The Impact of Expectations on Mental Health and Help-Seeking

This essay examines the complex relationship between expectations and mental health, particularly focusing on young adults in Australia. It explores how societal and personal expectations can create significant barriers to seeking professional help for mental health issues. The essay delves into factors such as denial of emotions, low mental health literacy, cultural influences, and communication challenges. It emphasizes the importance of early intervention, specialist mental health services, and the need to address stigma. The essay also highlights the need for improved mental health literacy, the role of relationships in facilitating help-seeking, and the experiences of mental health service users. The conclusion underscores the importance of understanding the challenges faced by young people and developing intervention strategies to promote help-seeking behavior, reduce stigma, and improve access to mental health services. The essay references several studies and journal articles to support its arguments.

ACADEMIC ESSAY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
Expectation and mental health....................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
The mental health includes our the emotional, psychological and social well being. It
affect a think, feel and act. The mental illness is difficult and distressing which affect the things
get better. It also determine the ways of handle stress, relate to others and make choices for the
improvement. Mental health is important to every stage of life through adulthood. The essay is
focus on the expectation and mental health of peoples. This essay will shows the expectation and
mental health of people. This aim of this essay is to understand the young adults frequently
experience mental disorder. It is tend to seek help early from mental specialist health services.
This essay argues that the most important barriers and factor which inhibit help to seeking by
young adults in Australia in negative affect. This will offers best improvement ways to peoples.
This essay has aim to determine what young peoples perceive as the barriers and facilities to help
seeking for the common mental health and its problems. This essay is based on the expectation
and mental health of peoples like mental disorder. In that peoples needs early specialist who give
best mental services to them. This will discuss a important barriers and factors.
MAIN BODY
Expectation and mental health.
The mental health is includes a emotional, psychological and social well being it affect
the think, feel and acts of peoples. Mental health is difficult and distressing to everyone which is
affect, but is things get better. Here, it is very important to recover the mental thinking of peoples
because in every situation people of Australia are not concerns with the doctor. They think
person is mentally disorder and that is wrong. As per the view of Young, S. J. and et.al., 2017,
says to attending the physical health in mental health services. The premature death of the
peoples with serves the mental health problem is attribute disease. The aim of improving
guidelines oblige mental health services and to monitor by the metabolic health of patients. This
influencing the peoples and their health problem by its practices. For example: Australian
peoples are generally not prefers with the mental doctor. Peoples are think they are work not
proactively, especially when symptoms are compromised with the capacity for the self care.
Other hand the mental health services to provide or enable access for promoting the health
services. As here they priority, to create conditions needed to support attention of physical health
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with the services. To full engagement of the services user in management of their physical
mental.
There are important barriers which are help to seeking for young adults. It has identified a
comprehensive list of the barriers to professional help seeking among young peoples. Denial
emotions and low mental health literacy are commonly reported or contribute for non help
seeking. The personal challenges are also the important barriers which impact to the peoples
mentally in order. This including the issues with the communication, personal losses from asking
help and ineffective coping. The communicate about their emotion challenging because they feel
its damage the self-image through loss of the self reliance. As per the view of Faithfull and et.al.,
2019, said that the barriers and enable to meaningful youth participation in mental research
health care. Involving the young peoples in co-designing and conducting youth healthy mental. It
is essential by ensuring the relevant needs of young peoples. The aim is to explores the
experience, barriers to partnering with the young peoples for the mental health.
Another barrier is culture and environmental influences, is the key barriers that is
includes religions, generational divides and rural life. The culture and environmental is barriers
are help to seeking by the young adults. This give the proper knowledge and information about
the mental disorder to inhibit help seeking. That influence of catholic church, are traditionally
view and focused to help seeking prayer, has encouraged reservation within the families
communicating and dealing with various problems. Most of the peoples are thinks self
medicating but it is not correct ways of improve their mental health of Australian peoples. As per
the view of Colucci, E. and et.al., 2015, young peoples have ability to identify high risk for
mental health problem due to their experience. The high prevalence of the mental health
problems, however research some suggests to young peoples at fewer rates of mental health
services access. The little information of barriers and facilities to the mental services delivery for
that group.
For improving the expectation and mental health peoples who are help seeking most of
the peoples have to build relationship through participation in care. This help and working with
the continuity of care. By this peoples can able to take help and support from the other peoples.
For example: peoples are think the person who are faint he is mental. In that they are not any
suggestions form any specialist doctor. They think he is mental and not talk with them. He is
seeking for help form other peoples. In that peoples are not done help to them and give mental
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depression. Here is important to give proper information and knowledge about the mental
disorders. As per the view of Newman, D. and et.al., 2015, the mental health services user
experience of services. This growing the emphasis and requirement for health services which is
delivers care or support for recognized individual preference. The help seeking person is add to
seek our current understanding the services users experience care and support in order to
determine the extant the principles of mental health care.
The lack of mental health literacy is impact to the inhibit health seeking. Lack of
knowledge and information in effective ways. It is very important gain and have the proper
knowledge and information to related mental health. Here is important to make in effective ways.
Lack of healthy mental ability in that peoples are make their own assumptions and done the self
treatment with wrong ways. In that give proper knowledge and information about mental health
to peoples. By this they have proper information with taking from the professional doctor and
peoples in proper way (Happell, Wilson and McNamara, 2015). Having effective relations with
the peoples are help to help-seeking persons and young adults. This provide the positive attitude
of others by this they are encourage for taking views from others. Those are aim of the essay to
give knowledge about the expectation and mental health to young adults and adolescents. In that
they have tend to seek from taking help from the specialist mental health services. The most
important barriers and factor of inhibit help seeking by young adults in Australia.
CONCLUSION
From the above essay it had been concluded that the engage young peoples in their work,
but the several factors hinder to impact. By understanding challenges facing and drawing the
factor which has encourage and support those already engaging with peoples. The intervention
strategy improving the help seeking in young elite and focus on reducing stigma, increasing
mental health and improve relations with potential provider.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Colucci, E. and et.al., 2015. In or out? Barriers and facilitators to refugee-background young
people accessing mental health services. Transcultural psychiatry. 52(6). pp.766-790.
Faithfull and et.al., 2019. Barriers and enablers to meaningful youth participation in mental
health research: qualitative interviews with youth mental health researchers. Journal of
Mental Health. 28(1). pp.56-63.
Happell, B., Wilson, R. and McNamara, P., 2015. Undergraduate mental health nursing
education in Australia: more than Mental Health First Aid. Collegian. 22(4). pp.433-
438.
Newman, D. and et.al., 2015. Mental health service users' experiences of mental health care: an
integrative literature review. Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing. 22(3).
pp.171-182.
Young, S. J. and et.al., 2017. Attending to physical health in mental health services in A ustralia:
a qualitative study of service users’ experiences and expectations. Health & social care
in the community, 25(2), pp.602-611.
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