KEEPING A GOOD MENTAL HEALTH

There will be an emotional problem and psychological handicap when an individual is not able to function or use her cognitive and emotional capabilities or a complete state of good physical, mental and social well-being.

There are  other people taking for granted the use of their mental health. They only recognize their incapability to think when something gone wrong. They did not realize how good mental health put a sense of fulfillment.

When something gone wrong in the mind, treatment is needed. But this medical care need enough time and resources to have maximum effectiveness. It is easy to assess physical health but taking measurements to the level of thought and perception are difficult to quantify and very subjective.

Mental disorders are health condition that is presented by alteration in mood, thinking of normal behavior in relation to stress and other mental and emotional disturbance. There was an impaired functioning of the mind.

Good mental health is distracted by stressful environment. Pressured work activities put strain to the mind and result to low level of perception and attention.

Any physical symptom related to the body especially if one is in pain due to mental illness. The greater the stress the greater the chances that his physical condition is at risk.

When we are in the period of mental stress we are vulnerable to disease and illness. These may be a feeling of isolation and lack of social support that can be exacerbated or prolonged.

There was an inter-relationship of the 3 components of mental, social and physical aspects for the general well-being of a person. When treatment is to be done, its effectiveness will depend on the responses of the 3 components together.

A good mental health can be represented by the ability to enjoy the passing of time. They are not worrying much about the future. Although they are looking ahead, but the present time is all they need for now.

Extreme social isolation is running away with the reality. The reality is to live full of satisfaction, enjoyment and happiness. Isolating the mind from this factors will become a weakness that need to be improve to be able to have a healthy life and healthy mind.

Making our expectation more flexible can improve our mental health. We have so many emotions, expressing our own responses. Avoiding the expression of this feeling may result to a mental health problem, our ability to form healthy relationship with other people by communicating and reaching them may improve our own self-esteem and community standing. We can have many friends around.

It is important for us to learn the balances of our lives. We should focus ourselves how we can keep this balance of the different aspects: mental, social, physical, spiritual, economic). This will be our challenges to keep that balance to maintain a good and healthy mental health.