If you’re in good mental health, you can:
- Make the most of your potential
- Cope with life
- Play a full part in your family, workplace, community and among friends
Some people call mental health ‘emotional health’ or ‘well-being’ and it’s just as important as good physical health. Mental health problems range from the worries we all experience as part of everyday life to serious long-term conditions. The majority of people who experience mental health problems can get over them or learn to live with them, especially if they get help early on.
Anxiety Disorders
An anxiety disorder involves a "lingering apprehension, a chronic sense of worry, tension or dread". The things that make people anxious are usually more unclear than the things that evoke fear. It’s usually associated with the thought of a threat or something going wrong in the future, rather than something happening in the present. Anxiety is difficult for one to control and can interfere with normal functioning. Anxiety can take many forms such as panic attacks,frightening physical symptoms,flashbacks of trauma,trauma,obsessive thoughts,nightmares, and phobias.
Mood Disorders
Mood Disorders are usually outside the normal types of fluctuations as they can range from any emotion at any time. Over 60% of patients formerly hospitalised with depression commit suicide or come very close to it but may have been restricted. People are not aware enough to comprehend depression which leads to not wanting to receive treatment because it "isn't serious enough".
Clinical Depression
Clinical Depression causes people to feel persistently sad for weeks or months, rather than just a few days. They range from lasting feelings of sadness and hopelessness, to losing interest in the things you used to enjoy and feeling very tearful. There can be physical symptoms too, such as feeling constantly tired, sleeping badly, having no appetite or sex drive, and complaining of various aches and pains. The severity of the symptoms can vary. At its mildest, may simply feel persistently low in spirit, while at its most severe depression can make them feel suicidal and that life is no longer worth living.
Schizophrenia/Psychotic Disorders
Schizophrenia is a long-term mental health condition that causes a range of different psychological symptoms, including:
- hallucinations – hearing or seeing things that do not exist
- delusions – unusual beliefs not based on reality that often contradict the evidence
- muddled thoughts based on hallucinations or delusions
- changes in behaviour
Dementia
Dementia describes a set of symptoms that may include memory loss and difficulties with thinking, problem-solving or language. Dementia is caused when the brain is damaged by diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease or a series of strokes. Dementia is also described as a loss of consciousness.
Eating Disorders
Eating Disorders are serious and sometimes life threatening conditions that can affect people dramatically as they are most commonly chronic. Eating disorders usually start from adolescence and occur when the behaviour and relationship between food breaks down. Eating disorders can relate to extreme over eating, and extreme under eating, and extreme concerns and thoughts about ones weight.
- Bulimia Nervosa
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Binge Eating Disorder
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