Mental and Emotional Health

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Mental and Emotional Health

• Chapter 7

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Kinds of Emotions

• Being confused about new feelings is normal.
• Dealing with confusing feelings is part of a good
  mental health, which is the way people think
  about and respond to events in their lives.

• TEEN EMOTIONS
• An emotion is a feeling produced in response to a
  life event.
• Emotions are caused by chemical changes in the
  brain that affect how the body feels.
• Both personality and experience influence a
  persons emotional responses.
• Teens tend to be given more roles and
  responsibilities then they can handle and this
  can produce unwanted feelings and behaviors.
• Hormones play a big role in these feelings and
  behaviors, but most teens learn how to deal with
  these emotions in a healthy way.

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Hormones

• What is a hormone?
• A chemical that helps control how the body grows
  and functions.
• These chemicals can affect the brain and
  sometimes cause mood swings.
• As a teen, you will experience these hormones
  very often.
• Learning how to control the emotions and
  reactions in a healthy way, makes getting through
  your teen years a lot easier.

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From Sadness to Happiness

• - Feeling a range of emotions is part of a good
  emotional health.
• - Emotional health is the way a person
  experiences and deals with feelings.
• All emotions are healthy, even sadness.
• Sadness makes you realize what you had and/or
  helps you make changes that you might want to
  make to your future.
• Being sad all the time where it interferes with
  relationships or responsibilities is unhealthy.
  Talk to someone.
• Recognizing your emotions can help you deal with
  them.

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Love and Hate

• The emotions that range from love to hate help us
  know how we feel about parts of our life.
• Love and like are different along with hate and
  dislike.
• The differences help us understand the things
  that are important to us.
• Prejudice can play a part in how you feel about
  someone or something.
• Avoid being prejudice by giving people or things
  a chance and then make our own thoughts and
  feelings.

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Anger

• Anger is a strong disappointment and displeasure
  that forms when hopes are not met.
• If dealt with in a healthy way, it can be
  helpful. But if dealt in a unhealthy way, it can
  be harmful to yourself and others.
• Handling anger in a healthy way, requires you to
  know what is causing it and find out what the end
  goal is and if is able to be reached.

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Physical Effects of Emotions

• During an emotional response, chemical changes in
  the brain cause changes in the body.
• These chemicals prepare the body to escape or
  defend itself. (fight or flight affect)
• They increase heart rate and breathing rates, and
  they prepare the muscles to react quickly.
• Try tricks that work for you to calm you body
  back down, before making any actions you might
  regret.

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Lesson 3Managing Your Emotions

• Dealing with unpleasant emotions
• Unpleasant emotions is normal, how you deal with
  them make them healthy or not
• Negative thinking is when you only think of the
  bad parts of the bad situation.
• Positive thinking is when you think of the good
  things in the bad situation.
• More positive thinking can help you resolve or
  get through the problem, but negative could
  become unhealthy.

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Coping with stress

• Stress is the bodys response to new or
  unpleasant situations.
• Sigmund Freud called our response to stress
  defense mechanisms, which are the behaviors we
  use to deal with stress.
• Healthy defense mechanisms help us deal with
  emotions in a useful way.

• Defense mechanisms are unhealthy is they cause
  you to ignore your emotions or the issue that
  caused them.
• Devaluation is a defense mechanism in which
  someone transfers unpleasant feelings about a
  situation to specific people.

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Finding your Triggers and Influences you can
control

• A trigger is a person, situation, or event that
  influences emotions.
• Stay away from those triggers that are unpleasant
  and seek out those that make you feel good.
• Try to fill your life with people, activities and
  healthy habits. These will create a healthy and
  happy lifestyle.

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Lesson 4Mental Illness

• What is mental illness?
• A disorder that affects a persons thoughts,
  emotions, and behaviors
• Nobody knows what causes the changes in brain
  chemistry that lead to mental illness.
• Medicines can help treat mental illness by
  balancing the brains chemistry.

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Depression

• A mood disorder in which a person is extremely
  sad and hopeless for a long period of time.
• People who have depression can become sad and
  hopeless for no reason.
• If you or someone you know is depressed, you
  should find help right away.
• The most dangerous part od depression is
  possibility of suicide.

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• Bipolar Mood Disorder

• Schizophrenia

• A mood disorder in which a person had depression
  sometimes and mania other times.
• Commonly know as manic depression.
• Mania is an excited mood that is associated with
  excessive energy or irritation.
• People with this disorder break from reality and
  may hallucinate or hear and see things that
  arent there.

• A mental disorder that affects thoughts and
  behaviors more than it affects moods.
• They might show little emotion.
• People with this disorder hallucinate and have
  delusions.
• This disorder can take over a persons life, but
  with proper treatment it makes their life a lot
  more normal.

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• Anxiety Disorders

• Phobia

• Mental illnesses that cause extreme nervousness,
  worry or panic.
• Can be classified by how long the nervous
  feelings last and by what triggers the feelings.
• Feelings of anxiety that happen in brief spurts
  without a trigger or warning can be signs of
  panic disorder.
• These brief periods of extreme anxiety are called
  panic attacks.
• If panic attacks are triggered by certain
  situations, the attacks can be signs of a phobia.

• A Strong, abnormal fear of something.
• These phobias can lead to panic attacks and OCD
• OCD is obsessive compulsive disorder, where a
  person repeats a behaviors in response to these
  phobias (thoughts).

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Lesson 5Getting Help

• Knowing when to get help
• If unpleasant emotions last for a long time or
  happen often
• If unpleasant emotions frequently happen for no
  reason
• If your emotions interfere with relationships or
  responsibilities

• Friends and Family
• Talking to friends and family can help you
  because they care about you
• They can help you see things at different point
  of view.

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• Professionals
• Sometimes talking to friends and family may no be
  enough to solve your problems. Try a professional
• A THERAPIST- trained to treat emotional problems
  by talking.
• A PSYCHIATRIST- medical doctors that understand
  how the brain and body affects emotions and
  behaviors. Can subscribe medicines

• Finding help for others
• People do not always seek out help for their
  emotional problems.
• This could be because they are embarrassed or can
  handle the problem on their own.
• When a person has a mental illness, he or she may
  be unable to get help along.
• Letting a serious emotional problem or mental
  illness go untreated is very dangerous, by
  hurting themselves or someone else.
• If you believe someone needs help, help them and
  maybe save a life!