Health Unit 1- Mental and Emotional Health

Social Health

Ability to make and keep friends, seek and lend support and cooperate

Mental Health

Ability to recognize reality & being realistic

Examples of Emotional Health

Anger, Love, Sadness, Fear, Jealousy

Stress

Body and minds reaction to every day demands

Self-Esteem

Confidence & worth you feel about yourself

Signs of High Self-Esteem

Confidence, Acceptance

Holistic

Considering the whole person

Compensation

Covering up weaknesses/mistakes with giftgiving hard work or other extreme efforts

Signs of Low Self-Esteem

Don't Try, Avoid Challenges

Ways to reduce stress

Exercise, allow plenty of time

Emotional Health

Expressing feelings in an appropriate way

Examples of Social Health

Friends, Peers, Parents, Support Groups

Spiritual Health

Having a spiritual direction/purpose in life

Idealization

Having the idea that someone/something is perfect/better than everyone else

Three problems that are associated with long-term stress

Heart disease, tension headaches, ulcers

Aspects that you have no control over

Heredity, Environment, Accidents, Pollution, Abuse, Death, Age, Birth Defects

Fatigue Stage

Higher chance to illness and accidents

Rationalization

Making excuses to explain situation/behavior rather than accepting responsibility

Examples of Spiritual Health

Morals, Values, Honesty, Hope

Distress

Negative stress

Wellness

Overall state of well-being

Physical Health

Physical characteristics & the way your body functions

5 Components of Health

Physical, Mental, Social, Emotional, and Spiritual

Feedback

Positive and Negative messages from others indicating what they think you are like

Self-Talk

Positive and Negative things you say to yourself

Eustress

Positive stress

Prevention

Practicing healthy habits to keep a person well and free from health problems

Alarm stage

Prepares for action

Denial

Refusal to accept reality

Examples of Physical Health

Sleep, Metabolism, Diet, Illness, Stregnth

Resistance stage

Stress reaches peak

Examples of Mental Health

Stress, Learning new things, Change, Positive Outlook, Self-Talk, Self-Esteem

Projection

Taking out stress on another person even though they have nothing to do with the stress

Regression

Turning back to behaviors of early stage of development

7 Important Lifestyle Factors

1) 7-8 Hours of Sleep 2) Eat Nutritious Foods 3) Don't Smoke or Use Tobacco 4) Eat Breakfast 5) 30 min. of Activity 6) Don't Use Drugs 7) Maintain Healthy Body Weight

7 Strategies used to improve self-esteem

1) Accept yourself 2) Use positive self talk 3) Be good at something 4) Use I statements 5) Develop a support group 6) Resist peer pressure 7) Act with integrity

Stress response stages

1) Alarm 2) Resistance 3) fatigue

Physical responses to stress

1) Increased heart rate 2) Adrenaline 3) perspiration