What is Positive Mental Health?
Positive mental health is a state of wellbeing that allows us to cope with the stressors of life, realise our abilities and to live to our full potential within our personal and professional life and wider community. It allows us to enjoy life and engage in self-care activities that nurture us. However, some people find it hard to find a state of wellbeing - and quite often these individual experience mental health disorders.
What is Depression?
While we all feel sad, moody or low from time to time, some people experience these feelings intensely, for long periods of time (weeks, months or even years) and sometimes without any apparent reason.
Depression is more than just a low mood – it's a serious condition that affects your physical and mental health.
What is Anxiety?
Anxiety is more than just feeling stressed or worried. While stress and anxious feelings are a common response to a situation where we feel under pressure, they usually pass once the stressful situation has passed, or ‘stressor’ is removed. Anxiety is when these anxious feelings don't go away – when they're ongoing and happen without any particular reason or cause. It’s a serious condition that makes it hard to cope with daily life. Everyone feels anxious from time to time, but for someone experiencing anxiety, these feelings aren't easily controlled.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
OCD is a mental illness which comprises of obsessions – unwanted thoughts about, for example, dirt and disease, terrible things happening, sex, violence, or religious themes; and compulsions – overwhelming urges to do activities such as cleaning, checking, counting or praying.
What is Schizophrenia/Psychosis?
Schizophrenia is an illness that disrupts the functioning of the mind. Psychosis is a mental disorder where a person loses the capacity to tell what’s real from what isn’t. They may believe or sense things that aren’t real and become confused or slow in their thinking.
Psychosis often occurs as a part of other mental illnesses.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Bipolar disorder causes people to experience intense mood swings, from manic highs to depressive lows. Not everyone experiences bipolar the same way.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)?
BPD is a common mental illness. People affected have difficulty managing their emotions and impulses, relating to people, and maintaining a stable self-image. BPD can be highly distressing for the person affected, and often for their family and friends too. It can be confusing and easily misunderstood, but BPD is a very treatable condition.
....There is HOPE, if we BELIEVE we can CHANGE....
Finding Balance is the KEY
For further information please visit these websites:
https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/health-topics
https://www.sane.org/
https://www.beyondblue.org.au/
https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/health-topics
https://www.sane.org/
https://www.beyondblue.org.au/