Proposal Speech on Mental Health

Running head: MENTAL HEALTH
Proposal Speech on Mental Health
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It is with great pleasure to address this conference today. I will be presenting on an
overview of mental health, mental health and alcohol, mental and other drugs, and mental health
and stigma.
Mental health comprises our psychological, emotional, and social well-being. It assists us
to identify how we cope with stress and make decisions. It is essential at each phase of life from
infancy to puberty till maturity. Mental health can comprise a person's capacity to enjoy life, and
establish stability between life engagements and attempts to attain mental resilience (Currier,
McDermott, and McCormick, 2017). Prevention of illness at an early age might substantially
lower the possibilities that a child will suffer from illness later in life. World Health Organization
proposes that about half the world's people are impacted by the mental disorder. Approximately
half of the mental health diseases start by 14 years of age and three-quarters of mental health
illnesses develop by 24 years. 2 in 10 grownups suffers from a mental health disease yearly. 1 in
15 battles a severe mental disease such as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
According to Crum, Voss, Bounsanga, and Hung (2017), mental health is closely linked
to alcohol. Alcohol may have an effect on our mental health. The reason people drink and the
outcomes of too much drinking is linked to our mental health. Mental health conditions not only
consequent from taking too much alcohol they may similarly cause individuals to consume
excessively. In simple terms, a key reason for taking alcohol is to alter our state of mind. Alcohol
may momentarily lessen sensations of depression and anxiety and individuals frequently use it as
a kind of self-medication as an effort to cheer themselves up or occasionally assist with sleep.
Drinking to cope with problematic feelings or signs of mental disorder is occasionally referred to
as “self-medication” by individuals in the mental health discipline. This is why individuals with

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health conditions often drink. However, it may similarly be used as a means of managing the
acute mental disorder. Alcohol issues are more frequent among persons with acute mental health
conditions. This does not, however, imply that alcohol causes serious mental disorder. Research
indicates that individuals who take too much alcohol are susceptible to the escalated possibility
of developing mental health conditions and alcohol intake may be a contributing aspect to certain
mental health conditions, like depression.
Drinking impacts our mood by reducing inhibition. Characteristically, too much alcohol
intake implies less personal restrictions are in place. Furthermore, alcohol may distract the
body’s capacity to rest. This distraction with patterns of sleep may result in lessened energy
levels. Alcohol similarly weakens the nervous system, and this may make a person's mood vary.
It may likewise assist "numb" individual's emotions so that they can evade tough issues in our
lives. Alcohol may similarly expose or escalate individual’s core feelings like arousing past
reminiscences of trauma or generating any bottled-up feelings which are linked to painful
incidents of the past (Karriker, Li, and Greenfield, 2018). These reminiscences may be very
powerful that they generate devastating anxiety, shame, or depression. Re-living these reminisces
and dark emotions while under the effect of alcohol might pose a risk to individual well-being
besides the well-being of others. One of the major problems linked with consuming alcohol to
cope with mental health issues is that habitual alcohol consumption alters the harmony of the
brain. It lowers the levels of the brain element serotonin; an essential element in depression.
Owing to this weakening, a cyclic procedure starts where one consumes alcohol to dismiss
depression, which causes serotonin levels in the brain to be weakened resulting in one feeling