| Our mental health can vary according to our | | | | meningitis, HIV, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a quickly |
| circumstances and can change across our lifetime, in | | | | progressing and fatal disease that is characterized by |
| the same way as our physical health does. | | | | dementia and muscle twitching and spasm |
| Mental health problems are among the most common | | | | Causes of Mental Health Illness |
| of all health conditions, directly affecting about a | | | | Although the exact cause of most mental illnesses is |
| quarter of the population in any one year. Depression | | | | not known, it is becoming clear through research that |
| and anxiety are the most widespread conditions. | | | | many of these conditions are caused by a combination |
| Anxiety disorders - Mental Health | | | | of biological, psychological and environmental factors. |
| Anxiety disorders can take many forms. You may | | | | Symptoms Of Mental Health Disturbance |
| experience free-floating anxiety without knowing | | | | ACTING DIFFERENT THAN USUAL. Can you link this |
| exactly why you're feeling that way. You may suffer | | | | change in behavior to something that has happened |
| from sudden, intense panic attacks that strike without | | | | recently? Any event, such as the death of a close |
| warning. Your anxiety may come in the form of | | | | relative, or even something positive - like a job |
| extreme social inhibition or in unwanted obsessions and | | | | promotion - can trigger a troublesome emotional |
| compulsions. Or you may have a phobia of an object | | | | reaction. |
| or situation that doesn't seem to bother other people. | | | | BECOMES AGGRESSIVE, RUDE, AND ABUSIVE |
| Symtoms Of Anxiety Disorders | | | | OVER MINOR INCIDENTS. Are there remarks about |
| - Apprehension, uneasiness, and dread | | | | groups or individuals "out to get me?" If that last |
| - Impaired concentration or selective attention | | | | remark was made in all seriousness, and blowups and |
| - Feeling restless or on edge | | | | violent physical behavior occur, there is a strong |
| Mental Health - Type of Dementia | | | | indication some help may be required. |
| Dementia is the loss of mental functions, such as | | | | The greatest symptoms which trigger mental health |
| thinking, memory and reasoning, that is severe enough | | | | concerns have to do with the person's ability to |
| to interfere with a person's daily life. Dementia is not a | | | | function. When they suddenly start missing a lot of |
| disease itself, but rather a group of symptoms that | | | | work or school or losing jobs, not eating or eating too |
| may accompany certain diseases or conditions. | | | | much, barely sleeping or not sleeping at all, and seem |
| Symptoms may involve changes in personality, mood | | | | to be irritable or angry with everyone and everything, |
| and behavior. | | | | these are usually early symptoms of mental health |
| Causes of Dementia | | | | issues. As symptoms progress the individual may |
| - Vascular disorders, such as multi-infarct dementia, | | | | experience self harm such as cutting or burning |
| which is caused by multiple strokes in the brain | | | | themselves and taking unnecessary risks with their |
| - Depression | | | | safety. |
| - Infections of the central nervous system such as | | | | |