Presentation about mental health. .

Why mental health is important

1. MENTAL HEALTH Health is defined as a state of complete physical mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity This Photo by Unknown author is licensed under CC BY-ND .

2. HISTORY Mentally ill were considered to be  possessed by devils Patients were locked up in tall jail like buildings, far removed from the center of population, alienated from the rest of society It is also a matter of relation of the individual towards the community he lives in ,towards the society of which the community is a part

3. MENTAL ILLNESS TYPES Organic disorders eg : dimentia in alzheimers disease Mental and behavioural disorders due to psychoactice substance use eg:alcohol,opoid  dependance syndrome Schizophrenia and delusional disorders  Affective disorders

4. CAUSES OF MENTAL ILL HEALTH ORGANIC CONDITIONS Cerebral arteriosclerosis  neoplasms  metabolic disease  neurological diseases  endocrine diseases  epilepsy, TB,  leprosy etc

5. CAUSES OF MENTAL ILL HEALTH HEREDITY child of 2 schizophrenic parents is 40 times more likely to develop schizophrenia. SOCIAL PATHOLOGICAL CAUSES Social and environmental factors associated with mental ill health comprise: Worries, anxieties, emotional stress, tension, Frustration, broken homes, unhappy marriage, poverty, industrialization, Urbanization, changed in family structure population mobility, economic Insecurity, cruelity , rejection, neglect.

6. MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES Early diagnosis and treatment Rehabiliation Group and individual psychotherapy Mental health education Use of modern psychoactive drugs After care services

7. COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMME Impatient services Outpatient services Patient hospitalization Emergency services Diagnostic services Pre and after care services Education services Training, research and evaluation

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