Mental, Emotional and Social Health Concerns

Mental, Emotional and Social Health Concerns

By Grace Mallete

Everyone has experienced conflict at one time or another. Conflict happens when ideas or interests go against each other. This is not always bad. When conflicts are resolved in a fair and healthy way, they can help people learn from the conflict and grow.

However, if conflicts are not resolved, they can cause headaches, sleeplessness, emotional problems, and even violence. Conflict can be classified in two ways— internal conflict and external conflict.

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What are the two conflicts that can be classified?

Sometimes, you have a hard time deciding between two things. This is a conflict within you and you have to make the choice. This conflict with yourself is an internal conflict.

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This is a conflict within you and you have to make the choice

Sometimes, simple decisions can create internal conflict because of expectations from teachers, parents, and peers. You argue or disagree with another person. This kind of conflict with another person or group of people is external conflict. This can happen almost anywhere. You can experience external conflict with your friends, in school, in your community, and even at home.

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External conflict often arises between people or groups of people because of different values and beliefs. For people your age, conflicts often involve disagreements with your parents, a classmate, or a friend. Some of the reasons for a conflict may be valid. Others may be too petty, and often instigated by pride and impatience.

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When conflicts are not resolved in a healthy way, it can lead to emotional problems. Violence are sometimes resorted to. When internal conflicts are not resolved, it can lead to headaches, lack of sleep, and sometimes even anger.

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It is a conflict that you argue or disagree with another person.

Anger

is a strong negative feeling towards someone or something that is caused by hurt or feelings of being wronged. It is a normal emotion, and is neither good nor bad. Conflicts can cause anger.

Anger is also caused by events that happen in your life or the behavior of other people.

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Usually, anger at events happens because things do not go the way you want them to. Often, these events are beyond your control. You will need to manage your anger so it does not negatively affect you or others around you.

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Anger towards others happens because of something that someone said or did. People can do things on purpose to make a person angry. Teasing and name calling are common causes of provoked anger. Other times, people are rude to you or are insensitive to your feelings. Sometimes you feel neglected or ignored, and that can lead to anger.​

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is a strong negative feeling towards someone or something that is caused by hurt or feelings of being wronged.

• Anger

• Violence

• Stress

Other times, your anger might be directed to yourself. This can happen if you have expectations of yourself that you failed to meet.

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Most violent acts are a result of conflict and anger. Violence is the use of physical force to hurt someone.​

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It is the use of physical force to hurt someone.

• Anger

• Voilence

• Stress

Stress is a physical and emotional response that is a result of a new or uncomfortable situation. It can have a positive or negative effect on a person depending on its source and how it is dealt with.

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What are the two types of stress?

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What are the two types of

Negative stress or distress

results from problems in your life. It could be the result of a negative situation like an illness in the family. Often, such situations are beyond a person’s control. All one can do is try to manage stress. Negative stress can happen when you manage stress poorly. Negative stress can also adversely affect one’s physical health. It is important to learn how to manage stress so that it does not affect your physical health, too.

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​Positive Stress or Eustress

helps you to do better or to grow. When you compete in sports, you experience eustress because you want to do your best and win. This is positive stress. However, if you do not win and are not able to handle defeat, this causes negative feelings, and sometimes results to anger. This is why you need to manage how you react to situations​

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It could be the result of a negative situation like an illness in the family.

• Negative stress

• Positive stress

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This stress helps you to do better or to grow.

• Positive stress

• Negative stress