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What is mental health?

Though no brief definition exists, mental health is basically your attitude and advent to life. Psychological, environmental, genetic, or physiological factors have a profound supervene on broad mental development.

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Psychiatric Epidemiology: Searching for the Causes of Mental Disorders (Oxford Psychiatry Series) Overview

Searching for the causes of mental disorders is as exciting as it it complex. The relationship between pathophysiology and its overt manifestations is exceedingly intricate, and often the causes of a disorder are elusive at best. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone trying to track these causes, whether they be clinical researchers, public health practitioners, or psychiatric epidemiologists-in-training. Uniting theory and practice in very clear language, it makes a wonderful contribution to both epidemiologic and psychiatric research. Rather than attempting to review the descriptive epidemiology of mental disorders, this book gives much more dynamic exposition of the thinking and techniques used to establish it.

Starting out by tracing the brief history of psychiatric epidemiology, the book describes the study of risk factors as causes of mental disorders. Subsequent sections discuss approaches to investigation of biologic, genetic, or social causes and the statistical analysis of study results. The book concludes by following some of the problems involved in the search for genetic causes of mental disorders, and more complex casual relationships.

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Mental illness impairs your ability to achieve routine tasks, look after salutary relationships, or cope with anger or stress. It may be classified on the basis of extreme mood swings, irrational or destructive idea patterns, and behavioral problems.

How prominent is mental health?

Your mental health has a huge impact on every aspect of your life.

o Self-image

Good mental health means appreciating your achievements and accepting your shortcomings. A mental illness can cause an inferiority complex, a negative body image, and intense feelings of self-hate, anger, disgust, and uselessness, which could mutate into extreme depression, psycho-social disorders, or eating disorders.

o Education

Students with mental problems socially separate themselves, and invent anxiety disorders and attentiveness problems. Good mental health ensures an all-round educational taste that enhances communal and intellectual skills that lead to self-confidence and better grades.

o Relationships

Mental health largely contributes to the functioning of human relationships. Mental illness can hamper even basic interactions with family, friends, and colleagues. Most people suffering from mental illness find it difficult to look after relationships, have problems with commitment or intimacy, and frequently encounter sexual health issues.

o Sleep

An inability to handle stress or anxiety can cause insomnia. Even if you mange to fall asleep, you may wake up a dozen times during the night with thoughts of what went wrong the day before or how bad tomorrow is going to be. You may invent severe sleeping disorders which leave you exhausted and less productive.

o Eating

People with mental disorders are more prone to indulging in relieve eating or emotional binges. Seeing relieve in food is something we all do from time to time. But with a mental illness, it becomes difficult to operate yourself. Overeating can lead to obesity, which puts you at a risk for heart disease and diabetes, in expanding to creating an unhealthy body-image.

o Physical health

Your mental state directly affects your body. For example, stress can lead to hypertension or stomach ulcers. people who are mentally salutary are at a lower risk for many health complications.

So make a known endeavor to heighten and sound your mental health.

The point of thinking healthIn answer to Julian Hendry. Video Clips. Duration : 7.22 Mins.

Julian Hendrys Dad was killed by a mental health patient which makes him understandably biased. He was told in the programme that of all the people who commit homicide 9% were mental health patients. Julian suggested this was very high and probably an underestimation. He also suggested a link between violent behaviour and mental health problems. However consider the statistics. 25% of the population are diagnosed with mental health problems. This would make you think that of all people who commit homoside 25% would be mental health patients. However it is only 9% which is in fact very low. Therfore looking at Julians own statistics presented in the programme., mental health patients are less likely to kill someone than so called 'Normal' people. Julians main concern was that a risk assessment had not been done on the patient that killed his father. I have to agree. I don't feel any mental patient recieves a proper risk assessment. Psychiatric risk assessments ask the wrong questions. They are concerned mainly with complience with treatment and personal apperence and hygene. People can gets lots of ticks on their risk assessment form yet still be a violent psychopath with homosidal tendencys. In my experience psychiatrists have not had adequate training to decided who does and does not need detaining under the mental health act. I don't know the answer to this problem. Perhaps psychotherapists (Psychiatrists who have done further training) would be more in a position to do ...

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