MENTAL HEALTH Flashcards

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includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being.

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MENTAL HEALTH

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It affects how one thinks, feels, and acts.

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MENTAL HEALTH

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It helps determine how one handles stress, relates to others, and makes choices. It is important in every step of life-from childhood, through adolescence, and up to adulthood.

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MENTAL HEALTH

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Several factors affect your mental health. The following are some of the mental problems that may cause:

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  • Biological factors or hereditary
  • Life experiences such as phobia, abuse, or neglect
  • Mental disability of family history
  • Social isolation or loneliness
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Maintaining optimistic mental health will allow people to:

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  • Cope with the stresses in life.
  • Become productive in their work.
  • Contribute meaningfully to the community.
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defined as the physiological [or physical] and emotional responses to a significant or unexpected change or disruption in one’s life (Payne, et. al., 2005).

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  • Stress
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refers to the things that make a person stressed. There are two different kinds of stress – eustress and distress.

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TRESSOR

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refers to a positive and healthy response of the body from a stressor. It produces good effects to one’s well-being.
For example:

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esutress

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