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What is mental health?
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and our social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and our actions. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices.
Why is mental health important for our health?
Mental and physical are equally important.For instance, depression increases the risks for many factors like diabetes,heart disease, and stroke.
What causes mental illness?
Early adverse life experiences, such as trauma or a history of abuse (for example, child abuse, sexual assault, witnessing violence, etc.)
Experiences related to other ongoing (chronic) medical conditions, such as cancer or diabetes
Biological factors or chemical imbalances in the brain
Use of alcohol or drugs
Having feelings of loneliness or isolation
Can mental health change over time?
Mental health can change over time, depending on many factors.When the demands placed on a person exceeds their resources and their coping abilities,their mental health can be impacted on.
Healthy Coping Mechanism
Emotion Focused
Exercise
Take a bath
Give yourself a pep talk
Meditate
Problem Focused
Work on managing time
Ask for support
Establish healthy boundaries
Create a to-do list
CJ TAYLOR
To what scale has mental health affected your mental health?
“Ever since COVID, people have told me they’ve gained a little weight. COVID was my lowest point yet. I was eating snacks all day. I would lose then I would gain it back… I guess you could say it was effected a lot. I just know that my physical health was not what I wanted it to be.”
What Advice would you give to people with mental health issues?
“I would say ‘Don’t be afraid to talk to people about it.’ You should be open to talk about it, even if you’re not open to talking to your parents or friends about it, you should still talk about it, even strangers have advice.”
Yeti Mental Health
Don’t bottle it up. Talk about it.
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