Mental Health Self-Assessment

Mental health self assessment is a critical process of analyzing the emotional, psychological and emotional behavior of onselfs. Mental health self assessment involves the true umbias, and faithful examination of a person.
Mental health Assessment requires an objective view rather than a subjective view. Objectively analyzing your overall mental, physical and social behavior, it requires self awareness and relationship with others.

: What Is Mental Health?

Mental health is the state of mind of an individual in relation to their emotional, psychological and social behavior. Mental health is also the degree of wellness and balance on psychological, and social behavior of a person in relation to their environment or how they react to their environment.



Types of Mental Health


Depression
Depression is a state of hopelessness and emptiness in a person. Depression is a disorder that can affect any age group, this is as a result of emotional, psychological, factors. People who suffer depression are often time lonely and feel worried. Rejections and frustration are often linked to depression. Depression can happen at any age. Youths are more prone to being depressed due to social factors.

Eating disorder
Eating disorders are characterized by excessive eating or under-eating habits. This happens as a result of obsession with a particular kind of food, such eating can cause a negative reaction.

Personal disorder
Personal disorder can be due to a person's lifestyle, growing up, as a result of personal attitudes of a person. A person can be obstinate, and nonchalant towards life. A personal disorder can also be as a result of uncontrollable anger, difficult in managing people in the workplace or social gathering.

Anxiety disorder
Anxiety is a condition that can be triggered by excessive anxiousness in a person, anxiety can be triggered by happiness or panic. Anxiety disorder
Post traumatic stress disorder. (PTSD)
This can be as a result of past experience of an individual, usually terrifying. PTSD can happen as a result of a fatal incident. A person who witnesses or goes through an event can trigger trauma. A woman who goes through child bearing can have PTSD, seual assault or physical assault.
Military personnel who are usually faced with post traumatic disorder having witnessed conflict and war. PTSD also can be caused by some natural disaster such as earthquake, hurricane, and the recent Covid 19 pandemic phenomenon.
Obsessive compulsive disorder. (OCD)
People with OCD has compulsive behavior, that make them do thing in a particular manner, they can be triggered when their personal belongings or believe is tempered with. A person can be obsessed with cleanliness beleive.
This is a obsesion caused certain kind of lifestyle, it may be religious, it can be compulsion, obsession and emotion.

Psychotic disorder
Psychosis is a severe mental disease that tempers with personal thinking and behavior in an unusual way. Hallucination and delusion is one of the symptoms of psychotic disorder.


Schizophrenia
Is mental illness that male a person create an imaginary false believe, people who have schizophrenia can be obsessed with an image or have feelings of been hunted. It can be triggered by physical injury, damage to the brain, abuse or trauma, alcohol smoking or consumption of certain drugs.


Insomnia
Insomnia is a sleep disorder due to inability to sleep. This can be an underlying medical issue. Some drugs can cause insomnia, lifestyle or work related activities can cause
insomnia. Having sleeping issues can affect a person's work performance and cause depression. It is advice that one should seek for medical help if insomnia persists.


Health is wealth, so is our mental health. let's endovour to look after our mental health and live a healthy life.