Mental health (life skill)

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Understanding mental health and seeking help when needed.

Understanding Mental Health: This topic covers the basics of mental health, including different mental health disorders, symptoms, and risk factors.
Stress Management: Stress management teaches techniques for coping with stress and anxiety, such as relaxation exercises, mindfulness, and time management.
Healthy Habits: Healthy habits cover maintaining a balanced diet, regular exercise, getting enough sleep, and reducing harmful substances like drugs and alcohol.
Emotional Regulation: Emotional regulation involves strategies for managing emotions, like breathing exercises, visualization, and communication skills.
Coping with Trauma: Coping with trauma teaches techniques like exposure therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and trauma-focused therapy to help manage post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Social Skills: Social skills are strategies used to build and maintain healthy relationships, like active listening, conflict resolution, and empathy.
Self-Esteem: Self-esteem is how you feel about yourself and your abilities. Learning self-care practices and self-compassion techniques can help improve self-esteem.
Medication and Therapy: Medication and therapy are treatment options for mental health disorders. Understanding different medications and types of therapy helps in choosing the best treatment for yourself.
Mental Health Stigma: Mental health stigma is the discrimination or judgment that those with mental illness face. This topic covers recognizing and reducing stigma.
Boundaries: Boundaries involve setting healthy limits with others to protect personal wellbeing. Learning how to set boundaries can help in building self-esteem and maintaining healthy relationships.
- "Mental health encompasses emotional, psychological, and social well-being, influencing cognition, perception, and behavior."
- "According to World Health Organization (WHO), it is a 'state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and can contribute to his or her community.'"
- "It likewise determines how an individual handles stress, interpersonal relationships, and decision-making."
- "Mental health includes subjective well-being, perceived self-efficacy, autonomy, competence, intergenerational dependence, and self-actualization of one's intellectual and emotional potential, among others."
- "From the perspectives of positive psychology or holism, mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and to create a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience."
- "Cultural differences, subjective assessments, and competing professional theories all affect how one defines 'mental health'."
- "Some early signs related to mental health difficulties are sleep irritation, lack of energy, lack of appetite, and thinking of harming oneself or others."
- "It also includes self-isolating and frequently zoning out."
- "Mental health encompasses... can contribute to his or her community."
- "Mental health may include an individual's ability... to achieve psychological resilience."
- "Mental health includes subjective well-being, perceived self-efficacy, autonomy, competence, intergenerational dependence..."
- "Cultural differences, subjective assessments, and competing professional theories all affect how one defines 'mental health'."
- "It likewise determines how an individual handles... decision-making."
- "It likewise determines how an individual handles stress, interpersonal relationships..."
- "From the perspectives of positive psychology or holism, mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and to create a balance between life activities..."
- "Some early signs related to mental health difficulties are... thinking of harming oneself or others."
- "It also includes self-isolating and frequently zoning out."
- "According to World Health Organization (WHO), it is a 'state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully..."
- "Mental health includes subjective well-being, perceived self-efficacy..."
- "Mental health includes... self-actualization of one's intellectual and emotional potential..."