DSSP. Mental health

Children can’t experience mental illness.

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Mental health and mental illness are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing. 

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Nothing can be done to prevent people from experiencing mental health conditions. 

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“Mental health” is a concept similar to “physical health”: it refers to a state of well-being.   

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Mental health includes our emotions, feelings of connection to others, our thoughts and feelings, and being able to manage life’s highs and lows.

• Myth

• Fact

People with mental illness are violent, unsafe or maybe even abusive

• Myth

• Fact

Mental illness is tied directly to low I.Q.

• Myth

• Fact

Problematic substance use is sometimes linked to poor mental health or mental illness

• Myth

• Fact