Psychological awareness-2

 

Mental Health Problem

It is a disturbance in the state of well-being of an individual. A person is having
mental health problem when he/she is:

 not able to realize his or her own potential,

 not able to cope with the normal stresses of life,

 not able to work productively and fruitfully, and

 not able to make a contribution to community.






Recognizing mental health problems

Persons having mental health problems may show disturbances in the domains
of thinking, emotion, physiology and behaviour. Thus, they may have
disturbances in any of these:

 sleep

 mood

 thinking

 perception

 social and intellectual functions

 communication and language

 attention, concentration, memory and other cognitive functions

 behaviour

Any person reporting with these symptoms need to be assessed for the different
conditions of mental disorders.