FACTORS AFFECTING MENTAL HEALTH IN ENGLISH
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FACTORS
AFFECTING MENTAL HEALTH
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Mental health is
affected by a variety of factors. It is a multifactorial disease. Some factors
are within our control and some are out of our control. We will discuss them
one by one
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Life experiences - Our life experiences and biological factors influence how we think,
feel and act towards different situations, challenges and opportunities
throughout life.
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Experiences such
as the way we are treated by others, our financial situation, our
relationships, where we work, life changes and our physical health all affect
our mental health.
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Normally we will
all at some point of time be faced with stressful situations, but it is our
ability to overcome and manage these situations that can impact our mental
health.
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Social connections- Our relationships with
other people are an important part of life. If we experience a conflict or a
loss of one of our relationships, we are likely to feel emotions related to
grief.
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Loneliness can
have a detrimental impact on our mental health and can affect anyone – even
when surrounded by others. Due to the current pandemic and subsequent social
restrictions, it is harder to combat our feelings of loneliness.
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Financial
factors and housing: Feeling
anxious around our financial, housing or work situation can make our mental
health worse. Being unemployed can dislodge our sense of purpose and may make
it difficult to maintain self-confidence.
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Having
difficulties with landlords, house repairs or fulfilling home loan payments can
all have an impact on our mental wellbeing.
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Homelessness is
extremely distressing and can make it even harder for someone with poor mental
health to recover.
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Sudden Changes
in circumstance: Life is
constantly evolving. Whether the change is sudden, or it is expected, negative
or positive, we can still find it hard to cope.
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Moving home,
changing school, ageing, having a baby and starting school/college/university
or a new job, are all aspects of change that can affect our mental health.
Self-care can help boost your mental health, to read more above how you can
incorporate self-care into your daily routine
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Physical
health: Health problems,
long-term illness, life-threatening illness, medical appointments and tests can
have a detrimental effect on our mental health and can make us feel anxious and
depressed.
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The
recent COVID-19 pandemic is a situation that has many people worrying for their
health. Even people were under stress to
arrange oxygen cylinders.
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Addiction and substance abuse: Smoking,
gambling, drugs and alcohol misuse can contribute to poor mental health. In
turn, poor mental health can lead to increased substance misuse and addictive
behaviours. This can become a vicious cycle
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Neurochemical
factors: Neurotransmitters and other chemical
molecules affect the function of
neurons. Neurons are nerve cells that send and receive signals from the brain.
The brains structure and neurochemistry can make it vulnerable to the
development of a mental illness.
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Heredity and
Genetics- Research suggests that
mental health conditions, such as schizoaffective disorder and chronic
depression, can be hereditary. However, mental illness may be passed on to
family members for different reasons, not just genes.
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If someone have a
family history of mental illness than he/she have a higher chance of developing
mental illness in these situations, but this doesn’t mean that he/she will
definitely develop one.
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Upbringing and
childhood trauma: The
environment in which we grow up in shapes our brain development when we are
young. Traumatic events can have a long lasting and negative impact on our
mental health.
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