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.

WHY A CHILD MISBEHAVE?

Many parents wondered what is the best discipline they can do to a child who showed feeling of resistance against them. Most parents did not understand their role in disciplining their child. They pay more attention if their child misbehave. That was the reason why a child misbehave more because he wanted to be recognize to the feeling and attention he crave.

There are simple steps to be done that will help your child of his feeling of resistance:

Reward him with praise if they done something good. Acknowledge his good behavior. Hug him to show your concern to his welfare. Smile with him to ease the sign of misbehavior. Talk to him more often so that you will know his problem. It must consist direction. Don’t alienate yourself to him, it makes the matter worse. Telling stories is a good way to build a closer relationship. A child likes his parents to tell him stories most interesting. It encourages him to tell about himself.

Doing activities with him brings a good result. Play with him, a fun he likes best. Build trust and confidence. Don’t promise something that you cannot keep. Win his heart. Encourage him to follow a good example. Let him know that you love him. Make a way to discourage a behavior by telling him that a good behavior is always welcome by GOD. As GOD want their children to do more good than harm.

Listen to his feelings and try to find a way to overcome his resentment. Don’t always argue with him and push him hard. It will only makes things worse. Be flexible. Respect your child privacy as he need a place most comfortable to him.

This steps are only fraction to the many ways to solve the problem about child’s tantrum, anger, refusal and resentment to their parents. If this can be manage effectively, child will response positively and your effort will not be wasted.