Mental Health and Well-being Quiz

Mental Health and Well-being

• Mental health is defined as the achievement of expected developmental milestones, effective coping skills, secure attachments, and positive social relationships (Friedrich et al., 2010).
• Mental health is also characterized as a state where an individual realizes their potential, copes with daily stresses, works productively, and contributes to the community (World Health Organization, 2014).
• Well-being encompasses positive indicators in physical, psychological, cognitive, social, and economic domains (Pollard and Lee, 2003).
• Well-being involves positive emotions, engagement, positive relationships, meaning, and accomplishment, also known as the PERMA model (Seligman, 2011).
• Positive emotions include peace, gratitude, satisfaction, pleasure, inspiration, hope, curiosity, and love (Csikzentmihalyi, 2014).
• Engagement is reached when one experiences "flow," being absorbed in a task or activity making time seem to stop (Csikzentmihalyi, 2014).
• Positive relationships are essential to an individual's well-being.
• Meaning arises from belonging to and serving something greater than oneself.
• Accomplishment is connected to feelings of success, achievement, competency, and mastery.

Mental Health Continuum

• The mental health continuum demonstrates a range of mental health states, from good mental health to severe mental illness.
• It includes individuals with good mental health, both with and without mental illness, those with poor mental health with and without mental illness,and those with severe mental health.

Mental Health Conditions

• Mental health conditions involve changes in emotions, thinking, or behavior causing distress and issues in social, work, or family functioning (American Psychiatric Association).
• Mental health disorders account for 14% of the global burden of disease (World Health Organization).
• Globally, 450 million experience mental health conditions (World Health Organization).
• 3.6 Million Filipinos have mental, neurological, and substance use disorders (Philippine WHO Special Initiative for Mental Health, 2020).
• Suicidal rates among Filipinos are 2.5 for males and 1.7 for females per 100,000 persons (Department of Health).
• One in five children and youth have a diagnosable emotional, behavioral, or mental health disorder (ACMH).
• One in ten adolescents experience a mental health issue serious enough to disrupt their functioning at home or school (ACMH).

Common Mental Health Problems

• Anxiety Disorders: Excessive, persistent worry and fear about everyday situations. Examples include anxiety disorder due to a medical condition; Generalized anxiety disorder encompassing excessive anxiety.
• Panic Disorder: Repeated episodes of sudden intense fear or terror peaking within minutes (panic attacks).
• Social Anxiety Disorder: High anxiety, fear, and avoidance of social situations due to embarrassment, self-consciousness, and concern about judgment.
• Depression: Persistent sadness, loss of interest, and negative emotions after an incident; impacting mood, thinking, and behavior; leading to various emotional and physical problems.
• Depressive Symptoms: Mnemonic "SPACED RAGS" to recall symptoms. Symptoms include sleep disturbance and loss of pleasure, agitation, low energy, low concentration, and a variety of other negative feelings and symptoms such as depressed mood, retardation of movement, appetite disturbances, guilt, worthlessness, and suicidal thoughts.
• Eating Disorders: Conditions like anorexia nervosa (excessive food restriction) and bulimia nervosa (binge eating followed by self-induced vomiting or laxative use to avoid weight gain).

Mental Health Stigma

• Stigma is a cluster of negative attitudes and beliefs leading to fear, rejection, avoidance, and discrimination toward those with mental illness (SAMHSA).
• Stigma is about disrespect and the use of negative labels to identify people with mental illness, not just words or actions.
• Misconceptions about mental illness include the ability to work out mental health problems independently, mental illness being lifelong, women being more likely to experience mental illness, medication is the only or best treatment, people with mental illness are violent and dangerous, adults having higher rates of mental illness, being able to tell if someone has a mental condition from appearance, and mental illness only occurring to certain kinds of people (or that it is preventable).

Taking Care of Mental Health

• Focus on character strengths, positive emotions, flow, and purpose in life.
• Develop self-esteem by recognizing what you can change and accepting compliments. Set goals, avoid comparing, and give credit for accomplishments.
• Develop social skills by understanding different perspectives, practicing empathy, improving emotional intelligence, and using an "I" message.
• Seek support from family, friends, teachers, counselors, and mental health professionals.
• Engage in self-care activities.
• Develop psychological resilience; adjust to negative experiences like tragedy or trauma.

Psychological resilience

• Is the process of adjusting to difficulties such as trauma or tragedy efficiently.

Emotional Intelligence

• A type of social intelligence that involves the ability to recognize and manage one's own emotions and those of others. It also involves applying this awareness to guide thinking and actions. Emotional intelligence is a set of skills that help to manage emotional reactions to environmental pressures and demands.

Additional Notes

• Affirmations can help improve mood, increase positivity, and reduce stress, anxiety, and depression.

Test your knowledge on mental health and well-being concepts. This quiz covers definitions, indicators of mental health, and the PERMA model of well-being, among other essential aspects. Assess your understanding of important theories and practices related to emotional and psychological well-being.