Mental Health

Mental health problems range from worries we can all experience as part of everyday life to serious long-term conditions. The majority of people who experience mental health problems can get over them or learn to live with them, especially if they get help early on.

Being mentally healthy doesn’t just mean that you don’t have a mental health problem.

If you’re in good mental health, you can:

make the most of your potential

cope with life

play a full part in your family, workplace, community and among friends

Some people call mental health (‘emotional health’This is the phrase we will use or ‘wellbeing’ and it’s just as important as good physical health.

Emotional health is everyone’s business. We all have times when we feel down or stressed or frightened. Most of the time those feelings pass. But sometimes they develop into a more serious problem and that could happen to any one of us.

Everyone is different. You may bounce back from a setback while someone else may feel weighed down by it for a long time.

Your Emotional health doesn’t always stay the same. It can change as circumstances change and as you move through different stages of your life.

There’s a stigma attached to Emotional health problems. This means that people feel uncomfortable about them and don’t talk about them much. Many people don’t even feel comfortable talking about their feelings. But it’s healthy to know and say how you’re feeling.

Statistics on Emotional health

Mixed Anxiety & Depression is the most common mental disorder in Britain

Women are more likely to have been treated for a Emotional health problem than men

British men are three times as likely as British women to die by suicide

The UK has one of the highest rates of self harm in Europe, at 400 per 100,000 population

Only one in 10 prisoners has no mental disorder

Depression affects 1 in 5 older people living in the community and 2 in 5 living in care homes

What is good Emotional health

the ability to learn

the ability to feel, express and manage a range of positive and negative emotions

the ability to form and maintain good relationships with others

the ability to cope with and manage change and uncertainty

What are Emotional health problems?

Emotional health problems are usually defined and classified to enable professionals to refer people for appropriate care and treatment. But some diagnoses are controversial and there is much concern in the Emotional health field that people are too often treated according to or described by their label. This can have a profound effect on their quality of life. Nevertheless, diagnoses remain the most usual way of dividing and classifying symptoms into groups.

Most symptoms have traditionally been divided into groups called either ‘neurotic’ or ‘psychotic’ symptoms. ‘Neurotic’ covers those symptoms which can be regarded as severe forms of ‘normal’ emotional experiences such as depression, anxiety or panic. Conditions formerly referred to as “neuroses” are now more frequently called “common Emotional health problems.”

Less common are ‘psychotic’ symptoms, which interfere with a person’s perception of reality, and may include hallucinations such as seeing, hearing, smelling or feeling things that no-one else can.

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