Mental health
Mental health is an important component of the total positive health.Health is the complete state of mental,physical,social well being and free from diseases and disabilities.From that, it is clear that, if one is not mentally clear,he is not an healthy person.Every physical ailment has a mental component and every mental illness has a physical component,social health of the community depends to a large extent on its physical and mental positive health,as anti social elements may develop due to mental and physical handicaps.
Mental health care up to the very recent past concerned itself only with the diagnosis and therapy of the psychiatric cases.The recognition of mental abnormalities as an "illness" took many centuries.The concept has been recently broadened to include early detection of mental break down.Only during the last four decades or so the concept has been further widened to embrace the positive aspect of mental health.now it has come to know that the mental health care of the community is to be strengthen the social integrity by influencing the behavioral pattern of the individuals,and groups so that psycho social situations are controlled by them rationally and logically,and solutions are arrived at with out disrupting the physical,mental or social well being of the community.
The WHO defines mental health as "the capacity in an individual to form harmonious relations with others and to participate in or contribute constructively to changes in the social environment"The different constituent parts of one s personality should work in harmony so that an individual faces life situations rationally,successfully and happily.The comprehensive concept of mental health has a four fold goal before it;to understand and cure the different types of mental disorders and defects;to find out the cases mental break down early;to prevent,or at least to minimize the occurrence of these disorders and defects;and improve the mental health of the community.
Mental health comprises the well being of the intellectual and the emotional components of the mind.The intellectual break down of the individual deprives him of logical and rational thinking and the decisions taken may be faulty affecting the individual s
well being.Even the community or nation may suffer due to such faulty thinking if such an individual happens to be a leader.But these type of emotional break down is rare and is not very harmful for the mental health of the community or even the individual as when it is accompanied emotional break down,.Emotional imbalance affects individual s reactions,ability to withstand the strains and stress of the life situations affecting the general health,and ability to conform to the conventional social moral.
It may affect the intellectual capacity of logical and rational thinking and power of judgement,lead him to become unsocial,unsociable and even antisocial.At the least the individuals may show their inability to cope life situations.
Resistance against mental,and specially emotional break down is built up by the autonomic process of "integration of personality".It is the normal process of the growth of personality with in the group environs. Infant is suddenly exposed to strange physical and biological environs by birth,and the important part of biological environs is human contact which makes impacts upon the new born not only through the infective process but also the individual grows within his group, the sphere of these influences widens with physical and neural,somatic and functional,growth of the child,from initial circumscribed family sphere enlarging in stages to include neighbors,school,community,vocational and social contacts.As the biological invasions act as a stimuli to include resistance against the ineffective process,similarly the psycho-social contacts bring about an "integration of personality"which acquires high resistance against difficult situations,aggressive personalities and so on,enabling an individual to react healthily while confronting unwholesome life situations.
Integration of the personality proceeds concomitantly with the neural growth of the individual.The functional attributes the neural growth are intellectual development and emotional mounding.A healthy mind and ability to be molded in an integrated personality depend on healthy genetic endowments,heritage of cultural patterns handed down from generation to generation and physical endowments derived from healthy intrauterine life.and the physical,social and psychological environs of the individual while growing with in his group.So development of an integrated,matured personality depends to some extent on hereditary but to a greater extent it is the final result of the influence of environments and society.
The ability of the individual to healthily to various situations develops,a characteristic behavioral pattern is established and the pattern of reactions to a particular situation become predictable in conformity with the established pattern of the conventional social behavior.A healthy genetic base can,to some extent,be ensured by marriage counselling,organised on voluntary basis,offers a good via media to eliminate undesirable physical or mental traits or defects from the forthcoming progeny.While advice can be usefully offered by experts in the subject,no dogmatic judgement can be passed by or expected to to be accepted from them by the couples.
Types of mental break down syndromes; Hysteria,Exhaustion,Anxiety,Confusion,Psychosomatic disorders.Depression,psychosis,Schizophrenia,Paranoid escape and etc are the commonest psychiatric break down and ADD/AH DD(attention deficit disorder) contact disorder and separation disorders are common in childhood and adolescence.Those cases noticed is to be referred to psychiatric/parapsychologist/neurologist/pediatric neurologist,etc.for early detection and treatment.
The commonest signs and symptoms are as follows.
1.Deviation from normal habits.behavior noticed by parents,friends,other members of family/relatives.
2.Sleep disturbances and nightmares,
3.Changes in drinking and eating habits.Increased smoking and consumption of alcohol in case of smokers and drinkers.
4 Alteration in personality and temperament.
5.Emotional instability.This is manifested by sudden out bursts of weeping for no reason or sudden displays of aggressiveness or violence.
