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Mental Emotional Health- is the ability to accept yourself and others, adapt and cope with emotions, and deal with the problems and challenges you meet in life.
Several signs you can look for in yourself and others that indicate good mental and emotional health:
Personality- is the knee combination of feelings, thoughts, and behavior that makes you different from everyone else.
Self concept- is the view you have of yourself. It is basically how you see yourself as the unique person you are.
Self-esteem- the way you feel about yourself, or how you value yourself, is closely related to yourself concept. Often a negative self-concept leads to a low self-esteem. For example, if you aren't chosen for a track team after practicing for months, you might look upon yourself as a failure, even though you excel in other activities.
How high self-esteem leads to success:
Ways of improving your mental and emotional health:
Emotions- are your feelings created in response to thoughts, remarks, and events. Emotions are neither good nor bad, right nor wrong. You can't always choose when an emotion will well up inside you, but you can choose how to handle it. People with good mental and emotional health seek healthy, responsible ways to express their emotions.
Steps in learning how to express your emotions:
Resilience- is the ability to adapt to a and recover from this appointment, difficulty, or crisis. Resilience is also known as the "bounce-back" factor.
Unhealthy ways to express anger:
Healthy ways to express anger:
Emotional needs- our needs that affect your feelings and sense of well-being.
The three and most common types of mental health problems are:
Schizophrenia- is a severe mental disorder in which people lose contact with reality. They may experience hallucinations in which they see or hear things that are not actually there. They may have delusions' involving false personal beliefs that are unreasonable. People who have schizophrenic may not be able to support out what is important from what is not. They may also be unable to separate what is really happening from what is a imaginary.
Clinical depression- is a mood disorder which people lose interest in life and can no longer find enjoyment in anything.
Warning signs of clinical depression:
Suicide- or intentional killing of oneself, is a serious problem in United States, especially among teens. Suicide is one of the leading causes of death among young people. Every day, 14 young people between ages of 15 and 24 take their own lives.
Some warning signs of suicide:
Things you can do if anyone you know talked about suicide:
Some things to remember when your feeling down:
Therapy methods- there to types of therapy, or treatment, for medical health problems. These fall into two broad types: talk therapy and biological therapy. Talk therapy includes a variety of counseling methods. Biological therapy involves using medication to treat mental health problems.
Signs that you may need professional help: