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Showing posts with label mental health. Show all posts

Friday, May 6, 2011

What causes Mental Health?

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The theory behind the positive value of being in contact with nature is that our nervous system and genetic structure are turned into a natural environment such as that relaxation occurs when you are in contact with nature.



What causes Mental Health?
Mental disorder is a psychological or behavior pattern that brings distress and disability. Some mental disorders are anxiety, phobia, panic and mood and others. These disorders causes you to be more sensitive to the type of anxiety a normal person have. Some of these disorders can be fatal. Several factors may cause mental disorder in a given situation. These factors are:
Hereditary Factor
                In some degree, mental disorder can be inherited from parents who have history of mental illness. Researchers have gathers evidence to support the theory that mental disorder can be inherited through the genes of one or both parents.
Environmental Factor
                The environment might be the cause of mental disorder. The family is the most influential factor for mental disorder- for example, the way your parents teach you how to cope with problems or how you can express your emotions. A conservative family tends to developmental disorder. The emotions and social life of their children are suppressed. A family with an open communication, on the other had will have a well balance mental health. Other factors in the environment that will affect mental health are noise, pollution, uncomfortable temperature, and inadequate sleep. These factors may affect your performance in school or at the place of work.
Brain Factor
The brain is the computer of the body that controls physical and mental functions. Anything that affects the brain can influence a person’s mental status. For example, brain tumors, injuries, strokes, or syphilis can affect brain function. The condition that affects brain is called physical illness. A lack of oxygen in the brain can destroy the brain cells which cannot be repaired. Cigarette smoking, alcohol, and drugs affect brain function. Prolong use of these substances may destroy mental health, causing mental disorder.

People who would like to sustain a healthy personality seek professional help for them to overcome their emotional problems. The recognition of an emotional problem shows a person is willing to do something to cope with the emotional problems affecting his mental health.
Positive behavior is desirable in order to eliminate negative thoughts and feeling. Negative feeling and actions are poisonous to human well-being. Attitude and feeling can consciously cause changes in behavior. Keeping hostilities, resentments, and an attitude of revenge will have a harmful effect on mental health.
People with mental health know how to learn to relax. It can contribute to a state of happiness and well-being. Engaging oneself in physical exercise can release tension and anxieties. It is also good for the heart, blood circulation, and oxygen consumption.
Establish contact with nature. The theory behind the positive value of being in contact with nature is that our nervous system and genetic structure are turned into a natural environment such as that relaxation occurs when you are in contact with nature.

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Saturday, April 30, 2011

TIPS for a Healthy Lifestyle

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As young as we are, developing the skills for making decisions is the tool for facing the future. You have to make decisions about your lifestyle, education, career, and marriage. What are the major decisions that you have make now, that have an impact on your life? You might decide to smoke, drink alcohol drinks, use drugs, and other unhealthy habits. You may decide also make decision about your intimate relationships whether heterosexual or homosexual, who your friends will be, how to use your leisure time wisely, about dating, and many more.


Good decision-making skill can help you reach your full health potential. This does not only include physical but also the emotional, social, mental, cultural, who you are today and who you can become. This skill will help you develop awareness. The following are some steps that you take to make better decisions:

1.       Decision should be defined.
2.       Gather as much information as possible on the matter in question.
3.       Other possible choices should be identified.
4.       Examine the probable positive and negative effect on each choice.
5.       Your goals must be identified (what you want to achieve) and the values.
6.       Evaluate all choices and categorize them
7.       Develop a plan of action and implement it
8.       Assess the results of your action.

Making smart decisions in one’s life is important in achieving health. It will clarify your own value; think back what you do from hour to hour, day to day, week to week, month to month. Make note of the activities that you have accomplished, by listing two or three values to establish and develop a desirable habit that will benefit yourself and influence others.

Health tip:
Choose one habit or behavior you would like to improve.
1.       Identify different strategies that can help you achieve change.
2.       Identify possible barriers in establishing a positive habit.
Examples:
a.       Doing activities that you may enjoy which has fitness benefits (Positive strategy)
b.      Doing activities that don’t indulge too much expenditure for equipment (Possible barrier)

Achieving appositive lifestyle does not mean changing all at once he habits or behavior that you have chosen. Changing it drastically results in possible barriers that affect your health action plan.

If your health action is for wellness, you don’t have to live a rigid, restricted life. Some basic changes in the way you live can make an important difference. For instance, physical fitness tones and trims the body so that you can actively enjoy life. Thirty minutes of exercise three times a week can help you stay fit. Likewise, good nutrition gives you the energy you need for study and play. Today’s teens skip breakfast which is bad for health. Eat breakfast regularly. Eating vegetables and fruit with moderate consumption of sugary, fatty, and salty food, will improve your diet.
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