6.General feeling of tenseness.The individual may be restless,jumpy.anxious,irritable,apprehensiveness, suspicious.There may be repeated quarrels with friends and neighbors.Head ache and insomnia/sleeplessness and etc.These are the major sign and symptoms of mental illness.
pm kutty
Mental health is an important component of the total positive health.Health is the complete state of mental,physical,social well being and free from diseases and disabilities.From that, it is clear that, if one is not mentally clear,he is not an healthy person.Every physical ailment has a mental component and every mental illness has a physical component,social health of the community depends to a large extent on its physical and mental positive health,as anti social elements may develop due to mental and physical handicaps.
Mental health care up to the very recent past concerned itself only with the diagnosis and therapy of the psychiatric cases.The recognition of mental abnormalities as an "illness" took many centuries.The concept has been recently broadened to include early detection of mental break down.Only during the last four decades or so the concept has been further widened to embrace the positive aspect of mental health.now it has come to know that the mental health care of the community is to be strengthen the social integrity by influencing the behavioral pattern of the individuals,and groups so that psycho social situations are controlled by them rationally and logically,and solutions are arrived at with out disrupting the physical,mental or social well being of the community.
The WHO defines mental health as "the capacity in an individual to form harmonious relations with others and to participate in or contribute constructively to changes in the social environment"The different constituent parts of one s personality should work in harmony so that an individual faces life situations rationally,successfully and happily.The comprehensive concept of mental health has a four fold goal before it;to understand and cure the different types of mental disorders and defects;to find out the cases mental break down early;to prevent,or at least to minimize the occurrence of these disorders and defects;and improve the mental health of the community.
Mental health comprises the well being of the intellectual and the emotional components of the mind.The intellectual break down of the individual deprives him of logical and rational thinking and the decisions taken may be faulty affecting the individual s
well being.Even the community or nation may suffer due to such faulty thinking if such an individual happens to be a leader.But these type of emotional break down is rare and is not very harmful for the mental health of the community or even the individual as when it is accompanied emotional break down,.Emotional imbalance affects individual s reactions,ability to withstand the strains and stress of the life situations affecting the general health,and ability to conform to the conventional social moral.
It may affect the intellectual capacity of logical and rational thinking and power of judgement,lead him to become unsocial,unsociable and even antisocial.At the least the individuals may show their inability to cope life situations.
Resistance against mental,and specially emotional break down is built up by the autonomic process of "integration of personality".It is the normal process of the growth of personality with in the group environs. Infant is suddenly exposed to strange physical and biological environs by birth,and the important part of biological environs is human contact which makes impacts upon the new born not only through the infective process but also the individual grows within his group, the sphere of these influences widens with physical and neural,somatic and functional,growth of the child,from initial circumscribed family sphere enlarging in stages to include neighbors,school,community,vocational and social contacts.As the biological invasions act as a stimuli to include resistance against the ineffective process,similarly the psycho-social contacts bring about an "integration of personality"which acquires high resistance against difficult situations,aggressive personalities and so on,enabling an individual to react healthily while confronting unwholesome life situations.
Integration of the personality proceeds concomitantly with the neural growth of the individual.The functional attributes the neural growth are intellectual development and emotional mounding.A healthy mind and ability to be molded in an integrated personality depend on healthy genetic endowments,heritage of cultural patterns handed down from generation to generation and physical endowments derived from healthy intrauterine life.and the physical,social and psychological environs of the individual while growing with in his group.So development of an integrated,matured personality depends to some extent on hereditary but to a greater extent it is the final result of the influence of environments and society.
The ability of the individual to healthily to various situations develops,a characteristic behavioral pattern is established and the pattern of reactions to a particular situation become predictable in conformity with the established pattern of the conventional social behavior.A healthy genetic base can,to some extent,be ensured by marriage counselling,organised on voluntary basis,offers a good via media to eliminate undesirable physical or mental traits or defects from the forthcoming progeny.While advice can be usefully offered by experts in the subject,no dogmatic judgement can be passed by or expected to to be accepted from them by the couples.
Types of mental break down syndromes; Hysteria,Exhaustion,Anxiety,Confusion,Psychosomatic disorders.Depression,psychosis,Schizophrenia,Paranoid escape and etc are the commonest psychiatric break down and ADD/AH DD(attention deficit disorder) contact disorder and separation disorders are common in childhood and adolescence.Those cases noticed is to be referred to psychiatric/parapsychologist/neurologist/pediatric neurologist,etc.for early detection and treatment.
The commonest signs and symptoms are as follows.
1.Deviation from normal habits.behavior noticed by parents,friends,other members of family/relatives.
2.Sleep disturbances and nightmares,
3.Changes in drinking and eating habits.Increased smoking and consumption of alcohol in case of smokers and drinkers.
4 Alteration in personality and temperament.
5.Emotional instability.This is manifested by sudden out bursts of weeping for no reason or sudden displays of aggressiveness or violence.
6.General feeling of tenseness.The individual may be restless,jumpy.anxious,irritable,apprehensiveness, suspicious.There may be repeated quarrels with friends and neighbors.Head ache and insomnia/sleeplessness and etc.These are the major sign and symptoms of mental illness.
pm kutty
Very informative an nicely explained...
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