11 Positive & Negative Signs of Mental Health Which You Must Know

MENTAL HEALTH

Mental health  is characterized by absence of mental illness, some of its effects on your thinking , feelings , and actions are being comfortable of yourself and positive feelings about others. Mental health problem is a negative emotion which influences  thinking ,behavior, and mood.

These Factors Lead to mental Health:

I- Organic or Biological Factor (Brain Chemistry):

Organic or Biological factors consist of anything physical that can cause adverse effects on a person's mental health. Each individual’s own genetic make-up can contribute to being at risk of developing a mental illness. This includes genetics, prenatal damage, infections, exposure to toxins, brain defects or injuries, chemical imbalances, and substance abuse (such as alcohol or drugs) and deficiencies of certain vitamins and minerals in an individual’s diet can also play a part.

II- Environmental Factor (Trauma or Abuse):

Environmental causes are more psychologically based thus making them more closely related. Where someone lives and their living conditions along with family and community support networks can play a part along with employment status and work stresses. Environmental factors include but are not limited a dysfunctional home life, poor relationships with others, substance abuse, not meeting social expectations, low self-esteem and poverty.

III- Heredity Factor (Family History Related Mental Health Illness):

There is evidence to suggest that heredity can play some part in the development of some forms of mental illness. The reliable identification of specific genetic susceptibility to particular disorders, through linkage or association studies, has proven difficult. As with physical health conditions, the other factors will play a significant part too.

Mental Health Related Negative Emotions:

Anger, Fear, Shame, Frustration, Sadness, Guilt, Depression, Grief, Jealousy, Blame, Despair.

Mental Health Related Positive Emotion:

Happy, Hope, Gratitude, Kindness, Joyful, Cheerfulness, Action, Interest, Laugh, Serenity, Enthusiasm.

11 Negative Emotions of Mental 

Health:

Anger

1- Anger

Anger is a strong feeling of annoyance, displeasure, when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel or unacceptable way. Anger can be a good thing. It can give you a way to express negative feelings, for example, or motivate you to find solutions to problems. But excessive anger can cause problems.

    "Anger is one letter short of Danger"

2- Fear

Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or harm that occurs in certain types of organisms, which causes a change in metabolic and organ functions and ultimately a change in behavior. If we didn't feel it, we couldn't protect ourselves from legitimate threats.

"Fear We don't face becomes our limits"

3- Shame

Shame is the social emotion and painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, and ridiculous. That can be seen as resulting from comparison of the self's action with the self's standards.

"Shame is nothing more than denial of truth"

4- Frustration


In psychology, frustration is a common emotional response to the opposition and the feeling of being upset or annoyed as a result of being unable to change or achieve something. Frustration arises from the perceived resistance to the fulfillment of an individual's will or goal and is likely to increase when a will or goal is denied or blocked.

"Expectations feeds frustration"

5- Sadness

Sadness is the condition or quality of being sad and a transient emotional state that is generally associated with negative moods and unhappy feelings or characterized by, feelings of disadvantage, loss, despair, grief, helplessness, disappointment and sorrow.

"The Walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy "

6- Guilt

Guilt is the fact of having committed a specified or implied offence or crime or an emotional experience that occurs when a person believes or realizes accurately or not that he/she has compromised his/her own standards of conduct or has violated a universal moral standard and bears significant responsibility for that violation.

"Guilt can either hold you back or it can show you what you need to shift in your life"

Negative Mental Health

7- Depression

Depression is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act and feeling of severe despondency and dejection.

"Depression is like a war you either win or die trying"

8- Grief

It is a intense sorrow, especially caused by someone's death, and a natural response to losing someone or something that's important to you. You may feel a variety of emotions, like sadness or loneliness. And you might experience it for a number of different reasons. Maybe  a relationship ended, or you lost your job.

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief"

9- jealousy

Jealousy is the state or feeling of being jealous, and an emotion, and the word typically refers to the thoughts and feelings of insecurity, fear, concern, and anxiety over an anticipated loss of status or something of great personal value, particularly in reference to a human connection.

"Jealousy is just a lack of self-confidence"

10- Blame

Negative Mental Health

Feel or declare that someone or something is responsible for a fault or wrong for a misdeed, failure, or undesirable outcome.

blamed the coach for the loss;

blamed alcohol for his bad behavior.

11- Despair

Despair is the complete loss or absence of hope or something that causes hopelessness. If you completely forgot to study for your final exam in math, you might feel despair when your teacher passes out the test.

"The person who lives by hope will die by despair"

11 Positive Emotions of Mental Health:

1- Happiness

Positive Mental Health

Feeling or showing pleasure or contentment, In psychology, happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being which can be defined by, among others, positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.

"Be Happy and Smile"

2- Hope

Hope is an  optimistic attitude of mind that is based on an feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen and positive outcomes related to events and circumstances in one's life.

"Never Lose Hope"

3- Gratitude

Gratitude is the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness and gratefulness is the proper, fitting or called for response to benefits or beneficence from a benefactor.

"Gratitude changes everything"

4- Kindness

Kindness is the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. It is a behavior marked by ethical characteristics, a pleasant disposition, and a concern for others.

"No Act of Kindness is ever wasted"

5- Joyful

Joyful is the feeling, expressing, or causing great pleasure and happiness.

An example of joyful is a choir singing upbeat music in church; making joyful music.

"A joyful  spirit is an evidence of  grateful heart"

6- Cheerfulness

Cheerfulness is the quality of causing happiness or state of being noticeably happy and optimistic.

"Continual cheerfulness is a sing of Wisdom

7- Action

Action is the process by which something produces a change in another thing and it is the fact of doing something, typically to achieve an aim.

"Take Action Today"

8- Interest

Interest is the feeling of a person whose attention , concern, or wanting to know or learn about something or someone.

"Don't waste your energy on people who show no interest"

Positive Mental Health

9- Laugh

to smile while making sounds with your voice and movements of the face and body that are the instinctive expressions of lively amusement that show you think something is funny or you are happy

"Life is better when you are laughing"

10- Serenity

Serenity is the absence of mental stress or anxiety and  is the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled. Use serenity to mean the quality or state of being calm and peaceful.

"Today I am choosing serenity"

Positive Mental Health 

11- Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm is intense enjoyment, interest, or approval. The word was originally used to refer to a person possessed by a god, or someone who exhibited intense piety.

"You can do anything If you have enthusiasm"