Table of contents 

Chapter 1- Mental Health

Chapter 2- Recognizing Mental Illness

Chapter 3- Treatment

Chapter 4- Self-destructive Behavior

Chapter 1 

Mental Health

what is mental health?

Mental health impacts the ways you feel, see, act and handle situations. The state of a persons mental health directly impacts their personal relationships, and behavior. It also impairs ones ability to make good choices and behave. Mental Health naturally connects with other parts of someones well-being, such as the mental and emotional state of a person. Your mental well-being is made up of your outlook on life. Whether you have a optimistic or a pessimistic view on life, mental well-being affects your mood, and the way you think and behave. A persons point of view on life determines how they are affected by interactions in their daily life. 

Impacts/Effects Of Mental Disorders On The World

A good chunk of the worlds population is currently struggling with a mental health disorder, more now than ever. Mental health conditions are at a record breaking high across the world, but in the United states alone, Mental Health disorders are one the most common health conditions. The impact mental illness has on the world is strong, it has been know to affect millions of peoples lives everyday, contributing to unemployment, homelessness, and suicides. It also seems to be responsible for substance abuse, and poor quality of life.

Chapter 2 

Recognizing Mental illness 

Mental disorders typically present themselves throughout teenage years, although other factors can cause a mental illness to develop, such as life experiences, which involves trauma/abuse, stress, unhappiness, self isolation and, bad coping skills. Environmental factors, and biological factors, such as genes or a preexisting history of mental illness in your family can also be the reason for a sudden decline in mental health. 

What causes/triggers depression?

Research has suggested that these factors may cause changes in brain function. National Institutes of Health says, “According to an fMRI study, decreased brain activity in the hippocampus, along with Reduced gray matter volume and reduced functional activity in the hippocampus leads to negative emotion and the inability of cognitive processing in depressive patients.”

Symptoms

Depression- The persistent feeling of sadness or loss of interest that characterizes major depression can lead to a range of behavioral and physical symptoms. These may include changes in sleep, appetite, energy level, concentration, daily behavior, or self-esteem. Depression can also be associated with thoughts of suicide. (https://www.psychiatry.org)

Depression symptoms can include:

OCD- Obsessive compulsive disorder involves obsession, which are uncontrollable thoughts and fears, that lead the patient to perform compulsions, or repetitive actions. Sufferers find brief relief from the anxiety that accompanies the obsessive thoughts by performing compulsions. The person may or may not realize their thoughts are a irrational