What is mental health What are the factors affecting mental health?

Answer 1

This essay question requires a thorough and elaborate answer, far too broad for a single answerer to condense without taking the time and effort to complete the entire assignment.

Factors involved in an individual's mental health can broadly include such things as, genetics and hereditary diseases; sex; race; age; background; substance abuse history; physical and sexual abuse history; socio-economics; relationships with family members and friends at all stages of life; occupation; exposure to traumatic events; presence of neurological and organic disorders; exposure to stress; overall physical health; and environmental contamination.

Each factor has a different degree of importance in each condition. A patient with Alzheimers type Dementia suffers from an organic neurological disorder closely tied to to advanced age and genetic factors. A history of exposure to various traumas, would not be particularly significant.

A patient with Anorexia Nervosa, however, suffers from a condition overwhelmingly comorbid with a history of sexual abuse, and largely confined to a discrete socio-economic, sex, age and race bound class (in this case, white, upper-middle class, adolescent females). As such, factors such as occupation and environmental contamination are largely irrelevant.

Answer 2

factor affecting mental health; stress, nutrition,psychosocial, medical problem,phSpell check your answer

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