Understanding Mental Health Video

What is mental health considered as?

• Just as important as physical health

• Only about being happy

• Only about mental illnesses

• Not important

How should we think about mental health?

• As being on a continuum

• As being either mentally ill or well

• As static and unchangeable

• As irrelevant to daily life

What factors influence our position on the mental health continuum?

• Our physical health only

• Our genetic makeup, upbringing, life circumstances, and stresses

• Only the stresses we are under

• Only our life circumstances

What is at one end of the mental health continuum?

• Social well-being

• Mental disorders like depression or anxiety

• Complete happiness

• Physical health

What does being mentally healthy mean?

• Isolating oneself from society

• Being resilient and able to cope with difficult times

• Never feeling stressed or anxious

• Having no emotions

What can develop into a mental health problem?

• Having any kind of emotion

• Feeling stressed occasionally

• Emotions that become severe and persistent over time

• Seeking help for mental health issues

What is a significant factor preventing people from seeking help for mental health problems?

• Stigma

• Too many treatment options

• Lack of mental health problems

• Lack of effective treatments

What is the aim of mental health interventions?

• To make people dependent on medications

• To eliminate all stress

• To move people up the continuum towards positive mental health

• To diagnose everyone with a mental disorder