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Mental Health
Mental health is “a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community”, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Mental health includes subjective well-being, perceived self-efficacy, autonomy, competence, intergenerational dependence, and self-actualization of one’s intellectual and emotional potential, among others. From the perspectives of positive psychology or holism, mental health may include an individual’s ability to enjoy life and to create a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience. Cultural differences, subjective assessments, and competing professional theories all affect how one defines “mental health”. Some early signs related to mental health problems are sleep irritation, lack of energy and thinking of harming yourself or others.
Why is mental health important for overall health?
Mental and physical health are equally important components of overall health. For example, depression increases the risk for many types of physical health problems, particularly long-lasting conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. Similarly, the presence of chronic conditions can increase the risk for mental illness. Mental illnesses are more common than cancer, diabetes, or heart disease.
Types of Mental Illness
People can experience different types of mental illnesses or disorders, and they can often occur at the same time. Mental illnesses can occur over a short period of time or be episodic. This means that the mental illness comes and goes with discrete beginnings and ends. Mental illness can also be ongoing or long-lasting.
There are more than 200 types of mental illness. Some of the main types of mental illness and disorders are listed
- ADD see Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- ADHD see Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Adolescent Development see Teen Development
- Agoraphobia see Phobias
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Amnesia see Memory
- Anorexia Nervosa see Eating Disorders
- Antidepressants
- Antisocial Personality Disorder see Personality Disorders
- Anxiety
- Asperger Syndrome see Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Autism see Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Baby Blues see Postpartum Depression
- Bereavement
- Bi-polar Disorder see Bipolar Disorder
- Binge Eating see Eating Disorders
- Bipolar Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder see Personality Disorders
- Bulimia see Eating Disorders
- Cancer–Living with Cancer
- Child Behavior Disorders
- Child Mental Health
- Chronic Illness, Coping see Coping with Chronic Illness
- Compulsive Gambling
- Conduct Disorder see Child Behavior Disorders
- Coping with Chronic Illness
- Coping with Disasters
- Cutting see Self-Harm
- Cyclothymic Disorder see Mood Disorders
- Delirium
- Dementia
- Depression
- Depression, Teen see Teen Depression
- Developmental Disabilities
- Dual Diagnosis
- Dyscalculia see Learning Disabilities
- Dyslexia see Learning Disabilities
- Dysthymic Disorder see Depression
- Eating Disorders
- Emotional Health see Mental Health
- Gambling see Compulsive Gambling
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder see Anxiety
- Grief see Bereavement
- Hair Pulling see Self-Harm
- Hoarding see Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- How to Improve Mental Health
- Hyperactivity see Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Learning Disabilities
- Living with Cancer see Cancer–Living with Cancer
- Manic-Depressive Illness see Bipolar Disorder
- MCI see Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Memory
- Mental Disorders
- Mental Health
- Mental Health, Child see Child Mental Health
- Mental Health, Older Adults see Older Adult Mental Health
- Mental Health, Teen see Teen Mental Health
- Mental Retardation see Developmental Disabilities
- Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Mood Disorders
- Narcissism see Personality Disorders
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- OCD see Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Older Adult Mental Health
- Panic Disorder
- Pathological Gambling see Compulsive Gambling
- Personality Disorders
- Pervasive Developmental Disorder see Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Phobias
- Pica see Eating Disorders
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Postpartum Depression
- Prader-Willi Syndrome
- Psychiatric Disorders see Mental Disorders
- Psychological Stress see Stress
- Psychotic Disorders
- PTSD see Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Reading Problems see Learning Disabilities
- SAD see Seasonal Affective Disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Seasonal Affective Disorder
- Self-Harm
- Senility see Dementia
- Seniors’ Mental Health see Older Adult Mental Health
- SNRI see Antidepressants
- Social Anxiety Disorder see Phobias
- Social Phobia see Phobias
- Specific Learning Disorder see Learning Disabilities
- SSRIs see Antidepressants
- Stress
- Suicide
- Teen Depression
- Teen Development
- Teen Mental Health
Best Mental Health Institutes and Specialists
Dr. Roberto Montenegro
Psychiatry
Experience : 10+ years
Address : Los Angeles, USA
About : Dr Montenegro is Yale-trained board-certified adult psychiatrist, a University of Washington (UW) trained board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist, and an educator and researcher at the UW School of Medicine and Seattle Children’s Hospital. Read More
Dr. LAUREN OZBOLT
Adult and Adolescent Psychiatry
Experience : 21+ Years
Address : Los Angeles. USA
About : Dr. Ozbolt, M.D. is a board-certified Adult, Child, and Adolescent psychiatrist who specializes in the evidence-based treatment of mood, anxiety, and eating disorders.Extensively trained in psychopharmacology, she offers a comprehensive personalized approach that is tailored to her patients’ Read More