Psychological Problems

• Individual effects of mental health problems

  • Damage to relationships
  • Difficulties coping with day-to-day life
  • Negative impact on physical well-being
• Mental health problems affect a person's ability to talk to others


  Can be damaging to relationships with no communication
• People with mental health problems tend to avoid being with other people


  Because they feel bad about themselves and may fear being judged
• Other people may misunderstand why a person with mental health problems may be avoiding them


  They might think the person no longer likes them
• We regard it as abnormal - mentally unhealthy - if a person can't keep themselves healthy
• If someone is anxious or stressed


  The body produces a hormone called 'cortisol'
• Cortisol


  Prevents the immune system functioning as well as it should
• Psychological problems


  Make physical illness more likely
• Social factors of mental health problems

  • Need for more social care
  • Increased crime rates
• Society has a role to play in the care of people with mental health problems
• One way to do this is to use taxes to fund an enlightened social care system
• Such a system ensures that people in need are not invisible but instead are offered the basic necessities of life, for example, food and human company
• Many mental health patients may also have a lower standard of living and more isolation
• It is difficult to show evidence that there is a relationship between violence and mental health problems
• Fazel and Grann reported that even though mental patients were more violent, in fact only 1 in 20 crimes of violence were linked to mental health problems
• Another way increased crime rates can be common between mental patients

  Is due to the lack of stability in the economic sector so have no choice but to steal to live stable
• Sadness


  A normal emotion
• Depression


  An abnormal emotional state
• When a person is depressed they are sad about everything
• One key characteristic of depression


  Sadness that lasts a considerable amount of time
• Unipolar depression


  The person only experiences one emotional state
• Bipolar depression


  People experience changes between two mood states - depression and mania
• Mania


  A state of euphoria or frenzied activity in which people may have an exaggerated belief that the world is theirs for the taking