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    Mental and emotional health affects how we think, feel and act. Some early warning signs of mental health problems include feeling numb or hopeless, having unexplained aches and pains, smoking/drinking more, feeling confused or angry. Maintaining emotional health involves identifying personal strengths, developing optimism, and building resilience to challenges.

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    Mental and emotional health affects how we think, feel and act. Some early warning signs of mental health problems include feeling numb or hopeless, having unexplained aches and pains, smoking/drinking more, feeling confused or angry. Maintaining emotional health involves identifying personal strengths, developing optimism, and building resilience to challenges.

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    Mental and Emotional Health •Feeling numb or like nothing matters

    Mental health includes our emotional, •Having unexplained aches and pains

    psychological, and social well-being. It •Feeling helpless or hopeless

    affects how we think, feel, and act. It also •Smoking, drinking, or using drugs more

    helps determine how we handle stress, than usual

    relate to others, and make choices. Mental •Feeling unusually confused, forgetful, on

    health is important at every stage of life, edge, angry, upset, worried, or scared

    from childhood and adolescence through •Yelling or fighting with family and friends

    adulthood. •Experiencing severe mood swings that

    Over the course of your life, if you cause problems in relationships

    experience mental health problems, you’re •Having persistent thoughts and memories

    thinking, mood, and behaviour could be you can't get out of your head

    affected. Many factors contribute to mental •Hearing voices or believing things that are

    health problems, including: not true

    •Biological factors, such as genes or brain •Thinking of harming yourself or others

    chemistry •Inability to perform daily tasks like taking

    •Life experiences, such as trauma or abuse care of your kids or getting to work or

    •Family history of mental health problems school

    Early Warning Signs Emotional health is a state of positive

    Not sure if you or someone you know is psychological functioning. It can be thought

    living with mental health problems? of as an extension of mental health; it's the

    Experiencing one or more of the following "optimal functioning" end of the thoughts,

    feelings or behaviours can be an early feelings, and behaviours that make up both

    warning sign of a problem: our inner and outer worlds. It includes an

    •Eating or sleeping too much or too little overall experience of wellness in what we

    •Pulling away from people and usual think, feel, and do through both the highs

    activities and lows of life.

    •Having low or no energy


    In a successful attempt to provide a •Creating a set of coping skills for dealing
    definition of emotional health, the with mental health difficulties and external
    organization BelongTo.org (nod) quotes the stress
    Mental Health Foundation: emotional •Living life with a sense of purpose
    health is "a positive state of wellbeing which •Making time for hobbies and leisure
    enables an individual to be able to function •Honouring your sense of creativity in your
    in society and meet the demands of hobbies and leisure time
    everyday life."

    Essay 5 points each question


    Achieving emotional health and wellbeing is
    an active process that involves not only
    1.Why do you think it is important to raise
    identifying emotions but also shaping how
    awareness about the importance of mental
    we think about them and how we act (or health?
    refrain from acting) on them.
    2.As a seminarian, how can you help in
    Some tips for creating your own emotional raising mental health awareness?
    health definition and living it include:
    3. What do you think are the benefits in
    •Identifying personal strengths, building having healthy emotional health?
    them, and living from them
    4. Based on your own opinion, is it hard to
    •Learning optimism, realistically seeing the maintain a healthy emotional health? Why?
    positive in even bad situations If not, why?
    •Developing the courage to define, and
    then live, your life worth living
    •Honing resiliency, the ability to learn from
    and bounce back from setbacks as well as
    flexibility in facing challenges
    •Seeing the good in yourself and developing
    a healthy self-concept
    •Building a social network, even if it's small

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