Health Q3

• The ability to accept yourself and others, express and manage emotions, and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in life.

  Mental-Emotional Health
• Factors that affect the promotion of good mental health

  1. Taking responsibility for yourself
  2. Adapting to changes
  3. Promoting your Physical Health
  4. Intelligence
  5. Parents and home-help in ones-development
  6. Habit training in childhood
  7. Ethical and Moral Upbringing
  8. Personal efforts to practice mental hygiene
• Types of stress

  • Stress is a response to environmental stimulus
  • Eustress. Positive stress Activates, motivates people
  • Distress. Negative stress. Overload
• Sources of work-related stress

  • Workload
  • Role conflict or ambiguity
  • Time pressure
  • Lack of control
  • Physical environment
  • Noise, lighting, lack of privacy
  • Safety hazards
• Why do you think it is important to have good mental and emotional health?

  • Makes a person generally happy and able to enjoy life.
  • More confident
  • Comfortable with others
  • Flexible and cope with a wide variety of feelings and situations
  • Affect the other areas of health (physical health & familysocial health)
• Self-sufficiency:

  -able to maintain oneself or itself without outside aid: capable of providing for one's own needs.

  • Having the confidence to make responsible decisions promotes your sense of independence and self-assurance.
• ALWAYS REMEMBER THIS

  Everyone has to manage difficult and stressful situations.

  Mentally and emotionally healthy people handle stresses in positive ways.
• • A physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in disease causation. Stress
• Stress

  A response to environmental stimulus
• A chemical or biological agent, environmental condition, external stimulus or an event seen as causing stress to an organism

  Stressor
• Effect of Stress on the body

  Emotional Effects

  Becoming easily agitated, frustrated, and moody

  Feeling overwhelmed, like you are losing control or need to take control

  Having difficulty relaxing and quieting your mindFeeling bad about yourself (low self-esteem), lonely, worthless, and depressed
• Effects of Stress on the Body

  Physical Effects

  Low energy

  Headaches

  Upset stomach, including diarrhea, constipation, and nausea

  Aches, pains, and tense muscles

  Chest pain and rapid heartbeat

  Insomnia

  Frequent colds and infections

  Loss of sexual desire and/or ability

  Nervousness and shaking, ringing in the ear, cold or sweaty hands and feet

  Dry mouth and difficulty swallowing

  Clenched jaw and grinding teeth
• Effects of Stress on the Body

  Mental Effects

  Difficulty concentrating or thinking

  Memory problems

  Negativity or lack of self-confidence

  Constant worrying

  Difficulty making decisions
• Healthy self-esteem:

  -how much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself.

  • Having healthy self-esteem helps you accept and recover from difficulties and failures.