Mental Health Problems: Understanding and Addressing the Issues

This report delves into the realm of mental health problems, exploring various aspects such as their types, causes, and diagnostic procedures. It highlights several mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and bipolar disorder, providing insights into their characteristics and impacts. The report discusses the potential causes of these problems, such as childhood trauma, social isolation, and long-term stress, and explains the diagnostic process, which involves assessing symptoms, their duration, and their effects on the individual's life. The report emphasizes the importance of seeking medical attention for effective management of mental health problems, acknowledging the interconnectedness of physical and emotional well-being. It concludes by referencing a resource that provides further information on understanding mental health issues.

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Mental health problems refer to illnesses that lead to severe disturbance and emotional
problems in one’s behavior and thoughts, leading to incapability to cope with one’s normal
demands and procedures. Mental health problem affects the way a person thinks, feel or behave.
There are different approaches to mental health problems.
Types of Mental Health Problems
There exist different categories of mental health complications including depression,
obsessive-compulsive disorder personality disorder, eating disorder and bipolar disorder among
others ( Katherine , 2016).
Depression
This refers to a sensation of low disposition that persists for long and disturbs a person’s
everyday life. It can easily make one feel despondent, mortified, worthless and apathetic. It
affects ones self-drive, sleep and appetite. There are two types of depression including perinatal
depression and periodic affective depressive disorder.
Nervousness
This is a strong feeling of restlessness, apprehension, and fear. Since anxiety is an
occasional experience in human beings, most people fail to understand that it is a mental
disorder. If anxiety lasts for long, it can be noted when a person has constant worries, has
unpleasant physical symptoms or even a person has a particular anxiety disorder.

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Fixated-Compulsive Disorder
This is a form of anxiety disorder. This type of disorder can be divided into obsessions
which include ideas or thoughts that repeatedly appear in a person’s mind. The second is
compulsions which include repetitive activities that one feels that they have to do.
Bipolar Disorder
This mainly affects a person’s mood. Sometimes, a person will experience depressive
episodes and other times he or she will be feeling high.
Causes of Mental Health Problems
Mental health snags have a variety of origins. Mostly, the problems are caused by;
childhood abuse, trauma, social isolation, long term stress, death of someone close to you,
homelessness or poor housing and social disadvantage among others.
Diagnosis of Mental Health Problems
When doing mental health problem diagnosis, the doctors look at; the symptoms the
victim is experiencing, the length the symptoms have been manifested by the victim and impacts
the symptoms have in the life of the victim. The doctors do so by asking the victim questions
concerning their mood, thoughts, and behavior.

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Concussion
As discussed above, there exist different forms of mental health problems. Mental health
problems are related to increased stress due to a given event or situation. In some cases, mental
health problems are both physical and emotional.it is always good for victims to seek medical
attention so that they can be taught on how to manage the mental health problems with ease.

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References
Katherine , D. (2016). Understanding Mental Health Problems. Mind for Better Mental Health, 34(4), 1-
36. https://www.mind.org.uk/media/3244655/understanding-mental-health-problems-2016.pdf