Emotional Health

Emotional Health

All individuals need love and affection. Getting love, acceptance, and knowing you are important are basic emotional essentials and this must be develop to have self-identity. A person's potential for successful interaction with others, meeting individuals needs for independence and self-expression, and resolving personal and social conflicts are enhanced if there is basic emotional needs. Self-actualization is pursued freely by a person who is emotionally healty.

Following characteristics are displayed by the following basic qualities associated with the emotionally healthy persons.

1. ability to love
2. able to meet the basic needs
3. able to work productively
4. are concerned with other people
5. being able to adopt to reasonable demands for change
6. be able to understand reality and deal with it consecutively
7. can cope to stress
8. reasonable degree of self-efficacy

All humans are born with the ability to have emotions. Their physical, mental, and social growth determine the ways in which they react or show their emotions.

EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL DISORDERS

Emotional and mental disorders range from intensity from minor disturbances to anticipating mental illness.

Mental disorder is a disturbance of total personality of the person which is greatly affects his/her adjustments to himself/herself and his/her environment

PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS

These may be defined and those in which the person has seen lost contact with reality. Major depression and schizophrenia are the types of psychotic disorders.

Depression

Being the most common mood disorder and psychiatric complaint, depression has forms of degrees. It has been described by the physicians from at least the time of Hippocrates, who referred to it as "melancholia". 


Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth told the London Evening Standard in 2005 that she battled clinical depression after her father's death from cancer. "I was in so much denial for so much of his illness," she said, "The thought of life without my father was totally unfathomable to me."

Kirsten Dunst

After rumors circulated that Kirsten entered rehab in 2008 for substance abuse, she told E! Online "I didn't go to Cirque Lodge for alcohol abuse or drug abuse. I went there for depression." To anyone who thinks a young actress has nothing to be depressed about, she says, “We’re all in the same boat together. Depression is pretty serious and should not be gossiped about.”

Mandy Moore

After breaking up with Zach Braff in 2006, Mandy Moore told Jane magazine she experienced mild depression. "A few months ago I felt really low, really sad — depressed for no reason," she said, "I'm a very positive person, and I've always been glass-half-full. So it was like someone flipped a switch in me."

Jim Carrey

“If a really good comedian isn’t depressed,” Bob Saget once said “something’s wrong.” Jim Carrey is no exception. He's battled depression for most of his life, taking antidepressants for a while, but he eventually learned to live without them.

In 2004, he described life off meds on 60 Minutes: "There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level of despair you live in. Where you're not getting any answers, but you're living OK. And you can smile at the office. You know? But it's a low level of despair."

Anne Hathaway

Anne has said she suffered from anxiety and depression as a teenager, but worked through them without medication. More controversially, she told UK's Tatler magazine "it's all so negatively narcissistic to be so consumed with the self" in 2007.

Beyonce Knowles

When Destiny's Child broke up, Beyonce said she was depressed. "I didn't eat, I stayed in my room," she told CBS News, "I was in a really bad place in life, going through that lonely period."

Depression is a state of low mental vitality, and reduced ability to enjoy life.

A depressed person usually experience one or two or some but not all the following symptoms

1. persistent, physical symptoms or pains that do not respond to treatments

2. a feeling of sadness and hopelessness or pessimism

3. a poor or loss of appetite and weight loss

4. sleeplessness, irritability or fatigue

5. inability to concentrate, remember, or make decisions

6. thoughts of worthlessness or guilt (heightened self-depreciation)

7. lowered self-esteem

8. loss of pleasure doing simple things

9. suicidal thoughts/tendencies

THE CAUSE OF DEPRESSION ARE:

1. Stressful life events
2. loss of one's parents or love ones
3. other childhood traumas and deprivations

Treatments for depression are drug therapy and pschotherapy.

1. Drug Therapy - includes the admission of antidepressant drugs that directly affect the chemistry of the brain and achieve their therapeutic effects by correcting  the chemicals that is causing the depression.

2. Psychotherapy - the main objective is resolve any underlying psychic conflicts which may cause the depressed state, simultaneous with giving the patient emotional support.

Signs of loneliness are displayed by many depressed individuals. Loneliness is not always associated with the depression. Loneliness is a feeling isolated and friendliness in the midst of people. Lonely people are those who desire close personal relationship but unable to establish them.

Counselling is the solution to help change lonely and people and how they think of themselves. Another solution involves people some important social skills like talking social skills, introducing themselves, and starting a conversation. Because of the vital social skills, people's self-confidence and appearance are enhanced.

Shy people are genetically programmed to feel uncomfortable in setting involving other people. They cope by avoiding such situations. Counselling, social skills and training can help shy people.

ome people want to feel less shy so they can have more funsocializing and being themselves around others. Here are some tipsfor overcoming shy feelings:

1. Start small with people you know. Practice social behaviorslike eye contact, confident body language, introductions, smalltalk, asking questions, and invitations with the people you feelmost comfortable around. Smile. Build your confidence this way.Then branch out to do this with new friends, too.
2. Think of some conversation starters. Often, the hardest partof talking to someone new is getting started. Think ofconversation openers, like introducing yourself ("Hi, I'm Chris,we're in the same English class"), giving a compliment ("Thatjacket looks great on you"), or asking a question ("Do you knowwhen our report is due?"). Being ready with a conversationstarter (or a few) makes it easier to approach someone.
3. Rehearse what to say. When you're ready to try somethingyou've been avoiding because of shyness - like a phone call or aconversation - write down what you want to say beforehand.Rehearse it out loud, maybe even in front of the mirror. Thenjust do it. Don't worry if it's not exactly like you practiced or ifit's not perfect. Few of the things more confident-seemingpeople do are perfect either. Be proud that you gave it a go.Next time, it'll be even better because it will be easier.
4. Give yourself a chance. Find group activities where you canbe with people who share your interests. Give yourself a chanceto practice socializing with these new people, and get to knowthem slowly. People who are shy often worry about failing orhow others will judge them. Worries and feelings like these cankeep you from trying. If self-criticism plays a role for you, askyourself whether you'd be this critical of your best friend.Chances are you'd be much more accepting. So treat yourselflike your own best friend. Encourage yourself instead ofexpecting to fail.
5. Develop your assertiveness. Because shy people can beoverly concerned with other peoples' reactions, they don't wantto rock the boat. That doesn't mean they're wimpy or cowardly.But it can mean they are less likely to be assertive. Beingassertive means speaking up for yourself when you should,asking for what you want or need, or telling other people whenthey're stepping on your toes.

Most of all, be yourself. It's OK to try out different conversationalapproaches you see others using. But say and do what fits yourstyle. Being the real you - and daring to let yourself be noticed - iswhat attracts friends.

Reviewed by: D'Arcy Lyness, PhD
Date reviewed: May 2013

References:

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Developing Mind and body through MAPEH-IV pp.334-335 Zenaida C. Serrano and Carmelita A. Orsoe