Mental Health and Mental Illness
Mental health is how we think, feel and act on our emotions as we progress through life. Just as we are concerned about our physical health, we need to be concerned about our mental health. Like physical health, mental health is important at every stage of life. Whereby physical health affects our core body, mental health is the affects derived from our brain.Everyone worries, feels anxious, sad or stressed. But with a mental illness, these feelings do not go away and are severe enough to interfere with your daily life. Just as poor physical health can interfere with completing physical chores, activities and tasks that require the physical movement of our body, poor mental health can make it difficult for us to communicate or become social, recognize or focus on a task and/or enjoy our lives.
Mental illnesses is common. It affects about one in five families in the United States. Most often, people who are or become mentally ill are no more to blame for their illness than a person who contracts a physical illness, such as the common cold. These disorders, which are in the family of mental illnesses include depression, phobias, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and many others are real diseases that you cannot will or wish away. Most often, mental illnesses are treatable. Medicines and therapy can improve the life of most people with mental illnesses.
