiez